Diaspora studies: past, present and promise

Working paper

This paper formed the inaugural lecture at the launch of the Oxford Diasporas Programme in June 2011. It explores the contradictions and complexities of three ‘formative binaries’ – between dispersion and diaspora, the subjective and objective aspects of the diasporic experience, and the differences between home and homeland.

Authors: Tölölyan, K

• Publication status: Published
• Peer review status: Reviewed (other)
• Publisher: International Migration Institute
• Series: IMI Working Papers
• Place of publication: http://www.imi.ox.ac.uk/publications/working_papers
• Publication date: 2012-01-01
• Edition: Publisher's version
• Language: English
• Keywords: diaspora; homeland; dispersion
• Subjects: Migration; Transnationalism