Host-Region: Safe Folklore and the Negotiation of Difference In Post-Socialist Diasporas in Newfoundland
Journal: Anthropologica
Year: 2022

Many studies of diasporas focus on (large) locales where sizable diasporic populations provide room for group formation based on a single ethnicity. Scholars often treat such regions as representative of larger units, defining hostland in broad geopolitical categories of countries and even continents. Based on ethnographic research devoted to immigrants from postSocialist Europe and Asia to the Canadian island of Newfoundland, I propose the concept of host-region to emphasize a regional perspect