Eric D. Thomas

You can't take our people from Africa and put us in a diaspora and spread us all over the world. And we survived slavery - and we can't pass a test? ... And you're gonna tell me we can't learn how to write? Have you lost your mind? We are survivors. That's all we do is survive.

Prithviraj Sukumaran

The biggest challenge Malayalam cinema faces is territorial. We operate within a small territory in Kerala, and the Malayalam diaspora across the world in comparative terms is quite small. But we have world-class talent in terms of technicians, actors, and writers.

Indian Actor

Kerry James Marshall

There's this idea that many of the attitudes and personality developments in black folks in the diaspora are a consequence of this unresolved trauma. There have been attempts by black artists to try and figure out how to represent that in some kind of way.

American Artist

Atal Bihari Vajpayee

Members of India's diaspora, living in distant lands of the world, my good wishes to all of you. You may be far away from India, but you are always close to our hearts.

Indian Statesman

Fatos Nano

If we didn't have the Albanian entrepreneurial spirit and financial support from the diaspora, this stupid political class would have destroyed the country by now.

Albanian Statesman

Jidenna

All across this world, especially within the African diaspora, we feel like there is a constant devaluing of our culture and our livelihood.

American Musician

Pia Wurtzbach

There's such a huge diaspora of Filipino workers around the world and I want to help tell their story.

German Model

Ram Nath Kovind

Our diaspora has an important role in building bridges between India and the world.

Indian Politician

George Papandreou

I am proud of being a Greek of the diaspora.

Greek Statesman

Rachel Dolezal

American Activist

Diaspora often relates to historical events that caused a group's movement.

Historical Roots

Diaspora can be voluntary, like seeking better opportunities, or forced, like fleeing war.

Voluntary vs Forced

The term highlights a common heritage or origin shared by the dispersed group.

Cultural Identity

Diaspora signifies presence in numerous countries beyond the origin nation.

Global Presence

Diaspora refers to varied locations where the group has settled.

Geographical Use

Despite dispersion, diasporas may maintain strong community connections.

Community Bonds

 was to come up with a petition, asking citizens to sign so that we can demand new elections, as the constitution allows. People were scared to put their names because, they said, they don't want to get in trouble. Even in the diaspora, people were scared. They were like, "We have family at home."

Is your country at risk...

 needed space at the time um and yeah it was just very much a busy busy home and so you said people were sort of going and coming a lot were they traveling abroad was that were they part of this diaspora that you were talking about i think at the time i didn't really understand the meaning of

Venturing into the Heart...

 sparsh grew up in australia and studied at oxford university in england outside of south asia he says indian and pakistanis in the diaspora are often drawn to one another over shared language movies music food it was that cross-cultural connection that helped make his project possible

The Triumph and Tragedy...

 Armenian diaspora businessmen and was actually the event that sparked the government program for the baby boom so actually they were given higher payments and with the birth of their daughter naari I think it's almost five thousand dollars they've been paid and so these

Anastasia Taylor-Lind:...

 serving as a bridge to the diaspora and providing support. If our public-sector organizations could partner with these institutions, we could unlock the potential of our diaspora populations. I know some of you are still struggling with this topic,

The role of faith and...

 the biggest flow of funds from the developed world to the developing world is not corporate investment, and it's not even foreign aid. It's remittances. This is the global diaspora; people have left their ancestral lands,

How the blockchain is...

 but also its diaspora, one that will be painted by its artists and its cultural producers with their radical but also very unique view of seeing the world and their place in it. It is really through art that we can regain

Inside Africa's thriving...

 diaspora with audiences all over the world and during the course of this conference you're going to see some interstitials that are from films that we have presented throughout our year-round programs of the African Film

The vibrant world of...

 but increasing dramatically. And in many other countries this is happening. Why is this important? Because it shows confidence. People are now confident to bring -- if your people in the diaspora bring their money back,

Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala:...

 and I was a paid doctor. This brings us to why a lot of us, who are professionals, are now, as they say, in diaspora. Now, are we going to make that a permanent thing,