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...

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.