Migrant Identities and Diasporic Spaces

The diasporic communities across Europe have provided critical spaces for both national andmigrant identities condensed in nationalist and colonial meta-narratives. While the first generationimmigrants’ focus was mostly on dislocation, cultural difference, and belonging to “root†, theirchildren have developed a more positive sense of self in Britain, by recognizing many-facetedcultural practices. Rejecting a pre-given cultural identity, the younger generation prefiguresnetworks of cultural differences in dialogic ways. As argued in the present paper, not only are thenarratives of this new diaspora in Britain concerned with nationality and ethnicity, but they alsobecome focused on contemporary issues of difference in a progressive and multidimensional way. Our conclusion is that borders and borderlands provide an infinite variety of facets, they can bechangeable, sometimes negotiable and some other times contradictory. Thus, they become apowerful ideological symbol for one’s identity.