This edited volume looks at the ways in which films, literature, photography and social media construct images of homelands and diasporas as well as the ways in which they facilitate exchanges between them. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of South Asian Diaspora.

Clelia Clini is Lecturer in Postcolonial Media and Culture, School of Computing and Digital Media at London Metropolitan University, UK. She is also a Visiting Fellow in Postcolonial Memory in the School of Social Sciences and Humanities at Loughborough University. Her research cuts across disciplines as she works across migration and diaspora studies; postcolonial theory; memory and cultural heritage; film and media studies.

Deimantas Valanciunas is Associate Professor of film and popular cultures of Asia at the Institute of Asian and Transcultural Studies, Vilnius University. His research interests include Indian cinema, postcolonial theory, diaspora studies, gothic and horror cinemas in Asia. He is an editor of special journal issues and author of a number of journal articles on South Asian cinema and literature.

Introduction - South Asian Diasporas and (imaginary) homelands: why representations still matter 1. Who is afraid of hybridity? Re-visiting Bhaji on the Beach and perspectives on multiculturalism in Britain 2. Diasporic visions: colonialism, nostalgia and the empire in Gurinder Chadha's Viceroy's House 3. Haunting memories: Sri Lankan civil war, trauma and diaspora in literature and film 4. The days of plenty: images of first generation Malayali migrants in the Arabian Gulf 5. Lost and found, centre and periphery: narratives of the Jain diasporic experience online 6. Indo-Caribbean diaspora, foreign policy, and iterations of Hindu identity 7. Negotiating identity in the diaspora: the role of South Asian youth organizations