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The Global Impacts of Diaspora Report

   

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Running head: THE GLOBAL IMPACTS OF DIASPORATHE GLOBAL IMPACTS OF DIASPORAName of the StudentName of the UniversityAuthor Note

1THE GLOBAL IMPACTS OF DIASPORARESEACH QUESTIONThe major concern of the report is to focus on the issues of Diaspora and the globalimplications of the same. The further concern of the report is the people related to this and theexperience of them. The major quarry that has risen in this report is the changes and thesituation that the people had to go through while going through this change. BACKGROUNDThere is a huge difference between refugee and Diaspora. Refugees are those peoplewho migrate from their place to some other place for a shorter period. Diaspora is to adaptwith a particular area. By saying, this one means to adapt with the culture, food and even withthe beliefs of that region. It is the state of homelessness. The movement from one place toanother and the process of adaptation to that place is the idea of Diaspora. It means breakingthe boundaries of state and nation. The term Diaspora can be traced back to the twentiethcentury in Greek. The term means to scatter or to spread. The idea came from the spread ofJews from the Israel (Mirzoeff, 2014). The idea developed more from this incident. Theywere abolished from their own homeland. The Diasporas are of different types and are fordifferent reasons. Some aim at returning to the homeland, some are attached to theirhomeland because of the political reasons. Diaspora is a variation of migration.THE CASE AND THE RESEARCH Some migrations are the result of imperialism; some are because of the trade andcommerce. The person who shifts from one place to another faces the diasporic predicamentdue to the lack of proper relationship with the host country. They feel a sense ofhomelessness. It is however not same for all. There is a hope that the left ones will return tohis own homeland at once. The major change found due to the Diaspora is the language

2THE GLOBAL IMPACTS OF DIASPORAchange and the cultural change. The newly settled members find it difficult to adapt with thenew conditions of the new place. Diaspora is a global phenomenon. There are variousinstances of different Diasporas (Brettell & Hollifield, 2014). African Diaspora is the remarkable one where the Europeans and the Arabs enslavedthe Africans in the nineteenth and twentieth century (Burrell, 2016). The Arabs tookmaximum people from Africa as their slaves and sold them in the markets of Middle East.The Europeans took the slaves from the western and the central parts of the continent andsold them in the markets of Europe and America. At present many descends are found in theAmerica (Walvin, 2016). In the later years, inter race marriages were held between the blacksand the non-blacks. During the Spanish exploration, the Africans voluntarily moved on toAfrica and Europe (Mercer, Page & Evans, 2013). The African Diaspora was to some extentthe result of the voluntary movement. Apart from the slave trade, it was just the voluntaryaction. African Diaspora is the loss of identity. It is the feeling of statelessness with theadvent of the colonial rule. Few glimpses of it are captured and found in some literary texts aswell for example, “Heart of Darkness” by Joseph Conrad. The predicament is well observedin the text where there is a dilemma of the race and the imperialism. The loss of identity is theprime factor in it (Falola & Sanchez, 2016). American Diaspora is comparatively low compared to the entire Americanpopulation. The Americans gets low official permission to reside in some foreign land. Themain reasons of the emigration are mainly the economic reasons, employment and marriage.The economic problem has remained a major problem in America throughout. The bettereconomic opportunities outside America remained the major reason for the shifting of themass from America to some other country. The situation can also be viewed from the otherway round. America witnessed much immigration from the other countries as well. It saw theadvent of many immigrants (Favell, 2015). The reason of the immigrations was same as well.

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