Diaspora and Transnationalism: Concepts, Theories and Methods
- ISBN-10
- 9089642382
- ISBN-13
- 9789089642387
- Category
- Social Science
- Pages
- 352
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2010
- Publisher
- Amsterdam University Press
- Authors
- Thomas Faist, Rainer Bauböck
Description
Diaspora & transnationalism are widely used concepts in academic & 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 analyses this topic.
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