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Transnational migration theory, focusing on migrants' transnational networks stretching across na-tional borders, describes how a context of migrant incorporation in the host society has been changed. Transnationalism casts doubt on the significance of nation-state in the modern world and these changes are considered as a new mode of migrant integration.
The study which is based on interviews with migrants who arrived in Russia from the CIS countries and who have children allows us to answer the following questions: Do these migrants define them-selves as transnational migrants or do they use other categories and labels? Do these migrants de-fine themselves in terms of national, diasporic or transnational categories and what make them as-sume such identities? This paper also examines the role of migrant children in parental integration and it describes the process of changes in migrant family structure. Migrants develop two parallel life strategies in case the need to live in one of the two countries. Implementing the first strategy is in conflict with the implementation of the second one, at least economic. Although transnational theory can be applied to this case, findings also highlight the significance of generation in the pro-cess of incorporation in the receiving country. Parents and second generation of children acculturate differently, this could be considered as dissonant acculturation - children could reject the parental national identity.
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