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iaspora Space

The diaspora exists with a number of tensions. There is the ever-
present desire for "home" while making a new home. There are
majority and minority tensions of power, of old (local) and new (often
global) identities. Diaspora intellectuals are not only "natives" in a
foreign land but also spokespersons for the natives back home.
These tensions produce "diaspora
space" where boundaries of
inclusion and exclusion, of
belonging and otherness,
of "us" and "them",
are contested..

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