Asian Diasporas is an intermittently broadcast forty-minute BBC Radio 4 documentary programme about Asian communities around the world, first transmitted in 2007 and so far consisting of three episodes.
The programme has been introduced by Jatinder Verma, "himself a child of the diaspora", who was born in Dar es Salaam and grew up in Kenya and was the first Asian theatre director to direct a play at Britain's National Theatre.
Asian Diasporas's broadcast history to date consists of Family which looked at Japanese people in Latin America and elsewhere; Business, which examined Korean family business in the USA; and Politics, which focused on Chinese dissident activists in the USA and Europe. All three themes are inter-woven into each episode.
The series was produced by Allison Puranik and edited by Maria Balinska.
Use in academia
Parts of the audio of the series have been used to teach English as a second language to students at The Hong Kong University.
The series was also featured as a primary source by James Hevia in a course about immigration at the University of North Carolina.