Global Diasporas
An Introduction
by Robin Cohen
3rd Edition
Publisher: Routledge
Book Details
| Print ISBN | 9781032188454 |
| eText ISBN | 9781000614060 |
| Publisher | Routledge |
| Publishing Year | 2023 |
| Edition | 3rd Edition |
| Language | English |
Global Diasporas: An Introduction, 3rd Edition, is a textbook by Robin Cohen that provides an instructional guide to the study of diaspora, migration, and identity. Originally published in 1997, the work helped establish diaspora studies as an academic field.
The volume outlines conceptual frameworks of dispersion and examines global communities through comparative case studies. Coverage explores diverse historical experiences, analyzing how trade, labour flows, and imperial settlement have shaped populations across continents.
Designed for students and instructors, the 2023 edition incorporates updated statistics and interpretations alongside learning aids, including illustrations, discussion questions, and guides to further reading.
Table of Contents
Chapter 1: The study of diasporas: a guide
- • Simple definitions of diaspora
- • A complex idea of diaspora: nine strands of a diasporic rope
- • A typology of diasporas
- • Diasporic actors and activism
- • Conclusion
- • Further reading
- • Questions to think about
- • Notes
- • References
Chapter 2: Transcending the prototype: rethinking the Jewish diaspora
- • The Jewish diaspora as prototype
- • ‘Babylon’ as a site of oppression
- • ‘Babylon’ as a site of creativity
- • The Jewish diaspora and Christianity
- • The Jewish diaspora and Islam
- • Ashkenazi fates
- • Conclusion
- • Further reading
- • Questions to think about
- • Notes
- • References
Chapter 3: Victim diasporas: Africans and Armenians
- • Origins of the African diaspora
- • The social construction of African homelands
- • Return and other aspects of the African diaspora
- • The creation of the Armenian diaspora
- • After the massacres: Armenians at home and abroad
- • Soviet Armenia and after
- • Conclusion
- • Further reading
- • Questions to think about
- • Notes
- • References
Chapter 4: Labour and imperial diasporas: indentured Indians and the British
- • Indentured Indians: a new system of slavery?
- • Indentured women
- • The songs of Ramayana and political outcomes
- • Imperial diasporas
- • The settlement of the British Empire
- • British emigration from below: the role of ‘gentlewomen’
- • The end of the dominion diaspora
- • Effects on British identity
- • Conclusion
- • Further reading
- • Questions to think about
- • Notes
- • References
Chapter 5: Trade diasporas: Chinese and Lebanese
- • The making of the Chinese trade diaspora
- • The Chinese as minorities
- • The great Lebanese emigration
- • The Lebanese diaspora: butterflies and caterpillars
- • Conclusion
- • Further reading
- • Questions to think about
- • Notes
- • References
Chapter 6: Deterritorialized diasporas: the black Atlantic and other cases
- • The Caribbean: migration and diaspora
- • African-Caribbeans in the USA
- • African-Caribbeans in the UK
- • Caribbean peoples in the Netherlands and France
- • The black Atlantic thesis
- • Other deterritorialized diasporas
- • Conclusion
- • Further reading
- • Questions to think about
- • Notes
- • References
Chapter 7: Incipient diasporas: Afghans and other refugees and displaced people
- • Workers in the Gulf states
- • Turkish guestworkers in Germany
- • Incipient diasporas and ‘new diasporas’
- • The making of an incipient diaspora: Afghans
- • Refugees and displaced people as reservoirs for incipient diasporas
- • Incipiency and contiguity: the dimensions of diaspora formation
- • Conclusion
- • Further reading
- • Questions to think about
- • Notes
- • References
Chapter 8: Dreams and realities of a homeland: Zionists and Sikhs
- • Birth traumas: can Israel be a ‘normal’ state?
- • Israel and the diaspora: a tangled relationship
- • Yordim, sabras and transnationals
- • Israel and the US Jewish diaspora: attitudinal shifts
- • A Sikh identity
- • Sikh origins
- • Amritsar, the Golden Temple and the lure of homeland
- • Post-Khalistani visions: the politics of recognition and a global qaum
- • Conclusion
- • Further reading
- • Questions to think about
- • Notes
- • References
Chapter 9: Diasporic engagement: state and non-state actors
- • Home governments and diasporas: from rejection to adoption
- • Host governments and diasporas: from fear to accommodation
- • International agencies/INGOs and diasporas as agents of development
- • Diasporas and homeland community engagement
- • Diasporas in conflict and post-conflict situations
- • Conclusion
- • Further reading
- • Questions to think about
- • Notes
- • References
Chapter 10: Conclusion: mutating meanings of diaspora
- • Jews and Greeks in classical times
- • Diaspora in early Christianity
- • The expanded concept
- • The emergent field of diaspora studies
- • Decoupling diaspora from homeland
- • Applied diaspora studies
- • Diasporas and complexity
- • Conclusion: between self-declaration and a Procrustean bed
- • Further reading
- • Questions to think about
- • Notes
- • References
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