As has been noted throughout this work, the conception of diaspora has evolved throughout time and experiences of various peoples from old to new characterizations of what constitutes a diaspora, and how to mobilize diasporic communities for sociopolitical change. The old diaspora is characterized by essential notions of the migration of a people (often forcibly and involuntarily) and that peoples’ concentration on returning to that homeland (real or imagined). Van Amersfoort characterizes classical diaspora,