In this wide-ranging analysis, Robin Cohen shows how national and social identities are formed and sustained. The opening essays focus on the complex engagements between ‘Britishness’ and other identities and how strangers and migrants are treated in African societies. The author provides a comprehensive review of theories of social exclusion and inclusion. Threaded between nations and migrants are diasporas, groups that develop complex ways of being at home and away. As well as covering many diasporic experiences, Robin Cohen weaves his own family history into a discussion of Lithuania’s twentieth-century history and, in a final essay, compares his own migratory experience with those of two other Africans.
'The book connects the personal and the political, providing an immensely rich, rigorous and vibrant account of issues on diaspora, exile, citizenship and identity'
– Ipek Demir, Professor of Diaspora Studies, University of Leeds.
ISBN: 978 1 0686789 0 5 (paperback)
RRP: £11.99 (Kindle: £4.99)