Affluent expatriates misuse exile and diaspora labels that belong to the truly displaced
Evidence
No more treacherous traps reinforce this false, falsifying, and disabling binary than the persistently alienating notions of exile and diaspora. Rich Iranians in Los Angeles or London, Palestinians in Chile or Paris, or Cubans in Florida are neither in exile nor of the diaspora; they are perfectly at home right where they are. Exile and diaspora must be retained for Palestinians in derelict refugee camps in Lebanon, where they share their misery with millions of illegal migrant laborers from the four corners of the world. The rapid rise in legal and illegal migrant workers around the globe (there are almost 300 million of them, according to UN— — Hamid Dabashi, Brown Skin, White Masks, 641
Categorization
- SEED: Article angle on who gets to claim ‘exile’ — affluent Iranians in LA vs. stateless Palestinians and the near-300 million migrant workers — a sharpening of who deserves the category.