New diasporas : The mass Exodus, dispersal and Regrouping of Migrant Communities.

Recent profound changes in the world political and economic order have generated large movements of people in almost every region. As migration has proliferated, so too has the formation of diaspora or transnational communities, leading to increasing numbers of people with allegiances straddling their places of origin and their new homelands. At the same time, many expatriates have been forced to return home and other previously scattered populations have regrouped, leading to the weakening or un-doing of diaspora. This book charts the connections between migration crises and transnational communities - their formation, their demise and their social, economic and political fall-out. Drawing on original research and a wide range of case material, Nicholas Van Hear looks in detail at ten migration crises in the contemporary world, in Africa, the Middle East, Asia, Europe, Central America and the Caribbean. He examines the factors that are accelerating - and constraining - the growth of transnational communities in an ever more volatile world migration order. New diasporas provides a rich and compelling perspective on the social, economic and political implications of migration worldwide. Synthesising approaches to both 'economic' and 'forced' migration, up to now largely insulated from one another, this is an essential book for scholars of migration and ethnic relations and for students of sociology, politics, international relations and development.