(Be)longing to the village: how the earthquake in Morocco reveals the importance of the homeland in diaspora identity.

What happens when a country gets hit by an unexpected, highly damaging earthquake? What does the aid this country receives afterwards look like when it has a diaspora community of more than one million people? And how does a tragic event such as an earthquake affect those million people and their diaspora identity?

While diaspora identity is often defined by referring to the country of origin, in this article Malika Ouacha discusses how the earthquake in Morocco affected her and led her to foster a deeper understanding of her identity as member of the Moroccan diaspora.