Belonging in the Diaspora brings together individual and diverse stories of home, belonging, and identity.
Three diaspora communities in particular are the focus of this project:
Additionally, artists from each diaspora community contributed art pieces inspired by the stories of their respective communities, telling through a visual format what it is to belong in the diaspora.
Belonging in the Diaspora is a joint production from three researchers, from each of the above backgrounds, brought together by an early career researcher event in 2019, sponsored by the British Academy, the Australian Academy of the Humanities, and Te Apārangi Royal Society of New Zealand: Dr. Corinne Seals (Te Herenga Waka Victoria University of Wellington), Dr. Melissa Jogie (Roehampton University), and Dr. Daozhi Xu (Macquarie University).
Three diaspora communities in particular are the focus of this project:
- Ukrainians in Aotearoa New Zealand,
- Trinidadians in the United Kingdom,
- Chinese in Australia.
Additionally, artists from each diaspora community contributed art pieces inspired by the stories of their respective communities, telling through a visual format what it is to belong in the diaspora.
Belonging in the Diaspora is a joint production from three researchers, from each of the above backgrounds, brought together by an early career researcher event in 2019, sponsored by the British Academy, the Australian Academy of the Humanities, and Te Apārangi Royal Society of New Zealand: Dr. Corinne Seals (Te Herenga Waka Victoria University of Wellington), Dr. Melissa Jogie (Roehampton University), and Dr. Daozhi Xu (Macquarie University).
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