Transnationalism: diasporas and the advent of a new (dis)order
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Other Authors: Ben Refaʾel, Eliʿezer 1938- (Editor), Sternberg, Yitzhak 1956- (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Leiden ; Boston Brill 2009
Series:International comparative social studies 19
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Online Access:UBG01
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Item Description:Includes bibliographical references (pages 699-753) and index
Preface; Introduction Debating Transnationalism (Eliezer Ben-Rafael and Yitzhak Sternberg); PART ONE PERSPECTIVES; Chapter One New Transnational Communities and Networks: Globalization Changes in Civilizational Frameworks (Shmuel N. Eisenstadt); Chapter Two Deconstructing and Reconstructing "Diaspora": A Study in Socio-Historical Semantics (Stéphane Dufoix); Chapter Three The Diaspora and the Homeland: Reciprocities, Transformations, and Role Reversals (William Safran); Chapter Four Contemporary Immigration in Comparative Perspective (Yitzhak Sternberg)
This book deals with transnationalism and captures its singularity as a generalized phenomenon. The profusion of transnational communities is a factor of fluidity in social orders and represents confrontations between contingencies and basic socio-cultural drives. It has created a new era different from the past at essential respects
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (xii, 784 Seiten) Diagramme
ISBN:9789047440116
9047440110
DOI:10.1163/ej.9789004174702.i-788

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