What are ‘diasporas by design’? Has an increasingly globalized economy undermined diasporas or created new opportunities for them?

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What are ‘diasporas by design’? Has an increasingly globalized economy
undermined diasporas or created new opportunities for them?
Can diaporas bridge the countervailing tendencies toward cosmopolitanism and localism that seem to be characteristic of our global age?
Elucidate the advantages and the difficulties of making the connections
between religion and diaspora