The Routledge Diaspora Studies Reader provides a comprehensive resource for students and scholars working in this vital interdisciplinary field. The book traces the emergence and development of Diaspora Studies as a field of scholarship, presenting key critical essays alongside more recent criticism that explores new directions.

Klaus Stierstorfer is Chair of British Studies at the University of Muenster, Germany.

Janet Wilson is Professor of English and Postcolonial Studies and Director of Research in the School of the Arts at the University of Northampton, UK.

General introduction by Klaus Stierstorfer and Janet Wilson

PART I ORIGINS

1. Terms and conceptions
Introduction

1 Diasporas in Modern Societies: Myths of Homeland and Return William Saffran

2 Diasporas James Clifford

3 Four Phases of Diaspora Studies Robin Cohen

2. Religion and diaspora Introduction

4 Religion and diaspora Steven Vertovec

5 Conceptualizing diaspora: the preservation of religious identity in foreign parts, exemplified by Hindu communities outside India Martin Baumann

PART II GEOPOLITICS

3. Nation and diaspora
Introduction

6 DissemiNation Homi K. Bhabha

7 The 'diaspora' diaspora Rogers Brubaker

8 The black Atlantic as counterculture of modernity Paul Gilroy

4. Citizenship and the transglobal
Introduction

9 Diasporic citizenship: contradictions and possibilities for Canadian literature Lily Cho

10 Citizenship and identity: living in diaspora in post-war Europe? Yasemin Nuhoglu Soysal

11 Introduction to Narratives of Citizenship Aloys N. M. Fleischmann and Nancy van Styvendale

5. (Inter)national policy and diasporaIntroduction

12 Why engage diasporas? Alan Gamlen

13 Migration, information technology, and international policy Jennifer M. Brinkerhoff

14 International migration as a tool in development policy: a passing phase? Ronald Skeldon

PART III IDENTITIES

6. Subjectivity
Introduction

15 The turn to diaspora Lily Cho

16 Diasporic subjectivity as an ethical position Dibyesh Anand

17 Diasporic subjectivities Colin Davis

7. Hybridity and cultural identity Introduction

18 The third space: interview with Homi Bhabha Jonathean Rutherford

19 New hybridities, old concepts: the limits of 'culture' Floya Anthias

20 Hybridity John Hutnyk

21 The limits of cultural hybridity: on ritual monsters, poetic license and contested postcolonial purifications Pnina Werbner

8. IntersectionalityIntroduction

22 Evaluating 'diaspora': beyond ethnicity? Floya Anthias

23 Multiple axes of power: articulations of diaspora and intersectionality Avtar Brah

24 Impossible desires: queer diasporas and South Asian public cultures Gaytari Gopinath

25 Why queer diaspora? Meg Wesling

IV CULTURAL PRODUCTION

9. Diaspora literature
Introduction

26 Romance, diaspora and black Atlantic literature Yogita Goyal

27 The postcolonial novel and diaspora Yoon Sun Lee

10. Diaspora and visual cultureIntroduction

28 Diaspora culture and the dialogic imagination: the aesthetics of black independent film in Britain Kobena Mercer

29 Situating accented cinema Hamid Naficy

30 Speaking in tongues: Ang Lee, accented cinema, Hollywood Song Hwee Lim

V COMMUNITY

11. Home and belonging
Introduction

31 Imaginary homelands Salman Rushdie

32 Being not-at-home: a conceptual discussion Jane Mummery

33 Cartographies of diaspora Avtar Brah

34 Solid liquid and ductile: changing notions of homeland and home in diaspora studies Robin Cohen

12. Digital diasporas Introduction

35 The immigrant worlds' digital harbors: an introduction Andoni Alonso and Pedro J. Oiarzabal

36 Internet, place and public sphere in diaspora communities Angel Adams Parham

37 Nations, migration, and the world wide web of politics Victoria Bernal