Globalisation, migration and the literature of Diaspora

Globalisation has produced a new structure and outline of migration and provoked conflicting structures and responses worldwide. The seemingly homogenizing effect of globalization cannot hide the different responses it has prompted in the different regions within its reach. As Avtar Brah observes, ‘Home is a mythic space of desire in the diasporic imagination[…]It is a place of no-return even if it is possible to visit the geographical territory that is seen as the place of ‘origin.’ⁱ Questions of origin and Diaspora come up with particular surface-tensions between internationalism and nationalism; the relationship between place and identity; and the ways cultures and literatures interact.