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.

General introduction by Klaus Stierstorfer and Janet WilsonPART I ORIGINS1. Terms and conceptionsIntroduction1 Diasporas in Modern Societies: Myths of Homeland and Return William Saffran2 Diasporas James Clifford3 Four Phases of Diaspora Studies Robin Cohen2. Religion and diaspora Introduction4 Religion and diaspora Steven Vertovec5 Conceptualizing diaspora: the preservation of religious identity in foreign parts, exemplified by Hindu communities outside India Martin BaumannPART II GEOPOLITICS3. Nation and diasporaIntroduction6 DissemiNation Homi K. Bhabha7 The ‘diaspora’ diaspora Rogers Brubaker8 The black Atlantic as counterculture of modernity Paul Gilroy4. Citizenship and the transglobal Introduction9 Diasporic citizenship: contradictions and possibilities for Canadian literature Lily Cho 10 Citizenship and identity: living in diaspora in post-war Europe? Yasemin Nuhoglu Soysal11 Introduction to Narratives of Citizenship Aloys N. M. Fleischmann and Nancy van Styvendale5. (Inter)national policy and diasporaIntroduction12 Why engage diasporas? Alan Gamlen13 Migration, information technology, and international policy Jennifer M. Brinkerhoff14 International migration as a tool in development policy: a passing phase? Ronald SkeldonPART III IDENTITIES6. Subjectivity Introduction15 The turn to diaspora Lily Cho16 Diasporic subjectivity as an ethical position Dibyesh Anand17 Diasporic subjectivities Colin Davis7. Hybridity and cultural identity Introduction18 The third space: interview with Homi Bhabha Jonathean Rutherford19 New hybridities, old concepts: the limits of ‘culture’ Floya Anthias 20 Hybridity John Hutnyk21 The limits of cultural hybridity: on ritual monsters, poetic license and contested postcolonial purifications Pnina Werbner8. IntersectionalityIntroduction22 Evaluating ‘diaspora’: beyond ethnicity? Floya Anthias23 Multiple axes of power: articulations of diaspora and intersectionality Avtar Brah24 Impossible desires: queer diasporas and South Asian public cultures Gaytari Gopinath25 Why queer diaspora? Meg Wesling IV CULTURAL PRODUCTION9. Diaspora literatureIntroduction26 Romance, diaspora and black Atlantic literature Yogita Goyal27 The postcolonial novel and diaspora Yoon Sun Lee10. Diaspora and visual cultureIntroduction28 Diaspora culture and the dialogic imagination: the aesthetics of black independent film in Britain Kobena Mercer29 Situating accented cinema Hamid Naficy30 Speaking in tongues: Ang Lee, accented cinema, Hollywood Song Hwee LimV COMMUNITY11. Home and belonging Introduction31 Imaginary homelands Salman Rushdie32 Being not-at-home: a conceptual discussion Jane Mummery33 Cartographies of diaspora Avtar Brah 34 Solid liquid and ductile: changing notions of homeland and home in diaspora studies Robin Cohen 12. Digital diasporas Introduction35 The immigrant worlds’ digital harbors: an introduction Andoni Alonso and Pedro J. Oiarzabal36 Internet, place and public sphere in diaspora communities Angel Adams Parham37 Nations, migration, and the world wide web of politics Victoria Bernal