The Importance Of Globalization In Diaspora

Globalization refers to the process of the intensification of economic, political, social and cultural relations across international boundaries. It can be argued that, in the contemporary world, the process of globalization is challenging the traditional ways in which migration and ethnic relations have been conceptualized. Globalization `denotes the processes through which sovereign national states are criss-crossed and undermined by transnational actors’. Globalization has three major pillars: 1) the emergence of global markets and post-national knowledge-intensive economies; 2) new information and communication technologies; and 3) unprecedented levels of immigration and displacement. The three formations suggest that globalization in

Gabriel Sheffer, in his Diaspora Politics At Home Abroad (2003), clearly emphasizes the importance of ethnic considerations in the understanding of diaspora. He cited numerous groups, eg: Koreans, Vietnamese, Indians, Chinese, Japanese, Romanians, Poles, Kurds, Armenians permanently residing outside of their country of origin, but maintaining contacts with people back in their old homelands, are members of ethno national diasporas. In his definition of ethno national diasporas, he explains, the ethnic diasporas in the context of migration and its essential relations with home land. But at the same time he argued that “not all dispersed ethnic minorities and groups constitute diasporas”. He cited the example of indigenous ethnic tribes and groups who, after their permanent settlement in the territory that they regard as their homeland, did not migrate to other

It is therefore of great importance to get a better sense of the uses of the terms, their similarities and differences. But it became quite difficult to separate the two concepts in any meaningful way. A crucial similarity is the flexibility of both the terms and in one way or another, concerned about cross-border ties including regions of origin and destination. Diaspora approaches usually focus on the relationship between homelands, the dispersed people and also on destination countries. Safran, mentioned these as “diasporas exist in a triangular socio-cultural relationship with the host society and the homeland”. In postmodern approaches, significance is also given to ties among dispersed people. Empirical research in transnational studies places somewhat more emphasis than does the diaspora literature on issues of incorporation and integration in immigration countries. The diaspora literature usually emphasises the cultural distinctiveness of diaspora groups, while parts of the transnational literature have started to look more extensively into migrant incorporation and transnational practices. Overall, the link between integration and cross-border engagement has been pried open by transnational studies. Similarly, diaspora studies have posed questions about the link between the cultural autonomy of minority groups and