Showing papers on "Diaspora published in 2001"

The Affirmative Action Empire: Nations and Nationalism in the Soviet Union, 1923-1939

Abstract: The Soviet Union was the first of Europe's multiethnic states to confront the rising tide of nationalism by systematically promoting the national consciousness of its ethnic minorities and establishing for them many of the institutional forms characteristic of the modern nation-state. In the 1920s, the Bolshevik government, seeking to defuse nationalist sentiment, created tens of thousands of national territories. It trained new national leaders, established national languages, and financed the production of national-language cultural products. This was a massive and fascinating historical experiment in governing a multiethnic state. Terry Martin provides a comprehensive survey and interpretation, based on newly available archival sources, of the Soviet management of the nationalities question. He traces the conflicts and tensions created by the geographic definition of national territories, the establishment of dozens of official national languages, and the world's first mass "affirmative action" programs. Martin examines the contradictions inherent in the Soviet nationality policy, which sought simultaneously to foster the growth of national consciousness among its minority populations while dictating the exact content of their cultures; to sponsor national liberation movements in neighboring countries, while eliminating all foreign influence on the Soviet Union's many diaspora nationalities. Martin explores the political logic of Stalin's policies as he responded to a perceived threat to Soviet unity in the 1930s by re-establishing the Russians as the state's leading nationality and deporting numerous "enemy nations."

On Not Speaking Chinese: Living Between Asia and the West

Abstract: In this major new book, leading cultural thinker Ien Ang engages with urgent questions of identity in an age of globalisation and diaspora The starting point for Ang's discussion is the experience of visiting Taiwan Ang, a person of Chinese descent, born in Indonesia and raised in the Netherlands, found herself "faced with an almost insurmountable difficulty" - surrounded by people who expected her to speak to them in Chinese She writes: "It was the beginning of an almost decade-long engagement with the predicaments of `Chineseness' in diaspora In Taiwan I was different because I couldn't speak Chinese; in the West I was different because I looked Chinese" From this autobiographical beginning, Ang goes on to reflect upon tensions between `Asia' and `the West' at a national and global level, and to consider the disparate meanings of `Chineseness' in the contemporary world She offers a critique of the increasingly aggressive construction of a global Chineseness, and challenges Western tendencies to equate `Chinese' with `Asian' identity Ang then turns to `the West', exploring the paradox of Australia's identity as a `Western' country in the Asian region, and tracing Australia's uneasy relationship with its Asian neighbours, from the White Australia policy to contemporary multicultural society Finally, Ang draws together her discussion of `Asia' and `the West' to consider the social and intellectual space of the `in-between', arguing for a theorising not of `difference' but of `togetherness' in contemporary societies

Network Approach versus Brain Drain: Lessons from the Diaspora

Abstract: For the past two decades, network approaches have led to many conceptual and empirical developments in the studies of international migration as well as of technological innovation. However, surprisingly, such approaches have hardly been used for the study of what is at the intersection of both fields, namely the mobility of highly skilled persons or knowledge workers. This article draws on recent evidence brought by case studies on intellectual diaspora networks to bridge this gap and to explore the issue. These highly skilled expatriate networks, through a connectionist approach linking diaspora members with their countries of origin, turn the brain drain into a brain gain approach. These persons and groups also provide original information that questions conventional human capital based assumptions. The article argues that descriptions in terms of network open interesting perspectives for the understanding as well as management of the current global skills’ circulation. The network approach under consideration combines input from migration as well as from innovation studies. This suggests an expanded version of the network approach, referring to actors and intermediaries, of which traditional kinship ties are but a part of more systematic associative dynamics actually at work.

Defining Diaspora, Refining a Discourse

Abstract: What is the difference between migration and diaspora? Are acculturation and ethnonationalism intrinsic dynamics of diasporas? These and other paradigmatic, if implicit, questions have received rel...

Transnational Muslim Politics: Reimagining the Umma

Abstract: Introduction 1. Beyond Disciplinary Boundaries: International Relations and Translocal Politics 2. Before, During and After the West: Islam, Muslims and the Umma 3. Modes of Translocality: Travelling Theory, Hybridity, Diaspora 4. Living Islam: Politics and Community in the Muslim Diaspora 5. Transnational Public Spheres: Information and Communication Technologies in the Muslim World 6. Reimagining the Umma?

Law and Colonial Cultures: Legal Regimes in World History, 1400-1900

Abstract: Acknowledgements 1. Legal regimes and colonial cultures 2. Law in diaspora: the legal regime of the Atlantic world 3. Order out of trouble: jurisdictional tensions in Catholic and Islamic empires 4. A place for the state: legal pluralism as a colonial project in Bengal and West Africa 5. Subjects and witnesses: cultural and legal hierarchies in the Cape Colony and New South Wales 6. Constructing sovereignty: extra-territoriality in the Oriental Republic of Uruguay 7. Culture and the rule(s) of law Bibliography Index.

Bollywood Cinema: Temples of Desire

Abstract: India is home to Bollywood - the largest film industry in the world Movie theaters are said to be the "temples of modern India," with Bombay producing nearly 800 films per year that are viewed by roughly 11 million people per day In Bollywood Cinema, Vijay Mishra argues that Indian film production and reception is shaped by the desire for national community and a pan-Indian popular culture Seeking to understand Bollywood according to its own narrative and aesthetic principles and in relation to a global film industry, he views Indian cinema through the dual methodologies of postcolonial studies and film theory Mishra discusses classics such as Mother India (1957) and Devdas (1935) and recent films including Ram Lakhan (1989) and Khalnayak (1993), linking their form and content to broader issues of national identity, epic tradition, popular culture, history, and the implications of diaspora

The Uses of Diaspora

Abstract: Les travaux d'etude historique de la culture et de la politique africaines sur le plan international font appel au concept de diaspora, qui n'a emerge que recemment, afin d'exprimer les liens et traits communs parmi les groupes de descendance africaine a travers le monde. L'A. entreprend une histoire intellectuelle du concept de diaspora africaine, dans une perspective epistemologique

Migration, diasporas and transnationalism

Abstract: Readers of this journal are no doubt familiar with recent emphases on the transnational nature of diasporic communities worldwide. For the most part, this emphasis has been associated with studies of migration and has been conceptually linked to disciplines such as anthropology, sociology and cultural studies. The notion of diasporic populations has, rather recently, enjoyed somewhat of a conceptual revival, largely due to complex political and economic changes that lead to substantial numbers of emigrants. The end result has been the ability to emphasise the transnational nature, that is, the construction and maintenance of social fields across and independent of modern geo-political boundaries, of these identities.Vertovec and Cohen's edited volume provides a useful overview of the three distinct yet closely related themes identified in the title. Conceptually linked to the well-established (and highly productive) United Kingdom-based ESRC Research Programme on Transnational Communities, of which the senior editor is the Director, the volume is a compilation of previously published articles from various journals and other volumes that the authors have compiled in order to address the growth and breadth of studies in which the central foci revolve around migration, diasporas and transnationalism.As pointed out by the editors (p. xiii-xiv), the background for a transnational approach can be found, more or less, in the wider understanding and recognition of the issues surrounding pressures in global economic and political arenas. To borrow from Appadurai (p. 463, this volume), the recognition of global ethnoscapes (i.e., "changing social, territorial, and cultural reproduction of group identity"), formed as a result of substantial population movements (both voluntary and involuntary), led to an increase in attention given to the transnational social spaces that were ultimately created. The only new material in the volume can be found in the editors' own introduction, which is of particular merit. Vertovec and Cohen engage the current state of diasporic studies by focusing on the various meanings of diasporas, suggesting that a diaspora can be viewed as a social form (characterized by specific social relationships, political orientations, and/or economic strategies), a type of consciousness (consisting of negative experiences of discrimination or exclusion and positive experiences of heritage or ethnic affiliations), and a mode of production (the globalization from below, or the "world-wide flow of cultural objects, images and meanings" [p.xix]).The rest of the volume is presented in three separate sections. The papers selected in the first section on migration are meant to reflect the changing nature of international migration flows. The editors, however, position migration in the context of diasporas and transnationalism by suggesting that migrants now, more than ever, "find it possible to have multiple localities and multiple identities" (p. xvi). The reader is treated to an early paper by Harvey Cholding in which these linkages were recognized, followed by an attempt by Fawcett to categorise linkages in migration systems. Remittances are also featured in a highly technical but important reprint of Hatzipanayotou's paper that posits a model for determining the impact of income, trade and fiscal policies on migration. Approached from another angle, Keely's article examines whether worker remittances either increase dependency or improve the overall quality of life.The section on diasporas presents almost a history of the concept, with excellent reprints by James Clifford, Gabriel Sheffer (for whom existing definitions of diasporas are "inadequate for our purposes since their underlying assumption is that diasporas are transitory and that they are destined to disappear through acculturation and assimilation" [p. …

African American English in the diaspora

Abstract: List of Figures. List of Tables. Series Preface. Acknowledgements. 1. Introduction. 2. African Americans in the Samana Peninsula. 3. African Americans in Nova Scotia: Settlement and Data. 4. External Controls. 5. Method. 6. The Past Tense. 7. The Present Tense. 8. The Future Tense. 9. Conclusions: An Essay on the Origins and Development of African American English. References. Index.

Contested landscapes : movement, exile and place

Abstract: Acknowledgements, List of Contributors, List of Illustrations, Introduction, 1. The Shadow of the Sacred Rock: Contrasting Discourses of Place under the Acropolis, 2. Matter and Memory in the Landscapes of Conflict: The Western Front 1914-1999, 3. Contested Landscapes in Inner Mongolia: Walls and Cairns, 4. Negotiating the River: Cultural Tributaries in Far North Queensland, 5. Crannogs: Places of Resistance in the Contested Landscapes of Early Modern Ireland, 6. Landscapes of Punishment and Resistance: A Female Convict Settlement in Tasmania, Australia, 7. Cultural Keepers, Cultural Brokers: The Landscape of Women and Children - A Case Study of the Town Dahab in South Sinai, 8. Whose New Forest? Making Place on the Urban/Rural Fringe, 9. The Political Economy of Landscape: Conflict and Value in a Prehistoric Landscape in the Republic of Ireland - Ways of Telling, 10. Bringing Contemporary Baggage to Neolithic Landscapes, Comments on Part I: Intersecting Landscapes, Responses to Julian Thomas's Comments, 11. Landscape and Commerce: Creating Contexts for the Exercise of Power, 12. Pilgrimage and Politics in the Desert of Rajasthan, 13. Landscapes of Separation: Reflections on the Symbolism of By-pass Roads in Palestine, 14. Rites of Passage: Travel and the Materiality of Vision at the Cape of Good Hope, 15. Landscapes, Fear and Land Loss on the Nineteenth-Century South African Colonial Frontier, 16. Places of Longing and Belonging: Memories of the Group Area Proclamation of a South African Fishing Village, 17. Homes and Exiles: Owambo Women's Literature, 18. Egypt: Constructed Exiles of the Imagination, 19. Migration, Exile and Landscapes of the Imagination, 20. Hunting Down Home: Reflections on Homeland and the Search for Identity in the Scottish Diaspora, Comments on Part II: Far From Home, Responses to Nick Shepherd's Comments, Index

The Anthropology of Afro-Latin America and the Caribbean: Diasporic Dimensions

Abstract: ▪ Abstract The contributions of a number of First and Third World scholars to the development of the anthropology of the African diaspora in Latin America and the Caribbean have been elided from the core of the discipline as practiced in North America and Europe. As such, the anthropology of the African diaspora in the Americas can be traced to the paradigmatic debate on the origins of New World black cultures between Euro-American anthropologist Melville J. Herskovits and African American sociologist E. Franklin Frazier. The former argued for the existence of African cultural continuities, the latter for New World culture creations in the context of discrimination and deprivation characteristic of the experiences of peoples of African descent, in light of slavery, colonialism, and postcolonial contexts. As a result, subsequent positions have been defined by oppositions in every subdisciplinary specialization and area of interest. Creolization models try to obviate this bifurcation, and newer dialogical t...

The nation's tortured body

Abstract: In The Nation’s Tortured Body Brian Keith Axel explores the formation of the Sikh diaspora and, in so doing, offers a powerful inquiry into conditions of peoplehood, colonialism, and postcoloniality. Demonstrating a new direction for historical anthropology, he focuses on the position of violence between 1849 and 1998 in the emergence of a transnational fight for Khalistan (an independent Sikh state). Axel argues that, rather than the homeland creating the diaspora, it has been the diaspora, or histories of displacement, that have created particular kinds of places—homelands. Based on ethnographic and archival research conducted by Axel at several sites in India, England, and the United States, the text delineates a theoretical trajectory for thinking about the proliferation of diaspora studies and area studies in America and England. After discussing this trajectory in relation to the colonial and postcolonial movement of Sikhs, Axel analyzes the production and circulation of images of Sikhs around the world, beginning with visual representations of Maharaja Duleep Singh, the last Sikh ruler of Punjab, who died in 1893. He argues that imagery of particular male Sikh bodies has situated—at different times and in different ways—points of mediation between various populations of Sikhs around the world. Most crucially, he describes the torture of Sikhs by Indian police between 1983 and the present and discusses the images of tortured Sikh bodies that have been circulating on the Internet since 1996. Finally, he returns to questions of the homeland, reflecting on what the issues discussed in The Nation's Tortured Body might mean for the ongoing fight for Khalistan. Specialists in anthropology, history, cultural studies, diaspora studies, and Sikh studies will find much of interest in this important work.

Orientations: Mapping Studies in the Asian Diaspora

Abstract: Contents: Investments and interventions (Un)Disciplined subjects: (de)colonizing the academy? Dorinne Kondo University of Southern California (Re)Viewing an asian American diaspora: multiculturalism, interculturalism, and the northwest Asian American theatre Karen Shimakawa University of California, Davis Creating performative communities: Through text, time, and space Russell Leong Cross-discipline trafficking: what's justice got to do with it? Sharon K. Hom City University of New York School of Law at Queens Translating knowledge Notes toward a conversation between area studies and diasporic studies Dipesh Chakrabarty University of Chicago Hualing Nieh's mulberry and peach in sinocentric, Asian American, and feminist critical practices Sau-ling C. WongUniversity of California, Berkeley Biyuti in everyday life: performance, citizenship, and survival among Filipinos in the United States Martin F. ManalansanUniversity of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Missile internationalism Kuan-hsing Chen National Tsing Hua University, Hsin-Chu, Taiwan Para-sites, or, constituting borders Leading questions Rey Chow Brown University Modelling the nation: the Asian/American split David Palumbo-liu Stanford University In-betweens in a hybrid nation: construction of Japanese American identity in postwar Japan Yoshikuni Igarashi Vanderbilt University Conjunctural identities, academic adjacencies R. RadhakrishnanUniversity of Massachusetts Amherst Asian/American epistemologies Epistemological shifts: national ontology and the new Asian immigrant Lisa Lowe University of California, San Diego Imaginary borders Kandice Chuh University of Marylend, College Park To tell the truth and not get trapped: Why interethnic antiracism matters now George LipsitzUniversity of California, San Diego

On the edge? Deserts, oceans, islands

Abstract: This paper starts with a playful interrogation of being "on the edge" of California from the perspective of a millennial experience "in the center" of Australia—partly to suggest my own location, but also to suggest how imagined geographies of edges and centers, of peripheries and interiors are geopolitical mirages. It then moves to a consideration of how representations of deep time, in being "on the edge" or inhabiting "a sea of islands" relate to the contemporary politics of indigeneity and diaspora in the Pacific. While acknowledging the differences between Islanders of different regions and countries, the co-presence of the values of "roots" and "routes" is stressed. The varied relation of indigeneity and diaspora is explored through visual arts displayed in museums and cultural festivals in Vanuatu, New Caledonia, Aotearoa New Zealand, and Australia.

Chinese Migrant Networks and Cultural Change: Peru, Chicago, and Hawaii 1900-1936

Abstract: Inspired by recent work on diaspora and cultural globalization, Adam McKeown asks in this new book: How were the experiences of different migrant communities and hometowns in China linked together through common networks? Chinese Migrant Networks and Cultural Change argues that the political and economic activities of Chinese migrants can best be understood by taking into account their links to each other and China through a transnational perspective. Despite their very different histories, Chinese migrant families, businesses, and villages were connected through elaborate networks and shared institutions that stretched across oceans and entire continents. Through small towns in Qing and Republican China, thriving enclaves of businesses in South Chicago, broad-based associations of merchants and traders in Peru, and an auspicious legacy of ancestors in Hawaii, migrant Chinese formed an extensive system that made cultural and commercial exchange possible.

Home Truths: Fictions of the South Asian Diaspora in Britain

Abstract: The figure of the diasporic or migrant writer has recently come to be seen in the West as the 'Everyman' of the late Modern period, a symbol of the local and the global, a cultural traveller who can traverse national, political and ethnic boundaries. Home Truths seeks not only to place the individual works of now famous writers within a diverse tradition of im/migrant writing that has evolved in Britain since the Second World War, but also to locate their work,as well as the work of many lesser known writers within a cultural, historical and aesthetic framework which has its roots prior to postwar migrations and derives from long-established indigenous traditions. Close critical readings combine with a historical and theoretical overview in this first book to chart the crucial role played by writers of South Asian origin in the belated acceptance of a poetics of black and Asian writing today.

Central Africans and Cultural Transformations in the American Diaspora

Abstract: Forward Jan Vansina Introduction Linda Heywood Part I. Central Africa: Society, Culture and the Slave Trade: 1. Central Africa during the era of the slave trade, c. 1490s-1850s Joseph C. Miller 2. Religious and ceremonial life in the Congo and Mbundu areas, 1500-1700 John K. Thornton 3. Portuguese into African: the eighteenth century Central African background to Atlantic Creole culture Linda Heywood Part II. Central Africans in Brazil: 4. Central Africans in Central Brazil, 1780-1835 Mary Karasch 5. Who is king of the Congo? A new look at African and Afro-Brazilian Kings in Brazil Elizabeth W. Kiddy 6. The great porpoise-skull strike: Central-African water spirits and slave identity in early nineteenth-century Rio De Janeiro Robert W. Slenes Part III. Central Africans in Haiti and Spanish America: 7. Twins, Simbi spirits and Lwas in Kongo and Haiti Wyatt MacGaffey 8. The Central African presence in Spanish Maroon communities Jane Landers 9. Central African popular Christianity and the making of Haitian Vodou religion Hein Vanhee 10. Kongolese catholic influences on Haitian popular Catholicism: a socio-historical exploration Terry Rey Part IV. Central Africans in North America and the Caribbean: 11. 'Walk in the Feenda': West-Central Africans and the forest in the South Carolina-Georgia low country Ras Michael B. Brown 12. Liberated Central Africans in nineteenth century Guyana Monic Schuler 13. Combat and the crossing of the Kalunga Thomas J. Desch-Obi.

White Diaspora: The Suburb and the Twentieth-Century American Novel

Abstract: ACKNOWLEDGMENTS vii INTRODUCTION 3 CHAPTER ONE Tarzan, Lord of the Suburbs 20 CHAPTER TWO Sinclair Lewis and the Revolt from the Suburb 44 CHAPTER THREE Mildred Pierce's Interiors 76 CHAPTER FOUR Native Son's Trespasses 99 CHAPTER FIVE Sanctimonious Suburbanites and the Postwar Novel 133 EPILOGUE Same As It Ever Was (More or Less) 160 NOTES 173 INDEX 231

Rethinking 'Mixed Race'

Abstract: One of the fastest growing ethnic populations in many Western societies is that of people of mixed descent. However, when talking about multicultural societies or 'mixed race', the discussion usually focuses on people of black and white heritage. The contributors to this collection rectify this with a broad and pluralistic approach to the experiences of 'mixed race' people in Britain and the USA. The contributors argue that people of mixed descent reveal the arbitrary and contested logic of categorisation underpinning racial divisions. Falling outside the prevailing definitions of racialised identities, their histories and experiences illuminate the complexities of identity formation in the contemporary multicultural context. The authors examine a range of issues. These include gender; transracial and intercountry adoptions in Britain and the US; interracial partnering and marriage; 'mixed race' and family in the English-African diaspora; theorising of 'mixed race' that transcends the black/white binary and includes explorations of 'mixtures' among non-white minority groups; and the social and political evolution of multiracial panethnicity.

Time and space in the Sri Lanka-Tamil diaspora

Abstract: Based upon fieldwork in Sri Lanka and among Tamil migrants in Norway, this article discusses the relationship between space, time and national identity. The author argues that in the Sri Lanka-Tamil diaspora one finds two different conceptions of Tamil culture, the ‘traditional’ and the ‘revolutionary’. The first expresses a space-time relationship that is nomadic and grounded in heritage; the second one is sedentary and historicist. The latter serves as a basis for Tamil separatism, the first does not. By propagating the ‘revolutionary’ model of culture, with its particular understanding of space and time, the Tamil separatist movement Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) has adopted viewpoints that throughout this century have fuelled the nationalism of the Sinhalese majority in Sri Lanka. The author argues that instead of explaining social change historically, which is one trend within anthropological theory today, anthropologists should concentrate on exploring under which conditions historical explanations are seen as more valid than their alternatives.

Reimagining Islam in Diaspora The Politics of Mediated Community

Abstract: This article looks at the mediation of one aspect of Middle Eastern culture, Islam, in the context of diasporic Muslim communities in the West. It explores the impact of information and communicati...

The Irish Diaspora

Abstract: Providing a comprehensive survey of the Irish Diaspora from a global perspective, this text contains a collection of articles by historians, demographers, economists, sociologists and geographers.

Ghosts and Shadows: Construction of Identity and Community in an African Diaspora

Abstract: Focusing on African diaspora groups that have been virtually ignored in discussions of Canadian multiculturalism - Eritreans, Ethiopians, and Oromos - Ghosts and Shadows explores the re-creation of communities in exile and the invisible forces that haunt them through myths of 'homeland' and 'return.' Drawing on over a decade of work with refugee and immigrant groups in Canada, Atsuko Matsuoka and John Sorenson provide an analysis of the historical context that has created diaspora movements from the Horn of Africa. They examine contested understandings of Eritrea's thirty-year nationalist struggle, Ethiopian reactions to independence, and ongoing efforts to forge a distinct Oromo identity. The authors also discuss the role of long-distance nationalists in the 1998-2000 Eritrean-Ethiopian war. This study traces the spectral commitments to conflicting narratives of history and identity that affect settlement experiences of Eritrean, Ethiopian, and Oromo communities in Canada, and shows how the commitments of these exile groups still play important roles in nationalist struggles in their original homelands. Applying the concepts of 'ghosts and shadows' to question the supposed certainties of culture, history, memory, nation, gender, and 'race,' Matsuoka and Sorenson explore the conflicting creation of de-territorialized identities against the presumption of deep-rooted cultural continuities. A significant contribution to historical and globalized dimensions of nationalism, this work poses important challenges to dominant interpretations of transnational movements by focusing on the involvement of refugees and immigrants in nationalist struggles for distant homelands. By capturing these 'ghostly' and 'shadowy' aspects of lived experience, the book provides essential reading in the fields of anthropology, sociology, social work, and political studies.

The Concept of Self: A Study of Black Identity and Self-Esteem

Abstract: Institutional racism has had a major impact on the development of African American self-esteem and group identity. Through the years, African Americans have developed strong, tenacious concepts of self partially based on African cultural and philosophical retentions and as a reaction to historical injustices. The Concept of Self examines the historical basis for the widely misunderstood ideas of how African Americans think of themselves individually, and how they relate to being part of a group that has been subjected to challenges of their very humanity. Richard Allen examines past scholarship on African American identity to explore a wide range of issues leading to the formation of an individual and collective sense of self. Allen traces the significance of social forces that have impinged on the lives of African Americans and points to the uniqueness of their position in American society. He then focuses on the results from the National Survey of Black Americans-a national survey of African Americans on a wide range of political, social, and psychological issues-to develop a model of African self. Allen explores the idea of double-consciousness as put forth by W.E.B. DuBois against the more recent debates of Afrocentricity or an African-centered consciousness. He proposes a set of interrelated hypotheses regarding how African Americans might use an African worldview for the upliftment of Africans in the Diaspora. The Concept of Self will interest students and scholars of African American studies, sociology and population studies.

Locations for South Asian diasporas

Abstract: ▪ Abstract This review explores the cultural consequences of migrations from the Indian subcontinent for interdisciplinary inquiries into difference and belonging. It poses the question of whether the constructed term South Asian can adequately bridge the divide between more internationalist conceptions of diaspora and nationalist accounts of racial and ethnic formation, and if so, whether it creates new epistemologies for the consideration of migration in highly globalized political and economic arrangements. In arguing that multiple formations of nationality take place in diasporic culture, this review also intervenes in debates in anthropology about the geographical and conceptual boundaries of community. Finally, in suggesting that gender, sexuality, and generation might profoundly fissure South Asian and other diasporas, the article raises the question of the implicit limits of any category of location or identity.

Communication and Identity in the Diaspora: Turkish Migrants in Amsterdam and Their Use of Media

Abstract: Chapter 1 The Invitaton and the Aftermath: Changing Policy in the Netherlands Chapter 2 Life in a Strange Land: Different People, Different Lifestyles Chapter 3 Media for and about Turkish Migrants Chapter 4 Consuming Media from Home Chapter 5 Media, Identity, and the "Spiritual" Lives of the Migrants Chapter 6 Lessons Learned, Directions to Take

The Jews of France: A History from Antiquity to the Present

Abstract: In the first English-language edition of a general, synthetic history of French Jewry from antiquity to the present, Esther Benbassa tells the intriguing tale of the social, economic, and cultural vicissitudes of a people in diaspora. With verve and insight, she reveals the diversity of Jewish life throughout France's regions, while showing how Jewish identity has constantly redefined itself in a country known for both the Rights of Man and the Dreyfus affair. Beginning with late antiquity, she charts the migrations of Jews into France and traces their fortunes through the making of the French kingdom, the Revolution, the rise of modern anti-Semitism, and the current renewal of interest in Judaism.As early as the fourth century, Jews inhabited Roman Gaul, and by the reign of Charlemagne, some figured prominently at court. The perception of Jewish influence on France's rulers contributed to a clash between church and monarchy that would culminate in the mass expulsion of Jews in the fourteenth century. The book examines the re-entry of small numbers of Jews as New Christians in the Southwest and the emergence of a new French Jewish population with the country's acquisition of Alsace and Lorraine. The saga of modernity comes next, beginning with the French Revolution and the granting of citizenship to French Jews. Detailed yet quick-paced discussions of key episodes follow: progress made toward social and political integration, the shifting social and demographic profiles of Jews in the 1800s, Jewish participation in the economy and the arts, the mass migrations from Eastern Europe at the turn of the twentieth century, the Dreyfus affair, persecution under Vichy, the Holocaust, and the postwar arrival of North African Jews. Reinterpreting such themes as assimilation, acculturation, and pluralism, Benbassa finds that French Jews have integrated successfully without always risking loss of identity. Published to great acclaim in France, this book brings important current issues to bear on the study of Judaism in general, while making for dramatic reading.