Diasporas in the Contemporary WorldISBN: 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