Diaspora is quietly subverting the nation-state model of identity

Evidence

However, it would be wrong to see these trends as singular or unambiguous. In the diaspora situation, identities become multiple. Alongside an associative connection with a particular island “home” there are other centripetal forces: there is the West-Indianness that they share with other West Indian migrants. (George Lamming once remarked that his—and, incidentally, my—generation became “West Indian” not in the Caribbean but in London!) There are the similarities with other so-called ethnic minority populations, emergent “black British” identities, the identification with the localities of settlement, also the symbolic reidentifications with “African” and more recently with “African American” cultures—all jostling for place alongside, say, their “Barbadianness.” — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2, 819 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Nationality persists as attachment even after citizenship and state loyalty are severed; Bakhtin’s heteroglossia and multiaccentuality describe diaspora’s double textuality; Diasporic position resists the collective ‘we’ of a national movement (+7 more)

Related

• Bakhtin’s heteroglossia and multiaccentuality describe diaspora’s double textuality (similarity 0.95)
• Diasporic identity is multiple, layered, and contextually activated (similarity 0.91)
• Diasporic life is a novel cultural configuration, not a transition toward assimilation (similarity 0.89)
• Colonial identity functions as a style shaping reality language and thought (similarity 0.86)
• Diaspora offers an open alternative to defensive nationalist belonging (similarity 0.85)
• Diaspora offers a modern cultural path distinct from European internationalism (similarity 0.85)
• Migration makes the diasporic experience the paradigmatic late-modern condition (similarity 0.84)
• Diaspora as a concept differs fundamentally from cultural nationalism. (similarity 0.84)
• Diasporic identity is formed by routes as much as by roots (similarity 0.83)
• Diasporic cultures are not copies but parallel formations beyond national framing (similarity 0.82)
• The Caribbean as a mother-diaspora rediasporized itself into Britain forming a second-generation diaspora. (similarity 0.82)
• Diasporic formation produces a critical distance from the host nation’s politics (similarity 0.82)
• Diaspora identities are positional political choices, not primordial ascriptions (similarity 0.81)
• Diaspora relations operate laterally between diasporas, not vertically from origin to copy. (similarity 0.81)
• Diaspora identity cannot be thought through literal homeland metaphors. (similarity 0.81)

Broader Connections

• Diasporic identity is multiple, layered, and contextually activated #expands (0.85) — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2, 819