The Caribbean as a mother-diaspora rediasporized itself into Britain forming a second-generation diaspora.

Evidence

But remember, the diaspora came to me. I turned out to be in the first wave of a diaspora over here. When I came to Britain, the only blacks here were students—and all the black students wanted to go back after college. Gradually, during my postgraduate and early New Left days, a working black population settled here, and this became the diaspora of a diaspora. The Caribbean is already the diaspora of Africa, Europe, China, Asia, and India, and this diaspora rediasporized itself here. So that’s why more of my recent work is not only just about the postcolonial, but has to be with black photographers, black filmmakers, with black people in the theater; it’s with the third-generation black British. — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2, 802

Categorization

• DEFINE: Hall introduces the concept of a ‘diaspora of a diaspora’ and ‘rediasporization’ — a nested-diaspora model that complicates any single-origin account of Caribbean identity.
• XREF: This nested-diaspora idea carries directly into Hall’s own later essays on cultural identity and diaspora that the Islamophobia field draws on (e.g., ‘Cultural Identity and Diaspora’).