Transnationalism : : diasporas and the advent of a new (dis)order / / edited by Eliezer Ben-Rafael and Yitzhak Sternberg ; with Judit Bokser Liwerant and Yosef Gorny.

• TeilnehmendeR: Ben Rafael, Eliezer.; Sternberg, Yitzak.
• Place / Publishing House: Boston : : Brill,, 2009.
• Year of Publication: 2009
• Language: English
• Series: International Comparative Social Studies 19.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (800 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

This book deals with transnationalism and captures its singularity as a generalized phenomenon. The profusion of transnational communities is a factor of fluidity in social orders and represents confrontations between contingencies and basic socio-cultural drives. It has created a new era different from the past at essential respects. This is an age of enriching cultural diversity fraught with threatening risks inextricably linked to contemporary globalization. National sovereignty is eroded from above by global processes, from below by aspirations of sub-national groups, and from the sides - by transnational allegiances. This is the backdrop against which this book delves into the fundamental issues relating to the nature, scope and overall significance of transnationalism.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Materials / E. Ben-Rafael -- Introduction Debating Transnationalism / Eliezer Ben-Rafael and Yitzhak Sternberg -- Chapter One. New Transnational Communities And Networks: Globalization Changes In Civilizational Frameworks / Shmuel N. Eisenstadt -- Chapter Two. Deconstructing And Reconstructing “Diaspora”: A Study In Socio-Historical Semantics / Stéphane Dufoix -- Chapter Three. The Diaspora And The Homeland: Reciprocities, Transformations, And Role Reversals / William Safran -- Chapter Four. Contemporary Immigration In Comparative Perspective / Yitzhak Sternberg -- Chapter Five. Solid, Ductile And Liquid: Changing Notions Of Homeland And Home In Diaspora Studies / Robin Cohen -- Chapter Six. The Misfortunes Of Integration / Michel Wieviorka -- Chapter Seven. Value-Orientations In Catholic, Muslim And Protestant Societies / Ephraim Yuchtman-Yaar and Yasmin Alkalay -- Chapter Eight. Rethinking History From Transnational Perspectives / David Thelen -- Chapter Nine. Across Space And Time: Identity And Transnational Diasporas / Tobie Nathan -- Chapter Ten. The Transglobal Network Nation: Diaspora, Homeland, And Hostland / Michel S. Laguerre -- Chapter Eleven. International Migration Of Jews / Sergio Dellapergola -- Chapter Twelve. Is The Jewish Transnational Diaspora Still Unique? / Yosef Gorny -- Chapter Thirteen. American Jewry’s ‘Social Zion’: Changes Through Time / Allon Gal -- Chapter Fourteen. The New Russian-Jewish Diaspora In Israel And In The West: Between Integration And Transnationalism / Larissa I. Remennick -- Appendix The. Russian Language In Israel / Marina Niznik -- Chapter Fifteen. Russian-Speaking Jews And Germany’s Local Jewry / Julius H. Schoeps -- Chapter Sixteen. Israeli And American Jews: Kinsmen Apart / Moshe Shokeid -- Chapter Seventeen. By The Israeli Jewish Diaspora In The United States: Socio-Cultural Mobility And Attachment To Homeland / Uzi Rebhun -- Chapter Eighteen. “Majority Societies” In Jewish Diasporas: Latin American Experiences / Haim Avni -- Chapter Nineteen. Latin American Jews: A Transnational Diaspora / Judit Bokser Liwerant -- Chapter Twenty. A Reexamination Of The Main Theoretical Approaches To The Study Of Diasporas And Their Applicability To The Jewish Diaspora / Gabriel Sheffer -- Chapter Twenty-One. The Linguistic Landscape Of Transnationalism: The Divided Heart Of Europe / Miriam Ben-Rafael and Eliezer Ben-Rafael -- Chapter Twenty-Two. Muslim Transnationalism And Diaspora In Europe: Migrant Experience And Theoretical Reflection / Nina Clara Tiesler -- Appendix Jews. And Muslims In Contemporary France / Roland Goetschel -- Chapter Twenty-Three. Roman Catholicism And The Challenge Of Globalization / Danièle Hervieu-Léger -- Chapter Twenty-Four. Accidental Diasporas And External “Homelands” In Central And Eastern Europe: Past And Present / Rogers Brubaker -- Chapter Twenty-Five. Marginality Reconstructed: Sub-National And Transnational Identities In The Wake Of International Migration And Tourism / Victor Azarya -- Chapter Twenty-Six. Civil Society In The United States: From Pluralism To Multiculturalism And Fragmentation Into Diasporas / Richard Münch.