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  • adjective geology Of, pertaining to, or containing diaspore
  • adjective Of or pertaining to the dispersion of the Jews from the land of Israel, a similar dispersion, or a people so dispersed. See diaspora.

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Examples

  • I'm worried that I actually understand the term diasporic trans-nationalism

    May 27th, 2004 2004

  • The book explores how political, social, and cultural changes over the past thirty years have shaped urban, indigenous, and globalized "diasporic" art forms.

    Contemporary African Art Since 1980: exclusive image gallery Boing Boing 2009

  • Eileen and other authors have referred to this form as a "diasporic" one, and for me it has been instrumental in my ability to express my experience as a Mexican living between geographical, cultural, political and linguistic borders.

    TEENY BOOK WITH BEEG BRAIN! 2007

  • Eileen and other authors have referred to this form as a "diasporic" one, and for me it has been instrumental in my ability to express my experience as a Mexican living between geographical, cultural, political and linguistic borders.

    Archive 2007-10-01 2007

  • These diasporic interfaith relationships, such as our partnership with St. Benedict's Prep School, can augment building global leaders of tomorrow.

    Anju Bhargava: The Consequences Of Shattering A Faith Glass Ceiling Anju Bhargava 2011

  • Second, he managed to register practically every phase, emotional and ideological, of diasporic engagement with Zionism.

    The Zealot 2009

  • Circumstance can be seen as the apotheosis of an Iranian diasporic imagination - more likely to reveal the desires, nostalgia, and dreams of its writer-director than expose dark secrets of the Orient for the pleasure of Western audiences.

    Roya Rastegar: Circumstance and Dangerous Elicitations of Truth Roya Rastegar 2011

  • If, as friends and I have been discussing, he embodies newly diasporic Africans, his trip also represents a set of ongoing navigations that will continue to affect Africa in ongoing, unfolding futures.

    Global Voices in English » Ghana: Global discussion of Obama’s visit to Ghana 2009

  • As the apotheosis of the Iranian diasporic imagination,the film is more likely to reveal the desires and personal truths of its creator, cast, and crew than to expose dark secrets of the Orient for the pleasure of Western viewers.

    Roya Rastegar: Circumstance and Dangerous Elicitations of Truth Roya Rastegar 2011

  • As an Iranian-American in her mid-thirties, the kind of story Keshavarz tells is unique to a diasporic lens from a particular generation and very different from the perspective of someone raised only in Iran or only in America.

    Roya Rastegar: Circumstance and Dangerous Elicitations of Truth Roya Rastegar 2011

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