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Translanguaging and diasporic imagination
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Translanguaging and diasporic imagination book
Translanguaging and diasporic imagination
DOI link for Translanguaging and diasporic imagination
Translanguaging and diasporic imagination book
ABSTRACT
This chapter presents narratives about home(land) and belonging across different generations of migrants in diasporic contexts, with a focus particularly on stateless diasporas. It shows that while most migrants following forced migration have a complicated relationship with issues of home and belonging, statelessness as an ascribed status and lived experience adds a further dimension to their sense of alienation, aloneness and political otherness. The chapter discusses the possibilities and perils of the search for a political home and sense of belonging among stateless diasporas in an uneven world. Drawing on the experiences of Kurdish and Palestinian migrants in Sweden and England, it illustrates how narratives and experiences of home, statelessness and belonging are framed across different generations and national contexts both at individual and collective levels. For stateless diasporas, militarization and authoritarian political regimes can often turn people's homes into dangerous, even lethal, places of violence and destruction, as illustrated in the cases of the Kurds, Palestinians, Assyrians/Syriacs and Tamils.