This book is about an important cultural-political phenomenon: ethno-national diasporas. While these groups try to "feel at home" in their host countries, they maintain at the same time close contact with their homelands to promote their culture and interests. The book analyzes their continuous struggle to maintain their identity, organize, and fight against all wishing to prevent permanent settlement and integration in the host countries. It discusses the complex questions of the groups' loyalties to their homelands and host countries as well as their contributions to them.

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"Gabriel Sheffer is among the leading figures of this expanding field of research that is diaspora studies...a worldwide known expert. Diaspora Politics represents an important contribution to a field...Sheffer's attempt to define conceptual boundaries and provide tentative classifications is helpful and should be greatly welcomed. [An] insightful and very readable book. Sheffer's volume proves indeed to be an excellent and solid contribution to an expanding field of research and will certainly remain a must read for several years to come." Matteo Fumagalli, School of Social and Political Studies, University of Edinburgh, UK, Ethnic and Racial Studies

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Product details

• Date Published: January 2006
• format: Paperback
• isbn: 9780521009874
• length: 308 pages

• dimensions: 229 x 153 x 19 mm
• weight: 0.406kg
• availability: Available