Diaspora studies

Short description: Academic field

Diaspora studies is an academic field established in the late 20th century to study dispersed ethnic populations, which are often termed diaspora peoples. The usage of the term diaspora carries the connotation of forced resettlement, due to expulsion, coercion, slavery, racism, or war, especially nationalist conflicts.

## Contents

* 1 Academic institutes
* 2 Select Bibliography
* 3 See also
* 4 References

## Academic institutes

This list is incomplete; you can help by expanding it.

* The International Institute for Diasporic and Transcultural Studies (IIDTS) — a transnational institute incorporating Jean Moulin University (Lyon, France), the University of Cyprus, Sun Yat-sen University (Guangzhou, China) and Liverpool Hope University (UK) — is a dedicated research network operating in a transdisciplinary logic and focused on cultural representation (and auto-representation) of diasporic communities throughout the world. The institute sponsors the trilingual publication Transtext(e)s-Transcultures: A Journal of Global Cultural Studies.[1]

* Nehru University's School of International Studies, www.jnu.ac.in has a strong research programme, DIMP (Diaspora and International Programme) and its faculty run a network www.odi.in (Organisation for Diaspora Initiatives), an international network of higher academic researchers focused on studying Diaspora from International Perspective and examining diaspora as a resource in international relations. ODI publishes a research journal www.tandfonline/rdst{{Dead link|date=November 2019 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }
* Golong Gilig Institute of Javanese Diaspora Studies, Indonesia.

## Select Bibliography

This list is incomplete; you can help by expanding it.

* Hall, Stuart (1990). "Cultural Identity and Diaspora." From Jonathan Rutherford, e.d, Identity: Community, Culture, and Difference (Lawrence & Wishart), pp. 222-37. Available online . (Also available here .)

## See also

* Diaspora politics

## References

1. ↑ "Transtext(e)s-Transcultures website". http://www.transtexts.net/.

0.00

(0 votes)

Original source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diaspora studies. Read more

|

Retrieved from "https://handwiki.org/wiki/index.php?title=Social:Diaspora_studies&oldid=4234394"