摘要: This article uses the lens of diaspora to explore understudied case US emigration and transnationalism Americans residing abroad. Although rarely recognized as such, native-born citizens are also migrants who cross international borders, maintain close cultural political ties their homeland, form social networks with compatriots scattered across globe. Despite these diasporic tendencies, various peculiarities (individual national privilege high among them) render unlikely subjects for application a concept commonly associated coercion, trauma, marginalization. Nevertheless, this maintains that (1) inclusion counterintuitive but compatible can sharpen conceptualization an already inflated term; (2) framework illuminate aspects American mobility belonging significant implications host countries, themselves.