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