A Companion to Diaspora and Transnationalism offers a ground-breaking combined discussion of the concepts of diaspora and transnationalism. Newly commissioned essays by leading scholars provide interdisciplinary perspectives that link together the concepts in new and important ways.

A wide-ranging collection which reviews the most significant developments  and provides valuable insights into current key debates in transnational and diaspora studiesContains newly commissioned essays by leading scholars, which will both influence the field, and stimulate further insight and discussion in the futureProvides interdisciplinary perspectives on diaspora and transnationalism which link the two concepts in new and important waysCombines theoretical discussion with specific examples and case studies

Ato Quayson is Inaugural Director of the Centre for Diaspora and Transnational Studies and Professor of English at the University of Toronto. His publications includeRelocating Postcolonialism (with David Theo Goldberg, Blackwell, 2002);Calibrations: Reading for the Social (2003); Aesthetic Nervousness: Disability and the Crisis of Representation (2006); and the 2-volumeThe Cambridge History of Postcolonial Literature (2012).

Girish Daswani is an Assistant Professor in Anthropology at the University of Toronto. He is also affiliated with the Department for the Study of Religion and the Centre for Diaspora and Transnational Studies at the University of Toronto as well as the Centre for Ethnography at University of Toronto Scarborough.

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1 Introduction Diaspora and Transnationalism: Scapes, Scales, and Scopes 1Ato Quayson and Girish Daswani

Part I Transnationalism and Diaspora Through the Disciplines 27

2 The Anthropology of Transnationalism and Diaspora 29Girish Daswani

3 Communication and Media Studies 54Julian Murphet

4 Diaspora, Transnationalism, and Issues in Contemporary Politics 68Garrett Wallace Brown

5 Diaspora and Transnationalism in Urban Studies 88Ayona Datta

6 Migration and Transnational Studies: Between Simultaneity and Rupture 106Pnina Werbner

7 Religion, Religions, and Diaspora 125Seán McLoughlin

8 Postcolonialism and the Diasporic Imaginary 139Ato Quayson

Part II Backgrounds and Perspectives 161

9 Slavery, Indentured Labor, and the Making of a Transnational World 163Emmanuel Akyeampong

10 When the Diaspora Returns Home: Ambivalent Encounters with the Ethnic Homeland 172Takeyuki Tsuda

11 Interracial Sex and the Making of Empire 190Carina Ray

12 Istanbul as a Cosmopolitan City: Myths and Realities 212Edhem Eldem

Part III The Aesthetics of Transnationalism and Diaspora 231

13 The Anxieties of New Indian Modernity: Globalization, Diaspora, and Bollywood 233Jigna Desai and Rani Neutill

14 West African Video-Movies and Their Transnational Imaginaries 249Carmela Garritano

15 The European Salsa Congress: Music and Dance in Transnational Circuits 263Ananya Jahanara Kabir

Part IV Overviews and Case Studies 277

16 Gender and Identity in Oral Histories of Elderly Russian Jewish Migrants in the United States and Canada 279Anna Shternshis

17 The Transnational Life of Cheese 293Ken MacDonald

18 Diaspora and Transnational Perspectives on Remittances 316Anna Lindley

19 A Diaspora Concept That Works: Tibetan Economy and Identity in India and Canada 330Timm Lau

20 Cell Phones and Transnationalism in Africa 346Wisdom J. Tettey

21 Home-Making in the Diaspora: Bringing Palestine to London 366Michelle Obeid

22 Imagining Transnational Futures in Vanuatu 381Maggie Cummings

23 Global Cities and Transnational Circulations: Singapore and Hong Kong 397Rajeev S. Patke

24 Diaspora and Discourse: The Contrapuntal Lives of Mexican Non-Migrants 412Hilary Parsons Dick

25 The Scales of Justice: Refl ections on Representation and Responsibility in a Transnational Frame 428Kevin Lewis ONeill

26 Greek Settler Communities in Central and South Asia, 323 bce to 10 ce 443Rachel Mairs

27 Parts and Labor: The Commodifi cation of the Human Body 455Monir Moniruzzaman

28 Diaspora Activism and the Politics of Locality: The Armenians of France 473Hakem Al-Rustom

29 The Muslim Brotherhood and the Transnationalism of Islam 494Meena Sharify-Funk and Ali Albarghouthi

30 Religions of the African Diaspora 509Paul Christopher Johnson

31 Diaspora Tourism: The Heritage of Slavery in Ghana 524Ann Reed

32 The Transnational Politics of the Techno-Class in Bangalore 539T.T. Sreekumar

Index 556