Abstract
Diaspora, one of the major disciplines in post-colonial studies, extensively deals with migration, displacement and its consequences. The idea of displacement tells that it may occur in two ways voluntary and involuntary. While involuntary (forced) displacement happens due to the natural calamities, political, social, religious turmoil and what not, voluntary displacement, more over psychologically, takes place due to mainly aspiration for better life, globalization and its offshoots. Though the displacement helped to have developments in all fields to the diasporic people as well as the people in homeland, it creates immeasurable problems physically and psychologically such as assaults from host community, identity crises, cross-cultural conflict, alienation, home and host issues, trauma of uprooting and re-rooting, gender problems etc. in diasporic people. The study tries to find out the major issues in the hostland after displacement and how do diasporic people respond to it. Taking examples for voluntary and involuntary displacement from Indian Diasporic director Mira Nair’s movies The namesake (2006) and Mississippi Masala (1991), the study aims to understand the consequences of displacement and psychological issues of the diaspora. Some of the theoretical concepts like identity, home, alienation will be applying to analyse their lives in hostland and bring broad understanding of the migrants.
Highlights
Bringing positive and negative influences in the life of human being, displacement and dislocation made unprecedented changes in the historical documentation
The ensued problems of ‘displacement’ can be dragged out from the lights of experience of these movies and could be possible to explain in this paper under the title of home and homeland, identity issues, cultural conflict and alienation
Theorists and writers like Avtar Brah, Benedict Anderson and Salman Rushdie asserted that diasporic people keep nostalgic feeling, and to describe it in a proper sense, they coined this feeling like ‘homing desire’ and ‘imaginary homeland’ et cetrera
Summary
Bringing positive and negative influences in the life of human being, displacement and dislocation made unprecedented changes in the historical documentation. Apart from the identity issues, the displacement results in other diasporic matters like longing and belonging, cultural conflict, here-ness and otherness, national feeling, boarder less notions, alienation et cetera which can be seen physically and psychologically in the displaced people. According to Angelika Bammer displacement is “the separation of people from their native culture either through physical dislocation (as refugees, immigrants, migrants, exiles or expatriates) or the colonizing imposition of a foreign culture” (Bammer, xi). The ensued problems of ‘displacement’ can be dragged out from the lights of experience of these movies and could be possible to explain in this paper under the title of home and homeland, identity issues, cultural conflict and alienation
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