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When homeland feels foreign after years abroad

I'm visiting my parents in El Salvador for the first time in five years and the kids next door called me gringo and I don't know where I belong anymore.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The diaspora creates strangers of former selves, leaving you displaced even in spaces meant to be home.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Diaspora identity — living between worlds?”

If this sounds familiar, the Library can help you find the bigger picture.