Central Asia and the Caucasus: transnationalism and diaspora

New York: Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, 2005. — xviii; 235 p. ISBN 0-203-49582-9 Master e-book ISBN; ISBN 0-203-57450-8 (Adobe eReader Format); ISBN 0-415-33260-5 (Print Edition)This book covers the proceedings of the academic conference "Currents, cross-currents and conflict: transnationalism and diaspora in the Caucasus and Central Asia", held at the University of California, Berkeley, in the Spring of 2002. The volume focuses on contemporary and historical aspects of the areas and polities that constitute the regions of the Caucasus and Central Asia. The end of Soviet hegemony led to the emergence of new nation-states that had their formal beginnings as artificial polities created under Soviet policies. Along with Afghanistan, these fledgling states have been struggling with the conundrums of national identity amid complex population mixes and competing local and transnational ethnic, religious, and political affiliations.