Sociology of Diaspora : A Reader (2 Vols-Set)

Contents: Vol. I. Foreword. Acknowledgments. Introduction--Globalization, migration, transnationalism and Diasporas: some critical reflections/Ajaya Kumar Sahoo and Brij Maharaj. I. Diaspora and transnational migration: a theoretical perspective: 1. The nation-state and its others: in Lieu of a preface/Khachig Tololyan. 2. Diaspora migration: definitional ambiguities and a theoretical paradigm/Judith T. Shuval. 3. The emergence of new ethno-national Diasporas/Gabriel Sheffer. 4. Diaspora: genealogies of semantics and transcultural comparison/Martin Baumann. 5. Place, geography and the concept of Diaspora: a methodological approach/Knut Hidle. 6. Reevaluating 'Diaspora' : connectivity, communication and imagination in a globalised world/Roza Tsagarousianou. 7. The centrality of ethnography in the study of transnational migration: seeing the wetland instead of the swamp/Nina Glick Schiller. 8. Conceptualizing simultaneity: a transnational social field perspective on society/Peggy Levitt and Nina Glick Schiller. 9. Transnational migration comes of age/Sarah J. Mahlar. 10. The transnational turn: migration and politics/Thomas Faist. 11. Conceptualizing transnational community formation: Migrants, sojourners and Diasporas in a globalized era/W. Andy Knight. 12. Transnational migration: new challenges for nation states and new opportunities for regional and global development/Ludger Pries. II. Global Diasporas: Jewish, British, Africans, Chinese, Russians, Turkish, Greeks, Lebanese, Koreans, and Iranians: 13. Coming to terms with exile/Howard Wettstein. 14. The Jewish Diaspora in a comparative and theoretical perspective/William Safran. 15. The British Diaspora in wide-angle/Eric Richards. 16. Conceptualizing the African Diaspora/Carlton Wilson. 17. Cultural identities in the Chinese Diaspora/Marie-Paule Ha. 18. Territorialising Diasporas: the case of Russians in the former Soviet Republics/Pal Kolsto. 19. Turkish transnational nationalisms: how the 'Turks abroad' redefine nationalism/Riva Kastoryano. 20. Kurds in Europe: from labor migrants to asylum seekers/Osten Wahlbeck. 21. In search of Adonis: marriage strategies and gender identity in Greek transnational migration/Anastasia N. Panagakos. 22. The legacy of transnational lives: beyond the first generation of Lebanese in Senegal/Mara A. Leichtman. 23. (Korean) Diasporic nationalism/John Lie. 24. What has the metaphor of 'Bridging' to do with Hybridity? Discourses on identity within Iranian - American organizations/Halleh Ghorashi. 25. "Foreignness" and be/longing: transnationalism and immigrant entrepreneurial spaces/Minoo Moallem.

Vol. II: III. South Asian Diasporas: issues of ethnicity and identity: 26. The South Asian presence in Britain and its transnational connections/Roger Ballard. 27. Culture, hybridity, and the dialogical self: cases from the South Asian Diaspora/Sunil Bhatia and Anjali Ram. 28. The place which is Diaspora: citizenship, religion and gender in the making of Chaordic transnationalism/Pnina Werbner. 29. Sikh emigrants and their homeland: the transmission of information resources and values in the early twentieth century/N. Gerald Barrier. 30. A Sikh Diaspora? Contested identities and constructed realities/Verne A. Dusenbery. 31. An overview of religious and politics dynamics among the Bangladeshi Diaspora in Britain/David Garbin. 32. Nostalgia, desire, Diaspora: South Asian sexualities in motion/Gayatri Gopinath. 33. Deconstructing the visual: the Diasporic Hybridity of Asian and Eurasian female images/Julie Matthews. IV. Indian Diaspora: themes and perspectives: 34. Language and identity in an Indian Diaspora: "Multiculturalism" and ethno-linguistic communities in Mauritius/Patrick Eisenlohr. 35. The Tamil Goddess, "Zaman Hindu", and the ethnic Uncanny in Malaysia/Andrew Willford. 36. From religion to ethnicity: the identity of immigrant and second generation Indian Jains in the United States/Neelu Jain and Benjamin Forest. 37. The integration of Indian immigrants to temples run by North Americans/Nurit Zaidman. 38. "The tide of Turbans": Asian Indians in America/Ronald Takaki. 39. Indians as the racialized 'other': a history of the early Indian Diaspora in Canada/Dave Sangha. 40. Diaspora and nation: displacement and the politics of Kashmiri identity in Britain/Nasreen Ali. 41. Shifting terrain: Rama and Odysseus meet on the London stage/Paula Richman. 42. Diwali down under: transforming and performing Indian tradition in Aotearoa/New Zealand/Henry Johnson and Guil Figgins. 43. Indian Diaspora in the United States and Brain Gain: remittances, return and network approaches/Anjali Sahay. 44. Sending money home: money and family in the Indian Diaspora/Supriya Singh. 45. Booster of innovation: how highly skilled Indian immigrants in the Diaspora became network-agents of globalization/Peter F. Saeverin. 

"Although there have been some discussions about 'Diaspora' in the past this has been more pronounced in the intellectual and public domain during the last decade of the 20 century. Why has 'Diaspora' attracted such scholarly interest only recently? Who are the protagonists who have made important contributions to the field?

This comprehensive collection of essays provides some answers by focusing on themes such as immigration, transnationalism, ethnicity, identity, religion, politics, citizenship, gender, sexuality, and hybridity which comprise the domain of Diaspora studies. This book will be useful not only to sociologists but also to scholars working in the fields of social anthropology, political science, geography, history, philosophy, literary, cultural and ethnic studies." (jacket)