Diaspora and transnationalism
Subtitle: concepts, theories and methods
By: edited by Rainer Bauböck and Thomas Faist
Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Amsterdam
Language: eng
Number of pages: 376
ISBN-13: 9789089642387
Subjects: Emigration and immigration; Transnationalism
Description: Diaspora & transnationalism are widely used concepts in academic & 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. This book analyses this topic.
Notes: "IMISCOE Research".

Includes bibliographical references (p. [323]-349).