What is a transnational family?

• A. A family whose members live in different regions of the same country with no international ties.
• B. A family where all members reside in one country.
• C. A family whose members live across national borders and maintain ongoing ties.
• D. A family that emigrates and loses contact with relatives.

Answer: (C)

Transnational families are those whose members live across national borders and maintain ongoing ties across those borders. Global migration creates households that stretch across countries, with relatives in different places who stay connected through communication, remittances, visits, and shared parenting arrangements. This cross-border connectedness is what gives the family its transnational character, rather than being confined to one country. The other scenarios describe families confined to a single country or families where contact is lost after emigration, which do not reflect the ongoing cross-border ties that define transnational families.