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Diaspora welcomes articles on all aspects of the topics with which it is concerned: diaspora and related forms of dispersion, transnationalism, nationalism, ethnicity, globalization, and postcoloniality. The journal welcomes studies of specific diaspora communities, whether past, existent, or emerging. We solicit essays on all aspects of the subnational, transnational, and globalizing phenomena that now challenge the nation-state and supplement the old international order, including but not limited to migrating peoples, cultures, nomadic ideas and works of art, and mass media productions that traverse frontiers.

We welcome contributions from the disciplines of anthropology, art history, cultural studies, economics, geography, history, linguistics, literary and postcolonial studies, media studies, political science, psychology, religious studies, sociology, and interdisciplinary fields including—but not limited to—African-American, Asian-American, and Latin-American Studies and ethnomusicology.

Manuscript Submissions: Authors must submit a digital file of their manuscript (in Microsoft Word) to Prof. Khachig Tölölyan, Editor, Diaspora: A journal of transnational studies, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT 06459-0100 USA. E-mail: ktololyan@wesleyan.edu. Because manuscripts will be refereed anonymously, the author's name and all contact information should be on a separate title page. An abstract no longer than one page should accompany the submission.

Manuscript Preparation: Manuscripts should be typewritten with 1" margins on 81/2 by 11" paper. All material must be double-spaced, including citations longer than four lines, which should be indented from the main text; endnotes; works cited; and other extracts, poetry, and figure legends. Sections must be assembled in the following order: title page listing the author's full name and address, telephone, fax, and e-mail numbers, as available; text; works cited; figure legends; endnotes. Acknowledgments should appear as the first, unnumbered endnote. Ordinarily, contributions should not exceed 40 standard pages.

Style: The journal follows the recommendations of the MLA [Modern Languages Association] Handbook for Writers of Research Papers, latest edition. This differs from the citation practice of social science journals in significant ways. The article is followed by sections on "Notes" and "Works Cited." The journal uses no footnotes; endnotes [End Page 444] should be used in moderation, and only to provide additional explanation as needed - not to offer bibliographic information. Such information about a cited text is placed in the "Works Cited" section (note, not "Bibliography").

Samples of the format used in "Works Cited":

  1. 1. Books: Gallop, Jane. Reading Lacan. Ithaca, NY: Cornell UP, 1985.

  2. 2. Journal articles: Baily, Samuel. "Italians and the Development of Organized Labor in Argentina, Brazil, and the United States, 1880-1914." Journal of Social History 3 (1969): 123-34.

  3. 3. Articles in edited collections: Powell, B.G. "Voting Turnout in Thirty Democracies: Partisan, Legal, and Socio-Economic Influences." Electoral Participation: A Comparative Analysis. Ed. R. Rose. London: Sage, 1990. 5-34.

Endnotes must not be used to provide page references. Rather, in-text citations are annotated parenthetically, and annotations refer only to the author's last name and a page number. Thus, the quotation mark ending a citation will be immediately followed by the source notation, for example (Gallop 23). When more than one work by the same author is used, a short title is added, e.g., (Gallop, Reading 23). All other bibliographic information about such texts is relegated to "Works Cited."

After a manuscript has been accepted for publication, authors must send an up-to-date CV to the Editor.

The journal will publish suitable illustrations in black and white. Photocopies of photographs, in black and white or color, are acceptable for first review, but high-quality glossy prints must accompany the final manuscript. On a separate sheet, a properly keyed legend for each figure must be provided, as well as a digital file of same. Illustrations will be cropped and sized by the publisher as needed.

Authors are responsible for obtaining permission to reprint extracts and reproduce illustrations. Copies of permission forms must be supplied with the final manuscript. All necessary credits and acknowledgments must be included with the figure legends.

All sections of the article should be in a single file, in the order specified in "manuscript preparation." The preferred wordprocessing software is Microsoft Word, but other mainstream wordprocessing software may also...

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