Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction 1
5. Part 1: Diaspora and Memory
6. Introduction 19
7. 1. Language Matters 23
8. 2. Memories of Internment: Narrating Japanese-Canadian Women’s Life Stories 48
9. 3. Wounding Events and the Limits of Autobiography 81
10. Part 2: History and Identity
11. Introduction 111
12. 4. Memoirs of a Sirdar’s Daughter in Canada: Hybridity and Writing Home 115
13. 5. Ghosts and Shadows: Memory and Resilience among the Eritrean Diaspora 151
14. 6. A Diasporic Bounty: Cultural History and Heritage 171
15. Part 3: Community and Home
16. Introduction 187
17. 7. Diaspora and Cultural Memory 191
18. 8. Gendered Nostalgia: The Experiences of New Chinese Skilled Immigrants in Canada 209
19. 9. ‘I Feel Like a Trini’: Narrative of a Generation-and-a-Half Canadian 230
20. 10. The ‘Muslim’ Diaspora and Research on Gender: Promises and Perils 254
21. 11. The Quest for the Soul in the Diaspora 268
22. AFTERWORD. Research Ethics: Philosophy’s Role in Interdisciplinary Research 291
23. Contributors 305