1st Edition

Diasporas, Cultures and Identities

Edited By Martin Bulmer, John Solomos Copyright 2012
208 Pages
by Routledge

208 Pages
by Routledge

208 Pages
by Routledge

Diasporas, Cultures and Identities brings together a range of original research papers from Ethnic and Racial Studies that are concerned with the question of the role of diasporic ties and the social, cultural and political processes that are engendered by the changing experiences of these communities. Chapters cover a range of geopolitical and empirical contexts and serve to highlight the... Read more

1. Introduction: Diasporas, Cultures and Identities Martin Bulmer, University of Surrey, UK, and John Solomos, City University London, UK

2. The Diaspora Project of Arab Americans: Assessing the Magnitude and Determinants of Politicized Ethnic Identity Kenneth D. Wald, University of Florida, USA

3. How Diasporic Ties Emerge: Pan-American Nikkei Communities and the Japanese State Ayumi Takenaka, Bryn Mawr College, USA

4. Culture, Utility or Social Systems? Explaining the Cross-National Ties of Emigrants form Borşa, Romania Christina Boswell, University of Edinburgh, UK, and Oana Ciobanu, Hamburg Institute of International Economics, Germany

5. Are We All Transnationals Now? Network Transnationalism and Transnational Subjectivity: The differing Impacts of Globalization on the Inhabitants of a Small Swiss City Janine Dahinden, University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland

6. Does the Canonical Theory of Assimilation Explain the Roma Case? Some Evidence from Central and Eastern Europe Òscar Prieto-Flores, University of Girona, Spain

7. Social Capital and Voting Participation of Immigrants and Minorities in Canada Pieter Bevelander, Malmö University, Sweden, and Ravi Pendakur, University of Ottawa, Canada

8. Attitudes Towards Polish Immigrants to the Republic of Ireland: An Integrated Threat Analysis Gunnar B. Scheibner, Massey University, New Zealand, and Todd G. Morrison, University of Saskatchewan, Canada

9. Caribbean and South Asian Identification with British Society: The Importance of Perceived Discrimination Rahsaan Maxwell, University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA

10. Segmented Assimilation in the Netherlands? Young Migrants and Early School Leaving Willibrord De Graaf and Kaj Van Zenderen, Utrecht University, The Netherlands

Biography

Martin Bulmer is Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the University of Surrey, UK. He retired in 2008, prior to which he was also Director of the ESRC Question Bank. He has edited the journal Ethnic and Racial Studies since 1993.

John Solomos is Professor of Sociology at City University London, UK. He has carried out extensive research on race, politics and social change and on theories of race and ethnicity. He is co-editor of Ethnic and Racial Studies.