Սփյուռքի սահմանումը և եզրույթի իմաստային ընդլայնման պատճառները ըստ Խաչիկ Թեոլեոլյանի

Abstract

Diaspora studies as a multidisciplinary field was formed at the beginning of the 1990s when by Khachig Tölölyan’s initiative “Diaspora: A Journal of Transnational Studies” began to be published in Canada. The term Diaspora has lost its initial meaning during the last decades and is now used for such groups as immigrants,expatriates, refugees, guest workers, exile community and so on. Kh. Tölölyan supports the limited use of the term. The article contains Kh. Tölölyan’s theoretical generalizations and observations about the features of a typically diasporic community, definition of Diaspora, semantic expansion of the term, as well as the factors leading to that expansion.