Essay On Diaspora

When we speak about ‘Diaspora’ we first relate it to the Jewish context, where the banishment and expulsion led to the dispersal of Jews away from their homeland. What they carried with themselves was the fond hope of returning to the motherland one day.
Diaspora: Greek verb “to disperse”: dia (through) and speirein (sow/scatter); The migration of a community through forced or self-willed exile and the efforts of that community to recreate “home” in new geographic spaces; Diaspora implies exile or bondage and the promise of return.
“The term “Diaspora” is a signifier not simply of trans-nationality and movement but of political struggles to define the local, as distinctive community, in historical contexts of displacement …. Diaspora cultures thus mediate, in a lived tension, the experiences of separation and entanglement, of living here and remembering/desiring another place”1.
Despite of the fact that there are certain limitations attached with the concept of the term 'Diaspora', it has been predominantly applied various elements pertaining to emigration and settlement of the people beyond the periphery of their homeland which is arguably a tangible one or perhaps an imaginary one. One important component or parameter of the Diaspora is the fact it

If we take an example of Sikhs you can say they never achieved a homeland, they aspired to have a homeland. There was a militant campaign by Sikh separatists too to create a homeland. So, we can question are they a Diaspora, are they part of the Indian Diaspora, is the homeland significant or not or how significant. Homelands can be virtual homelands or imaginary homelands. A lot of African in the new world talked about Ethiopia but Ethiopia was an imaginary homeland, it was something that they derived from the bibliopole understanding, and it wasn’t their real homeland which was more likely to be in the West Africa”