Globalization is a phenomena whose study requires a shift from two-dimensional euclidian space with its centers and peripheries and sharp boundaries, to a multidimensional global space with unbounded, often discontinuous and interpenetrating sub-spaces.
The State is the guardian of borders, the arbiter of citizenship, the entity responsible for foreign politics.
Transnationalism is concerned with deterritorialization... namely how, production, consumption, communities, politics, and identities become detached from local places.
Transnationalism is, in contrast to globalization, able to call attention to the nation-state and to nationalism. Globalization is less intentional, less institutional, more abstract, and doesn't necessarily reference nations.
Transnationalism is perpetuated and often deepened as a result of transnational migration within the context of post-fordist global restructuring.
