Cross-border migration profoundly challenges and transforms national identity and social consciousness in both origin and destination societies. This article examines the complex interactions between migration processes and collective identity formation, analyzing how human mobility across borders disrupts traditional notions of national belonging while simultaneously generating new forms of social consciousness. Through examining the dialectical relationship between inclusion and exclusion, assimilation and multiculturalism, and local and global identities, this analysis reveals migration as a catalyst for fundamental transformations in how societies understand themselves and their boundaries. The study explores both the opportunities for enriched cultural diversity and the tensions arising from perceived threats to established national narratives.

National identity, social consciousness, cross-border migration

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