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<p>Notes on Contributors ix</p> <p>1 Introduction – Diaspora and Transnationalism: Scapes, Scales, and Scopes 1<br /> <i>Ato Quayson and Girish Daswani</i></p> <p><b>Part I Transnationalism and Diaspora Through the Disciplines 27</b></p> <p>2 The Anthropology of Transnationalism and Diaspora 29<br /> <i>Girish Daswani</i></p> <p>3 Communication and Media Studies 54<br /> <i>Julian Murphet</i></p> <p>4 Diaspora, Transnationalism, and Issues in Contemporary Politics 68<br /> <i>Garrett Wallace Brown</i></p> <p>5 Diaspora and Transnationalism in Urban Studies 88<br /> <i>Ayona Datta</i></p> <p>6 Migration and Transnational Studies: Between Simultaneity and Rupture 106<br /> <i>Pnina Werbner</i></p> <p>7 Religion, Religions, and Diaspora 125<br /> <i>Seán McLoughlin</i></p> <p>8 Postcolonialism and the Diasporic Imaginary 139<br /> <i>Ato Quayson</i></p> <p><b>Part II Backgrounds and Perspectives 161</b></p> <p>9 Slavery, Indentured Labor, and the Making of a Transnational World 163<br /> <i>Emmanuel Akyeampong</i></p> <p>10 When the Diaspora Returns Home: Ambivalent Encounters with the Ethnic Homeland 172<br /> <i>Takeyuki Tsuda</i></p> <p>11 Interracial Sex and the Making of Empire 190<br /> <i>Carina Ray</i></p> <p>12 Istanbul as a Cosmopolitan City: Myths and Realities 212<br /> <i>Edhem Eldem</i></p> <p><b>Part III The Aesthetics of Transnationalism and Diaspora 231</b></p> <p>13 The Anxieties of “New” Indian Modernity: Globalization, Diaspora, and Bollywood 233<br /> <i>Jigna Desai and Rani Neutill</i></p> <p>14 West African Video-Movies and Their Transnational Imaginaries 249<br /> <i>Carmela Garritano</i></p> <p>15 The European Salsa Congress: Music and Dance in Transnational Circuits 263<br /> <i>Ananya Jahanara Kabir</i></p> <p><b>Part IV Overviews and Case Studies 277</b></p> <p>16 Gender and Identity in Oral Histories of Elderly Russian Jewish Migrants in the United States and Canada 279<br /> <i>Anna Shternshis</i></p> <p>17 The Transnational Life of Cheese 293<br /> <i>Ken MacDonald</i></p> <p>18 Diaspora and Transnational Perspectives on Remittances 316<br /> <i>Anna Lindley</i></p> <p>19 A Diaspora Concept That Works: Tibetan Economy and Identity in India and Canada 330<br /> <i>Timm Lau</i></p> <p>20 Cell Phones and Transnationalism in Africa 346<br /> <i>Wisdom J. Tettey</i></p> <p>21 Home-Making in the Diaspora: Bringing Palestine to London 366<br /> <i>Michelle Obeid</i></p> <p>22 Imagining Transnational Futures in Vanuatu 381<br /> <i>Maggie Cummings</i></p> <p>23 Global Cities and Transnational Circulations: Singapore and Hong Kong 397<br /> <i>Rajeev S. Patke</i></p> <p>24 Diaspora and Discourse: The Contrapuntal Lives of Mexican Non-Migrants 412<br /> <i>Hilary Parsons Dick</i></p> <p>25 The Scales of Justice: Refl ections on Representation and Responsibility in a Transnational Frame 428<br /> <i>Kevin Lewis O’Neill</i></p> <p>26 Greek Settler Communities in Central and South Asia, 323 bce to 10 ce 443<br /> <i>Rachel Mairs</i></p> <p>27 Parts and Labor: The Commodifi cation of the Human Body 455<br /> <i>Monir Moniruzzaman</i></p> <p>28 Diaspora Activism and the Politics of Locality: The Armenians of France 473<br /> <i>Hakem Al-Rustom</i></p> <p>29 The Muslim Brotherhood and the Transnationalism of Islam 494<br /> <i>Meena Sharify-Funk and Ali Albarghouthi</i></p> <p>30 Religions of the African Diaspora 509<br /> <i>Paul Christopher Johnson</i></p> <p>31 Diaspora Tourism: The Heritage of Slavery in Ghana 524<br /> <i>Ann Reed</i></p> <p>32 The Transnational Politics of the Techno-Class in Bangalore 539<br /> <i>T.T. Sreekumar</i></p> <p><b>Index 556</b></p>

<p><b>Ato Quayson</b> is Inaugural Director of the Centre for Diaspora and Transnational Studies and Professor of English at the University of Toronto. His publications include <i>Relocating Postcolonialism</i> (with David Theo Goldberg, Blackwell, 2002); <i>Calibrations: Reading for the Social</i> (2003);<i> Aesthetic Nervousness: Disability and the Crisis of Representation</i> (2006); and the 2-volume <i>The Cambridge History of Postcolonial Literature</i> (2012).</p> <p><b>Girish Daswani</b> 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.</p>

<p>In the past, the two terms of diaspora and transnationalism have often been treated separately; this invaluable collection clearly demonstrates that the many overlaps between the two terms renders it impossible to separate them in any serious discussion of the contemporary world. Taken together, the two concepts provide a broad understanding of the full spectrum of implications that derive from the reality of the vast movements of populations, ideas, technologies, and finance in the world today.</p> <p><i>A Companion to Diaspora and Transnationalism</i> addresses this complex conceptual tangle through essays by leading scholars in the two fields, which offer a wide range of issues, topics and methodological approaches to the study of the joint subject matter. The two concepts are linked together in new and important ways, and the study demonstrates that while there is no simple resolution to these intersections, there is a need to understand how these concepts and categories articulate with and against each other.</p>

<p>"An exhilarating mix of emerging and experienced scholars address the themes of diaspora and transnationalism. Anthropological and historical perspectives are particularly notable, but there is plenty here for those from other disciplines too."<br /><i>Robin Cohen, University of Oxford</i></p> <p>"Diasporas and transnationalism cannot be theorized without reference to a rich variety of illustrative cases such as those offered here, from ancient Greeks to contemporary Tibetans, on remittances and cell phones, cheese and salsa dancing."<br /><i>Kim Knott, Lancaster University</i></p>

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