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Diasporas in the Contemporary World

ISBN: 978-0-7456-4497-4
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224 pages
July 2009, Polity
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Introduction 1

Chapter 1 What are diasporas, why do they matter? 3

Chapter 2 Definition and classes of diasporas 13

Chapter 3 Contemporary case studies 22

3a. North Africans in France 22

3b. Overseas Chinese: Malaysian, Thai, Japanese 35

3c. Zionists in Palestine 48

3d. Ukrainians in Canada 60

3e. The “Russian” diaspora in Israel 69

3f. Afro-Brazilians, 1531–2008 76

3g. Palestinians in Kuwait 84

3h. Mexicans in the United States 88

Chapter 4 Problems and processes of adaptation 100

Chapter 5 Diasporas and international relations 120

Chapter 6 Diasporas and ethnic conflict 133

Chapter 7 Diasporas and public policy 149

Chapter 8 Prospects and outcomes 167

Notes 184

Bibliography 199

Index 207

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