The landscape of higher education has undergone change and transformation in recent
years, partly as a result of diversification and massification. However, persistent patterns of …

In this chapter I review the social psychological underpinnings of identity, emphasizing
social cognitive and symbolic interactionist perspectives and research, and I turn then to key …

This chapter shows how the migration of women involves' metaphors of home', that is
movement of homes in terms of a movement physically in space, the movements and inter …

Mobility studies emerged from a postmodern moment in which global 'flows' of capital,
people and objects were increasingly noted and celebrated. Within this new scholarship …

The Migration, Diasporas and Citizenship series covers three important aspects of the
migration progress: firstly, the determinants, dynamics and characteristics of international …

Following its initial publication in 1997, Global Diasporas: An Introduction was central to the
emergence of diaspora studies and quickly established itself as the leading textbook in the …

As the use of 'diaspora'has proliferated in the last decade, its meaning has been stretched in
various directions. This article traces the dispersion of the term in semantic, conceptual and …

Transnational migration studies need to be framed within a contextual, dynamic and
processual analysis that recognises the interconnectedness of different identities and …

Diaspora and transnationalism are widely used concepts in academic as well as political
discourses. Although originally referring to quite different phenomena, they increasingly …

Roger Silverstone's compelling new book places the global media at the heart of the moral
future of civilisation. It argues that the media (the press, broadcasting, the Internet and …