Diaspora Resiliency
Something to consider: There’s a narrative in place (complete with 12 steps) for in-place alternatives (community tribes) to the nation state to ramp back up to sustainable strength. While family linkages are generally strong within immigrant social networks, they are ill-suited to collective security/coping with D2.
Familial tribes are far too geographically distributed to function, so they’ll have to rely on either integration (participating in the primary network in the area they’re in) or cluster together with fellow immigrant groups (traditionally segmented by race/religion/ethnicity/language etc). Or, diasporas will have to collapse back ‘home’ (often a mythical place).
Accelerating this transition, without also accelerating the separation of social fault lines, will be a very tough problem to solve.
-Shlok
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