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Global Diasporas Co-Publicatio

Global Diasporas Co-Publicatio

Global Diasporas Co-Publicatio


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Global Diasporas Co-Publicatio Summary

What is a diaspora? For the Greeks, from whose language the word originated, diaspora meant the dispersal of population through colonization. For Jews, Africans, Armenians, and others, the word acquired a more sinister and brutal meaning. Diaspora meant a collective trauma, a banishment into exile, and a heart-aching longing to return home. During the early modern period, trade and labor diasporas girded the mercantilist and early capitalist worlds. Today the term has changed again, often implying a positive and ongoing relationship between migrants' homelands and their places of work and settlement. In this perceptive and arresting analysis, Robin Cohen illuminates the changing meanings of diaspora and the contemporary diasporic condition. This volume serves to introduce a major new series, Global Diasporas, which will prove essentail for students of race, ethnicity, nationalism, and comparative politics.

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Reading the book, I thought, 'Cohen is doing for diaspora what Weber did for religion'... [This] is an ambitious attempt to theorize the displacement of people ... and the social circumstances they create for themselves as they maintain a connection with their (real or imagined) homelands and among their co-ethnics. -- Fran Markowitz American Anthropologist

About

Robin Cohen is professor of sociology at the University of Warwick.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments List of TablesIntroduction1) Classical notions of diaspora - transcending the Jewish tradition2) Victim diasporas - Africans and Armenians3) Labour and imperial diasporas - Indians and British4) Trade diasporas - Chinese and Lebonese5) Diasporas and their homelands - Sikhs and Zionists6) Cultural diasporas - the Caribbean case7) Diasporas in the age of globalization8) Conclusion - diasporas, their types and their futureNotesReferencesIndex

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CIN0295976209VG
9780295976204
0295976209
Global Diasporas Co-Publicatio by
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Taylor & Francis Ltd
19970418
241
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