New Diasporas

by Nicholas Van Hear

First published in 1998. This book charts the connections between migrations crises and the formation and demise transnational communities, looking at 10 contemporary migration crises around the world, in Africa, the Middle East, Asia, Europe, Central America and the Caribbean.. It examines the factors that are accelerating- and constraining- the growth of the transnational communities in an ever more volatile world migration order.

Genres: International Relations

314 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1998

Reviews

[Rashaan · Rating 3 out of 5]

As author Nicholas Van Hear states in the text: "This book has been concerned not so much with identity as such, as with the material basis or socio-economic dimensions of such identity" (242), New Diasporas offers sharp insights into new cosmopolitanism in our globalized world.