LTReikšminiai žodžiai: Transnacionalizmas; Nacionalinis identitetas; Migracija; Valstybė; Nacija; Etniškumas; Transnationalism; National Identity; Migration; State; Nation; Etnicity.
ENThe introduction of the book discusses particular conceptual frameworks and analytical perspectives used for in each of the three cases of research: the migratory, the state borderland and the ethnic / national minority. For this, methodology based on fieldwork and semi-structured and in-depth interviews has been applied in five research sites in four countries. The fieldwork has been carried out in two global cities – Chicago and London, in three local towns – Visaginas, Klaipėda and Šalčininkai of Lithuania, and in the town of Punsk, Poland. The results of the fieldwork are based on almost one hundred interviews and participant observations on the construction of the ethnic, national, transnational and related collective identifications of the young generation interlocutors. [From the publication]