Preface

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Figures and Tables vii
4. Preface ix
5. Introduction. Exile, Diaspora, Transnationalism: Israeli, Palestinian, and Other Diasporas in Comparative Perspective 1
6. PART I Palestinians, Israelis, and Other Migrants: Between Exile and Diaspora
7. ONE The Israeli Jewish Diaspora: A Sociodemographic Portrait 59
8. TWO Exiled in Their Homeland: The Case of the Naqab Arab Bedouins 81
9. THREE Why Are These Immigrants Different from All Other Immigrants? The Uniqueness of the Israeli Diaspora in American Jewish History 107
10. Part II Berlin: A Transnational Haven?
11. FOUR A Murder in Kreuzberg: The Death of the Turk and the Diasporization of Migrants from Turkey 121
12. FIVE Queer Israelis in Berlin: The Other Story of Israeli Emigration 145
13. SIX Sex and the City in Berlin: Female Jewish Israeli Immigrants between Heteronormativity and Singlehood 163
14. PART III Diasporic and Transnational Art
15. SEVEN Secret Codes: Symbolic Language in Iranian Art and in the Iranian Diaspora 187
16. EIGHT Palestinian Writings in the World: A Polylingual Literary Category Between Local and Transnational Realms 196
17. PART IV Economic and Social Characteristics
18. NINE They Are Not All the Same: Immigrant Enterprises, Transnationalism, and Development 225
19. TEN The Diaspora Advantage for Entrepreneurship 249
20. ELEVEN Work, Identity, and Communal Life Among Israeli Emigrants: A Comparison of Enclave and Infotech Entrepreneurs 274
21. PART V Autobiographical Reflections
22. TWELVE Alejandro Portes, a Scholarly Life: The Personal, the Scholarly, and the Enduring 303
23. THIRTEEN Writing in the Diaspora 322
24. FOURTEEN Sayed Kashua: Reflections of a Palestinian Israeli Self-Exile 338
25. Afterword 355
26. Contributors 359
27. Index 367