Diasporas have become a visible phenomenon of our world. Wherever we go in the major metropolitan world centres, we run into not only China and India "Towns", but we also witness the individual faces of old and recent immigrants from a variety of other nations flooding the airports, shopping centres and city parks. The impact of these "worlds on the move" on globalisation, migration and identity negotiations is the subject matter of this book.

Jonathan Friedman is Director of Studies at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris and Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Lund, Sweden. He has written extensively on issues related to global system history, ethnicity and indigenous movements. Shalini Randeria is a fellow of the Wissenschaftskolleg in Berlin. Her research interests are in the fields of legal anthropology, anthropological demography, and development studies.