Since the 1990s diasporic communities have increasingly been recognized as agents of development, with states, citizens, and the global development community keen to harness their knowledge, skills, and economic capital. Approaches to the ‘diaspora option’ tend to be rooted in the discourses, practices, and products of neoliberal globalization. Yet the most recent decade of the 21st century has witnessed a backlash against this cosmopolitanism. This paper pushes for a re-orientation of the diaspora-development nexus that looks to respond to the contemporary realities of (and the backlash against) neoliberal globalization: (re)bordering, European and North American ethnonationalism, nativist politics, and anti-migrant discourses. Thinking through a post-diasporic lens foregrounds the interconnected geographies, the complex temporalities, and the (racialized) inequalities within the diaspora–development nexus. The paper concludes that through a post-diasporic lens the diaspora–development nexus can be centred on everyday social, cultural, material, and political circumstances and experiences and feelings of belonging through multiple locales, re-orienting the nexus to advance the everyday socio-economic, cultural, and political liberation of diasporic communities.

自 1990 年代以来，侨民社区越来越被认为是发展的推动者，国家、公民和全球发展社区都热衷于利用他们的知识、技能和经济资本。“侨民选择”的方法往往植根于新自由主义全球化的话语、实践和产品。然而，21 世纪的最近十年见证了对这种世界主义的强烈反对。本文推动重新定位侨民与发展的关系，以应对新自由主义全球化的当代现实（以及反对）：（重新）边界、欧洲和北美的民族主义、本土主义政治和反移民话语。通过后散居镜头思考，将相互关联的地理、复杂的时间、以及散居 - 发展关系中的（种族化的）不平等。本文的结论是，通过后侨民视角，侨民-发展关系可以集中在日常社会、文化、物质和政治环境以及通过多个地点的归属感和体验上，重新定位关系以推进日常社会-散居社区的经济、文化和政治解放。