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Overview
This introduction highlights key topics significant to contemporary discussions of diaspora and stressing the substantial impact these migratory shifts have on global capital.
- Offers a critical introduction to diaspora - the study of dispersed ethnic populations - with specific focus on migratory shifts post-1989 and post 9/11
- Examines the ways global capitalist shifts and the global terrorism war impact diaspora movements since the mid-1990s
- Includes discussion of globalization, the global terror war, and post-9/11 geopolitical and geo-economic shifts
- Engages directly with the political and ideological formations of the contemporary diaspora movement
- Provides comprehensive analysis of labour and economic migration; the relationship of diaspora to gender and race; queer diasporas; and diasporic 'acts of resistance'
- Theorizing Diaspora (2003), Braziel's groundbreaking anthology, offers complementary readings for this text
Synopsis
International migrants – uprooted from family, friends, and nation-state, and scattered across the globe – form vibrant diasporic communities. Whether through economic migration, political asylum, or corporate mobility, this type of wide scale dispersion of populations brings with it a myriad of important issues.
Diaspora: An Introduction offers a critical overview of this timely phenomenon, with a specific focus on diasporic shifts post-1989 and post-9/11. The text is organized thematically, reaching beyond human migration to explore a variety of issues—-globalization, realpolitik and geo-economic shifts in a post-9/11 world, the fractured politics of national boundaries, border crossings, terrorism, and homeland security. The book also examines the geopolitical and legal realignments that influence diasporic communities, global migration patterns, and worldwide debates about citizenship, nationality, and political belonging.
Editorials
From the Publisher
"The book will be of interest to scholars as well as students in the field, though there is a clear emphasis on the latter, and the book contains an opening set of definitions dealing with key terms (‘refugees' and ‘detainees', rather than hybridity), with each chapter ending on a series of questions for readers to consider. The book closes with one of the most substantial bibliographies we have come across on the subject of diaspora (over sixty pages) and will be a useful resource for future research in the field." (Postcolonial Theory, October 2010)