Abstract
This paper asks if Diaspora is an intellectually overloaded term or if, alternatively, it augments existing understandings of migrant’s experiences when individuals are adrift from their homeland. Fundamentally, Diaspora is a concept that transcends the nation-state as the primary unit of analysis of migration movements and developments. Although some migrations are voluntary, most are not: thus, this paper addresses involuntary migrations, this emphasis drawing support from Cohen’s Global Diasporas (2008) which employs an elastic method but with ‘victim diasporas’ taking precedence: by victim diasporas, Cohen means Jews, Africans, Armenians and Irish. This paper, of course, explicates matters in respect of ‘the Irish’, the second largest dispersed group in history.
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