What is the research questions(?

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- What does it mean to theorize diaspora through an explicitly feminist frame?
- What does it entail to raise the question of hegemony in relation to diasporic formations?
- How does one most productively engage the tensions among individuals and communities
situated very differently within a given diasporic formation?
- What does feminist transnationalism offer such an analysis?
- So many research questions, hard to follow one argument
- So many questions that were probably answered throughout the rest of the journal but
werent answered in the short 8 pages so was a bit confusing.

What type and sources of data does the author rely on?
- This seems to be a stand alone, introductory piece by the editors of the Feminist Review
summarizing the upcoming scholarly articles in the review.
- The data is pulled from different articles by several expert feminist, political and
anthropological scholars and briefly summarized
- Leads it to be largely quantitative because it describes the data featured in the other articles quite
briefly.
- Looked at some of the articles referenced and they featured more quantitative data from field
research carried out.

What are the central arguments and hypotheses?

- Effects of globalization on diasporic formations
- View diaspora as more than a result of migration, because it is more complex than this and these
can show males as the primary agents of diasporic formation
- Role of racial and gendered formation in circulation in global capital
- Dialogues on diaspora are not equitable because they are structured externally through the
processes that produce movement and migration and internally through the ways they
configure complex relations of settlement, and racial and gendered formation within diasporic
communities
- There shouldnt be a universal definition of diaspora because there are many differences within
and among diasporic populations
- Diaspora as process by which certain group subjectivity emerges in dialogue with the law and
institutions that enforce it in daily practice
- African diaspora emerges in that of black community and transnational migrant community
- Key sites in the transmission of diasporic culture are uneven
- Some models of diasporic relations become dominant
What are some of the main findings? Evidence to support those findings (i.e. how is
the data used?)
- Feminist theory is interdisciplinary and intersectional
- One must discuss both sides of diaspora and acknowledge the female experience because they
are a largely defining component of diaspora scholarship.
- Using the lens of gender theory to shine a light on a topic as widely contested as worldwide
diasporas of populations opens it up to a new type of analysis that is rarely touched upon but
very important
- Without engaging in this type of gendered analysis, it can encourage the understanding of
diaspora as the privileged mobility of masculine subjects as the primary agents of diasporic
formation and perpetuate a more general masculinist in the conceptualization of diasporic
community.
- The study of diaspora has largely created hegemonies centered around the movement of men and
the implications on diaspora
- We may unintentionally understand diaspora through US-based cultural and intellectual
discourses
- Pg. 3 - By engaging with these issues, the contributors to Gendering Diaspora encourage us to
relinquish any claim to a universal or shared definition of diaspora crucial aspect of the
study of gender and feminist theory - there is no one shared definition of any study.
- Findings are explored through brief summaries of the

What other authors/literature is the piece in conversation with? (Pay attention to

the literature review section, if the article includes one)
- Other experts from the Diaspora Hegemonies conferences in 2005, 2006 and 2008
- I Like Your Colour! Skin Bleaching and Geographies of race in urban Ghana -
Jemima Pierre
- why queer diaspora? - Meg Wesling
- diasporic governmentality: on the gendered limits of migrant wage-labour in Portugal -
Kesha Fikes
- wal-mart, katrina and other ideological tricks: Jamaican hotel workers in Michigan -
Deborah A Thomas
- engendering race in calls for diasporic community in Sweden - Lena Sawyer
- postcolonial criticism, transnational identifications and the hegemonies of dancehall's
academic and popular performativities - Denise Noble
- the comic side of gender trouble and Bert Williams' signature act - Michelle Ann
Stephens

Is the evidence convincing?

- The evidence is definitely convincing if not slightly dense
- It is difficult reaching certain conclusions simply because the way it is written is so
theoretical and so dense
- There would be more convincing evidence in the actual articles referenced throughout
the piece.
- Each example provided through the various authors of the literature referenced did a
good job of supporting the main argument of why it is important to discuss diaspora
through a feminist focal point as it offers an interesting insight into different case
studies of diasporic populations.
Assess the overall structure of the article
- It has a logical structure to the article
- Begins by offering research questions
- Explains the Review and the topic of Gendering Diaspora, where interest for this
study was born out of
- Explains hypothesis or thesis
- This hypothesis + thesis is then explained through the summaries through each of
the different scholarly articles referenced in the article and also the rest of the
review journal
- Ends with a summary of how interdisciplinary focus, methodologies and
approaches have allowed us to understand diaspora through something other than
a certain (masculine) understanding
- Also ends with why it is important to participate in feminist analysis where
central object or focus of that analysis isn't exclusively women or gender.
- Logical flow, I wish there had been some headings or sections to split it up and
make it a little more understandable.

Conclusions