A Companion to Diaspora and Transnationalism

A Companion to Diaspora and Transnationalism offers a ground-breaking combined discussion of the concepts of diaspora and transnationalism. Newly commissioned essays by leading scholars provide interdisciplinary perspectives that link together the concepts in new and important ways.

• A wide-ranging collection which reviews the most significant developments  and provides valuable insights into current key debates in transnational and diaspora studies
• Contains newly commissioned essays by leading scholars, which will both influence the field, and stimulate further insight and discussion in the future
• Provides interdisciplinary perspectives on diaspora and transnationalism which link the two concepts in new and important ways
• Combines theoretical discussion with specific examples and case studies

Ato Quayson is Inaugural Director of the Centre for Diaspora and Transnational Studies and Professor of English at the University of Toronto. His publications include Relocating Postcolonialism (with David Theo Goldberg, Blackwell, 2002); Calibrations: Reading for the Social (2003); Aesthetic Nervousness: Disability and the Crisis of Representation (2006); and the 2-volume The Cambridge History of Postcolonial Literature (2012).

Girish Daswani is an Assistant Professor in Anthropology at the University of Toronto. He is also affiliated with the Department for the Study of Religion and the Centre for Diaspora and Transnational Studies at the University of Toronto as well as the Centre for Ethnography at University of Toronto Scarborough.

Table of Contents

Notes on Contributors

1. Introduction: Diaspora and Transnationalism: Scapes, Scales and Scopes
Ato Quayson and Girish Daswani

I: Transnationalism and Diaspora through the Disciplines

2. The Anthropology of Transnationalism and Diaspora
Girish Daswani

3. Communication and Media Studies
Julian Murphet

4. Diaspora, Transnationalism and Issues in Contemporary Politics
Garrett Wallace Brown

5. Diaspora and Transnationalism In Urban Studies
Ayona Datta

6. Migration and Transnational Studies: Between Simultaneity and Rupture
Pnina Werbner

7. Religion, Religions and Diaspora
Seán McLoughlin

8. Postcolonialism and the Diasporic Imaginary
Ato Quayson

II: Backgrounds and Perspectives

9. Slavery, Indentured Labor and the Making of a Transnational World
Emmanuel Akyeampong

10. When the Diaspora Returns Home: Ambivalent Encounters with the Ethnic Homeland
Takeyuki (Gaku) Tsuda

11. Interracial Sex and the Making of Empire
Carina Ray

12. Istanbul as a Cosmopolitan City: Myths and Realities
Edhem Eldem

III: The Aesthetics of Transnationalism and Diaspora

13. The Anxieties of “New” Indian Modernity: Globalization, Diaspora, and Bollywood
Jigna Desai and Rani Neutill

14. West African Video-Movies and their Transnational Imaginaries
Carmela Garritano

15. The European Salsa Congress: Music and Dance in Transnational Circuits
Ananya Jahanara Kabir

IV: Overviews and Case Studies

16. Gender and Identity in Oral Histories of Russian Jewish Elderly Migrants in the United States and Canada
Anna Shternshis

17. The Transnational Life of Cheese
Ken MacDonald

18. Diaspora and Transnational Perspectives on Remittances
Anna Lindley

19. Tibetan economy and identity in India and Canada.
Timm Lau

20. Cell Phones and Transnationalism in Africa
Wisdom J. Tettey

21. Home-Making in the Diaspora: Bringing Palestine to London
Michelle Obeid

22. Imagining Transnational Futures in Vanuatu
Maggie Cummings

23. Global Cities and Transnational Circulations: Singapore and Hong Kong
Rajeev S. Patke

24. Diaspora and Discourse: The Contrapuntal Lives of Mexican Nonmigrants
Hilary Parsons Dick

25. The Scales of Justice: Reflections on Representation and Responsibility in a Transnational Frame
Kevin O’Neill

26. Greek Settler Communities in Central and South Asia, 323 BC - AD 10
Rachel Mairs

27. Parts and Labor: The Commodification of the Human Body
Monir Moniruzzaman

28. Diaspora Activism and the Politics of Locality: The Armenians of France,
Hakem Rustom

29. The Muslim Brotherhood and the Transnationalism of Islam
Meena Sharify-Funk and Ali Barghouthi

30. Religions of the African Diaspora
Paul Christopher Johnson

31. Diaspora Tourism: The Heritage of Slavery in Ghana
Ann Reed

32. The Transnational Politics of the Techno-Class in Bangalore
T.T. Sreekumar

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