The Writers : Expressions From Other Populations

Diaspora is the movement, migration, or scattering of people away from an established or ancestral home land or in this case a scattered population whose origin lies within a smaller geographic location. The poem “Diaspora” by Chelsea Dingman ventures through the journey of a Ukrainian girl leaving her country and the in the pride she receives from that journey and her heritage. The poem focuses around the hardships that are included in taking this journey and how she lose so much, the feelings of despair and weakness is all she has left.

The changing environments throughout the ages have caused the movement of thousands of families out of their homelands. Whether forced to make such decisions or doing so by their own desires, all immigrants have had to survive the physical and psychological challenges encountered along the way. To speak about the experiences of all these different people using the same ideas and examples would be quite inaccurate. They all, however, had to live through similar situations and deal with similar problems. Many of them succeeded and found the better future they were looking for. Many others found only hardship and experienced the destruction of their hopes and dreams. All of them were transformed.

Between 1700 CE and 1900 CE, the world saw radical growth and change. New inventions, technologies and innovations led to major shifts in power and new societies emerged. A common theme between these two dates is the migration of peoples for a variety of reasons. Some left their homelands due to push factors, like famine, war and disease. Some left due to pull factors, like economic prosperity, religious tolerance and freedom. From 1700 CE to 1900 CE, global migration experienced a continuity in long distance migration to the Americas as a result of a need for labor. Although there is a continuity, there are major changes in the push and pull factors for migration such as like the Irish Potato Famine and the migration of immigrants into Australia due to the promise of economic prosperity.

At its most fundamental, diaspora focuses on the physical movement of people. However, comprehensive scholarship elevates “diaspora” beyond

A person’s heritage and cultural identity may be lost when moving to a new country where the culture is different and other cultures are not easily accepted. In the short story “Hindus”, Bharati Mukherjee uses setting, characters and the plot to discuss what it is like to lose your cultural identity while being a visible minority in America. Mukherjee uses the plot to describe the events that take place in the main characters life that lead her to realize how different the culture and life is in the America’s. She also uses the characters as a way of demonstrating how moving away from one’s culture and heritage can change a person’s perspective and ways of thinking. Mukerjee also uses setting in her story to identity the physical differences in culture between living in India and America. Alike the setting and characters, the plot helps describe the loss of culture with a sequence of events.

denied the company of her own parents after moving to America, her children independence, their need to stay away from her, is something she will never comprehend" (Lahiri,166). The act of cultral contrast amongst parents and offspring of the Diaspora people group can't be ceased by both of them since they both are born and raised in various cultures and in social orders.

The greatest mass movement of people in History ocurred between 1870 and 1910. During that time, more than twenty million people emmigrated from europe to the united states. People left their homelands for many reasons Historians call these reasons “pushes”. Pushes include natural dissasters crop failures war persecution and poverty. A push might also be the urge for adventure or the desire for change. People who emigrate go to places where they think they will have a better happier future for themselves and they’re families. Historians call these reasons pulls.

For this part of the project, I decided to interview a person who has personally experienced the effects of migration in search for a better life. This is only a story from countless individuals who share the same but unique and

For most people, someone within their ancestral lineage has immigrated to a new country. Immigration has been perceived as a way to provide and enhance personal opportunities (McConville: p 73). Overpopulation began to be a problem in many of the great empires in the early 19th century, and emigration seemed to provide the best opportunity for people to better themselves in a new world (McConville: p 73). Rather than draining the resources within one society, people were given the opportunity to form a new life and use the resources in another land (McConville: p 73).

The wider context of this article is the causes and effects of this increased population due to migration. People choose to move and settle in a new country due to the multitude

Thus, the concept of Diaspora has different meanings to different people according to their different circumstances. For instance, when the Jews were exiled from the Babylon, they were uprooted from their own homes and they had to rebuild their community and culture all over again, for them the diaspora had different meaning since it was forced. But today the meaning of Diaspora could be limited to any community of a particular nation outside its own country, sharing some common bonds that eventually give the community a new identity within their existing identity, it is notable that this kind

Thus, the concept of Diaspora has different meanings to different people according to their different circumstances. For instance, when the Jews were exiled from the Babylon, they were uprooted from their own homes and they had to rebuild their community and culture all over again, for them the diaspora had different meaning since it was forced. But today the meaning of Diaspora could be limited to any community of a particular nation outside its own country, sharing some common bonds that eventually give the community a new identity within their existing identity,

The migrated people named as diasporas, who are incessantly connected with homeland, are emphasized to be of “disaporaphobia” and introducing globalization to the native inhabitants, which improves socio-economic; the various national regime’s policies lead for augmenting transnationals and multiculturalism across the

In fact, the exile and the student and scholar narratives illustrate a different transnational dimension than that of the migrant worker account. The connections made by the exile and student and scholar immigrant experiences are specific to the Indonesian inter-immigrant relations and the interaction with the people in the host country. The transnational dimensions these Indonesian immigrants have are more as the diaspora which simply refers to the people living outside their home country (Safran 1991: 83; Ang 2003: 142). The Indonesian im/migrant experiences as an exile automatically erases the label transmigrant because an exile is characterized as uprooted, dismissing homeland connection to the immigrant (Chambert-Loir 2016; Baumann 2010). By this, the exiles only have a single connection, the attachment to the host country/ies. While to be identified as transmigrant, the immigrants need to maintain multiple links between home and host country (Glick Schiller et al. 1995; Jones 1995; Heisler 2000). The connection to the home country for the exile is embodied in the forms of memories and nostalgia imbued by a sense of displacement which are commonly found in most migrant writing (Zaman 75). In Cerita dari Tanah Pengasingan (Stories from the Exile), Sobron Aidit laments on his homeland nostalgia as seen in the quotation

Cultural identity has manifested itself in every component of the Indian Diaspora. The members of the Indian Diaspora are naturally keen to pass on their value systems. India should also initiate constructive measures to ensure that the Diaspora’s pride and faith in its heritage is strengthened to revitalize its interests in India’s development. The Scope and Cultural centres in countries should be expended. University scholarships for Diaspora students should be instituted, seats to be created etc., the practice of festivals of India should be revived.