Table of Contents
Acknowledgments ix
Foreword: Between Dispersion and Belonging: At Home in the Diaspora Amitava Chowdhury xi
Introduction: Is "Diaspora" a Live Hand Grenade? Donald Harman Akenson 3
Part 1 Concept 29
1 What and Where Is Diaspora?: Definitions, Analytical Boundaries, and Research Agendas William Safran 31
2 Diaspora: Legacies, Typologies, and "Push-Pull" Donald Harman Akenson 70
3 The Diaspora Symptom: Global Projection of Local Identities Amitava Chowdhury 95
Part 2 Formations 107
4 Who Was First and When?: The Diasporic Implications of Indigeneity James T. Carson 111
5 Trade Diasporas and Merchant Social Cohesion in Early Trade in the Western Indian Ocean Eivind Heldas Seland 125
6 Perhaps a Silly Question: Was There a Swedish Diaspora? Donald Harman Akenson 138
7 An "Invisible Diaspora"?: English Associational Culture in Nineteenth-Century North America Donald M. MacRaild 189
8 Ulster Presbyterians, the Great Famine, and the Historiography of Early Irish America Rankin Sherling 215
9 Narratives of Home: Diaspora Formations among the Indian Indentured Labourers Amitava Chowdhury 240
Conclusion: Diaspora as Global History Amitava Chowdhury 254
Notes 263
Bibliography 311
Contributors 355
Index 357