Les diasporas

Immigrant transnationalism

“…The transnational concept also provided immigration scholars with a way of thinking about globalization, of which the mass migrations of peoples and the spillovers they generate comprise an especially visible edge (Kivisto, 2001). Though fed by somewhat different intellectual currents, ably traced by Dufoix (2003) and Ben-Rafael (2010), the burgeoning interest in diasporas and their many facets -cultural, political, and economic (Sheffer, 2003) -further shifted attention to the crossborder activities highlighted by the newly elaborated transnational perspective.…”

“…Dufoix S (2003) Les Diasporas. Paris: Presses Universitaires de France (English translation, Diasporas, University of CaliforniaPress, 2008).…”

Diasporas and political obligation

“…6 Second, but relatedly, thinking in terms of obligation also renders it hard to conceive of diasporas as being disloyal. Since diaspora politics are, if nothing else, contingent on the normative understanding of diaspora geography and the meaning of diaspora (Gilroy, 1993;Dufoix, 2003) (Gilroy, 1993;Dufoix, 2003), to presume that diasporas can be either loyal or disloyal renders a crude dichotomy onto the multifaceted characteristics of diaspora life . 7 For example, in his introduction to the 1986 edited volume about diasporas and international relations, Gabriel Sheffer (Sheffer, 1986: 20) (Sheffer, 1986: 20) (Sheffer, 1986) (Sheffer 1986) (Sheffer 1986) writes that, "The likelihood of contradiction arising between a state's policies and the predilections of a homeland dwelling people will obviously depend in large part on the degree to which the state apparatus identifies itself exclusively with the interests of that people."…”

“…It is precisely this point that units the concerns found in the work of the Boyarins ) , Stéfane Dufoix (Dufoix, 2003) (Dufoix, 2003), and in the ethics of deterritorialization literature (Campbell, 1994) (Campbell, 1994). In this regard, when we think of the political obligations of diaspora, much like the domestic political theory account, they are concerned with sustaining the normative basis of a political geography.…”

The virtues of improvisation: Ethnography without an ethics protocol

“…The concept of diaspora struck me as problematic due to its homogenizing nature given the implicit gender, generational and caste hierarchies that exist. Even more so, it involved turning a blind eye to the political dimensions (Dufoix, 2003), which seemed increasingly unavoidable. Indeed, several clues pointed to the fact that the goals of many of the Tamil associations were connected to the war in Sri Lanka.…”