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Between dispersion and belonging : global approaches to diaspora in practice /
"As a historical and religious term "diaspora" has existed for many years, but it only became an academic and analytical concept in the 1980s and '90s. Within its various usages, two broad directions stand out: diaspora as a dispersion of people from an original homeland, and dia...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago :
McGill-Queen's University Press,
2016.
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| Colección: | McGill-Queen's studies in ethnic history.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Foreword: between dispersion and belonging: at home in the diaspora / Amitava Chowdhury
- Introduction: is "diaspora" a live hand grenade? / Donald Harman Akenson
- 1 what and where is diaspora?: Definitions, analytical boundaries, and research agendas / William Safran
- 2 Diaspora: legacies, typologies, and "push-pull" / Donald Harman Akenson
- 3 The diaspora symptom: global projection of local identities / Amitava Chowdhury
- 4 Who was first and when?: the diasporic implications of indigeneity / James T. Carson
- Trade diasporas and merchant social cohesion in early trade in the Western Indian Ocean / Eivind Heldas Seland
- 6 Perhaps a silly question: was there a Swedish diaspora? / Donald Harman Akenson
- 7 An "invisible diaspora"?: English associational culture in nineteenth-century North America / Donald M. MacRaild
- 8 Ulster Presbyterians, the great famine, and the historiography of early Irish America / Rankin Sherling
- 9 Narratives of home: diaspora formations among the indian indentured labourers / Amitava Chowdhury
- Conclusion: diaspora as global history / Amitava Chowdhury.