“…Further to this, diaspora studies interrogate the role of location in structural, material, and social and subjective terms. In particular, in this article, I use Brown's concept of "diasporic resources" or the "people and places, ideas, ideologies and iconographies associated with them" (Brown 1998). Brown argues that diasporic resources are not a concrete set of geographic realities but are, in fact, a set of social relations that are constructively enacted and are social spaces constructed "in tandem with racial formations" (1998,297).…”