Arising from flight to escape violent conflict or from migration for betterment, diasporas are among the most prominent and controversial manifestations of increased globalization. Few communities now seem unbound from their distant members and this connectivity has significant consequences for the world order.
In a research proposal submitted to the Leverhulme Trust, we identify three fundamental dynamics that animate the formation of diasporas and shape their impacts – connectedness, contestation and convergence.
Our aim in the research programme and in this associated seminar series is to investigate through comparative examples the social, economic, political and cultural impacts of diaspora: what are these impacts; why, how, where and when do particular impacts arise; and who initiates and experiences these impacts?
Diasporas engaged, diasporas deployed
Nicholas Van Hear
Rights in diaspora, impacts at home: portable voting and pension entitlements
Alan Gamlen
Filming diaspora: Jews and Italians in New York City
Robin Cohen
Local citizenship, diaspora belonging: associational politics, faith and settlements in 20th century London
Jane Garnett, Ben Gidley, Alana Harris and Michael Keith
1) Youth, economic change and diaspora-local relations; 2) Multinational families, creolized practices and new identities: Euro-Senegalese cases
1) Linda McDowell;
2) Helene Neveu Kringelbach
Diasporas of khat: chewing in transnational space
David Anderson and Neil Carrier:
1) Hadrami diasporas: the Indian Ocean glue?; 2) African diasporas in Africa: oxymoron or lacuna?
1) Iain Walker;
2) Oliver Bakewell
1) Perspectives on memory, mobility and cultural identities: the lusophone case; 2) Diaspora and security: challenges for governance
1) Luisa Pinto Teixeira;
2) Alex Betts
The Impact of Diasporas
Discussion: Led by Robin Cohen, Nicholas Van Hear and Alan
Seminar Series Hilary 2013
Seminar Series Michaelmas 2011
Seminar Series Michaelmas 2010
Seminar Series Trinity Term 2009
Seminar Series Hilary Term 2007
Seminar Series Michaelmas Term 2006
Seminar Series Hilary Term 2006
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