Diaspora permanently alters returnees’ relation to their birth societies

Evidence

Mary Chamberlain’s interviewees also speak eloquently of how difficult many returnees find reconnecting with the societies of their birth. Many miss the cosmopolitan rhythms of life to which they have become acclimatized. Many feel that “home” has changed beyond all recognition. In turn, they are seen as having had the natural and spontaneous chains of connection disturbed by their diasporic experiences. They are happy to be home. But history has somehow irrevocably intervened. — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2, 820

Categorization

• XREF: Evidences the irreversible, history-intervened nature of diasporic identity change that the imagined-community framework (Anderson) and later race-thinking readings lean on.