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Global Diasporas: An Introduction (Global Diasporas)
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Global Diasporas: An Introduction (Global Diasporas) Paperback - 1997

by Cohen, Robin

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  • Title Global Diasporas: An Introduction (Global Diasporas)
  • Author Cohen, Robin
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition [ Edition: repri
  • Condition New
  • Pages 241
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher University of Washington Press, Seattle, WA
  • Date 1997-05-01
  • Bookseller's Inventory # ING9780295976204
  • ISBN 9780295976204 / 0295976209
  • Weight 0.65 lbs (0.29 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.51 x 5.47 x 0.74 in (21.62 x 13.89 x 1.88 cm)
  • Themes
    • Ethnic Orientation: Jewish
  • Library of Congress subjects Emigration and immigration - History
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 96-51988
  • Dewey Decimal Code 325.2

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From the publisher

What is a diaspora? For the Greeks, from whose language the word originated, diaspora meant the dispersal of population through colonization. For Jews, Africans, Armenians, and others, the word acquired a more sinister and brutal meaning. Diaspora meant a collective trauma, a banishment into exile, and a heart-aching longing to return home. During the early modern period, trade and labor diasporas girded the mercantilist and early capitalist worlds. Today the term has changed again, often implying a positive and ongoing relationship between migrants' homelands and their places of work and settlement.

In this perceptive and arresting analysis, Robin Cohen illuminates the changing meanings of diaspora and the contemporary diasporic condition. This volume serves to introduce a major new series, Global Diasporas, which will prove essentail for students of race, ethnicity, nationalism, and comparative politics.

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During the early modern period, trade and labour diasporas girded the mercantilist and early capitalist worlds. Today the term has changed again, often implying a positive and ongoing relationship between migrants' homelands and their places of work and settlement. In his perceptive and arresting analysis, Robin Cohen illuminates all the changing meanings of diaspora and the contemporary diasporic condition.

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About the author

Robin Cohen is professor of sociology at the University of Warwick.

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