New Diasporas: The Mass Exodus, Dispersal, and Regrouping of Migrant Communities

by Nicholas Van Hear

Charts the connections between migrations crises and the formation and demise transnational communities, looking at 10 contemporary migration crises aroun the world. Examines factors that are accelerating and constraining the growt of transnational communities, and provides a perspective on the soc

Genres: International Relations

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First published January 1, 1998

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[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.