“…When engaging with the ‘original’ homeland, diasporas have played a variety of roles, while creating, shaping, and reproducing transnational political identities (Adamson, 2012; Brinkerhoff, 2006; Shain & Barth, 2003; Sheffer, 2006). This process necessarily involves contestations and negotiations, where diaspora positions and identities are continually constructed, negotiated and reframed (Brinkerhoff, 2016; Jayasundara‐Smits, 2020; Koinova, 2021).…”