Migration, Diasporas, and Transnationalism

Steven Vertovec, Robin Cohen

Edward Elgar, 1999 - Social Science - 663 pages

These papers discuss the importance of links between post-migration communities and the societies from which they originate. Closely tied to this is an interest in diasporas or globally dispersed groups whose collective experiences often draw on deep historical roots in more than one place.

About the author

Edited by Steven Vertovec, Director, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity, Germany and Robin Cohen, Professor of Development Studies and Director, International Migration Institute, University of Oxford, UK

Bibliographic information

• Title: Migration, Diasporas, and Transnationalism; Elgar reference collection; Issue 9 of International library of studies on migration
• Editors: Steven Vertovec, Robin Cohen
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: Edward Elgar, 1999
• ISBN: 1858988691, 9781858988696
• Length: 663 pages
• Subjects: Social Science / Emigration & Immigration