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Diaspora
About: Diaspora is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 16882 publications have been published within this topic receiving 215873 citations.
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04 Apr 2014
TL;DR: A new cinema of the Caribbean is emerging, joining the company of the other 'Third Cinemas' It is related to, but different from the vibrant film and other forms of visual representation of the Afro-Caribbean (and Asian) 'blacks' of the diasporas of the West.
Abstract: A new cinema of the Caribbean is emerging, joining the company of the other 'Third Cinemas' It is related to, but different from the vibrant film and other forms of visual representation of the Afro-Caribbean (and Asian) 'blacks' of the diasporas of the West – the new post-colonial subjects There are at least two different ways of thinking about 'cultural identity' The first position defines 'cultural identity' in terms of one, shared culture, a sort of collective 'one true self, hiding inside the many other, more superficial or artificially imposed 'selves', which people with a shared history and ancestry hold in common Cultural identity is a matter of 'becoming' as well as of 'being' It belongs to the future as much as to the past It is not something which already exists, transcending place, time, history and culture Cultural identities come from somewhere, have histories But, like everything which is historical, they undergo constant transformation
2,884 citations
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21 Oct 1996
Abstract: Introduction: Situated Identities/Diasporic Transcription 1. Constructions of the 'Asian' in post-war Britain: Culture, Politics and Identity in Pre-Thatcher Years 2. Unemployment, Gender and Racism 3. Gendered Space: Women of South Asian Descent in 1980s Britain 4. Questions of 'Difference' and Global Feminisms 5. Difference, Diversity, Differentiation 6. 'Race' and Culture in the Gendering of Labour Markets: South Asian Muslim Women and the Labour Market 7. Re-framing Europe: En-gendered Racisms, Ethnicities and Nationalisms in Contemporary Western Europe 8. Diaspora, Border, and Transnational Identities 9. Refiguring the 'Multi': The Politics of Difference, Commonality, and Universalism
2,278 citations
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01 Jan 1997
TL;DR: An introduction to the concept of diaspora which provides the basic building blocks of comparative and theoretical analysis is given in this paper, which explores the relationship between migration, homeland and identity for both traditionally recognized and newer diasporas.
Abstract: An introduction to the concept of diaspora which provides the basic building blocks of comparative and theoretical analysis. It explores the relationship between migration, homeland and identity for both traditionally recognized and newer diasporas.
1,793 citations
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TL;DR: The authors traces the dispersion of the term "diaspora" in semantic, conceptual and disciplinary space, and analyses three core elements that continue to be understood as constitutive of diaspora.
Abstract: As the use of ‘diaspora’ has proliferated in the last decade, its meaning has been stretched in various directions. This article traces the dispersion of the term in semantic, conceptual and disciplinary space; analyses three core elements that continue to be understood as constitutive of diaspora; assesses claims made by theorists of diaspora about a radical shift in perspective and a fundamental change in the social world; and proposes to treat diaspora not as a bounded entity but as an idiom, stance and claim.
1,405 citations
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TL;DR: In this paper, a critical mapping of the construction-in-progress of refugees and displacement as an anthropological domain of knowledge is presented, and a review of recent work on displacement, diaspora, and deterritorialization in the context of studies of cultural identity, nationalism, transnational cultural forms.
Abstract: This review offers a critical mappingo f the construction-in-progress of refugees and displacement as an anthropological domain of knowledge. It situates the emergence of “the refugee” and of “refugee studies” in two ways: first, historically, by looking at the management of displacement in Europe in the wake of World War II; and second, by tracing an array of different discursive and institutional domains within which “the refugee” and/or “being in exile” have been constituted. These domains include international law, international studies, documentary production by the United Nations and other international refugee agencies, development studies, and literary studies. The last part of the review briefly discusses recent work on displacement, diaspora, and deterritorialization in the context of studies of cultural identity, nationalism, transnational cultural forms—work that helps to conceptualize the anthropological study of displacement in new ways.
1,310 citations