MICHEL S. LAGUERRE is Professor and Director of the Berkeley Center for Globalization and Information Technology at the University of California, Berkeley, USA. He has published several books, including
The Global Ethnopolis; Chinatown, Japantown and Manilatown in American Society,
Urban Multiculturalism and Globalisation in New York City,
Diasporic Citizenship,
The Informal City, and
Minoritized Space: An Inquiry into the Spatial Order of Things. His most recent book
Diasporic Politics; Transnational Networks of Global Governance is forthcoming.