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This document discusses the concepts of diaspora and hybridity. It argues that while diaspora involves cultural disruption and identity renegotiation, diasporic consciousness can actually reinforce national binaries and essentialism rather than producing hybridity. Diasporic consciousness involves a desire to return to an idealized homeland, sustaining the idea of the homeland as "real" and the current location as inauthentic. This privileges the homeland and devalues the place of displacement. True hybridi
- Author
- Gema Ortega
- Language
- EN