diaspora

Second, this is a diverse diaspora with a range of political views.

The community sees its work as representing the US commitment to Ukraine, said Scranton Mayor Paige Cognetti."We have multiple Ukrainian churches here. We have quite the diaspora of Ukrainian Americans," Cognetti said.

But the U.S.-born sons of families that had permanently moved — the “real diaspora Koreans,” as one legislator put it — were not immune.

As the son of two Ethiopian immigrants who migrated to Canada, Tesfaye is ready to reclaim his given name and identity — struggles that many diaspora people like myself know all too well.

His deep connection to Southern and Gullah Geechee cuisine naturally led him to “The Contemporary African Kitchen,” a project that explores the shared culinary heritage of the African diaspora.