ABSTRACT
This chapter presents mappings of diasporic migration routes as evidence of the heterogeneity of these routes and the value of landscape to people's sense of identity. Research areas within diaspora studies are a growing field, and challenges to traditional accounts of ethnicity, race and cultures of diaspora populations are vibrant. This account offers insight into the social, political and cultural geographies of diaspora landscapes. The chapter maps the routes of migration for South Asian women, which reflect the encountered landscapes and environments of a racialized post-colonial group living in the UK. It explores testimony as a form of memory/history for post-colonial communities. Social memories presented here are a means of routing diasporic groups, but also illustrate the continuing influence of landscape and intimate ecologies on identification with places. The chapter situates the case study within cultural geographies of 'landscape research', critiquing the partiality of cultural landscapes within the projects of nationalism and citizenship in Britain.
