Diaspora communities are internal, not external, to national history

Evidence

The fate of Caribbean people living in the UK, the US, or Canada is no more “external” to Caribbean history than the empire was “external” to the so-called domestic history of Britain, though that is indeed how contemporary historiography constructs them. At all events, the question of diaspora is posed here primarily because of the light that it throws on the complexities not simply of building, but of imagining, Caribbean nationhood and identity in an era of intensifying globalization. — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2, 816

Categorization

• XREF: This challenges the naturalized boundary between ‘home’ and ‘diaspora’ — the same deconstruction of the domestic/colonial binary that Edward Said performs on empire’s relation to metropolitan Britain, which the Islamophobia readings will extend to how Muslims abroad are framed as external to Western histories.
• DEFINE: Establishes ‘diaspora’ as an epistemological lens for re-imagining nationhood rather than merely a description of migrant settlement.