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"The Routledge Diaspora Studies Reader provides a comprehensive resource for students and scholars working in this vital interdisciplinary field. The book traces the emergence and development of Diaspora Studies as a field of scholarship, presenting key critical essays alongside more recent criticism that explores new directions. It also includes seminal essays that have been updated specifically for this collection, as well as brand new papers. The volume presents: substantial introductions to each section that situate each work within its historical, disciplinary and theoretical contexts essays grouped by key subject areas including Nation, Globalization, Postcolonialism, Race and Ethnicity, Multiculturalism, Intersectionality, Gender and Sexuality, Home and Belonging, Spaces, Hybridity, Religion, Literature, Visual Culture, and Digital Media writings by major figures including Robin Cohen, Homi Bhabha, Avtar Brah, Khachig Tölölyan, Pnina Werbner, Vijay Mishra, Paul Gilroy, Salman Rushdie, Stuart Hall, and Arjun Appadurai The Routledge Diaspora Studies Reader is a field-defining volume that presents an illuminating guide for established scholars and also those new to diaspora. Its accessible format offers a valuable resource, including suggestions for further reading and a glossary of key terms"--Provided by publisher

Frontmatter --Table of Contents --Introduction --'Home' and 'Belonging' in Diaspora Studies Now --Homi K. Bhabha in Interview with Klaus Stierstorfer on "Diaspora and Home"¹ --Extraterritorial: Exile, Diaspora, and the Ground under Your Feet --The Boundaries of Diaspora: A Critical Response to Brubaker --Mutations of the Trans-Migrare: Reflections on the Aesthetics of Individuation and Un-Homing on the Other Side of Belonging --Diasporic Selves: Memory, Identity, Agency --Hyphenated Homes: Elizabeth Jane Weston and the Diaspora of Early Modern English Catholics --East German Constructions of Home in the Context of Intra-German Migration Movements Since 1989 --Reflections on the Korean Diaspora in Manchuria --Home Work: Post-Fukushima Constructions of Furusato by Japanese Nationals Living in Belgium --Diasporic Individuals -- A Hidden Peace Building Capacity? --The Process of Integration among German Expellees in the GDR --Notions of Home and Belonging for Alteinwanderer and Neueinwanderer in the German-Speaking Community in Ottawa --Home and Belonging in a Semi-Diasporic Setting: Converts to 'Reflexive Islam' in West European Societies --Home-Making: Space, Virtuality, Ideology --Being Home through Learning Palestinian Sociality: Swedish-Palestinian Houses in the West Bank --The Sanctification of Home in Late Medieval England --Constituting Transareal Convivence via Portable Collection Books: Home and Belonging in Times of Uprootedness and Increased Mobility --At Home Abroad? International House New York and the Cité Universitaire in Paris: Cosmopolitan versus Diasporic Internationalism --"Unfortunately, there is no plural for 'Heimat' in German": Home and Belonging in German Naturalization Ceremonies --Becoming an American: Rethinking the United States Naturalization Policy --Chris Abani's GraceLand: Constructing a Diasporic Space in a Postcolonial Metropolis --No Place like Home? Conceptualizations of 'Home' in Salman Rushdie's "At the Auction of the Ruby Slippers" and Roshi Fernando's Homesick --Narratives of Belonging: (Hi- )stories, Boundaries, Trajectories --Beyond the Hall: Diasporic Constructions of Home and Belonging in Beowulf, The Wanderer, and The Seafarer --(Non)Autochthonous Origins and the Question of Home and Exile in Nineteenthto Mid-Twentieth-Century English and Hebrew Literature --Geographies of Home: Constructions of Home and Belonging in Contemporary Emerging Adult Fiction --It All Depends on What You Mean by Home: Metaphors of Return in Chinese American Travel Memoirs from the 1980s to 2010s --Too Chinese/Too Cuban: Emotional Maps and the Quest for Happiness in Cristina García's Monkey Hunting --Diasporic 'Home' and Transnational Identities in Gail Jones' Five Bells --German-Turkish Identity in Fatih Akin's Head-On: Transgressing Gender Boundaries, Redefining Home and Belonging --Shared Pleasures and Strange Elisions: Three Types of Queer Ambiguity and 'Return-Migration' in Afrosporic Fiction --List of Contributors --Index.

Our globalised world is shaped by migration, with large numbers of individuals and groups or even nations on the move. Stable concepts of home and belonging have become the exception rather than the rule. Academic engagements with diaspora, too, have long attended more to the notion of dispersal rather than settlement. This book widens the traditional focus of diaspora studies by extending it to the diasporic construction of home and belonging.

Our globalised world is shaped by migration, with large numbers of individuals and groups or even nations on the move. Stable concepts of home and belonging have become the exception rather than the rule. Academic engagements with diaspora, too, have long attended more to the notion of dispersal rather than settlement. This book widens the traditional focus of diaspora studies by extending it to the diasporic construction of home and belonging.

Symbolic representation is a crucial subject for and a potent heuristic instrument of diaspora studies. This special focus inquires into the forms and functions of symbols of diaspora both in aesthetic practice and in critical discourse, analyzing and theorizing symbolic practices from Shakespeare to Bollywood as well as in critical writings of theorists of diaspora. Florian Kläger, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität, Münster, Germany.

Main description: Symbolic representation is a crucial subject for and a potent heuristic instrument of diaspora studies. This special focus inquires into the forms and functions of symbols of diaspora both in aesthetic practice and in critical discourse, analyzing and theorizing symbolic practices from Shakespeare to Bollywood as well as in critical writings of theorists of diaspora.