Modern Diasporas in International Politics

Gabriel Sheffer

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2026
• Topic: Politics & International Relations
• eBook ISBN:
  9781040850855
• Subtopic: Emigration & Immigration
• Index: Politics & International Relations

Originally published in 1986, this book focuses on the role and influence of ethnic diasporas on international and trans-state politics. It is particularly concerned with the relations between the homelands and host countries. In recent years the networks created by ethnic diasporas have become increasingly important in the international arena. They are now an integral and permanent feature of national and international politics. The Hispanic community in the United States, the Pakistanis and Palestinians in the Gulf, the Turkish in Western Europe and the Israelis in the USA and Canada have established themselves as new diasporas. The cultural, political and economic activity of these diasporas are no less intensive than those which characterised diasporas established during the large migrations in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Original Title Page
• Original Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• Contributors
• Acknowledgements
• Preface
• A New Field Of Study: Modern Diasporas In International Politics
• The Impact Of Homelands Upon Diasporas
• Labor Migrations As Incipient Diasporas
• Diaspora and Language
• The Indian Diaspora: Influence on International Relations
• The Chinese Diaspora in Southeast Asia
• Black America as a Mobilizing Diaspora: Some International Implications
• The Jewish People as the Classic Diaspora: A Political Analysis
• Political Aspects of Jewish Fundraising for Israel
• Diasporas and Communal Conflicts in Divided Societies: The Case of Palestine Under the British Mandate
• The Palestinians in the Diaspora
• Diasporas and International Relations