1. Diaspora refers to displaced communities brought to foreign lands to serve empires through means like slavery, indentured servitude, etc. These communities had ambivalent relationships with their homelands. Examples include Indian diasporas in South Africa and Caribbean nations, and Chinese diasporas in Southeast Asia.
2. Newer diasporas emerged after World War 2 through free migration, like South Asian, Chinese, Arab, and Korean communities in Western nations.
3. Diaspora also refers broadly to any migrant group that sees itself as excluded from power in a new society.
1. Diaspora refers to displaced communities brought to foreign lands to serve empires through means like slavery, indentured servitude, etc. These communities had ambivalent relationships with their homelands. Examples include Indian diasporas in South Africa and Caribbean nations, and Chinese diasporas in Southeast Asia.
2. Newer diasporas emerged after World War 2 through free migration, like South Asian, Chinese, Arab, and Korean communities in Western nations.
3. Diaspora also refers broadly to any migrant group that sees itself as excluded from power in a new society.
1. Diaspora refers to displaced communities brought to foreign lands to serve empires through means like slavery, indentured servitude, etc. These communities had ambivalent relationships with their homelands. Examples include Indian diasporas in South Africa and Caribbean nations, and Chinese diasporas in Southeast Asia.
2. Newer diasporas emerged after World War 2 through free migration, like South Asian, Chinese, Arab, and Korean communities in Western nations.
3. Diaspora also refers broadly to any migrant group that sees itself as excluded from power in a new society.
1. Relatively homogeneous, displaced communities brought to serve the
Empire (slave, contract, indentured, etc.) co-existing with indigenous/other races with markedly ambivalent and contradictory relationship with the Motherland(s). Hence the Indian diasporas or South Africa, Fiji, Mauritius, Guyana, Trinidad, Surinam, Malaysia; the Chinese diasporas of Malaysia, Indonesia. Linked to high (classical) Capitalism.
2. Emerging new diasporas based on free migration and linked to late Capitalism: post-war South Asian, Chinese, Arab, Korean communities in Britain, Europe, America, Canada, Australia.
3. Any group of migrants that sees itself on the periphery of power, or excluded from the sharing power.
Assimilation National assimilation or cultural assimilation is a socio- political response to demographic multi-ethnicity that supports or promotes the assimilation of ethnic minorities into the dominant culture. The term assimilation is often used when referring to immigrants and various ethnic groups settling in a new land. New customs and attitudes are acquired through contact and communication.
Each group of immigrants contributes some of its own cultural traits to the new society. Assimilation usually involves a gradual change and takes place in varying degrees; full assimilation occurs when new members of a society become indistinguishable from older members. Integration Social integration is the movement of minority groups such as ethnic minorities, refugees and underprivileged sections of a society into the mainstream of societies. Social integration requires proficiency in an accepted common language of the society, acceptance of the laws of the society and adoption of a common set of values of the society. It does not require persons to give up all of their culture, but it may require to forgo some aspects of their culture which are inconsistent with the laws and values of the society.
In tolerant and open societies, members of minority groups can often use social integration to gain full access to the opportunities, rights and services available to the members of the mainstream of society.
Acculturation Acculturation is the process whereby the attitudes and/or behaviors of people from one culture are modified as a result of contact with a different culture. Acculturation implies a mutual influence in which elements of two cultures mingle and merge.
It has been hypothesized that in order for acculturation to occur, some relative cultural equality has to exist between the giving and the receiving culture. In contrast, assimilation is a process of cultural absorption of a minority group into the main cultural body. In assimilation, the tendency is for the ruling cultural group to enforce the adoption of their values rather than the blending of values. Imperialism Imperialist discourse - talks of progress, civilisation and savagery, democracy, science and religion, bringing enlightenment to the dark backward customs of indigenous people. It positions white European, Christians as superior and knowledgeable and marginalises and oppresses those constructed as the 'Other' as the binary opposite