Introduction / Peter Y. Paik -- Tales of migration from central America and central Europe / Helen Fehervary -- What they left behind - the Irish landscape after emigration / Andrew Kincaid -- The dialectic of marginality in the Haitian community of Guadeloupe, French West Indies / Paul Brodwin -- On the metaphysics of exile / Stefan Rossbach -- Pays rêvé, pays reel - créolité and its diasporas / Natalie Melas -- Criticism, exile, Ireland / Conor McCarthy -- Edwidge Danticat's Latinidad - The farming of bones and the cultivation (of fields) of knowledge / Richard Ortiz -- The great migration elsewhere / Zoran Samardzija -- Bending it like Beckham - sex, soccer, and traveling Indians / K.E. Supriya -- Coming to the antipodes - migrancy, travel, homecoming / Ihab Hassan -- Afterword - the dialectics of identity / Marcus Bullock.