General introduction by Klaus Stierstorfer and Janet Wilson
PART I ORIGINS
1. Terms and conceptions
Introduction
1 Diasporas in Modern Societies: Myths of Homeland and Return William Saffran
2 Diasporas James Clifford
3 Four Phases of Diaspora Studies Robin Cohen
2. Religion and diaspora Introduction
4 Religion and diaspora Steven Vertovec
5 Conceptualizing diaspora: the preservation of religious identity in foreign parts, exemplified by Hindu communities outside India Martin Baumann
PART II GEOPOLITICS
3. Nation and diaspora
Introduction
6 DissemiNation Homi K. Bhabha
7 The 'diaspora' diaspora Rogers Brubaker
8 The black Atlantic as counterculture of modernity Paul Gilroy
4. Citizenship and the transglobal
Introduction
9 Diasporic citizenship: contradictions and possibilities for Canadian literature Lily Cho
10 Citizenship and identity: living in diaspora in post-war Europe? Yasemin Nuhoglu Soysal
11 Introduction to Narratives of Citizenship Aloys N. M. Fleischmann and Nancy van Styvendale
5. (Inter)national policy and diasporaIntroduction
12 Why engage diasporas? Alan Gamlen
13 Migration, information technology, and international policy Jennifer M. Brinkerhoff
14 International migration as a tool in development policy: a passing phase? Ronald Skeldon
PART III IDENTITIES
6. Subjectivity
Introduction
15 The turn to diaspora Lily Cho
16 Diasporic subjectivity as an ethical position Dibyesh Anand
17 Diasporic subjectivities Colin Davis
7. Hybridity and cultural identity Introduction
18 The third space: interview with Homi Bhabha Jonathean Rutherford
19 New hybridities, old concepts: the limits of 'culture' Floya Anthias
20 Hybridity John Hutnyk
21 The limits of cultural hybridity: on ritual monsters, poetic license and contested postcolonial purifications Pnina Werbner
8. IntersectionalityIntroduction
22 Evaluating 'diaspora': beyond ethnicity? Floya Anthias
23 Multiple axes of power: articulations of diaspora and intersectionality Avtar Brah
24 Impossible desires: queer diasporas and South Asian public cultures Gaytari Gopinath
25 Why queer diaspora? Meg Wesling
IV CULTURAL PRODUCTION
9. Diaspora literature
Introduction
26 Romance, diaspora and black Atlantic literature Yogita Goyal
27 The postcolonial novel and diaspora Yoon Sun Lee
10. Diaspora and visual cultureIntroduction
28 Diaspora culture and the dialogic imagination: the aesthetics of black independent film in Britain Kobena Mercer
29 Situating accented cinema Hamid Naficy
30 Speaking in tongues: Ang Lee, accented cinema, Hollywood Song Hwee Lim
V COMMUNITY
11. Home and belonging
Introduction
31 Imaginary homelands Salman Rushdie
32 Being not-at-home: a conceptual discussion Jane Mummery
33 Cartographies of diaspora Avtar Brah
34 Solid liquid and ductile: changing notions of homeland and home in diaspora studies Robin Cohen
12. Digital diasporas Introduction
35 The immigrant worlds' digital harbors: an introduction Andoni Alonso and Pedro J. Oiarzabal
36 Internet, place and public sphere in diaspora communities Angel Adams Parham
37 Nations, migration, and the world wide web of politics Victoria Bernal
