Diaspora before it became a concept / Stéphane Dufoix -- Diaspora studies : past, present and promise / Khachig Tölölyan -- Key methodological tools for diaspora studies : combining the transnational and intersectional approaches / Anna Amelina and Karolina Barglowski -- The social construction of diasporas : conceptual development and the Rwandan case / Simon Turner -- Diasporas as social movements? / Sharon M. Quinsaat -- Performing diaspora / Alpha Abebe -- Embodying belonging : diaspora's racialization and cultural citizenship / Taku Suzuki -- Music, dance and diaspora / Ananya Jahanara Kabir -- Diasporic filmmaking in Europe / Daniela Berghahn -- Writing in diaspora / Zuzanna Olszewska -- Making and "faking" a diasporic heritage / Marc Scully -- Translanguaging and diasporic imagination / Zhu Hua and Li Wei -- Multi-religious diasporas : rethinking the relationship between religion and diaspora / Dominic Pasura -- Homelessness and statelessness : possibilities and perils / Barzoo Eliassi -- Diaspora and class, class and diaspora / Nicholas Van Hear -- Working-class cosmopolitans and diaspora / Pnina Werbner -- Transversal crossings and diasporic intersections / Amanda Wise -- Intersectionalizing diaspora studies / Marie Godin -- Bridging the mobility-sedentarism and agency-structure dichotomies in diasporic return migration / Nanor Karageozian -- Unravelling the conceptual link between transnationalism and diaspora : the example of hometown networks / Thomas Lacroix -- Deportees as "reverse diasporas" / Shahram Khosravi -- Diasporicity : relative embeddedness in transnational and co-ethnic networks / Takeyuki (Gaku) Tsuda -- Moral comforts of remaining in exile : snapshots from conflict-generated Indonesian diasporas / Antje Missbach -- Islamic schooling and the second generation: a diaspora perspective / Hanna Höchner -- Diaspora and home : interrogating embodied precarity in an era of forced displacement / Divya P. Tolia-Kelly -- Diasporas and political obligation / Ilan Zvi Baron -- Diaspora and religion : connecting and disconnecting / Giulia Liberatore and Leslie Fesenmyer -- Digital diasporas / Mihaela Nedelcu -- Diaspora politics and political remittances : a conceptual reflection / Lea Müller-Funk -- Postcolonial states, nation-building and the (un)making of diasporas / Jen Dickenson -- The plasticity of diasporic identities in super-diverse cities / Tamsin Barber -- Displaced imaginations, bodies and things : materiality and subjectivity of forced migration / Sandra H. Dudley -- Disconnecting from home : contesting the salience of the diaspora / Gijsbert Oonk -- Using pragmatism to approach "diaspora," its meanings and political implications / Carolin Fischer and Janine Dahinden -- Why engage diasporas? / Alan Gamlen -- Diaspora mobilizations for conflict : beyond amplification and reduction / Maria Koinova -- Diaspora and development / Ben Page and Claire Mercer -- Diasporas and the politics of memory and commemoration / Khatharya Um -- At home in diaspora : the Babylonian Talmud as diasporist manifesto / Daniel Boyarin -- Diasporas building peace : reflections from the experience of Middle Eastern diasporas / Bahar Baser and Mari Toivanen.
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"The word 'diaspora' has leapt from its previously confined use - mainly concerned with the dispersion of Jews, Greeks, Armenians and Africans away from their natal homelands - to cover the cases of many other ethnic groups, nationalities and religions. But this 'horizontal' scattering of the word to cover the mobility of many groups to many destinations, has been paralleled also by 'vertical' leaps, with the word diaspora being deployed to cover more and more phenomena and serve more and more objectives of different actors. With sections on 'debating the concept', 'complexity', 'home and home-making', 'connections' and 'critiques', the Routledge Handbook of Diaspora Studies is likely to remain an authoritative reference for some time. Each contribution includes a targeted list of references for further reading. The editors have carefully blended established scholars of diaspora with younger scholars looking at how diasporas are constructed 'from below'. The adoption of a variety of conceptual perspectives allows for generalization, contrasts and comparisons between cases. In this exciting and authoritative collection over 40 scholars from many countries have explored the evolving use of the concept of diaspora, its possibilities as well as its limitations. This Handbook will be indispensable for students undertaking essays, debates and dissertations in the field"--