Sukanya Banerjee is Associate Professor of English at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee and author of Becoming Imperial Citizens: Indians in the Late-Victorian Empire.Aims McGuinness is Associate Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee and author of Path of Empire: Panama and the California Gold Rush, 1848–1856.Steven C. McKay is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of California at Santa Cruz and author of Satanic Mills or Silicon Islands? The Politics of High-Tech Production in the Philippines.

"Offers a welcome addition to the literature on migration by using the springboard of 'diaspora' to address the cross-border movements of people in past and present . . . [and] in mapping diaspora as a process, invites future discussions and interrogations on the subject."—Rhacel Parreñas, Brown University

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Routing Diasporas / Sukanya BanerjeePart 1. Interrogating Terms1. The Middle Passages of Black Migration / Jenny Sharpe2. Making the Exodus from Algeria "European": Family and Race in 1962 France / Todd Shepard3. Enslaved Lives, Enslaving Labels: A New Approach to the Colonial Indian Labor Diaspora / Crispin Bates and Marina CarterPart 2. Maps of Intimacy4. Empire, Anglo-India, and the Alimentary Canal / Parama Roy5. Domestic Internationalisms, Imperial Nationalisms: Civil Rights, Immigration, and Conjugal Military Policy / Rachel Ida BuffPart 3. Nation, Narrative, Diaspora6. Serial Migration: Stories of Home and Belonging in Diaspora / Lok Siu7. Building Associations: Nineteenth-Century Monumental Architecture and the Jew in the American Imagination / Martin A. Berger8. Cultural Forms and World Systems: The Ethnic Epic in the New Diaspora / Betty JosephAfterword: Diaspora and the Language of Neoliberalism / Aims McGuinness and Steven C. McKayList of ContributorsIndex