This research is conceived as an empirically grounded analysis of ethnicity and diasporic
identity. It seeks to understand how ethnicity works and is reproduced in diasporic space
through focusing on the Armenian Diaspora in Turkey Lebanon and Britain. Differently from
traditional approaches this book shows us that Armenianness is not a holistic thing. Rather
it is socially constructed and consists of various cues affected by interactions and contexts.
This book describes that the reproduction of Armenianness in diasporic spaces is a patchwork
having countless patterns colours and meanings. Although all define themselves as Armenian
their understandings of Armenianness vary. Armenianness sometimes seems to be ethnic
nationalist political moderate or congregational among diasporic spaces.
