"This handbook offers an analysis of Asian diaspora and development and explores the role immigrants living within diasporic and transnational communities play in the development of their host countries and their homeland ... Presenting cutting-edge research on several dimensions of diaspora and...

How do immigrants and their children forge their identities in a new land--and how does the ethnic culture they create thrive in the larger society? Making Italian America brings together new scholarship on the cultural history of consumption, immigration, and ethnic marketing to explore these...

Chapter 1. Introduction: Revisiting Networks: setting the conceptual and methodological scene -- Chapter 2. The direct and indirect role of migrants’ networks in accessing diverse labour market sectors: an analysis of the weak/ strong ties continuum -- Chapter 3. Are “weak ties” really...