In view of the growing onward migration and multisited transnationalism among naturalized EU citizens, this article seeks to advance the current understanding of transnational social fields, cataloguing the complex interplays of migrants' ways of being, belonging, and in‐betweenness across different places and spaces. Drawing on multisited qualitative research with Italian Bangladeshis in Italy and the United Kingdom, the paper presents how their ‘ways of being’ are expressed by maintaining transnational attachments to the country of origin and the wider Bangladeshi diaspora. In addition, they maintain transnational ‘ways of belonging’ by incorporating the Bengali language, culture, traditions, and values, and transmitting them to the next generation. Beyond these multiplicities of being and belonging, the findings put forward two important, yet contrasting, observations. On the one hand, there is an ongoing pursuit of onward migration to the UK among a section of the community—often influenced by social networks and transnational connections with the recognised Bangladeshi diaspora in the UK. Apart from being in the ‘community comfort zone’ and language advantage in the integration process, many migrants perceive living in the UK as having a higher ‘prestige’, ‘class’ or ‘status’ vis‐a‐vis Italy in terms of life quality, wealth, cultural, and religious freedom. On the other hand, another cohort is emotionally and culturally embedded in Italian societies and is in a dilemma of whether to migrate onward. In this process, they constantly blend, shift, and negotiate their ways of belonging. The findings unfold how a new geography of belonging takes shape, characterised by fluidities, multifaceted identities, and everyday life practices in a transnational space.

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意大利孟加拉人在欧洲及其他地区的跨国社会领域：走向归属方式的新地理学


鉴于入籍欧盟公民中不断增长的移民和多地点跨国主义，本文旨在增进当前对跨国社会领域的理解，对移民在不同地点和空间中的存在方式、归属感和中间性的复杂相互作用进行分类。本文利用对意大利和英国的意大利孟加拉人进行的多点定性研究，介绍了他们如何通过维持对原籍国和更广泛的孟加拉国侨民的跨国依恋来表达他们的“存在方式”。此外，他们通过融入孟加拉语言、文化、传统和价值观并将其传递给下一代来维持跨国“归属方式”。除了存在和归属的多样性之外，研究结果还提出了两个重要但截然不同的观察结果。一方面，社区中的一部分人一直在追求继续移民英国，这通常受到社交网络和与英国公认的孟加拉国侨民的跨国联系的影响。除了在融入过程中处于“社区舒适区”和语言优势之外，许多移民认为生活在英国在生活方面比意大利拥有更高的“声望”、“阶级”或“地位”质量、财富、文化和宗教自由。另一方面，另一群人在情感和文化上深深植根于意大利社会，并处于是否继续移民的两难境地。在这个过程中，他们不断地融合、转变和协商自己的归属方式。研究结果揭示了一种新的归属地理学是如何形成的，其特点是跨国空间中的流动性、多方面的身份和日常生活实践。