ABSTRACT
This chapter situates the conceptualization of 'diaspora and home' within contemporary geopolitics and experience of forced migration. It examines the conceptualization through the current Syrian refugee crisis. The chapter outlines the political actions that are shaping the possibilities for migrants and the rendering of their 'rights', 'status' and 'access' to safe haven as being continually in flux, and re-made. L. Waite suggests that precarity is marked by a 'generalised societal malaise and insecurity'; economic, societal and spiritual. For migrants, precarity is about 'rights' being constantly re-made, re-interpreted and played out without compassion towards others struggling to escape bombardment, the erasure of cities and societies. The chapter deals with an account from artist–activist projects. The projects cited capture the very nature of diaspora-in-process in refugee camps and sites of shelter for refugees coming from Syria. These are intended as examples of the ways in which migration, mobility and the narratives of cultural groups are being engaged with and recorded for posterity.
