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... , 13 ,3: 223 -234. Chaichian, Mohammed. 1997 . “First-Generation Iranian Immigrants and the Question of Cultural Identity: The Case of Iowa,” International Migration Review , 31 ,3: 591 -611. Clifford, James. 1994 . “Diasporas,” Cultural Anthropology 9 ,3: 302 -338. Coelho, George...

...Ato Quayson © 2007 by Duke University Press 2007 , , s s Introduction: Area Studies, Diaspora Studies, gogie...

...Richa Nagar © 1996: Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa & the Middle East 1996 The South Asian Diaspora in Tanzania’: A History Retold Richa Nagar In the last quarter of this century, the South Asian Asian immigration...

...Carlton Wilson © 1997: Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa & the Middle East 1997 Conceptualizing the African Diaspora Carlton Wilson Recently, the term “diaspora” has become increas- analyzed, and presented. ingly common in studies of Indian, Chinese, Irish, Afri...

...Edward A. Alpers © 1997: Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa & the Middle East 1997 The Afiican Diaspora in the Northwestern Indian Ocean: Reconsideration of an Old Problem, New Directions for Research Edward A. Alpers...

... and the problems of translation facing Muslims in colonial courts. © 2011 by Duke University Press 2011 Translating Colonial Fortunes: Dilemmas of Inheritance in Muslim and English Laws across a Nineteenth-­Century Diaspora Michael Gilsenan Diasporic Inheritance across Colonial Spaces...

...Maria Six-Hohenbalken; Andre Gingrich The article discusses and assesses the theoretical and conceptual approaches to diaspora research presented in this special section. By pursuing multiple forms of comparison, these contributions highlight several weak points inherent in the diaspora concept...

...Babak Elahi; Persis M. Karim © 2011 by Duke University Press 2011 Introduction: Iranian Diaspora...

... productive case studies of diasporic reappropriations of local genres used to present selective views of homeland and diaspora to diverse audiences. Furthermore, these public diaspora events do as much to continuously negotiate Iranian diaspora identity across generations as they do to represent Iran to non...

... on the autobiographical by scholars to legitimate information about Iran? Heretofore an immigrant group largely absent from public discourse as such, I argue that the debate over the memoir has made the Iranian diaspora community produce (and reproduce) itself by publicly staging textual debates over autobiography...

...Khachig Tölölyan © 2007 by Duke University Press 2007 The Contemporary Discourse of Diaspora Studies Khachig Tölölyan y discussion of the current state of diaspora studies must note, without the luxury of further elaboration, that multidisciplinary1 area...

... future not necessarily bound by a place. Emigration literature dwells in this terra nulleum . Duke University Press 2008 Where Will I Dwell? A Sociology of Literary Identity within the Iranian Diaspora Peyman Vahabzadeh ver since the 1979 revolution and still continuing today...

...Stephanie Tara Schwartz Drawing on Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari's philosophy of the concept, James Clifford's theory of diaspora, and Ella Shohat's work on Mizrahim, this essay examines the problematic relationships among nations, territory, and sensations of belonging. First, double diaspora...

...Reem Bassiouney This essay examines the use of language in the literature that discusses the diaspora, with concentration on one novel. The essay concentrates on the diglossic situation that prevails in the Arab world, in which there are two varieties, high and a low, each with a different function...

... seem to have been unpredictably timely. As Iranians in Iran and around the world took to the streets and social media in autumn 2022, and as they have since navigated deep fragmentations (old and new) in diaspora, Manijeh Moradian's words written prior to these events felt especially prescient...

... and Reifeld Helmut , 233 – 53 . Delhi : Social Science Press , 2004 . Basu Helene . “ Theatre of Memory: Ritual Kinship Performances of the African Diaspora in Pakistan .” In Culture, Creation, and Procreation: Concepts of Kinship in South Asian Practice , edited by Bock Monika...

...Paul Tiyambe Zeleza Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East 2004 The African Academic Diaspora in the United States and Africa: The Challenges of Productive Engagement1 PAUL TIYAMBE ZELEZA Introduction the Pan-African movement...

... Gandhi South Africa Tanganyika print culture nationalism Greater India References Aiyar Sana . “Anticolonial Homelands across the Indian Ocean: The Politics of the Indian Diaspora in Kenya, ca. 1930–1950.” American Historical Review 116 ( 2011 ): 987 – 1013 . Brennan...

...Martin Slama; Johann Heiss This introductory article discusses comparative approaches and research topics explored by contributors to the issue’s special section “Comparing Arab Diasporas.” The article reassesses debates about early meanings of the term diaspora that reveal the potentials...

... in the United States and Mexico and leads to the third section, where I address the conflation of Arabs and Muslims with ethnographic detail. The fourth section offers a comparative analysis of selected immigration laws in Mexico and the United States that have shaped the Arab diasporas in each country...