Books in the Global Diasporas series

Investigates the changing meanings of the concept and the contemporary diasporic condition, including case studies of Jewish, Armenian, African, Chinese, British, Indian, Lebanese and Caribbean people. The title outlines a fresh perspectives for the study of diasporas. It also features illustrations, guided readings, and suggested essay questions.

Examines the ways in which Palestinian identity has been formed in the diaspora through constant longing for a homeland lost. In so doing, the author advances the debate on the relationship between diaspora and the creation of national identity.

Explores the relationship between home and host states and between migrant and indigenous Sikh communities, considering the implications of the history and politics of the Sikh diaspora for nationality, citizenship and sovereignity.

As cosmopolitans, exiles and "workers of the world", Italians transformed their homeland and many of the countries where they worked or settled. This text examines the social, cultural and economic integration of Italian migrants, and explores their relationship with their homeland.

Gathers together work on more recent waves of immigration - concentrating particularly on the last twenty years - and goes beyond the United States to look at Diaspora settlement in the UK and Northern Europe too. It also looks at a range of

Hindusim outside the Indian subcontinent represents a divergent diaspora. This survey of the disparate identities forged by Hindu communities across the world questions whether these differences should prompt a revaluation of what does constitutes the "true" Hindu identity.

The author looks at the ways the Ukranian Diaspora has retained its identity, at the different factions within it and its response to the war crimes trials of the 1980s.

This book is based on extensive research in all of the major Israeli communities. Gold looks at their reasons for leaving and why they are so often treated as second class citizens.