Migratory phenomena have always existed in the history of mankind, but since the
consolidation of the nation-state, the displacement of migrants between countries has
been accentuated and was in the very constitution of modern nationalities. With the
advent of globalization, international migration reached an even greater extent with
the transformations of the capitalist mode of production and the consequent
repercussion in the world of work. This research, then, seeks to investigate two
effects of the current migratory phenomenon: transnational citizenship, which
questions the concept of traditional citizenship as the relationship of a person with a
single nation-state, starting to consider those subjects who have rights in more than
one parents; and transnationality, which also challenges the limits and sovereignty of
this nation-state by highlighting the actions of people who constantly come and go
across national borders, putting in check the repressive and supervisory apparatus
that is usually relegated to dealing with those borders of a nation. This research
made use of the consultation to bibliographic sources among the already
consubstantial regional literature on the Amapá-French Guiana border. Focusing
mainly on bibliographies of an ethnographic nature, the present work can gather
elements for the analysis and interpretation of the material, reaching conclusions that
characterize the phenomena of transnational citizenship and transnationality
according to the specificities of the French Amapá-Guiana border.
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