ABSTRACT
Diaspora immigrants differ in many ways from other immigrant groups. They not only share their religious, cultural, and ethnic background with the mainstream receiving society, but also receive privileged conditions and rights of immigration (Tsuda, this volume; Silbereisen, this volume). Their situation is also different from that of other migrants in that they have two cultures of origin: that of the homeland where their ancestors lived before the Diaspora and that of the sending culture represented by the country where Diaspora immigrants have lived for generations, typically absorbing its cultural imprint, before re-immigrating to their ancestral homeland. In addition, although Diaspora immigrants’ receiving society and their ancestral homeland are identical at the first glance, the historic changes and modernizations that happened over decades or even centuries changed the ancestral homeland into a receiving society, which represents a different culture.
