The dispersion of people from their homelands. ‘Those in diaspora may be seen as subject to power relations, tensions, disconnections and…notions of belonging, identity and community’ (Mavroudi (2007) Geog. Compass 1/3). ‘Diaspora involves feeling “at home”, in the area of settlement while retaining significant identification outside it’ (B. Walter 2001). ‘Citizenship is inherently geographic in that it is used to determine who can participate in (trans)national affairs and, more broadly, who is seen as “belonging”. The bifurcation of this legal and cultural sense of belonging and representation is even more intensified for diaspora populations’ (Mains (2007) Focus on Geog. 50, 1). Drozdzewski (2007) Soc. & Cult. Geog. 8, 6 discusses the way that different groups of Polish people contextualize their diasporic identity, and attribute meaning to place. Mercer and Page (2010) African Diaspora 3, 1 consider the ways in which home associations provide space for debate about what is an intrinsically good way to live together in the diaspora. See also Blunt (2007) PHG 31, 5. Writing on India’s diaspora strategy, Dickinson (2012) TIBG 37, 4, 609 argues that ‘specifically, incorporating the diaspora into a narrative of Indian sovereignty is an act that marks out India’s own reinvention from that of a post-colonial developmentalist nation (and the concomitant excision of its colonial diaspora from its anti-colonial nationalist rhetoric) to an emergent power in the international economy’. New Zealand’s diaspora strategy is to engage expatriates to extend international marketing opportunities, without requiring them to return home (Larner (2007) TIBG 32, 3).