Power in Diaspora Communities

Diasporas in Ang’s context place trauma in the present. Trauma is not limited to the motherland or to the passage, but rather it is an ongoing experience of adapting as a migrant.The diaspora works to  create networks and links of international social, economic, and political support. The modern diasporic subjects become transnational subjects with invested interests in both country of origin and host country.

    Communities that experience both trauma and isolation also exert influence far beyond the territorial boundary of the host country. They are the human links of an increasingly globalized world. Within those links, there is power. 

by Fiza Uddin