About the Book

Although there have been some discussions about ‘diaspora’ in the past, this has been more pronounced in the intellectual and public domain during the last decade of the 20th century. Why has ‘diaspora’ attracted such scholarly interest only recently? Who are the protagonists who have made important contributions to the field?

This comprehensive collection of essays provides some answers by focusing on themes such as immigration, transnationalism, ethnicity, identity, religion, politics, citizenship, gender, sexuality, and hybridity which comprise the domain of diaspora studies. This book will be useful not only to sociologists but also to scholars working in the fields of social anthropology, political science, geography, history, philosophy, literary, cultural and ethnic studies.

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About the Author / Editor

Ajaya Kumar Sahoo is Lecturer at the Centre for the Study of Indian Diaspora, University of Hyderabad, India. His areas of research interests include International Migration, Indian Diaspora, Sociology of Religion and Social Movements.

Brij Maharaj is Professor of Geography at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, Pietermaritzburg, South Africa. He was previously Head of Geography, University of Durban-Westville. His areas of research interests include Cultural Geography, International Migration, and Indian Diaspora.

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