Scholarship on migrants and diaspora populations increasingly has been concerned with the issue of simultaneous participation in home and host countries，as people find themselves neither fully assimilated into their adopted country nor at home in their country of origin. A recent push to replace the concepts of emigration/immigration （implying a break from origins and settling in the host country） and diaspora （stressing the displacement from one’s home country） has led to the spread of the concept of transnationalism. Transnationalism is not just a new word for an old phenomenon；it emphasizes the dynamic process of nation-making as anchored across nations （and states），privileging neither place of origin nor adopted land，and collapsing time and space into a single social field. It is my position in this paper that，although connectivity between source and destination points is an inherent aspect of the migration phenomenon，race，class and gender intersect with conditions of migration to play important roles in the resulting networks among transmigrants and often generate a multiplicity of “imagined communities”，that are organized along different and often conflicting principles. On occasions，these imagined communities conform to the root meaning of transnational—extending beyond loyalties that connect to any specific place of origin or ethnic or national group.