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The Postdiaspora Question

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Chapter 2 evokes a cluster of interpretations for both diaspora and postdiaspora, providing a hermeneutics of “post” in postdiaspora akin to postcoloniality and postmodernity. The chapter raises the question: if every diaspora is situated in relation to a supposedly nondiaspora mainstream, is the diaspora caught in a subaltern status that forever subjugates its position and identity? In other words, diaspora status is, in this text, interpreted as a technology that reproduces inequality. The chapter goes on to review the literature on postdiaspora, explaining how the concept has come into being, how it is used by immigration scholars, and the contexts in which it is applied to map its universe, deployment and significance, and unveil the light it sheds on the globalization process.

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Laguerre, M.S. (2017). The Postdiaspora Question. In: The Postdiaspora Condition. Europe in Transition: The NYU European Studies Series. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-52261-6_2

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