Week10_Vanesa Guillen_ASA114

According to Introduction: Asian Diasporas - New conceptions, New Frameworks by Rhacel Salazar Parrenas and Lok C. D. Siu states that the term diaspora has evolved into much different meaning throughout history. It also mentions how the different movements and placements for the Asian community cannot be considered as a "one-dimensional" or or "teleological manner" (Parrenas and C.D., p.285). It justifies that the different historical factors ad experiences cannot be homogenized and put under one category as Asian Diaspora. Further in the reading it demonstrates and compares the Jewish communities diaspora experience and how its different compared to the Asian experience. The Jewish experince was described as a negative experience that left them lost. Although now the diaspora experience is interpreted differently because it has diversified to different groups and it can apply to "immigrants, expatriates, refugees, guest workers, exile communities, overseas communities, ethnic minorities" (Parrenas and C.D., p.286). The term can also apply to those who feel like they do not belong or feel accepted by the dominant culture (Parrenas and C.D., p.286). Since there has been global migrations the reader is also trying to demonstrate that it doesn't weaken nation-states rather it strengthens diasporic groups, growth of globalization, "empowerment, enrichment, and expansion" (p.287). Global migrations also start to diversify nation-states, decrease "sovereignty" and it will give less ownership of national identities to exclude or hold the power over them (p.288). In conclusion, the reader states that the Asian Diaspora is not a single definition and that there are different ways to perceive them and must consider looking at them from "displacements, flows, and movements" (p.289).

Can the term Diaspora apply to other ethnic groups?

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