Diaspora
Diaspora (Ancient Greek: διασπορά, literally, "a scattering or sowing of seeds") is used (without capitals) to refer to any people or racial group living outside their traditional homelands, emigrating, being scattered in distant places and making a new community. It was first used in the Septuagint to mean the scattering of Jews after the capture of Jerusalem by the Babylonians in 586 BC.
Definition
In 1991, William Safran wrote that there is a diaspora when the people who emigrated share a collective memory of their homeland, they think about it as their true home, they want to go back and they are still influenced by it. He also wrote that the people have to be forced to emigrate in order for it to be a diaspora.[1] However, Robin Cohen (1997) does not agree with Safran on the last point, because he believes there can be a diaspora even if the people wanted to emigrate.[2]
In 2005, Rogers Brubaker wrote that there is a diaspora when a group of people live (because they were forced to or they wanted to) in a different place than they one their ancestors come from, when they identify with the same (real or not) homeland and when they keep a different cultural identity than the one of the place they currently live in.[3]
Diaspora Media
India has the world's largest annual emigration. Pictured at Ricoh Coliseum, in Toronto, Canada, on April 15, 2015
The Mexican diaspora is the world's second-largest; pictured is Mexican day celebrations in Germany.
- Emigrants Leave Ireland by Henry Doyle 1868.jpg
Emigrants Leave Ireland depicting the emigration from Ireland following the Great Famine
- Kurdish Refuge Camp in Suruc Turkey.jpg
Kurdish refugees from Kobanî in a refugee camp, on the Turkish side of the Syria–Turkey border.
- Chinatownsyd.jpg
The Chinese diaspora is the world's third largest; Paifang (torna) gateway at Sydney Chinatown in Australia.
- Armenian dancers in downtown Manhattan, 1976.jpg
Armenian American dancers in New York City
- Filipino Market Kota Kinabalu.jpg
Filipino Market in Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia.
- Jewish Children with their Teacher in Samarkand.jpg
Bukharan Jews in Samarkand, present-day Uzbekistan, c. 1910
- Korean-American Children’s Choir from the Korean School of New Jersey perform for President Yoon Suk Yeol of the Republic of Korea and First Lady Kim Keon Hee on April 26, 2023, on the South Lawn of the White House.jpg
Korean-American Children’s Choir from the Korean School of New Jersey.
References
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