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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 | |