- Coming to belong in a place --> easily done through forming social networks and routines;
vs:
- having the place belong to you
i.e. the distinction between a multicultural and a diasporic city.
Multiculturalism vs. diaspora:
- Multiculturalism: virtually programmed to miss the dynamism of cultural hybridisation in cities; or through cultural funding programs, it reinforces the culture (i.e. the ancestral origin);
- Diaspora (or diasporic): evokes dynamic characteristics rather than a fixed object such as a group defined by way of its common territorial origin. -->
"Diasporisation, therefore, suggests a process that is open-ended and transformative. This changing social field affects all city residents, not only those who identify as transmigrants or displaced. ... "...the diasporisation process is simply the ethnification of transnational connectiones, so that communication, social relations and economics become organised and even institutionalised across boundaries rather than immigrant groups becoming transformed into separate minorities. Diasporisation is simply the ethnification of the immigration prcess." (references to be added)
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"Diasporic communities emphasise different aspects of their complex cultural repetoires, whether by choice or by necessity, as they insert themselves culturally and politically into their host countries." (reference to be added shortly)
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