Exile and diaspora describe displacement, not wealthy migrants anywhere abroad

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. — Hamid Dabashi, Brown Skin, White Masks, 641

Categorization

• XREF: Reverses a common romanticization of exile in postcolonial theory by distinguishing voluntary migration from forced displacement. — connects to: Most intellectual migration from the periphery serves mainstream ambition, not adversarial critique. — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory: Classes, Nations, Literatures, 869; Actual political exile has been inflated to describe every immigrant’s condition — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory: Classes, Nations, Literatures, 338; Exile names state-imposed impossibility, not voluntary professional relocation. (+1 more)

Related

• Affluent expatriates misuse exile and diaspora labels that belong to the truly displaced (similarity 0.90)
• Exile names state-imposed impossibility, not voluntary professional relocation. (similarity 0.88)
• Most intellectual migration from the periphery serves mainstream ambition, not adversarial critique. (similarity 0.83)
• Actual political exile has been inflated to describe every immigrant’s condition (similarity 0.82)
• Exile describes an attitude toward power, not physical displacement (similarity 0.80)
• Exile means state coercion and fear, not professional convenience (similarity 0.79)
• Inflationary rhetoric turned exile into a synonym for voluntary migration (similarity 0.79)