1. Lecture on migration and diaspora
Galleons and Caravans
Lecture on migration and diaspora

2. Introduction
Theoretical aspects of the study of diaspora and migration
Case studies
Concluding thoughts

3. Migration is the movement of people across the globe.
Diaspora:
Originally the term used for the dispersion of the Jews.
Jewish elite was expulsed from the Judean Kingdom by the Babylonians in the 6th century BCE.
Again in 70 CE when the Roman emperor Titus destroyed Jerusalem and the Jews were exiled from their homeland.
Third time in 2nd century when the Jews attempted to establish an independent state in Israel
Study of migration and diaspora is multi-disciplinary
Contemporary resonances and relevance

4. Historical linguistics
Spread of Indo-European languages
Waves of migrations from Asia to Americas
Across the Eurasian steppe

5. 2.1 Historical Linguistics

6. 2.1 Historical Linguistics
Languages of the World
Each dot represents the primary location of a living language

7. Diaspora and religion
Jewish diaspora

8. 2.2 Religious History

9. Diaspora and religion Jewish diaspora
Conservatism in diasporic communities

10. Slave trade as migration/diaspora
Curtin, Atlantic Slave Trade, 1969

11. 2.3. Migration and the World History Approach

12. Sociological approaches
Robin Cohen, Cambridge Survey of World Migration and Global Diasporas: An Introduction (1997).

13. The discussion of diaspora is also part of the debate in the late modern era about what ‘identities’ are, and how identities are fragmented in the modern world.

14. CASE STUDY 1: ISLAM
Exemplifies a shared religion that formed a framework that facilitates the migration of people

15. CASE STUDY II: Indian Ocean migration and diaspora
Exemplifies a region where a variety of migrant communities operated together

17. CASE STUDY III: The Chinese Diaspora

19. CASE STUDY IV: Diasporas in the Ottoman realm
Exemplifies migrants coming in to a single empire