Grief for lost homeland — diaspora mourning

The grief of displacement — of leaving a homeland, willingly or not, and living in permanent awareness of what was left behind — is one of the most common and least addressed griefs of our era. Diaspora mourning is complex because the loss is often mixed with reasons that made leaving necessary or desirable, and because the homeland continues to exist and change without you. This domain examines the particular grief of not belonging where you are from and not belonging entirely where you are.