Diaspora construct in the focus of entity policies and different mobilities

Abstract

Diaspora interpretations involve different approaches, policies, and perceptions, which problematize this phenomenon. The penetration and visibility of the phenomenon becomes a scientific and research challenge in shedding light and solving global and specific problems of human motion. Diaspora is an ideological, political and economic construct derived from academic and strategic developments in the domain of knowledge and interests. On the other hand, diasporas are shown to be diverse practices and perceptions that open the fields of sensibility and communication. In the paper I presented a brief theoretical cross-section of various approaches and critical analyzes (essentialism, critique of methodological nationalism, studies of ethnicity, historical paradigm, concept of long-distance nationalism) with the intention of problematizing the diaspora phenomenon, pointing to its general characteristics and dilemmas. Further analysis focuses on the specific features of diaspora constructs in zones of strategies (institutionalization), practices and perceptions through socio-political and symbolic meanings. [Project of the Serbian Ministry of Education, Science and Technological Development, Grant no. 177027]

Keywords

• diaspora
• entity policies
• cultural mobility
• paradigm
• process