The Impact of Diasporas

The markers of identity that define human groups are often overt – language, material culture, patterns of behaviour – and carefully nurtured between generations, but at other times they can be invisible, intangible, or unconscious. Such markers of identity also travel, and can be curated, distilled, or reworked in new lands and in new cultural environments; and they are central to the ties that bind dispersed, diasporic communities. This book brings together research on a range of scholarly approaches, periods, and places to better understand how markers of identity contribute to the impact of diasporas. This book was originally published as a special issue of Ethnic and Racial Studies.