Diaspora before it became a concept / Stephane Dufoix -- Diaspora studies : past, present and promise / Khachig Tölölyan -- Key methodological tools for diaspora studies : combining the transnational and intersectional approaches / Anna Amelina and Karolina Barglowski -- The social construction of diasporas : conceptual development and the Rwandan case / Simon Turner -- Diasporas as social movements? / Sharon M. Quinsaat -- Performing diaspora / Alpha Abebe -- Embodying belonging : diaspora's racialization and cultural citizenship / Taku Suzuki -- Music, dance and diaspora / Ananya Jahanara Kabir -- Diasporic filmmaking in Europe / Daniela Berghahn -- Writing in diaspora / Zuzanna Olszewska -- Making and "faking" a diasporic heritage / Marc Scully -- Translanguaging and diasporic imagination / Zhu Hua and Li Wei -- Multi-religious diasporas : rethinking the relationship between religion and diaspora / Dominic Pasura -- Homelessness and statelessness : possibilities and perils / Barzoo Eliassi -- Diaspora and class, class and diaspora / Nicholas Van Hear -- Working-class cosmopolitans and diaspora / Pnina Werbner -- Transversal crossings and diasporic intersections / Amanda Wise -- Intersectionalizing diaspora studies / Marie Godin -- Bridging the mobility-sedentarism and agency-structure dichotomies in diasporic return migration / Nanor Karageozian -- Unravelling the conceptual link between transnationalism and diaspora : hometown networks / Thomas Lacroix -- Deportees as "reverse diasporas" / Shahram Khosravi -- Diasporicity : relative embeddedness in transnational and co-ethnic networks / Takeyuki (Gaku) Tsuda -- Moral comforts of remaining in exile : snapshots from conflict-generated Indonesian diasporas / Antje Missbach -- Islamic schooling and the second generation: a diaspora perspective / Hanna Höchner -- Diaspora and home : interrogating embodied precarity in an era of forced displacement / Divya P. Tolia-Kelly -- Diasporas and political obligation / Ilan Zvi Baron -- Diaspora and religion : connecting and disconnecting / Giulia Liberatore and Leslie Fesenmyer -- Digital diasporas / Mihaela Nedelcu -- Diaspora politics and political remittances : a conceptual reflection / Lea Müller-Funk -- Diasporas building peace : reflections from the experience of Middle Eastern diasporas / Bahar Baser and Mari Toivanen -- Postcolonial states, nation-building and the (un)making of diasporas / Jen Dickenson -- The plasticity of diasporic identities in super-diverse cities / Tamsin Barber -- Displaced imaginations, bodies and things : materiality and subjectivity of forced migration / Sandra H. Dudley -- Preserving or discarding diaspora / Carolin Fischer and Janine Dahinden -- Disconnecting from home : contesting the salience of the diaspora / Gijsbert Oonk -- Why engage diasporas? / Alan Gamlen -- Diaspora mobilizations for conflict : beyond amplification and reduction / Maria Koinova -- Diasporas and development / Ben Page and Claire Mercer -- Diasporas and the politics of memory and commemoration / Khatharya Um -- At home in diaspora : the Babylonian Talmud as diasporist manifesto / Daniel Boyarin