Transnational digital citizenship: a concept and practice under construction

La ciudadanía transnacional digital: un concepto y práctica en construcción

The objective of the present work is to provide theoretical and empirical support to the “transnational digital citizenship” category and to specify its field of study and characteristics as a socio-political phenomenon in the contemporary world. This is a theoretical study that continues the process of definition and characterization of this phenomenon that was begun in 2012 from a study of immigrants in Mexico between 2007-2010. The methodology is qualitative in the first phase for the theoretical and empirical review based on documentary analysis. The second phase responds to the dialectical analysis which opposes direct transnational citizenship, another which is constructed in the digital space, to synthesize it in a b-networks process; a citizenship realized in three dimensions: direct physical, digital and a third in which the previous two are combined. Empirical evidence of its social construction in the world is presented. The exercise of this citizenship is carried out through the actions of international immigrants, civil society and social movements, as well as electronic commerce practices and action from States. In these processes, actions, and relationships, transnational digital and civic identities and practices, rights, duties, and commitments are reproduced and built.