The World in One Place: Rethinking Diasporas and their Territories through the Eyes of Historians

This discussion focuses on the tendency of Diaspora Studies to analyse diasporic groups as deterritorialised entities with only a superficial attachment to their local environment, and with no horizon beyond their transnational networks and the idea of return. However, diasporas establish roots in t...

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المؤلفون الرئيسيون: Adjemian, Boris, Scioldo-Zürcher Levi, Yann
التنسيق: Article ou chapitre numérique
اللغة:Anglais
منشور في: Revue européenne des migrations internationales 2026
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الوصول للمادة أونلاين:Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM
Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM
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الملخص:This discussion focuses on the tendency of Diaspora Studies to analyse diasporic groups as deterritorialised entities with only a superficial attachment to their local environment, and with no horizon beyond their transnational networks and the idea of return. However, diasporas establish roots in their host societies as much as they embrace mobility. Drawing on examples from the Jewish and Armenian diasporas—a library and a synagogue in Paris and an Armenian neighbourhood in Jerusalem—the authors of this dialogue emphasise the importance of such constructed spaces in helping the group integrate into their surrounding societies, without either minimising or exaggerating the symbolic or practical significance of the ancestral homeland.