Contents Foreword Acknowledgments Notes on Contributors IX xi xvii Volume One INTRODUCTION - Globalization, Migration, Transnationalism and Diasporas: Some Critical Reflections o Ajaya Kumar Sahoo and Brij Maharaj Diaspora and Transnational Migration: A Theoretical Perspective 1The Nation-State and its Others: In Lieu of a Preface 21 o Khachig Tb'lolyan 2 Diaspora Migration: Definitional Ambiguities and a Theoretical 28 Paradigm o Judith T. Shuval 3 The Emergence of New Ethno-National Diasporas 43 o Gabriel Sheffer 4 Diaspora: Genealogies of Semantics and Transcultural Comparison 63 o Martin Baumann 5 Place, Geography and the Concept of Diaspora: A Methodological 84 Approach o Knut Hidle 6 Reevaluating 'Diaspora': Connectivity, Communication and 101 Imagination in a Globalised World o Roza Tsagarousianou vi Contents 7The Centrality of Ethnography in the Study of Transnational 118 Migration: Seeing the Wetland Instead of the Swamp o Nina Click Schiller 8Conceptualizing Simultaneity: A Transnational Social Field 156 Perspective on Society o Peggy Levitt and Nina Click Schiller 9Transnational Migration Comes of Age 194 o Sarah J. Mahler 10 The Transnational Turn: Migration and Politics 227 o Thomas Faist 11 Conceptualizing Transnational Community Formation: 267 Migrants, Sojourners and Diasporas in a Globalized Era o W. Andy Knight 12 Transnational Migration: New Challenges for Nation States and 298 New Opportunities for Regional and Global Development o Ludger Pries n Global Diasporas: Jewish, British, Africans, Chinese, Russians, Turkish, Greeks, Lebanese, Koreans, and Iranians 13 Coming to Terms with Exile 323 o Howard Wettstein 14 The Jewish Diaspora in a Comparative and Theoretical Perspective337 o William Safran 15 The British Diaspora in Wide-Angle 363 o Eric Richards 16 Conceptualizing the African Diaspora 378 o Carlton Wilson 17 Cultural Identities in the Chinese Diaspora 387 o Marie-Paule Ha 18 Territorialising Diasporas: The Case of Russians in the 396 Former Soviet Republics o Pal Kolsto 19 Turkish Transnational Nationalism: How the 'Turks Abroad' 425 Redefine Nationalism o Riva Kastoryano o ' 20 Kurds in Europe: From Labor Migrants to Asylum Seekers 443 o Osten Wahlbeck Contents vii 21 In Search of Adonis: Marriage Strategies and Gender Identity in 472 Greek Transnational Migration o Anastasia N. Panagakos 22 The Legacy of Transnational Lives: Beyond the First Generation 501 of Lebanese in Senegal o Mara A. Leichtman 23 (Korean) Diasporic Nationalism 528 o John Lie 24 What has the Metaphor of 'Bridging' to do with Hybridity? 542 Discourses on Identity within Iranian-American Organizations o Halleh Ghorashi 25 Foreignness and Be/longing: Transnationalism and Immigrant 557 Entrepreneurial Spaces o Minoo Moallem