Global Diasporas: An Introduction

During the early modern period, trade and labour diasporas girded the mercantilist and early capitalist worlds. Today the term has changed again, often implying a positive and ongoing relationship between migrants' homelands and their places of work and settlement. In his perceptive and arresting analysis, Robin Cohen illuminates all the changing meanings of diaspora and the contemporary diasporic condition.

Acknowledgements

vii

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List of tables

viii

(1)

Introduction

ix

1 Classical notions of diaspora: transcending the Jewish tradition

1

(30)

"Babylon" as the site of oppression

3

(1)

"Babylon" as the site of creativity

4

(2)

The Jewish diaspora and Christianity

6

(4)

The Jewish diaspora and Islam

10

(5)

Ashkenazi fates

15

(6)

Inferences from the Jewish diasporic tradition

21

(5)

Conclusion

25

(6)

2 Victim diasporas: Africans and Armenians

31

(26)

Origins of the African diaspora

33

(3)

The African diaspora: homeland and return

36

(4)

Other aspects of the African diaspora

40

(2)

The creation of the Armenian diaspora

42

(4)

After the massacres: Armenians at home and abroad

46

(6)

Soviet Armenia and after

52

(2)

Conclusion

54

(3)

3 Labour and imperial diasporas: Indians and British

57

(26)

A new system of slavery?

59

(3)

The songs of Ramayana and political outcomes

62

(4)

Imperial diasporas

66

(1)

The settlement of the British empire

67

(7)

The end of the dominion diaspora

74

(4)

Conclusion

78

(5)

4 Trade diasporas: Chinese and Lebanese

83

(22)

The making of the Chinese diaspora

85

(4)

The Chinese as minorities

89

(5)

The great Lebanese emigration

94

(4)

The Lebanese diaspora: butterflies and caterpillars

98

(3)

Conclusion: ethnic entrepreneurs and trade diasporas

101

(4)

5 Diasporas and their homelands: Sikhs and Zionists

105

(22)

The origins of the Sikh diaspora

107

(3)

Sikhs: the lure of homeland

110

(5)

Can Israel be a "normal" state?

115

(3)

Israel and the diaspora

118

(7)

Conclusion

125

(2)

6 Cultural diasporas: the Caribbean case

127

(28)

Postmodern views of diaspora

129

(5)

Travelling cultures, travelling nations

134

(3)

The Caribbean: migration and diaspora

137

(7)

Caribbean peoples as a cultural diaspora

144

(7)

Conclusion

151

(4)

7 Diasporas in the age of globalization

155

(22)

Relevant aspects of globalization

157

(1)

A world economy

158

(4)

International migration

162

(3)

Global cities

165

(4)

Cosmopolitanism and localism

169

(4)

Deterritorialized social identities

173

(2)

Conclusion

175

(2)

8 Conclusion: diasporas, their types and their future

177

(20)

Comparing diasporas

180

(7)

Cognate phenomena

187

(5)

Negative reactions to the growth of diasporas

192

(2)

Final remarks

194

(3)

Notes

197

(12)

References

209

(12)

Index

221

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