ABSTRACT

Diasporas are one possible outcome of displacement. The term ‘diaspora’ refers to

… the (imagined) condition of a ‘people’ dispersed throughout the world, by force or by choice. Diasporas are transnational, spatially and temporally sprawling sociocultural formations of people, creating imagined communities whose blurred and fluctuating boundaries are sustained by real and/or symbolic ties to some original ‘homeland’. (Ang 1994: 5 cited in Song 2003: 114)