Diasporas and Globalization
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Diasporas and globalization are quite clearly related, but the greater one reflects on the relationship, the more mysterious the relationship becomes. To start with, no matter how “globalization” is temporally demarcated—whether something that has recurred during the modem period or has only appeared over the last 30 to 40 years—it is clear that some diasporas predate globalization in anything like its generally accepted sense. One need only think of the Jewish or Greek diasporas dating to 800 to 500 b.c.e. ( Cohen, 1995 ), or of the Armenian diaspora, which began in the eleventh century and continues to the present, crossing the divide between the premodern and the modem ( Tololyan, n.d. ). Moreover, when members of more than 30 ethnic groups in the world now claim they are diasporas ( Cohen, 1996 ), it is becoming increasingly difficult to distinguish between diasporic migrations and many other kinds of transnational migrations and movements. At one extreme, some cultural critics,...
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Nonini, D.M. (2005). Diasporas and Globalization. In: Ember, M., Ember, C.R., Skoggard, I. (eds) Encyclopedia of Diasporas. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-29904-4_58
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