victim diaspora – the idea of dispersal following
a traumatic event in the homeland, to two or more foreign destinations.
Migration scholars often find it remarkably difficult to separate the compelling
from the voluntary elements in the motivation to move. However, when
we talk of a trauma afflicting a group collectively, it is perhaps possible to
isolate a class of events characterized by their brutality, scale and intensity so as
unambiguously to compel emigration or flight