Diaspora Studies Products

By Nancy J. Wellmeier

Originally published in 1998, Ritual, Identity, and the Mayan Diaspora examines the lives and the continuing ritual traditions of the Mayas in the United States. The book focuses on a predominantly Maya town in rural Florida and shows how members of this ancient Central American civilization use…

Hardback – 2020-01-31 
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Routledge Library Editions: Ritual

By Lucinda Newns

Homing the Metropole presents a new approach to diasporic fiction that reorients postcolonial readings of migration away from processes of displacement and rupture towards those of placement and homemaking. While notions of home have frequently been associated with essentialist understandings…

Hardback – 2020-01-29 
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Routledge Research in Postcolonial Literatures

Edited by Tanja Bastia, Ronald Skeldon

The Routledge Handbook of Migration and Development provides an interdisciplinary, agenda-setting survey of the fields of migration and development, bringing together over sixty expert contributors from around the world to chart current and future trends in research on this topic. The links…

Hardback – 2020-01-28 
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Routledge International Handbooks

Edited by Kumarini Silva, Margaret E. Franz

This volume responds to the question: How do you know when you belong to a country? In other words, when is the nation-state a homeland? The boundaries and borders defining who belongs and who does not proliferate in the age of globalization, although they may not coincide with national…

Hardback – 2020-01-27 
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Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies

Edited by Medhi Bozorgmehr, Philip Kasinitz

This volume brings together scholarship from two different, and until now, largely separate literatures—the study of the children of immigrants and the study of Muslim minority communities—in order to explore the changing nature of ethnic identity, religious practice, and citizenship in the…

Paperback – 2020-01-17 
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Studies in Migration and Diaspora

Edited by Patricia Short, Moazzem Hossain, M. Adil Khan

South-South migration contributes significantly to the development of the emerging economies, the migration of receiving countries and, at the same time, generates a major share of remittance income flowing into the sending countries. By capturing field experience and observations from a…

Paperback – 2019-12-31 
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By Marzia Balzani

This book is a study of the UK-based Ahmadiyya Muslim community in the context of the twentieth-century South Asian diaspora. Originating in late-nineteenth-century Punjab, the Ahmadis are today a vibrant international religious movement; they are also a group that has been declared heretic by…

Hardback – 2019-12-20 
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Routledge/Asian Studies Association of Australia (ASAA) South Asian Series

By Rochelle Spencer

Examining the surrealist novels of several contemporary writers including Edwidge Danticat, Tananarive Due, Nalo Hopkinson, Junot Díaz, Helen Oyeyemi, and Colson Whitehead, AfroSurrealism, the first book-length exploration of AfroSurreal fiction, argues that we have entered a new and exciting era…

Hardback – 2019-12-20 
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The Cultural Politics of Media and Popular Culture

By Joanne Wieland-Burston

In this era of intense migration, the topic of the foreigner is of paramount importance. Joanne Wieland-Burston examines the question of the "foreign" and "foreigner" from multiple perspectives and explores how Jung and Freud were more interested in the wide phenomenon of the foreign in the…

Paperback – 2019-12-20 
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Edited by Mohammad Mazher Idriss

This book explores the largely neglected relationship between men, masculinities and honour-based abuse (HBA). There is a common misconception that HBA – whether physical violence, emotional abuse or so-called ‘honour’ killings – occurs only against women. This book addresses the gap in the…

Hardback – 2019-12-20 
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Edited by Tina K Ramnarine

Dance, Music and Cultures of Decolonisation in the Indian Diaspora provides fascinating examples of dance and music projects across the Indian Diaspora to highlight that decolonisation is a creative process, as well as a historical and political one. The book analyses creative processes in…

Hardback – 2019-12-20 
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By Robin Cohen, Nicholas Van Hear

This is an unusual book. Combining social science fiction, utopianism, pragmatism, sober analysis and innovative social theory, the authors address one of the biggest dilemmas of our age – how to solve the problems arising from mass displacement. As early versions of the solution proposed by Robin…

Paperback – 2019-12-19 
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