I. CONCEPTS AND THEORIES
1 Exile / Martin Baumann, 19–23
2 Home and memory / Femke Stock, 24
3 Slavery and the black Atlantic / David Richardson, 29
4 Migration / Nicholas Van Hear, 34
5 Transnationalism / Peggy Levitt, 39
6 Nation, ethnicity and community / Gerd Baumann, 45
7 Multiculturalism and citizenship / Tariq Modood, 50
8 Post-coloniality / Graham Huggan, 55
9 Hybridity / John Hutnyk, 59
10 Cosmopolitanism / Steven Vertovec, 63
11 Social identities and creolization / Robin Cohen, 69
12 Complex diasporas / Pnina Werbner, 74
13 Space and movement / Kim Knott, 79
II. INTERSECTIONS
14 Diasporas and economies / Claire Dwyer, 87
15 Diasporas and politics / Terrence Lyons and Peter Mandaville, 91
16 Diasporas, conflict and security / Simon Turner, 97
17 Diasporas and development / Ben Page and Claire Mercer, 102
18 Diasporas and cities / John Eade, 107
19 Diasporas, race and difference / Claire Alexander, 112
20 Diasporas and gender / Nadje Al-Ali, 118
21 Diasporas and sexuality / Kira Kosnick, 123
22 Diasporas and religion / Manuel A. Vásquez, 128
23 Diasporas and language / Jaine Beswick, 134
24 Diasporas and material culture / Philip Crang, 139
25 Diasporas, literature and literary studies / Ananya Jahanara Kabir, 145
26 Diasporas and performance / Helen Gilbert and Jacqueline Lo, 151
27 Diasporas, film and cinema / Daniela Berghahn, 157
28 Diasporas and media / Karim H. Karim, 162
29 Diasporas and cyberspace / Victoria Bernal, 167
III. EMPIRICAL AND METAPHORICAL DIASPORAS
30 South/North relations in the Americas / Alex Stepick, Carol Dutton Stepick and Patricia Vanderkooy, 175
31 Movements between ‘white’ Europe and America: Greek migration to the United States / Anastasia Christou and Russell King, 181
32 The Russian-Jewish diaspora at the beginning of the twenty-first century / Larissa Remennick, 187
33 The Iranian diaspora in the West / Sanaz Raji, 193
34 How the Japanese diaspora in Brazil became the Brazilian diaspora in Japan / Jeffrey Lesser, 198
35 Migrations within China / Flemming Christiansen, 204
36 Beyond Tibet / Dibyesh Anand, 211
37 Sacred journeys, diasporic lives: sociality and the religious imagination among Filipinos in the Middle East /Mark Johnson, Claudia Liebelt, Deirdre McKay, Alicia Pingol and Pnina Werbner, 217
38 Muslim travellers: homing desire, the umma and British-Pakistanis / Seán McLoughlin, 223
39 Diasporic dialogue among the British in Australia / Sara Wills, 230
40 Diasporic creativity: refugee intellectuals, exiled poets and corporate cosmopolitanism at the BBC World Service / Marie Gillespie, 236
41 Colonial space-making and hybridizing history, or ‘Are the Indians of East Africa Africans or Indians?’ / Ato Quayson, 243
42 Transnational musicians’ networks across Africa and Europe / Ulrike Hanna Meinhof, Nadia Kiwan and Marie-Pierre Gibert, 249
43 Diasporic readers and the location of reception / James Procter, 256
44 Jews as rooted cosmopolitans: the end of diaspora? / David Shneer and Caryn Aviv, 263
Conclusion: new directions / Seán McLoughlin and Kim Knott, 269