CALL FOR PAPERS: Displacing Diasporas: How Diasporas Make and Unmake Empires and Nations
2026-10-15
Why is the term “diaspora” so difficult to define? The difficulty of defining “diaspora” lies in how diasporas have leveraged their historically marginalized status to both advocate for the rights and responsibilities of self-determining communities living in precarious conditions, and buttress states and empires that further marginalize and effectively displace other groups while “becoming natives” themselves. We are looking for essays that wrestle with these apparent contradictions at the heart of the term “diaspora.”
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