Ato Quayson & Girish Daswani 
A Companion to Diaspora and Transnationalism [EPUB ebook] 

Notes on Contributors ix
1 Introduction – Diaspora and Transnationalism: Scapes,
Scales, and Scopes 1
Ato Quayson and Girish Daswani
Part I Transnationalism and Diaspora Through the Disciplines
27
2 The Anthropology of Transnationalism and Diaspora 29
Girish Daswani
3 Communication and Media Studies 54
Julian Murphet
4 Diaspora, Transnationalism, and Issues in Contemporary
Politics 68
Garrett Wallace Brown
5 Diaspora and Transnationalism in Urban Studies 88
Ayona Datta
6 Migration and Transnational Studies: Between Simultaneity and
Rupture 106
Pnina Werbner
7 Religion, Religions, and Diaspora 125
Seán Mc Loughlin
8 Postcolonialism and the Diasporic Imaginary 139
Ato Quayson
Part II Backgrounds and Perspectives 161
9 Slavery, Indentured Labor, and the Making of a Transnational
World 163
Emmanuel Akyeampong
10 When the Diaspora Returns Home: Ambivalent Encounters with
the Ethnic Homeland 172
Takeyuki Tsuda
11 Interracial Sex and the Making of Empire 190
Carina Ray
12 Istanbul as a Cosmopolitan City: Myths and Realities
212
Edhem Eldem
Part III The Aesthetics of Transnationalism and Diaspora
231
13 The Anxieties of ‘New’ Indian Modernity:
Globalization, Diaspora, and Bollywood 233
Jigna Desai and Rani Neutill
14 West African Video-Movies and Their Transnational Imaginaries
249
Carmela Garritano
15 The European Salsa Congress: Music and Dance in Transnational
Circuits 263
Ananya Jahanara Kabir
Part IV Overviews and Case Studies 277
16 Gender and Identity in Oral Histories of Elderly Russian
Jewish Migrants in the United States and Canada 279
Anna Shternshis
17 The Transnational Life of Cheese 293
Ken Mac Donald
18 Diaspora and Transnational Perspectives on Remittances
316
Anna Lindley
19 A Diaspora Concept That Works: Tibetan Economy and Identity
in India and Canada 330
Timm Lau
20 Cell Phones and Transnationalism in Africa 346
Wisdom J. Tettey
21 Home-Making in the Diaspora: Bringing Palestine to London
366
Michelle Obeid
22 Imagining Transnational Futures in Vanuatu 381
Maggie Cummings
23 Global Cities and Transnational Circulations: Singapore and
Hong Kong 397
Rajeev S. Patke
24 Diaspora and Discourse: The Contrapuntal Lives of Mexican
Non-Migrants 412
Hilary Parsons Dick
25 The Scales of Justice: Refl ections on Representation and
Responsibility in a Transnational Frame 428
Kevin Lewis O’Neill
26 Greek Settler Communities in Central and South Asia, 323 bce
to 10 ce 443
Rachel Mairs
27 Parts and Labor: The Commodifi cation of the Human Body
455
Monir Moniruzzaman
28 Diaspora Activism and the Politics of Locality: The Armenians
of France 473
Hakem Al-Rustom
29 The Muslim Brotherhood and the Transnationalism of Islam
494
Meena Sharify-Funk and Ali Albarghouthi
30 Religions of the African Diaspora 509
Paul Christopher Johnson
31 Diaspora Tourism: The Heritage of Slavery in Ghana 524
Ann Reed
32 The Transnational Politics of the Techno-Class in Bangalore
539
T.T. Sreekumar
Index 556

Ato Quayson is Inaugural Director of the Centre for Diaspora and Transnational Studies and Professor of English at the University of Toronto. His publications include Relocating Postcolonialism (with David Theo Goldberg, Blackwell, 2002); Calibrations: Reading for the Social (2003); Aesthetic Nervousness: Disability and the Crisis of Representation (2006); and the 2-volume The Cambridge History of Postcolonial Literature (2012).
Girish Daswani is an Assistant Professor in Anthropology at the University of Toronto. He is also affiliated with the Department for the Study of Religion and the Centre for Diaspora and Transnational Studies at the University of Toronto as well as the Centre for Ethnography at University of Toronto Scarborough.