Sociology of Diaspora: A Reader / Ajaya Kumar Sahoo & Brij Maharaj english

I Diaspora and Transnational Migration A Theoretical Perspective -- The Nation-State and its Others: In Lieu of a Preface / Khachig Tololyan -- Diaspora Migration: Definitional Ambiguities and a Theoretical Paradigm / Judith T. Shuval -- The Emergence of New Ethno-National Diasporas / Gabriel Sheffer -- Diaspora: Genealogies of Semantics and Transcultural Comparison / Martin Baumann -- Place, Geography and the Concept of Diaspora: A Methodological Approach / Knut Hidle -- Reevaluating ̀Diaspora': Connectivity, Communication and Imagination in a Globalised World / Roza Tsagarousianou -- The Centrality of Ethnography in the Study of Transnational Migration: Seeing the Wetland Instead of the Swamp / Nina Glick Schiller -- Conceptualizing Simultaneity: A Transnational Social Field Perspective on Society / Nina Glick Schiller -- Transnational Migration Comes of Age / Sarah J. Mahler -- The Transnational Turn: Migration and Politics / Thomas Faist -- Conceptualizing Transnational Community Formation: Migrants, Sojourners and Diasporas in a Globalized Era / W. Andy Knight -- Transnational Migration: New Challenges for Nation States and New Opportunities for Regional and Global Development / Ludger Pries -- II Global Diasporas: Jewish, British, Africans, Chinese, Russians, Turkish, Greeks, Lebanese, Koreans, and Iranians -- Coming to Terms with Exile / Howard Wettstein -- The Jewish Diaspora in a Comparative and Theoretical Perspective / William Safran -- The British Diaspora in Wide-Angle / Eric Richards -- Conceptualizing the African Diaspora / Carlton Wilson -- Cultural Identities in the Chinese Diaspora / Marie-Paule Ha -- Territorialising Diasporas: The Case of Russians in the Former Soviet Republics / Pal Kolstø -- Turkish Transnational Nationalism: How the ̀Turks Abroad' Redefine Nationalism / Riva Kastoryano -- Kurds in Europe: From Labor Migrants to Asylum Seekers / Osten Wahlbeck -- In Search of Adonis: Marriage Strategies and Gender Identity in Greek Transnational Migration / Anastasia N. Panagakos -- The Legacy of Transnational Lives: Beyond the First Generation of Lebanese in Senegal / Mara A. Leichtman -- (Korean) Diasporic Nationalism / John Lie -- What has the Metaphor of ̀Bridging' to do with Hybridity? Discourses on Identity within Iranian-American Organizations / Halleh Ghorashi -- ̀̀Foreignness'' and Be/longing: Transnationalism and Immigrant Entrepreneurial Spaces / Minoo Moallem -- III South Asian Diasporas: Issues of Ethnicity and Identity -- The South Asian Presence in Britain and its Transnational Connections / Roger Ballard -- Culture, Hybridity, and the Dialogical Self: Cases from the South Asian Diaspora / Anjali Ram -- The Place which is Diaspora: Citizenship, Religion and Gender in the Making of Chaordic Transnationalism / Pnina Werbner -- Sikh Emigrants and Their Homeland: The Transmission of Information Resources and Values in the Early Twentieth Century / N. Gerald Barrier -- A Sikh Diaspora? Contested Identities and Constructed Realities / Verne A. Dusenbery -- An Overview of Religious and Political Dynamics among the Bangladeshi Diaspora in Britain / David Garbin -- Nostalgia, Desire, Diaspora: South Asian Sexualities in Motion / Gayatri Gopinath -- Deconstructing the Visual: The Diasporic Hybridity of Asian and Eurasian Female Images / Julie Matthews -- IV Indian Diaspora: Themes and Perspectives -- Language and Identity in an Indian Diaspora: ̀̀Multiculturalism'' and Ethono-Linguistic Communities in Mauritius / Patrick Eisenlohr -- The Tamil Goddess, ̀̀Zaman Hindu,'' and the Ethnic Uncanny in Malaysia / Andrew Willford -- From Religion to Ethnicity: The Identity of Immigrant and Second Generation Indian Jains in the United States / Benjamin Forest -- The Integration of Indian Immigrants to Temples Run by North Americans / Nurit Zaidman -- ̀̀The Tide of Turbans'': Asian Indians in America / Ronald Takaki -- Indians as the Racialized Òther': A History of the Early Indian Diaspora in Canada / Dave Sangha -- Diaspora and Nation: Displacement and the Politics of Kashmiri Identity in Britain / Nasreen Ali -- Shifting Terrain: Rama and Odysseus Meet on the London Stage / Paula Richman -- Diwali Downunder: Transforming and Performing Indian Tradition in Aotearoa/New Zealand / Guil Figgins -- Indian Diaspora in the United States and Brain Gain: Remittances, Return and Network Approaches / Anjali Sahay -- Sending Money Home: Money and Family in the Indian Diaspora / Supriya Singh.