CFP for German Studies Association 2010 Series of Interdisciplinary Panels: Jews and the Transnational Sphere

In recent years the paradigm of Diasporic culture or identity has increasingly been superceded by or reinterpreted as a transnational paradigm. The shift to transnationalism reflects both contemporary political, social, economic, and technological realities (recent shifts in migration patterns, increased global transportation and telecommunication technologies, the globalized economy, the loosening of political borders) as well as shifts in perception. As individual migrants develop strong ties to more than one “home” country, and geographic and cultural spaces cease to be congruent, the notion of fixed national [...]