4 'The Jamaican Diaspora Conference is just the beginning', Daily Observer, 18 June 2004.
5 'Warning signs - remittance flows to Jamaica under threat', Daily Gleaner, 2003.  
migrants have taken the lead in creating and maintaining transnational networks to advance their own multifaceted and multilocational goals. Scholars attuned to these practices have argued that contemporary processes of transnationalism and globalization have not only altered the ways people conceptualize space, community, and citizenship, but have also transformed nationalism and processes of racial formation (Basch et al., 1994; Carnegie, 2002; Clarke, 2004; Clarke and Thomas, 2006; Glick Schiller et al., 1992; Smith and Guarnizo, 1998; Sutton and Chaney, 1987).