Asian Literary Voices
Philip F. Williams
A Chance for European Universities
Jo Ritzen
Diaspora and Transnationalism
Rainer Bauböck, Thomas Faist
South Asian Partition Fiction in English
Rituparna Roy
Tracks and Traces
Philip Hirsch, Nicholas Tapp









Diaspora and Transnationalism

A thoroughly interdisciplinary book that covers the concepts of diaspora and transnationalism from a wide range of academic disciplines.

Diaspora and transnationalism are widely used concepts in academic as well as political discourses. Although originally referring to quite different phenomena, they increasingly overlap today. Such inflation of meanings goes hand in hand with a danger of essentialising collective identities.
Diaspora and Transnationalism: Concepts, Theories and Methods therefore analyses diaspora and transnationalism as research perspectives rather than as characteristics of particular social groups. Its contributions focus on conceptual uses, theoretical challenges and methodological innovations in the study of social ties that transcend nation and state boundaries. Bringing together authors from a wide range of fields and approaches in the social sciences, this volume is evidence that studying border-crossing affiliations also requires a crossing of disciplinary boundaries.

Authors: Rainer Bauböck, Paolo Boccagni, Michel Bruneau, Anastasia Christou, Janine Dahinden, Thomas Faist, Nina Glick Schiller, Uwe Hunger, Koen Jonkers, Laia Jorba, Russell King, Kathrin Kissau, Maria Koinova, Valentina Mazzucato, Laura Morales, Karsten Paerregaard, Myra A. Waterbury, Agnieszka Weinar.

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