Abstract What is a diaspora? Can it be distinguished from a ‘transnational community’? This paper discusses the Lebanese migrants abroad and their relationships with Lebanon by deploying the Bourdieusian concept of ‘field’. It argues that Bourdieu’s concept of field helps to capture the dynamic character of diasporic relations and the power relations that underpin them. It also enables the researcher to better delineate the boundary of a diasporic community and at the same time to treat this boundary as flexible enough to identify the specific terms for entering and exiting the ‘diasporic field’. It also argues that at a time when diasporic relations are cross-national, that specifically revolve around a real or imaginary ‘homeland’, they encompass individual, group and institutional actors that belong with varying degrees to the country of origin and the countries of settlement. Finally, the paper concludes that the ‘diasporic field’ is a useful analytical tool to capture the complexities of increasingly ubiquitous diasporic relations.

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黎巴嫩侨民领域：派遣国和接收国的影响

摘要 什么是侨民？它可以与“跨国社区”区分开来吗？本文运用布迪厄斯的“场域”概念，讨论了黎巴嫩移民在国外及其与黎巴嫩的关系。它认为，布迪厄的场域概念有助于捕捉侨民关系的动态特征以及支撑它们的权力关系。它还使研究人员能够更好地划定侨民社区的边界，同时将该边界视为足够灵活，以识别进入和退出“侨民领域”的具体术语。它还认为，在侨民关系是跨国关系的时代，特别是围绕一个真实或想象的“家园”，它们包括个人、不同程度地属于原籍国和定居国的团体和机构行为者。最后，本文得出结论，“侨民领域”是一种有用的分析工具，可以捕捉日益普遍的侨民关系的复杂性。