Table of contents -- Preface -- Ch 1. Diaspora and transnationalism: What kind of dance partners? -- Ch 2. Diasporas, transnational spaces and communities -- Ch 3. The dynamics of migrants' transnational formations: Between mobility and locality -- Ch 4. Instrumentalising diasporas for development: International and European policy discourses -- Ch 5. Interrogating diaspora: Power and conflict in Peruvian migration -- Ch 6. A global perspective on transnational migration: Theorising migration without methodological nationalism -- Ch 7. Bridging the divide: Towards a comparative framework for understanding kin state and migrant-sending state diaspora politics -- Ch 8. Diasporas and international politics: Utilising the universalistic creed of liberalism for particularistic and nationalist purposes -- Ch 9. Diaspora, migration and transnationalism: Insights from the study of second-generation 'returnees' -- Ch 10. Private, public or both? On the scope and impact of transnationalism in immigrants' everyday lives -- Ch 11. Operationalising transnational migrant networks through a simultaneous matched sample methodology -- Ch 12. Transnational research collaboration: An approach to the study of co-publications between overseas Chinese scientists and their mainland colleagues -- Ch 13. The internet as a means of studying transnationalism and diaspora -- Ch 14. Transnational links and practices of migrants' organisations in Spain -- Ch 15. Cold constellations and hot identities: Political theory questions about transnationalism and diaspora -- Bibliography -- List of contributors.