Routledge Handbook of Diaspora Studies

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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. Diaspora studies: an introduction Robin Cohen and Carolin Fischer PART I: EXPLORING AND DEBATING DIASPORA 1. Diaspora before it became a concept Stéphane Dufoix 2. Diaspora studies: past, present and promise Khachig Tölölyan 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: diaspora’s 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 mobility–sedentarism and agency–structure dichotomies in diasporic return migration Nanor Karageozian PART III: HOME AND HOME-MAKING 20. Unravelling the conceptual link between transnationalism and diaspora: the example of hometown 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 Höchner 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 Müller-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 migrationSandra 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