Diaspora Studies Products

Edited by Marja Tiilikainen, Mulki Al-Sharmani, Sanna Mustasaari

This book examines the needs, aspirations, strategies, and challenges of transnational Muslim migrants in Europe with regard to family practices such as marriage, divorce and parenting. Critically re-conceptualising ‘wellbeing’ and unpacking its multiple dimensions in the context of Muslim families…

Hardback – 2019-06-30 
Routledge
Studies in Migration and Diaspora

Edited by Shalva Weil

This book explores the extraordinary differentiation of the Baghdadi Jewish community over time during their sojourn in India from the end of the eighteenth century until their dispersion to Indian diasporas in Israel and English-speaking countries throughout the world after India gained…

Hardback – 2019-06-03 
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Edited by Grisel Y. Acosta

Latina Outsiders Remaking Latina Identity is an exploration of Latinas on the periphery of both Latina culture and mainstream culture in the United States. Whether they are deliberately rejected or whether they choose to reject sexist, classist, or racist practices within their cultures, the…

Hardback – 2019-05-30 
Routledge
Global Gender

By Damla B. Aksel

This book draws on the literatures of transnationalism and diaspora studies to explore the ways in which the policies of emigrant-sending countries have an influence on how emigrants politically engage on issues related to their homelands. Drawing on over one hundred interviews with policy makers,…

Hardback – 2019-05-07 
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Studies in Migration and Diaspora

Edited by Tobias Berger, Alejandro Esguerra

Virtually all pertinent issues that the world faces today – such as nuclear proliferation, climate change, the spread of infectious disease and economic globalization – imply objects that move. However, surprisingly little is known about how the actual objects of world politics are constituted, how…

Paperback – 2019-04-23 
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Routledge Global Cooperation Series

By Guanglun Michael Mu, Bonnie Pang

Globalisation and migration have created a vibrant yet dysphoric world fraught with different, and sometimes competing, practices and discourses. The emergent properties of the modern world inevitably complicate the being, doing, and thinking of Chinese diasporic populations living in predominantly…

Hardback – 2019-04-10 
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Routledge Studies on Asia in the World

By Paul E. Lovejoy

The collective significance of the themes that are explored in Slavery in the Global Diaspora of Africa bridge the Atlantic and thereby provide insights into historical debates that address the ways in which parts of Africa fitted into the modern world that emerged in the Atlantic basin. The study…

Hardback – 2019-03-21 
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Global Africa

By Terence Chun Tat Shum

This book looks in detail at the journeys to asylum in Asia which are largely neglected in the media and academic analyses, despite Asia becoming the most essential region for asylum, receiving refugees from both within and outside of the continent.　 Treating asylum-seeking journeys as a…

Hardback – 2019-03-08 
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Routledge Series on Asian Migration

By Laura Corradi

Clumsy stereotypes of the Romani and Travellers communities abound, not only culturally in programmes such as Big Fat Gypsy Weddings, but also amongst educators, social workers, administrators and the medical profession. Gypsy cultures are invariably presented as ruled by tradition and machismo.…

Paperback – 2019-02-05
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Routledge Advances in Sociology

By Georgina Ramsay

Impossible Refuge brings the perspectives of refugees into rapidly emerging dialogues about contemporary situations of mass forced migration, asking: what does it mean to be displaced? Based on multi-sited ethnographic research conducted with refugees from Central Africa living in situations of…

Paperback – 2019-01-31
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On Edge: Ethnographies and Theories of Threshold Phenomena

Edited by Carli Coetzee

This edited collection comprises an original and activist group of contributions on that much maligned figure, the Afropolitan. The contributors do not aim to define or fix the term anew; the reboot is, instead, the beginnings of an activist scholarly agenda in which ‘the Afropolitan’ is reimagined…

Paperback – 2019-01-17
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Edited by Marco Armiero, Richard Tucker

In the age of climate change, the possibility that dramatic environmental transformations might cause the dislocation of millions of people has become not only a matter for scientific speculation or science-fiction narratives, but the object of strategic planning and military analysis.…

Paperback – 2019-01-17
Routledge
Routledge Environmental Humanities