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| List of tables | |
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| List of figures | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Preface to the second edition | |
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| Four phases of diaspora studies | |
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| The prototypical diaspora | |
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| The expanded concept of diaspora | |
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| Social constructionist critiques of diaspora | |
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| The consolidation phase | |
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| Conclusion: the tools to delineate a diaspora | |
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| Further reading | |
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| Questions to think about | |
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| Classical notions of diaspora: transcending the Jewish tradition | |
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| 'Babylon' as a site of oppression | |
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| 'Babylon' as a site of creativity | |
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| The Jewish diaspora and Christianity | |
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| The Jewish diaspora and Islam | |
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| Ashkenazi fates | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Further reading | |
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| Questions to think about | |
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| Victim diasporas: Africans and Armenians | |
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| Origins of the African diaspora | |
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| The African diaspora: homeland and return | |
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| Other aspects of the African diaspora | |
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| The creation of the American diaspora | |
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| After the massacres: Armenians at home and abroad | |
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| Soviet Armenia and after | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Further reading | |
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| Questions to think about | |
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| Labour and imperial diasporas: indentured Indians and the British | |
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| A new system of slavery? | |
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| The songs of Ramayana and political outcomes | |
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| Imperial diasporas | |
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| The settlement of the British Empire | |
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| The end of the dominion diaspora | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Further reading | |
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| Questions to think about | |
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| Trade and business diasporas: Chinese and Lebanese | |
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| The making of the Chinese diaspora | |
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| The Chinese as minorities | |
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| The great Lebanese emigration | |
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| The Lebanese diaspora: butterflies and caterpillars | |
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| Conclusions: ethnic entrepreneurs and trade diasporas | |
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| Further reading | |
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| Questions to think about | |
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| Diasporas and their homelands: Zionists and Sikhs | |
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| Birth traumas: can Israel be a 'normal' state? | |
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| Israel and the diaspora | |
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| The origins of the Sikh diaspora | |
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| Sikhs: the lure of homeland | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Further reading | |
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| Questions to think about | |
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| Deterritorialized diasporas: the black Atlantic and the lure of Bombay | |
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| The Caribbean: migration and diaspora | |
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| African-Caribbeans in the USA | |
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| African-Caribbeans in the UK | |
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| Caribbean peoples in the Netherlands and France | |
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| The black Atlantic thesis | |
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| Sindhis and Paris in Bombay | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Further reading | |
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| Questions to think about | |
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| Mobilizing diasporas in a global age | |
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| Diasporas in a globalized economy | |
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| New forms of international migration | |
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| Cosmopolitanism, global cities and the bridging role of diasporas | |
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| Religion and diasporas | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Further reading | |
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| Questions to think about | |
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| Studying diasporas: old methods and new topics | |
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| How and why do typologies work? | |
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| Comparing diasporas: Wittgenstein's rope | |
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| Diasporas as agents of development | |
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| The role of diasporas in international politics | |
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| Negative reactions to the growth of diasporas | |
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| Final remarks | |
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| A literature guide | |
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| Questions to think about | |
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| Notes | |
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| References | |
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| Index | |