Table of Contents

1. Introduction: Transnationalism and Diaspora in Central Asia and the Causaus 2. Nationalism from Without: Theorizing the Role of Diaporas in Contemporary Conflict 3. Towards a Typology of Diasporas in Kazakhstan 4. Russians in Post-Soviet Central Asia: Issues and Concerns State, Homeland, and Diapora: The Armenian and Azerbaijani Cases 6. Diaspora and Global Civil Society: The Impact of Transnational Diasporic Activism on Armenia's Post-Soviet Transition 7. Afghan Communities in Uzbekistan: A Preliminary Case Study 8. Uighur Community in 1990s Central Asia: A Decade of Change

About the Author

Touraj Atabaki is Senior Research Fellow at the International Institute of Social History, Professor of Modern History at the University of Amsterdam and Professor of Iranian and Central Asian studies at the University of Utrecht.
Sanjyot Mehendale is Executive Director of the Caucasus and Central Asia Program at the University of California at Berkeley. She is also the director of the Uzbek-Berkeley Archaeological Mission.

Reviews

'This volume constitutes a welcome addition to the expanding literature on transnationalism and new diasporas, particularly considering that scholarship on post-Soviet Central Asia and the Caucasus is less prominent in diaspora studies.' - International Affairs

'Certainly recommendable to both an academic and a graduate readership for its contrintion to the ongoing debate on multiple and divided loyalties and for the light it sheds on less researched empirical cases.' - International Affairs