Diaspora Studies Books

New and Published Books

1. Migration in the 21st Century

   Political Economy and Ethnography

   Edited by Pauline Gardiner Barber, Winnie Lem

   Series: Routledge Advances in Sociology

   This edited collection focuses on global migration in its inter-regional, international and transnational variants, and argues that contemporary migration scholarship is significantly advanced both within anthropology and beyond it when ethnography is theoretically engaged to grapple with the...

   Published May 20th 2012 by Routledge
2. African Minorities in the New World

   Edited by Toyin Falola, Niyi Afolabi

   Series: African Studies

   This book uncovers the reality that new African immigrants now represent a significant force in the configuration of American polity and identity especially in the last forty years. Despite their minority status, African immigrants are making their marks in various areas of human endeavor and...

   Published May 14th 2012 by Routledge
3. Chinese in Eastern Europe and Russia

   A Middleman Minority in a Transnational Era

   By Pál Nyiri

   Series: Chinese Worlds

   Since the late nineteenth century, hundreds of thousands of Chinese have moved to Russia and Eastern Europe. However, until now, very little research has been done about the initial migrants in the nineteenth century, the presence of the Chinese in Europe and Russia in the twentieth century...

   Published May 9th 2012 by Routledge
4. Migrating Music

   Edited by Jason Toynbee, Byron Dueck

   Series: CRESC

   Migrating Music considers the issues around music and cosmopolitanism in new ways. Whilst much of the existing literature on ‘world music’ questions the apparently world-disclosing nature of this genre – but says relatively little about migration and mobility – diaspora studies have much to say...

   Published April 22nd 2012 by Routledge
5. Trans-Atlantic Migration

   The Paradoxes of Exile

   Edited by Toyin Falola, Niyi Afolabi

   Series: African Studies

   This book argues that a new cadre of African immigrants are finding themselves in the New World—mostly well educated, high-income earning professionals, and belonging to the category termed "African brain drain," they constitute the antinomy of those Africans who were forcibly removed from Africa...

   Published April 9th 2012 by Routledge
6. Bollywood Travels

   Culture, Diaspora and Border Crossings in Popular Hindi Cinema

   By Rajinder Dudrah

   Series: Routledge Contemporary South Asia Series

   Using an interdisciplinary framework, this book offers a fresh perspective on the issues of diaspora culture and border crossings in the films, popular cultures, and media and entertainment industries from the popular Hindi cinema of India. It analyses and discusses a range of key contemporary...

   Published April 4th 2012 by Routledge
7. The Property Rights of Refugees and Internally Displaced Persons

   Beyond Restitution

   By Anneke Smit

   The Property Rights of Refugees and Internally Displaced Persons: Beyond Restitution explores how the protection of housing and property rights can contribute to durable solutions to displacement. The focus of most of the international community’s recent protection efforts has been on returning...

   Published April 4th 2012 by Routledge
8. South Asian Transnationalisms

   Cultural Exchange in the Twentieth Century

   Edited by Babli Sinha

   Series: Routledge South Asian History and Culture Series

   South Asian Transnationalisms explores encounters in twentieth century South Asia beyond the conventional categories of center and periphery, colonizer and colonized. Considering the cultural and political exchanges between artists and intellectuals of South Asia with counterparts in the United...

   Published April 3rd 2012 by Routledge
9. Turkish Immigrants in Western Europe and North America

   Immigration and Political Mobilization

   Edited by Sebnem Koser Akcapar

   Public and even scholarly debates usually focus on the integration problems of Muslim immigrants at the cost of overlooking the role of the growing number of migrant organizations in establishing a crucial link among immigrants themselves, as well as between them and their countries of origin and...

   Published February 6th 2012 by Routledge
10. Narratives of Migration and Displacement in Dominican Literature

    By Danny Méndez

    Series: Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature

    Establishing an interdisciplinary connection between Migration Studies, Post-Colonial Studies and Affect Theory, Méndez analyzes the symbolic interplay between emotions, cognitions, and displacement in the narratives written by and about Dominican and Dominican-Americans in the United States and...

    Published February 1st 2012 by Routledge