These themes appear commonly in many US African immigrant communities. These include the pull of educational opportunity, the ambivalence of displacement, the simultaneous transnationality and translocality (or local fluidity) of Tanzanians in Wichita, and the diversity of experiences even within a small number of migrants. This case study of Tanzanians in Wichita, Kansas, concentrates on themes within this community's migration stories that emerged in our research. Geographers' interests in how particular US settings impact upon African immigrants' experiences and how immigrants transform those settings can be enriched through studies of smaller communities, and their impacts on and experiences in the US outside of the main host.
Studies of recent African immigration to the USA are part of increased scholarly concern for new diasporas and transnationality. Keywords: Nostalgia, Home, Diaspora, Immigrants The journey of the protagonist of the novel from Tilo to Maya has been traced besides the predicament of the immigrant population caught between two ways of living one from the East and other from the West.
This paper takes into focus Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni’s novel The Mistress of Spices (1997) with reference to the theme of nostalgia. Thus, diaspora is linked with the concept of ‘home’, ‘nostalgia’, ‘space’, ‘identity’, ‘migration’, ‘hybridity’, ‘transnationalism’ and ‘transculturalism’. The conflict between rootedness and uprootedness distrupts their lives. They live in a nowhere land resulting from their attempt to overcome cultural issues and negotiate identities.
The diasporas live a life of “in-between” condition which results in their loss of identity. Its conception, loss, re-possession and longing are the axis on which the entire discourse of diaspora revolves. At the centre of every diasporic feeling lies the notion of ‘home’.
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