| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 180 pages). |
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polychrome |
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Migration, diasporas, and citizenship
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Migration, diasporas and citizenship.
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| Summary |
This book examines the relationships, connections, identities and linkages between diasporas and their original or symbolic homelands. To highlight the transnationality of diasporas, the book proposes a framework for understanding African diasporas as core, epistemic, dormant and silent diasporas. As the book argues, transnational diasporas, just as other social formations, are multifaceted fluid entities which continually mutate over time and space. By way of empirical illustration, the book investigates the formation of the Zimbabwean diaspora by examining how the diaspora was dispersed, how it is constituted in Britain and how it maintains connections with the homeland. Using evidence from multi-sited ethnographic data, the book examines the articulation of plural diasporic identities by migrants in different social, cultural, religious and political settings. Whereas the concept of diaspora typically emphasizes group cohesion and solidarity, the book argues that the Zimbabwean diaspora has to be understood as fractured and fragmented. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 153-170) and index. |
| Contents |
African transnational diasporas: theoretical perspectives -- Vintages and patterns of migration -- The construction and negotiation of diasporic identities -- "Do you have a visa?": negotiating respectable masculinity in the diaspora -- The diaspora and the politics of development -- Religion in the diaspora -- Transnational religious ties and integration: an unhappy couple? |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Language |
English. |
| Subject |
Zimbabweans -- Great Britain -- Social conditions.
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Zimbabweans. |
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Great Britain. |
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Social conditions. |
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Great Britain -- Social conditions.
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African diaspora.
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African diaspora. |
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Migration, immigration & emigration -- United Kingdom, Great Britain -- Zimbabwe. |
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Black & Asian studies -- United Kingdom, Great Britain -- Zimbabwe. |
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations. |
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies. |
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Migration, immigration & emigration -- United Kingdom, Great Britain -- Zimbabwe. |
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Ethnic studies -- United Kingdom, Great Britain -- Zimbabwe. |
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Society. |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Pasura, Dominic, 1973- African transnational diasporas. Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2014 9781137326560 (DLC) 2014016796 (OCoLC)880689623 |
| ISBN |
9781137326577 (electronic book) |
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1137326573 (electronic book) |
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9781137326560 |
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1137326565 |
| Standard No. |
10.1057/9781137326577 |
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