ABSTRACT
This chapter addresses how diaspora scholarship has evolved from a 'male-stream' to a gendering lens and discusses how an intersectional approach has become more and more incorporated into the field. Diaspora groups are composed of 'different parts of the same diaspora can and do have different interests, defined among other things by class, gender, generation, occupation and religion'. It is argued that a 'transnational intersectional approach' reflects the complex system of power relations in which women and men in the diaspora are socially embedded in different contexts. Social actors – at the individual and collective levels – have different capacities to be reflexive about these intersections of multiple positionalities they experience within, across and beyond the diaspora. The chapter addresses how the appropriation of an intersectional lens contributes to extending the conceptual, epistemological and methodological boundaries of diaspora studies.
