Karsten Paerregaard is professor emeritus of Anthropology at the School of Global Studies, University of Gothenburg. His work is focused on migration and climate change and his regional expertise is in Peru and Latin America. Karsten's current projects deal with the social and cultural impact of water shortage in the Peruvian Andes and with climate change and its repercussions for Andean culture and religion.
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The aim of this chapter is to scrutinize this predicament by discussing the use of the concept of... more The aim of this chapter is to scrutinize this predicament by discussing the use of the concept of diaspora in the study of global migration. My suggestion is that diaspora serves as an analytical category to study particular aspects of migration processes rather than as a general term for all forms of hybridity and mobility in the contemporary world. More specifically, I propose that we use diaspora to explore migrant populations as communities that constantly are negotiated and contested and that exclude as much as they include rather than as entities that are bounded and homogeneous and that automatically embrace all migrants from a particular nation. To illustrate this I draw on my own data on Peruvian migration to explore how diasporic networks and ties shape the conflicts, commitments and organizations that migrants living in the United States, Spain and Argentina engage in. I develop this analysis by first discussing the analytical problems of using diaspora as a general concept to understand social fluidity and identity construction in a globalizing world and suggesting an analytical framework to explore global migration. I then investigate three kinds of power struggles and contestations among Peruvians in the United States, Spain and Argentina with a particular focus on the role that the bi-lateral ties, which migrants in the three countries create to Peru, and the multi-sited ties, which they establish to Peruvians in other parts of the world, play in these power struggles and contestations. Finally, I discuss the possibilities of using the concept of diaspora to understand Peruvian migration and conclude by proposing that it is primarily the Peruvian migrant elite that claims to belong to a diasporic community and that well-off migrants construct such an identity by excluding large numbers of working class and less privileged Peruvian migrants.
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The aim of this chapter is to scrutinize this predicament by discussing the use of the concept of... more The aim of this chapter is to scrutinize this predicament by discussing the use of the concept of diaspora in the study of global migration. My suggestion is that diaspora serves as an analytical category to study particular aspects of migration processes rather than as a general term for all forms of hybridity and mobility in the contemporary world. More specifically, I propose that we use diaspora to explore migrant populations as communities that constantly are negotiated and contested and that exclude as much as they include rather than as entities that are bounded and homogeneous and that automatically embrace all migrants from a particular nation. To illustrate this I draw on my own data on Peruvian migration to explore how diasporic networks and ties shape the conflicts, commitments and organizations that migrants living in the United States, Spain and Argentina engage in. I develop this analysis by first discussing the analytical problems of using diaspora as a general concept to understand social fluidity and identity construction in a globalizing world and suggesting an analytical framework to explore global migration. I then investigate three kinds of power struggles and contestations among Peruvians in the United States, Spain and Argentina with a particular focus on the role that the bi-lateral ties, which migrants in the three countries create to Peru, and the multi-sited ties, which they establish to Peruvians in other parts of the world, play in these power struggles and contestations. Finally, I discuss the possibilities of using the concept of diaspora to understand Peruvian migration and conclude by proposing that it is primarily the Peruvian migrant elite that claims to belong to a diasporic community and that well-off migrants construct such an identity by excluding large numbers of working class and less privileged Peruvian migrants.
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