Diaspora Humanities Series, Vol. 3
Everything about the 21st-Century Keyword Diaspora
The term diaspora has become commonplace not only in academic, media, and political fields but also in everyday life. Yet relatively few people use the word with a clear understanding of its origins, its proper referents, or the scope of its application. This book is a Korean translation of a volume from the A Very Short Introduction series published by the University of Oxford. It serves as a concise yet comprehensive guide to the concept of diaspora: where it comes from, how it has changed over time, why its range of usage has expanded so dramatically in recent years, how it enables particular political and cultural forms of expression, and how it both obscures and clarifies the nature of human migration. This book offers an accessible guide which explains the emergence and application of diaspora as a new conceptual mode which defines national sovereignty in the twenty-first century.