Following its initial publication in 1997, Global Diasporas: An Introduction was central to the emergence of diaspora studies and quickly established itself as

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This book offers an account of heart touching insights into the world of diasporas in an arcade of writers highlighting their interesting research in diaspora.

Re-energising debates on the conceptualisation of diasporas in migration scholarship and in geography, this work stresses the important role that geographers ca