Project MUSE®: Diaspora: A Journal of Transnational Studies - Latest Articles
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Project MUSE®: Latest articles in Diaspora: A Journal of Transnational Studies.daily12026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00text/htmlen-USVol. 1 (1991) through current issueLatest Articles: Diaspora: A Journal of Transnational StudiesTWOProject MUSE®Diaspora: A Journal of Transnational Studies1911-15681044-2057Latest articles in Diaspora: A Journal of Transnational Studies. Feed provided by Project MUSE®“Get Rich and Get Going”: Understanding Chinese Lifestyle Migrants to Western Countries
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/970545
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There has been a trend in migration studies of classifying a particular group of migrants (relatively affluent people) moving from rising global economic powers to Western countries as lifestyle migrants (Dalsin 2016; Colic-Peisker and Deng 2019; Robins 2019). Since the mid-2000s, with China’s economic rise, huge numbers of wealthy Chinese have left to move to countries in the West, a movement labelled “the third wave of migration out of post-reform China”1 (Liu-Farrer 2016, 499). Early research studied the causes of the latest migration outflows from mainland China from a lifestyle perspective (Li 2015; Liu-Farrer 2016; Liu and Gurran 2017; Colic-Peisker and Deng 2019). In theory, the category of lifestyle
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/321/image/coversmall“Get Rich and Get Going”: Understanding Chinese Lifestyle Migrants to Western Countries2025-10-02text/htmlen-US“Get Rich and Get Going”: Understanding Chinese Lifestyle Migrants to Western Countries2025-10-022025TWOProject MUSE®1457712026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002025-10-02Germans Abroad? Danube Swabians and the Plurality of Diasporic Possibilities
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/970546
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The point of departure of Dirk Hoerder’s (2002) overview of German-language diasporas was that “German-language emigrants and ethnics have not usually been conceptualized as a diaspora” (7). In exchange, Stefan Manz (2014) showed how such communities abroad have been constructed as a diaspora oriented to Wilhelmine Germany. Noting that the “term German diaspora as an analytic tool requires a critical acknowledgment of that concept’s twentieth-century derivation from the related concept of the territorial nation-state,” Pieter Judson (2005) pleaded for an understanding of the term German beyond the concept of the German nation-state (219–21). In a similar vein, more recent scholarship continues to make the case for
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/321/image/coversmallGermans Abroad? Danube Swabians and the Plurality of Diasporic Possibilities2025-10-02text/htmlen-USGermans Abroad? Danube Swabians and the Plurality of Diasporic Possibilities2025-10-022025TWOProject MUSE®1956332026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002025-10-02Queering the Ukrainian Diaspora: The Experiences of LGBTQI Ukrainian Migrants Following Russia’s Full-scale Invasion
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/970547
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This article presents a sociological analysis of how LGBTQI1 Ukrainian migrants engage with the Ukrainian ethno-cultural diaspora following Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, with the aim of assessing their ability to queer the diaspora. The term diaspora has traditionally referred to transnational communities of displaced compatriots who maintain a relationship with, or orientation towards, a shared ethnic homeland (Cohen 2023; Safran 1991; Brubaker 2005). This article is founded upon the notion that, like all social spaces, diasporas are also shaped by various regimes of power that may render them sexualized, racialized, classist, and/or hetero-cisnormative (Manalansan 2003; Bell and Valentine 1995; Held
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/321/image/coversmallQueering the Ukrainian Diaspora: The Experiences of LGBTQI Ukrainian Migrants Following Russia’s Full-scale Invasion2025-10-02text/htmlen-USQueering the Ukrainian Diaspora: The Experiences of LGBTQI Ukrainian Migrants Following Russia’s Full-scale Invasion2025-10-022025TWOProject MUSE®2366632026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002025-10-02Networked Diasporic Memory Work of Assyrian Genocide Remembrance
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/970548
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In 1919, shortly after the end of the First World War, a statue was constructed in a refugee camp administered by the British military outside Baghdad, Iraq, by survivors of the Assyrian Genocide. The Baquba Camp housed over 40,000 Assyrian and Armenian refugees who had fled massacres in the eastern Ottoman Empire and northwest Persia and survived the long trek to British protection (Robson 2017, 39–51; Stafford 2006).1 The statue was dedicated in memory of the “thousands of bodies of Christian Assyrians” who perished in Baquba after “heroic and continued fights against their enemies Turks, Kurds, and Persians of Azerbaijan” (Desplat 2020).The loss of Assyrian life to violence, as well as exposure, starvation, and
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/321/image/coversmallNetworked Diasporic Memory Work of Assyrian Genocide Remembrance2025-10-02text/htmlen-USNetworked Diasporic Memory Work of Assyrian Genocide Remembrance2025-10-022025TWOProject MUSE®1700552026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002025-10-02Familiar Strangers: Examining the Singaporean Presence in Johor Bahru, Malaysia
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/970549
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The city of Johor Bahru, or JB, is located on the southern tip of the Malaysian Peninsula. It faces the island-state of Singapore and is separated from it by the narrow Straits of Johor, but transborder travel between both cities is possible via two bridges: the Woodlands Causeway and the Tuas Second Link. The approximate kilometer-long Woodlands Causeway was built and officially opened in 1924 and had served as the only passageway between Singapore and the rest of the Malaysian Peninsula for several decades. It was not until 1998 that the Tuas Second Link was completed, largely in response to growing calls to ease an increase in congestion and traffic along the older Woodlands Causeway. At present, these two
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/321/image/coversmallFamiliar Strangers: Examining the Singaporean Presence in Johor Bahru, Malaysia2025-10-02text/htmlen-USFamiliar Strangers: Examining the Singaporean Presence in Johor Bahru, Malaysia2025-10-022025TWOProject MUSE®1325432026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002025-10-02Democracy by the “Other”: How Ethiopian Diaspora Communities in Virginia Engage in Political Participation
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/970550
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Since 2009, the state of Virginia had been governed by the Democratic Party, primarily due to a Democrat stronghold in the northern part of the state, close to Washington, DC. So, when Glen Youngkin, a Republican, won the 2021 gubernatorial election, many people in Virginia and across the United Stated were surprised. Three main reasons to explain this outcome were floated. First, the progressives in Virginia blamed Terry McAuliffe, the Democratic candidate, for his lack of an actual agenda. Most of his campaigning was focused on creating clear connections between Youngkin and former President Trump, and in the aftermath of the 6 January 2021 attack on the Capitol this strategy seemed sound. Second, the loss
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/321/image/coversmallDemocracy by the “Other”: How Ethiopian Diaspora Communities in Virginia Engage in Political Participation2025-10-02text/htmlen-USDemocracy by the “Other”: How Ethiopian Diaspora Communities in Virginia Engage in Political Participation2025-10-022025TWOProject MUSE®1004562026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002025-10-02Returning to the River: The Cherokee Diaspora’s Hydrospheric Connections
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/970551
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Water is at the center of Cherokee history and culture. Since time immemorial, Cherokees have followed a river’s flow, sought out the melodies of waterfalls, and mapped the location of springs so that future travelers might slake their thirst (Chapman 2014; Delcourt and Delcourt 2004). Richard Sneed understands the centrality of the hydrosphere to Cherokee history. On 21 October 2021, at a river clean-up event in Cherokee, North Carolina, known as Honoring Long Man, Sneed, who was at the time the Principal Chief of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians (EBCI), presided over morning prayers and offered attendees a reminder of water’s importance. “We come from water,” Sneed explained to the roughly 100 volunteers
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/321/image/coversmallReturning to the River: The Cherokee Diaspora’s Hydrospheric Connections2025-10-02text/htmlen-USReturning to the River: The Cherokee Diaspora’s Hydrospheric Connections2025-10-022025TWOProject MUSE®1710032026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002025-10-02(Be)Longing: Asian Diasporic Crossings – Exhibition Review (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/970552
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(Be)Longing: Asian Diasporic Crossings, an exhibition curated by Monica Hye Yeon Jun, Ara Oshagan, and Anahid Oshagan, ran from 20 July to 22 September 2024, at ReflectSpace Gallery in Glendale, California. Bringing together artists from the United States, South Korea, and China, the exhibit invited visitors to engage with the complexities of migration, memory, and the formation of diasporic identities across generations and geographies. Featuring a diverse range of works—including cartographic installations, archival fragments, and multimedia explorations—it examined how communities navigate displacement while forging new spaces of belonging. On its closing day, ReflectSpace hosted a discussion with curator Anahid
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/321/image/coversmall(Be)Longing: Asian Diasporic Crossings – Exhibition Review (review)2025-10-02text/htmlen-US(Be)Longing: Asian Diasporic Crossings – Exhibition Review (review)2025-10-022025TWOProject MUSE®158422026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002025-10-02La Bibliothèque et le survivant (The Library and the survivor) by Boris Adjemian (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/970553
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With its intriguing title, Boris Adjemian’s latest book La Bibliothèque et le survivant (The Library and the survivor) could be mistaken for a literary work: a whodunit revolving around an attempted murder, a gothic novel about ghosts tormenting a librarian, a meditative narrative with a Borgesian plot. Providing no further information—neither names, nor dates, nor places, nor clues as to the genre—its subtitle, Un intellectuel arménien au siècle des génocides (An Armenian intellectual during the century of genocides), maintains this mystery. However enigmatic, the title aptly encapsulates the author’s purpose, which is to tell the story of a man and an institution from the inside, in order to shed light on broader
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/321/image/coversmallLa Bibliothèque et le survivant (The Library and the survivor) by Boris Adjemian (review)2025-10-02text/htmlen-USLa Bibliothèque et le survivant (The Library and the survivor) by Boris Adjemian (review)2025-10-022025TWOProject MUSE®139772026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002025-10-02“Come, Dear Sister, Let’s Unite”: Integrating Feminism and Armenianness in an American Armenian Feminist Collective
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/970554
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Feminism’s theorizing of gendered relations of power illuminates the commitments of a patriarchal order to prescribed identities, family dynamics, ideologies, roles, and behaviors. As such, it offers a lens through which the lives of people of all genders living under systems of patriarchy, heteronormativity, and cisnormativity can be understood. General public discourse in the Republic of Armenia and the Armenian diaspora has approached feminism with ambivalence; many in positions of civic, academic, and religious leadership take the stance that feminism is antithetical to Armenian tradition. This is true in locations across the Armenian transnation, Khachig Tölölyan’s (2010) term describing a nation that includes
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/321/image/coversmall“Come, Dear Sister, Let’s Unite”: Integrating Feminism and Armenianness in an American Armenian Feminist Collective2025-10-02text/htmlen-US“Come, Dear Sister, Let’s Unite”: Integrating Feminism and Armenianness in an American Armenian Feminist Collective2025-10-022025TWOProject MUSE®1041132026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002025-10-02Editors’ Preface
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/970555
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More than three decades ago, Khachig Tölölyan opened the inaugural issue of Diaspora: A Journal of Transnational Studies (1991:1) with a reflection titled “In Lieu of a Preface,” in which he invited readers to take seriously a concept then on the margins of both disciplinary inquiry and political discourse. In the years since, diaspora studies has moved from an emergent to established field, generating rich interdisciplinary scholarship that interrogates identity, displacement, belonging, sovereignty, and the ethics of transnational attachment.Today, we find ourselves writing, reading, and thinking amidst what is increasingly described as a polycrisis—a convergence of wars, environmental catastrophe, mass
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/321/image/coversmallEditors’ Preface2025-10-02text/htmlen-USEditors’ Preface2025-10-022025TWOProject MUSE®105652026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002025-10-02