TY - BOOK AU - Cohen, Robin AU - Fischer, Carolin TI - Routledge Handbook of Diaspora Studies SN - 9780367659844 U1 - 304.8 PY - 2019/// CY - New York PB - Routledge KW - Diaspora KW - Emigration and immigration KW - Human geography N2 - The word ‘diaspora’ has leapt from its previously confined use – mainly concerned with the dispersion of Jews, Greeks, Armenians and Africans away from their natal homelands – to cover the cases of many other ethnic groups, nationalities and religions. But this ‘horizontal’ scattering of the word to cover the mobility of many groups to many destinations, has been paralleled also by ‘vertical’ leaps, with the word diaspora being deployed to cover more and more phenomena and serve more and more objectives of different actors. In this exciting and authoritative collection over 40 scholars from many countries have explored the evolving use of the concept of diaspora, its possibilities as well as its limitations. This Handbook will be indispensable for students undertaking essays, debates and dissertations in the field ER -