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The Routledge Handbook of Diaspora Studies
The word ‘diaspora’ has leapt from its previously confined use – mainly concerned with the dispersion of Jews, Greeks, Armenians and Africans away from their natal homelands – to cover the cases of many other ethnic groups, nationalities and religions. But this ‘horizontal’ scattering of the word to cover the mobility of many groups to many destinations, has been paralleled also by ‘vertical’ leaps, with the word diaspora being deployed to cover more and more phenomena and serve more and more objectives of different actors. With sections on ‘debating the concept’, ‘complexity’, ‘home and home-making’, ‘connections’ and ‘critiques’, the Routledge Handbook of Diaspora Studies is likely to remain an authoritative reference for some time. Each contribution includes a targeted list of references for further reading. The editors have carefully blended established scholars of diaspora with younger scholars looking at how diasporas are constructed ‘from below’. The adoption of a variety of conceptual perspectives allows for generalization, contrasts and comparisons between cases. In this exciting and authoritative collection over 40 scholars from many countries have explored the evolving use of the concept of diaspora, its possibilities as well as its limitations. This Handbook will be indispensable for students undertaking essays, debates and dissertations in the field.
Diasporas in the modern world: the evolution of phenomena and concepts
2020
The article analyzes scientific views, the concept of "diaspora", classification of diasporas, modern and classical diasporas, a description of existing scientific views as an object of a transnational community. The conclusion is made about the absence of a single generally accepted definition of the concept of “diaspora”, which is necessary both theoretically and practically. n the conclusion, the author's views on improving research on the history of diasporas are presented.
Diasporas in the modern world: the evolution of phenomena and concepts ARTICLE INFO ABSTRACT
in Science, 2020
The article analyzes scientific views, the concept of "diaspora", classification of diasporas, modern and classical diasporas, a description of existing scientific views as an object of a transnational community. The conclusion is made about the absence of a single generally accepted definition of the concept of “diaspora”, which is necessary both theoretically and practically. n the conclusion, the author's views on improving research on the history of diasporas are presented.
Diaspora studies Past, present and promise
The text of a talk given as the inaugural lecture for the launch of the Diaspora Studies program at Oxford University in 2011. The paper looks at several tensions between pairs of terms and concepts that structure ongoing debates within the field, e.g. dispersion vs diaspora; diaspora as objective social fact and as subjective, lived experience; distinctions between home and homeland; and other binaries.
Global diasporas: an introduction (Revised edition 2008)
Designed to introduce a series of 10 volumes on global diasporas, this book constructs and innovative typology and covers the changing meanings of ‘diaspora’ and the contemporary diasporic condition. Among the many reviews appears this comment: ‘Cohen is doing for diaspora what Weber did for religion' (Fran Markowitz, American Anthropologist, June 1999).
Diaspora Studies: Roots and Critical Dimensions
Diaspora discourse involves at least two critical dimensions: the first concerns the issue of naming, guided by such questions as whom to call diaspora and under what criteria; the second extends this process of naming to the establishment of diaspora as a comprehensive theory for studying multiple forms of migrations. This article outlines the insights of some of the most repetitively consulted scholars in diaspora studies. My attempt is to synthesize their conceptualizations into a representative research framework.
Gamlen, A. 2012 Diasporas, Encyclopedia of Global Studies
Encyclopedia of Global Studies, 2012
In contemporary usage, the word diaspora is closely connected with migration and migrant transnationalism—two of the most visible and controversial manifestations of globalization. According to one of its most concise definitions, the term diaspora refers to “an imagined community living away from a professed place of origin” (Vertovec, 2009, p. 5). However, it is important to recognize that all definitions of the term are contested and therefore require a considerable amount of explanation, qualification, and contextualization. With this requirement in mind, the historical development of the term and its main current usages are outlined in this entry.
Diasporas: Critical and Interdisciplinary Perspectives
2009
The Conference Diasporas: Critical Issues at Mansfield College, Oxford from July 5th -8th 2008 provided a thinking-space for those of us invariably interested in, or who work with, issues and concepts of the diaspora/s. The conference signposted several themes which drew scholars and practitioners from a cross-section of disciplines across the globe. The wide range of topics offered a broad scope for engagement with issues pertaining to what has become one of the most contestable concepts of our times: diaspora/s.[From publisher's website]
As the use of 'diaspora' has proliferated in the last decade, its meaning has been stretched in various directions. This article traces the dispersion of the term in semantic, conceptual and disciplinary space; analyses three core elements that continue to be understood as constitutive of diaspora; assesses claims made by theorists of diaspora about a radical shift in perspective and a fundamental change in the social world; and proposes to treat diaspora not as a bounded entity but as an idiom, stance and claim.