English · Chapter 43
Study notes aligned to the official NEB syllabus.
Migration and Diaspora is a Language Development unit of the NEB Grade 12 Compulsory English textbook (2076 curriculum). Its theme could hardly be closer to Nepali students, since almost every family has a member working in the Gulf, Malaysia, India or further abroad. The unit builds on a reading text titled Dediasporization: Homeland and Hostland, a sociological discussion of migrants who live between the country they left and the country they now inhabit. Around this text the unit arranges comprehension questions, vocabulary work on the language of migration, a grammar focus, a listening or speaking task and a writing task on the causes and effects of migration. The unit trains students to discuss a sensitive national issue with precise, formal English.
Dediasporization: Homeland and Hostland is an academic text, and its first task is to define its terms. A diaspora is a population that has left its country of origin and settled elsewhere, yet continues to identify with the place it left. The homeland is the country of origin, the place a diaspora remembers, visits, sends money to and often hopes to return to. The hostland is the country of settlement, where the migrants live, work and raise children, but where they may remain in some sense outsiders. A diasporic community, therefore, lives in two places at once: physically in the hostland, emotionally and culturally in the homeland.