Transnationalism as fragmentation of globality: ethnification and strategies of reterritorialization of Lithuanian immigrants in the United States

Based on anthropological fieldwork done among Americans of Lithuanian background in southeast Texas (in 2002 and 2004) and among the post-soviet immigrants from Eastern Europe now in Chicago (in 2006 and 2013), the article argues that the ethnic dimension is not only important to nation-states and multicultural state ethnic policies, but it is crucial in immigrant politics of identity.