This introductory and comparative study will develop the theoretical concept of a diaspora and investigate the formation and reformation of diasporic groups in relation to issues of socio-economic development, human rights and the nation state. This book is intended for postgraduate and undergraduate students studying ethnicity, migration, political science, international relations, population geography and history. It should be of interest to aid and development agencies.
Author(s): Nicholas van He
Edition: 1
Year: 1998
Language: English
Pages: 316
Book Cover......Page 1
Half-Title......Page 2
Title......Page 4
Copyright......Page 5
Contents......Page 7
Tables......Page 11
Preface......Page 12
ONE Introduction......Page 17
TWO Migration crises and the making of diasporas......Page 29
Understanding migration orders......Page 30
Cumulative and acute changes in migration orders......Page 37
Recent transitions in four migration orders......Page 40
Refining the notions of migration order, transition and crisis......Page 54
Force, choice and agency in migration orders......Page 56
Moving out, coming in, going back, moving on, staying put......Page 57
Diasporas in the making and diasporas unmade......Page 63
Once, twice, many times migrants: accumulating migratory cultural capital......Page 65
Force, choice and the host and home communities......Page 70
Agency in the transformation of migration orders......Page 74
Conclusion......Page 78
The expulsion of Asians from Uganda......Page 79
The mass expulsion of Ghanaians from Nigeria......Page 88
The Middle East: fall-out of the Gulf crisis......Page 96
The mass exodus of Palestinians from Kuwait......Page 97
The mass exodus of Yemenis from Saudi Arabia......Page 103
The mass exodus of the Rohingyas from Burma/Myanmar......Page 110
The expulsion of ethnic Nepalis from Bhutan......Page 118
Conclusion......Page 125
The expulsion of ethnic Turks from Bulgaria......Page 127
Albania, Greece and Italy: mass emigration, mass forced repatriation......Page 135
Operation Wetback: the expulsion of Mexican migrants from the US......Page 143
The expulsion of Haitians from the Dominican Republic......Page 149
Conclusion: comparing the character of migration crises......Page 157
Force, choice and the migration order......Page 158
The moment of upheaval: precipitating migration crises......Page 164
The effects of migration crises on migrant communities......Page 166
The Kuwait Palestinians in Jordan: mixed fortunes......Page 171
Yemeni returnees from Saudi Arabia: the rootless and the rooted......Page 177
The effects of mass arrivals on recipient territories......Page 180
Ghana: from mass return to economic turnaround......Page 182
Returnees to Jordan: burden or benefit?......Page 185
Returnees to Yemen: opportunities missed......Page 190
The Ugandan Asians and Bulgarian Ethnic Turks: co-ethnics and subsidies......Page 195
The Rohingyas and the ethnic Nepalis: camp life......Page 199
The effects of mass departures on the territories left......Page 203
Conclusion: assessing the effects of mass exodus—the problem of “interference”......Page 208
SIX Diasporas made and diasporas unmade......Page 210
Diaspora enhanced......Page 212
The Ugandan Asians: diaspora reinvigorated......Page 213
The Kuwait Palestinians: a kind of homecoming......Page 214
The Rohingya diaspora: Asia’s new Palestinians?......Page 217
The Ghanaians: delayed diasporization......Page 219
The exodus of southern Bhutanese: “greater Nepal” deflated?......Page 227
The Yemenis: diaspora undone......Page 229
Bulgaria’s ethnic Turks: post-Ottoman in-gathering......Page 231
The Albanians: diasporization thwarted?......Page 232
Transnationalism reaffirmed......Page 233
The return of ethnic Turks to Bulgaria......Page 234
Mexicans in the US: migration unabated......Page 235
Uganda’s Asians: tentative return......Page 238
Haitian expellees: out of the frying pan and into the fire......Page 239
The repatriation of the Rohingyas......Page 241
Conclusion......Page 245
SEVEN Migrants and hosts, transnationals and stayers......Page 247
Giving content to transnationalism......Page 255
Transnationals, globalization, cosmopolitans and parochials......Page 265
Between departure and arrival: migrant networks revisited......Page 271
The significance and insignificance of migration......Page 274
Bibliography......Page 279
Press sources and periodicals......Page 298
Index......Page 300
