Routledge Handbook of Diaspora Studies (Paperback, 1)

Diaspora studies: an introduction PART I: EXPLORING AND DEBATING DIASPORA 1. Diaspora before it became a concept 2. Diaspora studies: past, present and promise 3. Key methodological tools for diaspora studies: combining the transnational and intersectional approaches 4. The social construction of diasporas: conceptual development and the Rwandan case 5. Diasporas as social movements? 6. Performing diaspora 7. Embodying belonging: diaspora’s racialization and cultural citizenship 8. Music, dance and diaspora 9. Diasporic filmmaking in Europe 10. Writing in Diaspora PART II: COMPLEX DIASPORAS 11. Making and ‘faking’ a diasporic heritage 12. Translanguaging and diasporic imagination 13. Multi-religious diasporas: rethinking the relationship between religion and diaspora 14. Homelessness and statelessness: possibilities and perils 15. Diaspora and class, class and diaspora 16. Working-class cosmopolitans and diaspora 17. Transversal crossings and diasporic intersections 18. Intersectionalizing diaspora studies 19. Bridging the mobility?sedentarism and agency?structure dichotomies in diasporic return migration PART III: HOME AND HOME-MAKING 20. Unravelling the conceptual link between transnationalism and diaspora: hometown networks 21. Deportees as ‘reverse diasporas’ 22. Diasporicity: relative embeddedness in transnational and co-ethnic networks 23. Moral comforts of remaining in exile: snapshots from conflict-generated Indonesian diasporas 24. Islamic schooling and the second generation: a diaspora perspective 25. Diaspora and home: interrogating embodied precarity in an era of forced displacement 26. Diasporas and political obligation PART IV: CONNECTING DIASPORA 27. Diaspora and religion: connecting and disconnecting 28. Digital diasporas 29. Diaspora politics and political remittances: a conceptual reflection 30. Diasporas building peace: reflections from the experience of Middle Eastern diasporas 31. Postcolonial states, nation-building and the (un)making of diasporas 32. The plasticity of diasporic identities in super-diverse cities 33. Displaced imaginations, bodies and things: materiality and subjectivity of forced migration PART V: CRITIQUES AND APPLIED DIASPORA STUDIES 34. Preserving or discarding diaspora 35. Disconnecting from home: contesting the salience of the diaspora 36. Why engage diasporas? 37. Diaspora mobilizations for conflict: beyond amplification and reduction 38. Diasporas and development 39. Diasporas and the politics of memory and commemoration 40. At home in diaspora: the Babylonian Talmud as diasporist manifesto