Diaspora and Transnationalism. Concepts, Theories and Methods
Amsterdam University Press, 2010
Diaspora and transnationalism are widely used concepts in academic as well as political discourses. Although originally referring to quite different phenomena, they increasingly overlap today. Such inflation of meanings goes hand in hand with a danger of essentialising collective identities.
This book therefore analyses diaspora and transnationalism as research perspectives rather than as characteristics of particular social groups.
Its contributions focus on conceptual uses, theoretical challenges and methodological innovations in the study of social ties that transcend nation and state boundaries.
Bringing together authors from a wide range of fields and approaches in the social sciences, this volume is evidence that studying border-crossing affiliations also requires a crossing of disciplinary boundaries.
Authors
Rainer Bauböck, Paolo Boccagni, Michel Bruneau, Anastasia Christou, Janine Dahinden, Thomas Faist, Nina Glick Schiller, Uwe Hunger, Koen Jonkers, Laia Jorba, Russell King, Kathrin Kissau, Maria Koinova, Valentina Mazzucato, Laura Morales, Karsten Paerregaard, Myra A. Waterbury, Agnieszka Weinar
Table of Contents
1. Diaspora and transnationalism: What kind of dance partners?
(Thomas Faist)
2. Diasporas, transnational spaces and communities
(Michel Bruneau)
3. The dynamics of migrants’ transnational formations: Between mobility and locality
(Janine Dahinden)
4. Instrumentalising diasporas for development: International and European policy discourses
(Agnieszka Weinar)
5. Interrogating diaspora: Power and conflict in Peruvian migration
(Karsten Paerregaard)
6. A global perspective on transnational migration: Theorising migration without methodological nationalism
(Nina Glick Schiller)
7. Bridging the divide: Towards a comparative framework for understanding kin state and migrant-sending state diaspora politics
(Myra A. Waterbury)
8. Diasporas and international politics: Utilising the universalistic creed of liberalism for particularistic and nationalist purposes
(Maria Koinova)
9. Diaspora, migration and transnationalism: Insights from the study of second-generation ‘returnees’
(Russell King and Anastasia Christou)
10. Private, public or both? On the scope and impact of transnationalism in immigrants’ everyday lives
(Paolo Boccagni)
11. Operationalising transnational migrant networks through a simultaneous matched sample methodology
(Valentina Mazzucato)
12. Transnational research collaboration: An approach to the study of co-publications between overseas Chinese scientists and their mainland colleagues
(Koen Jonkers)
13. The internet as a means of studying transnationalism and diaspora
(Kathrin Kissau and Uwe Hunger)
14. Transnational links and practices of migrants’ organisations in Spain
(Laura Morales and Laia Jorba)
15. Cold constellations and hot identities: Political theory questions about transnationalism and diaspora
(Rainer Bauböck)