Arab diaspora

Diaspora is a loaded expression that evokes diverse challenging thoughts and images. This term may also be regarded as a synonym of dislocation, multiplicity, cultural conflicts, and marginalized subjects who reside on the periphery of two different lands. Sudesh Mishra delineates this notion as “dual territoriality” since the subject has to contend with conflicts which are produced as a result of a life between “hostland and homeland”. According to Mishra, “suspended between two such terrains (living

weaknesses of the claim that migration creates global connections, will be discussed. This will be done by discovering what counts as migration and how it is valued, how global connections can be both positive and negative, about the concepts of 'diaspora' and 'translocalism' and how important they are when considering both migration and global connections. To enable the discussion of the subject matter, it must first be understood what is meant by the terms 'migration' and 'global connections', migration

in Bharati Mukherjee’s Jasmine Diaspora is the movement of indigenous people or a population of a common people to a place other than the homeland. It can be voluntary or forced and usually the movement is to a place far from the original home. World history is replete with the instances about mass dispersion such as the expulsion of Jews from Europe, the African Trans-Atlantic slave trade, the century long exile of the Messenia’s under Spartan rule. The term Diaspora carries with it a sense of displacement

Exile is a subject very few touch upon. Exile is never really spoken about because once you are alienated by those you once considered friends or family, a gaping hole opens and no one really knows how to explain it other than just that; a hole that can only be filled with the one place on earth you feel safe; home. When exiled, a rift opens between the individual that was cast out and their home, and family and friends. This so called “rift” that opens between a person and their “home” is evident

Exile is defined as expulsion from one's native land by authoritative decree. Meaning one cannot go back to the place in which they were born and raised. Although, Mahmoud Darwish has a different take on exile saying “Exile is more than just a geographical concept. You can be an exile in your homeland, in you own house, in a room.” Exile is also a theme in The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini. The quote relates to the theme of exile in novel because of Hassan’s departure from the house causing Amir

Chapter 1 Introduction Indian writing in English has a comparatively short but highly stimulating history. In 1793, Sake Dean Mahomed wrote conceivably the first book by an Indian in English, called The ‘Travels of Dean Mahomed’. However, most early Indian writing in English was non-fictional work, such as biographies and political essays. This began to change in the late 1800s, when famous Indian authors who wrote mostly in their mother tongue, began

meaning for Diaspora”. The people immigrant from their native place to another place across the world spreads their culture as they go. In Bible Jews exiled from Israel by the Babylonians so the Bible refers to Diaspora. It’s a small example for Diaspora. The origin of Diaspora started at 1st century itself. The movement of the population from one place to another is also refers to the Diaspora. Africa, Asia, Europe per some of the countries having Diaspora. The first mentioned Diaspora is found in

TO INTERPRETER OF MALADIES ABSTRACT Diaspora refers to the movement of the population from its original homeland. The word Diaspora is a transliteration of a Greek word that means “to sow throughout” or “to distribute in foreign lands” or “scatter abroad.” Diasporas are deracinated population leaving ethnic and cultural origin in a motherland other than where they currently live. Their economic, social and political affiliations cross borders of nations. Diaspora studies presume the existence of displaced

confidence for ethnonations existing across the boundaries of established nation states” (1991:4). In this period, there has been a discursive shift to categorize people who have transgressed national boundaries as “diaspora.” This term, once primarily used to describe the Jewish diaspora, has increased in use since the late 1980s (Brubaker 2005: 1), as scholars have attempted to develop a discourse to discuss and theorize the migration of peoples within a transnational context. In age of globalization

Exile: the state of being barred from one's native country, typically for political or punitive reasons. However, this dictionary definition fails to cover the true meaning of being exiled. Being exiled is being forcibly removed by yourself or another from that which you identify with. Edward Said describes exile as “the unhealable rift forced between a human being and a native place, between the self and its true home” (Said 137). Exile is the experience, which may be unbelievably depressing for