Globalization and its distinct elements

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Changes in the demographic spectrum have triggered debates on the stability of various population elements. The publication Global Diasporas: An Introduction by Robin Cohen is a demonstration that multiple aspects of the population are changing while most people do not notice. Cohen anchors his analysis of the concept of “diaspora.” From the onset, the publication is stemmed from an assertion that demonstration of loyalty to the nation-state by migrants and minorities is fast becoming questionable. The text substantiates the claim by a range of other chapters that deliver insight on how changes have occurred in the demographic space within a short time. While the book delves around multiple factors surrounding “diaspora”, chapter 8 seems to be more interesting and quite detailed in devising the actual elements of change. Liking chapter 8 is simply rooted in the chapter’s analysis of the different elements that have grown to design the existence or non-existence of diaspora in contemporary demographic structures besides the chapter illuminating explanation of the claims in the other chapters.
Chapter 8 is a brief exploration of the global age and its impacts on the diaspora. Titled “Mobilizing Diasporas in a Global Age,” the chapter tends to explore the multiple changes that have come with globalization and how the individual changes have revitalized the concept of diaspora. This chapter makes a bold claim that diaspora can be made or unmade. That is in response to the changes that keep the surrounding movement of people from or to religious epicenters, host-lands, and homelands among other multiple destinations. Factors that traditionally mobilized the structure of diaspora such as loyalty have been revitalized. The global world has made it possible for people to open their minds up to new opportunities. That marks the explanation of why there could be diaspora at one point in the contemporary environment and at another point it disappears. The most interesting element of this understanding is how the chapter explains the various facets of the global age that bear the evident changes.
The themes of discussion in chapter 8 are globalization and its distinct elements that have triggered changes in diaspora structures. Cohen (2008) laid a foundation in the previous chapters to convince his readers that the concept of diaspora has changed extensively. One factor that...