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v Contents List of Tables and Figures vii Preface ix The Immigrant Worlds’ Digital Harbors: An Introduction 1 andoni alonso and pedro j. oiarzabal pa rt i ins id e-out th e s creen: d ia s pora s at th e m a rgins of cyb er s pace 1 Interconnected Immigrants in the Information Society 19 adela ros 2 Migration, Information Technology, and International Policy 39 jennifer m. brinkerhoff 3 Digital Diaspora: Definition and Models 49 michel s. laguerre 4 An Activist Commons for People Without States by Cybergolem 65 andoni alonso and iñaki arzoz pa rt ii d ia logues acros s cyb er s pace 5 Oprah, 419, andDNA: Warning! Identity Under Construction 85 tolu odumosu and ron eglash 6 Cyber Cv s: Online Conversations on Cape verdean Diaspora Identities 110 gina sánchez gibau 7 Nationalist Networks: The Eritrean Diaspora Online 122 victoria bernal 8 Keeping the Link: ICTs and Jamaican Migration 136 heather a. horst vi c o n t e n t s 9 Maintaining Transnational Identity: A Content Analysis of Web Pages Constructed by Second-Generation Caribbeans 151 dwaine plaza 10 Tidelike Diasporas in Brazil: From Slavery to Orkut 170 javier bustamante 11 Salvadoran Diaspora: Communication and Digital Divide 190 josé luis benítez 12 3D Indian (Digital) Diasporas 209 radhika gajjala 13 The Internet and New Chinese Migrants 225 brenda chan 14 The Migration of Chinese Professionals and the Development of the Chinese ICT Industry 242 yu zhou 15 “Cybernaut” Diaspora: Arab Diaspora in Germany 265 khalil rinnawi 16 Net Nationalism: The Digitalization of the Uyghur Diaspora 291 yitzhak shichor 17 Migrate Like a Galician: The Graphic Identity of the Galician Diaspora on the Internet 317 xabier cid and iolanda ogando 18 Basque Diaspora Digital Nationalism: Designing “Banal” Identity 338 pedro j. oiarzabal Contributors 351 Index 357 [54.205.179.155] Project MUSE (2024-03-19 02:41 GMT) vii Tables and Figures tables 1.1. Internet use by region of origin 28 1.2. E-mail use by origin 29 1.3. Webcam use by origin and age groups 29 1.4. ict penetration in countries of Spanish immigration 31 5.1. Alexa.com traffic details for Nigeriaworld.com 96 5.2. Alexa.com traffic details for Nairaland.com 100 5.3. Alexa.com traffic details for Facebook.com 103 9.1. Sample of schools by country with Caribbean student organizations 156 9.2. Content categories, codes, and indicators 158 9.3. Trends in Caribbean university student organization Web pages 159 9.4. Caribbean student organization activities and images 162 9.5. Caribbean student organization cultural mourning and transnational indicators 163 16.1. Polls on the desirable Chinese attitude toward Xinjiang 303 16.2. Accesses to English-Uyghur dictionaries 305 16.3. Growth and penetration rates of Chinese Internet use 306 16.4. Internet penetration rates, 2009: A comparative perspective 307 figures 5.1. Standardized percentages of unique names for girls born in Illinois, 1916–1989 92 14.1. Growth of returnee-founded enterprises in Zhongguancun Science Park 249 15.1. McArabism model 288 17.1. Galician migrants, 1836–2010 319 ...