Advanced media technologies satellite technology and the Internet have transformed immigrants relations with their sending and receiving societies. In the first part of the book Imagining Nation States from Afar Uriya Shavit extends Benedict Anderson s model of the nation as an imagined community. Discussion focuses on how immigrants are enabled to imagine their native national communities from afar, almost as if they never left their homelands. As a result, new typologies of migrants are created, such as the passive trans-national. A comprehensive analytic framework for the role of advanced...