Brown Pulu, TPamatatau, R2018-01-092018-01-092016-102016-10Performance Research, 21(5), 47-48.1352-8165https://hdl.handle.net/10292/11062As a branch of migration studies, transnational studies explores how migrants stay connected to the old country by keeping up loyalties to the homeland where they were born and still have kinfolk still living. The trans signifies patriotism for more than one country. Migrants are devoted to places of residence where they work, live and raise families, and also to the places and peoples from which they have permanently moved.This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Performance Research on 20 Oct 2016, available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/13528165.2016.1223447.Journal ArticleOpenAccess10.1080/13528165.2016.1223447