Surely, some analysts say, it is unwise to call the overseas Chinese the ‘Chinese diaspora,’ when the word ‘diaspora,’ meaning ‘dispersal’ in Greek, has been reserved historically for the Armenian, Greed and, in particular, the Jewish communities settled outside their original homelands Yet, just as surely, since the 1990s many scholars have been tearing down the intellectual fences surrounding the term, and to describe African Caribbean people, Italians, Indians and many others as people ‘in diaspora’ is no longer to make an outré generalization.