Diaspora politics : at home abroad / Gabriel Sheffer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sheffer, Gabriel, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Emigration and immigration--History.

Emigration and immigration.

Emigration and immigration--Political aspects.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiii, 290 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2003.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book is intended to fill in a gap in the study of modern ethno-national diasporas. Thus, against the background of current trends - globalization, democratization, the weakening of the nation-state and massive transstate migration, it examines the politics of historical, modern and incipient ethno-national diasporas. It argues that unlike the widely accepted view, ethno-national diasporism and diasporas do not constitute a recent phenomenon. Rather, this is a perennial phenomenon whose roots were in antiquity. Some of the existing diasporas were created in antiquity, some during the Middle Ages and some are modern. An essential aspect of this phenomenon is the endless cultural-social-economic and especially political struggle of these dispersed ethnic groups that permanently reside in host countries away from their homelands to maintain their distinctive identities and connections with their homelands and other dispersed groups of the same nation. While describing and analyzing the diaspora phenomenon, the book sheds light on theoretical questions pertaining to current ethnicity and politics.

Contents:

Primary questions and hypotheses

Diasporism and diasporas in history

The collective portrait of contemporary diasporas

Diasporas in numbers

The making, development, and unmaking of diasporas

Stateless and state-linked diasporas

Transstate networks and politics

Diasporas, the nation-state and regional integration

Loyalty

Diasporas at home abroad.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-107-13262-2

1-280-41854-0

1-139-14788-9

0-511-18078-0

0-511-06446-2

0-511-05813-6

0-511-32641-6

0-511-49943-4

0-511-07292-9

OCLC:

252495657