Routledge Handbook of Diaspora Studies / edited by Robin Cohen and Carolin Fischer.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Cohen, Robin, editor.

Fischer, Carolin, editor.

Taylor & Francis.

Series:

Routledge handbooks

Routledge international handbooks

Routledge International Handbooks

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Emigration and immigration.

Refugees.

Ethnicity.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (382 pages) : 9 illustrations, text file, PDF.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Boca Raton, FL : Routledge, 2018.

System Details:

text file

PDF

Summary:

The word 'diaspora' has leapt from its previously confined use - mainly concerned with the dispersion of Jews, Greeks, Armenians and Africans away from their natal homelands - to cover the cases of many other ethnic groups, nationalities and religions. But this 'horizontal' scattering of the word to cover the mobility of many groups to many destinations, has been paralleled also by 'vertical' leaps, with the word diaspora being deployed to cover more and more phenomena and serve more and more objectives of different actors.With sections on 'debating the concept', 'complexity', 'home and home-making', 'connections' and 'critiques', the Routledge Handbook of Diaspora Studies is likely to remain an authoritative reference for some time. Each contribution includes a targeted list of references for further reading. The editors have carefully blended established scholars of diaspora with younger scholars looking at how diasporas are constructed 'from below'. The adoption of a variety of conceptual perspectives allows for generalization, contrasts and comparisons between cases.In this exciting and authoritative collection over 40 scholars from many countries have explored the evolving use of the concept of diaspora, its possibilities as well as its limitations. This Handbook will be indispensable for students undertaking essays, debates and dissertations in the field.

Contents:

Diaspora studies: an introduction

Robin Cohen and

Carolin Fischer

PART I: EXPLORING AND DEBATING DIASPORA

1. Diaspora before it became a concept

Stphane

Dufoix

2. Diaspora studies: past, present and promise

Khachig Tllyan

3. Key methodological tools for diaspora studies: combining the transnational and intersectional approaches

Anna Amelina and Karolina Barglowski

4. The social construction of diasporas: conceptual development and the Rwandan case

Simon Turner

5. Diasporas as social movements?

Sharon M. Quinsaat

6. Performing diaspora

Alpha Abebe

7. Embodying belonging: diasporas racialization and cultural citizenship

Taku Suzuki

8. Music, dance and diaspora

Ananya Jahanara Kabir

9. Diasporic filmmaking in Europe

Daniela Berghahn

10. Writing in Diaspora

Zuzanna Olszewska

PART II: COMPLEX DIASPORAS

11. Making and faking a diasporic heritage

Marc Scully

12. Translanguaging and diasporic imagination

Zhu Hua and Li Wei

13. Multi-religious diasporas: rethinking the relationship between religion and diaspora

Dominic Pasura

14. Homelessness and statelessness: possibilities and perils

Barzoo Eliassi

15. Diaspora and class, class and diaspora

Nicholas Van Hear

16. Working-class cosmopolitans and diaspora

Pnina Werbner

17. Transversal crossings and diasporic intersections

Amanda Wise

18. Intersectionalizing diaspora studies

Marie Godin

19. Bridging the mobilitysedentarism and agencystructure dichotomies in diasporic return migration

Nanor Karageozian

PART III: HOME AND HOME-MAKING

20. Unravelling the conceptual link between transnationalism and diaspora:the exampleofhometown networks

Thomas Lacroix

21. Deportees as reverse diasporas

Shahram Khosravi

22. Diasporicity: relative embeddedness in transnational and co-ethnic networks

Takeyuki (Gaku) Tsuda

23. Moral comforts of remaining in exile: snapshots from conflict-generated Indonesian diasporas

Antje Missbach

24. Islamic schooling and the second generation: a diaspora perspective

Hannah Hchner

25. Diaspora and home: interrogating embodied precarity in an era of forced displacement

Divya P. Tolia-Kelly

26. Diasporas and political obligation

Ilan Zvi Baron

PART IV: CONNECTING DIASPORA

27. Diaspora and religion: connecting and disconnecting

Giulia Liberatore and Leslie Fesenmyer

28. Digital diasporas

Mihaela Nedelcu

29. Diaspora politics and political remittances: a conceptual reflection

Lea Mller-Funk

30. Postcolonial states, nation-building and the (un)making of diasporas

Jen Dickenson

31. The plasticity of diasporic identities in super-diverse cities

Tamsin Barber

32. Displaced imaginations, bodies and things: materiality and subjectivity of forced migration

Sandra H. Dudley

33. Disconnecting from home: contesting the salience of the diaspora

Gijsbert Oonk

PART V: CRITIQUES AND APPLIED DIASPORA STUDIES

34. Using pragmatism to approach 'diaspora', its meanings anf political implications

Carolin Fischer and Janine Dahinden

35. Why engage diasporas?

Alan Gamlen

36. Diaspora mobilizations for conflict: beyond amplification and reduction

Maria Koinova

37. Diasporas and development

Ben Page and Claire Mercer

38. Diasporas and the politics of memory and commemoration

Khatharya Um

39. At home in diaspora: the Babylonian Talmud as diasporist manifesto

Daniel Boyarin

40. Diasporas building peace: reflections from the experience of Middle Eastern diasporas

Bahar Baser and Mari Toivanen

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Print version:

ISBN:

9781315209050

OCLC:

1049150214

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.