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How unexpected encounters with homeland culture affect diaspora grief

I started crying in the grocery store when I heard someone speaking my parents' dialect because I haven't heard it in two years.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Random triggers resurrect suppressed longing and make the dailiness of loss suddenly overwhelming.

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“Where Are You with Grief for lost homeland — diaspora mourning?”

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