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DOI: https://doi.org/10.54607/hcmue.js.19.7.3494(2022)
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Vol. 19 No. 7 (2022)
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Social Sciences and Humanities
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Trần , T. V. (2022). UNDERSTANDING THE CONCEPT OF HOME IN DIASPORA STUDIES. HCMUE Journal of Science, 19(7), 1136. https://doi.org/10.54607/hcmue.js.19.7.3494(2022)

UNDERSTANDING THE CONCEPT OF HOME IN DIASPORA STUDIES

Tịnh Vy Trần

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Abstract

As a fundamental and universal concept, home has multiple and layered meanings for different people in many circumstances. Far from being understood as a residence mostly attached to a local parcel of land, home for the diaspora includes not one but many spaces and places where the migratory subjects are continuously identifying and constructing their identities. By introducing basic and universal understandings of home, we will analyze how home was represented in diasporas studies. Diaspora studies have shown that migrants are constantly struggling between where they come from and where they are now, which was caused by the influence of migration and the collision of various cultures and identities. This led them to form their own “in-between” spaces. Moreover, people even felt alienated from their homeland and were searching for a place where they belonged.  Therefore, understanding the concept of home becomes much more complex in the case of the diaspora community instead based on their feelings of nostalgia, love of homeland, and roots.

 

Keywords

diaspora studies, home, home in diaspora studies, housing studies, migration

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