Diaspora

Aims & Scope

Diaspora was founded in 1991, capturing the zeitgeist of a world where borders are transgressed and elastic, boundaries are fractured and permeable, identities increasingly fluid and adaptable.

The forces of globalization reinvigorated old diasporas, and stimulated and supported the creation of new ones.

Diasporas evolved from being the paradigmatic ‘Others of the Nation State’ to ‘exemplary communities of the transnational moment’ (Khachig Tölölyan, The Nation-State and its Others: in Lieu of a Preface, Diaspora 1(1991) 3-7).

The establishment of Diaspora was a seminal moment in marking what has become the field of Diaspora Studies, setting out and nurturing an expanding project that recognizes its roots in historic Jewish, Armenian, and Greek diasporas, to include and embrace transnational formations and phenomena challenging the established models and concepts for the study of nation-states, societies and cultures.

This substantive transformation of the discourse of diaspora studies has entailed theoretical reflection, and a vigorous and continual rethinking of older definitions on behalf of more capacious conceptualizations of new forms of dispersion, diaspora and transnationalism.

Discourses ranging from Postcolonial Studies and World Literature, and themes from environmental migrants to global networks, contribute to this work that rethinks mobility and mobilization and thus reorients traditional accounts of home, homeland, host state and diaspora.

Diaspora welcomes the contributions of scholars from across the social sciences and humanities who share these intellectual concerns.

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Metrics & Ranking

Journal Rank

Year	Value
2024	22323

Journal Citation Indicator

Year	Value
2024	15

SJR (SCImago Journal Rank)

Year	Value
2024	0.182

Quartile

Year	Value
2024	Q2

h-index

Year	Value
2024	15

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Most Cited Articles

The Most Cited Articles section features the journal's most impactful research, based on citation counts. These articles have been referenced frequently by other researchers, indicating their significant contribution to their respective fields.

• The Myth and Reality of “Return” — Diaspora in the “Homeland”

  Citation: 21

  Authors: Sossie

• Home State Oriented Diaspora Organizations and the Making of Partisan Citizens Abroad: Motivations, Discursive Frames, and Actions Towards Co-Opting the Turkish Diaspora in Europe

  Citation: 12

  Authors: Bilge

• <i>Rethinking</i> Diaspora<i>(s): Stateless Power in the Transnational Moment</i>

  Citation: 10

  Authors: Khachig

• Connection without Engagement: Paradoxes of North American Armenian Return Migration

  Citation: 10

  Authors: Daniel

• Hodological Care among Ghanaian Pentecostals: De-diasporization and Belonging in Transnational Religious Networks

  Citation: 9

  Authors: Kristine, Rijk

• Europe’s New <i>Bildungsbürger?</i> Chinese Migrants in Search of a Pure Land

  Citation: 8

  Authors: Nyíri, Beck

• Three Meanings of “Diaspora,” Exemplified among South Asian Religions

  Citation: 8

  Authors: Steven

• Alevism Online: Re-Imagining a Community in Virtual Space

  Citation: 7

  Authors: Martin

• “You Speak Greek Well … (for an Australian)”: Homeland Visits and Diaspora Identity

  Citation: 6

  Authors: Jill C.

• Transnational Associational Life and Political Mobilization of Ecuadorians and Argentines in Spain and Italy: What Role for Sending State Policies?

  Citation: 6

  Authors: Ana

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