The Diaspora Effect: The Influence of Exiles on Their Cultures of Origin
研究流亡者对原籍文化的影响，指出约1亿海外人口的回望可能对原籍文化产生深远影响，对关注移民、文化变迁与经济发展的学者有参考价值。
We examine the influence exiles have on the cultures left behind. As people break from the familiar routines of country or organization, they look forward to their intended destinations, but also backward to the homes they are leaving. It is that backward glance that we suggest may have powerful reverberations. Today, about 100 million people live outside their native lands. These exiles constitute significant percentages of current populations in countries throughout the world, ranging from over 20 percent in Australia and Luxembourg to less than 5 percent in Japan and Spain (The Economist, 1997). The population dispersals that resulted in these exile populations represent on-going processes with enormous implications for economic development and cultural change. Indeed, the development of distinctive civilizations depends largely on the knowledge and experiences carried across boundaries by members of different cultures (Kotkin, 1992). Much attention has been paid to the effects of exiles on cultures of destination, particularly the impact of