#Dispersion

Diaspora is the ritual of an once-unified community scattering across the globe only to confirm its existence via online meetings in a haunting digital ghost town. Glorifying past bonds gains you respect, while in reality those memories lie buried under a mountain of unread notifications. The quest to find one another is thwarted by tourist visas and time zones, chaining participants with a leash called ‘distance’. Yet scattered souls manage to survive on little more than ‘likes’ in social media feeds, which have become their new homeland. In the end, diaspora is a collective of chosen solitude where everyone belongs to no one.

Diaspora is a pretentious social dispersal mechanism by which states scatter surplus populations across the globe. Individuals separated from their homelands become spectators in a never-ending performance of identity, chased by the phantom of return. It thrives as a fashionable buzzword in international discourse, where self-proclaimed liberals deploy it to signal virtue. In reality, it is an invisible labyrinth of borders and bureaucracy that leaves communities perpetually adrift.