Diasporas Speaking

In recent years, Balkan social media has increasingly focused on diaspora memory and perseverance through a digital inventory of cultural artefacts. Digital maps of meaning-making can reproduce and reshape memory, revealing a complex relationship between knowledge production in the diaspora and the culture of origin. This process is dynamic, reflecting the ongoing negotiation of identity and belon...

Whilst the Kosovar-Albanian diaspora in Germany makes up the largest group of Kosovars abroad, in comparison to other countries where Kosovar-Albanians have migrated, most scholarship and discourse are concentrated on the 1990s migrants. In contrast to Turkish migrant workers, little attention has been given to Kosovar-Albanian guest workers and their families who migrated between the 1960s and th...

This episode highlights why I started this podcast.  It gives insight into my migration background and, most importantly, what to expect in the coming episodes.  Thanks to Alexia Malaj and Florent Kamberi, respectively, for sharing their perspectives on what living in the diaspora means for them.