What is it about?

This is a theoretical model that helps you to make sense of one-, two-way migration, re-return migration and generational change throughout the transmigrational experience. Why the concept of diaspora is as problematic as homeland and how to overcome the limitation.

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Why is it important?

As a model that helps make sense of the intanglement of one-, two-way migration, re-return migration and generational change throughout the transmigrational experience, it helps organize the contrasting findings in the literature and overcome conceptual shortcomings.

Perspectives

This is a crucial introduction to a crucial collection in an upcoming journal. Japan is a case in point that demands more attention in migrationa nd diaspora studies.

Professor W.T. Manzenreiter
Institut fur die Erforschung der Fruhen Neuzeit

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This page is a summary of: Squared diaspora: Representations of the Japanese diaspora across time and space, Contemporary Japan, July 2017, Taylor & Francis,
DOI: 10.1080/18692729.2017.1351021.
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