Thursday, May 20, 2010

Diasporas: A new sort of togetherness | The Economist

"A new sort of togetherness
With new technology and new concerns, émigrés reinvent themselves

May 20th 2010 | From The Economist print edition
Circassians in Turkey: lonely no longer

AT A Hindu temple in Chicago, hundreds of people of Indian descent, professing many faiths, turned up from across Illinois and farther afield to hear a speaker from back home. But the meeting on May 15th was not the usual style of diaspora politics, in which a nation’s far-flung children are urged to cheer for the homeland."

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