Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Notes on Contributors; 1. Introduction; 2. The diaspora project of Arab Americans: assessing the magnitude and determinants of politicized ethnic identity; 3. How diasporic ties emerge: Pan-American Nikkei communities and the Japanese state; 4. Culture, utility or social systems? Explaining the cross-national ties of emigrants from Borşa, Romania; 5. Are we all transnationals now? Network transnationalism and transnational subjectivity: the differing impactsof globalization on the inhabitants of a small Swiss city. 6. Does the canonical theory of assimilation explain the Roma case? Some evidence from Central and Eastern Europe7. Social capital and voting participation of immigrants and minorities in Canada; 8. Attitudes towards Polish immigrants to the Republic of Ireland: an integrated threat analysis; 9. Caribbean and South Asian identification with British society: the importance of perceived discrimination; 10. Segmented assimilation in the Netherlands? Young migrants and early school leaving; Index.