Table of Contents

Acknowledgments List of TablesIntroduction1) Classical notions of diaspora - transcending the Jewish tradition2) Victim diasporas - Africans and Armenians3) Labour and imperial diasporas - Indians and British4) Trade diasporas - Chinese and Lebonese5) Diasporas and their homelands - Sikhs and Zionists6) Cultural diasporas - the Caribbean case7) Diasporas in the age of globalization8) Conclusion - diasporas, their types and their futureNotesReferencesIndex

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Considering that Global Diasporas covers a huge range of subjects, it is truly masterful. It has been put into a coherent theoretical scheme, it is backed by a lot of impressive scholarship, and it is clearly, even elegantly written. -- Daniel Chirot, University of Washington

About the Author

Robin Cohen is professor of sociology at the University of Warwick.

Reviews

Reading the book, I thought, 'Cohen is doing for diaspora what Weber did for religion'... [This] is an ambitious attempt to theorize the displacement of people ... and the social circumstances they create for themselves as they maintain a connection with their (real or imagined) homelands and among their co-ethnics. -- Fran Markowitz American Anthropologist