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The original meaning of diaspora is derived from the Greek verb speiro, meaning ‘to sow’ and the preposition dia, meaning ‘over’. In this context, the ancient Greeks considered diaspora as a positive action because it involved migration and the productive colonization of Asia Minor (Mohan, 2002, pp. 80–1). In later centuries the meaning of the word extended rather negatively to explain the forced displacement of people through various types of conflicts as seen in the enslavement and exile of Jews from the Promised Land to Babylon around 586 BC. Much later diaspora saw the displacement of East and West Africans through slavery in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, and in the 1940s, the displacement of Palestinians through Israeli expansionism (ibid., p. 83).
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Durutalo, A.L. (2012). Pacific Islands Diaspora Groups and Foreign Policy. In: Headley, J., Reitzig, A., Burton, J. (eds) Public Participation in Foreign Policy. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230367180_10
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