Causal mechanisms in diaspora mobilizations for transitional justice

Koinova, Maria; Karabegović, Dženeta

doi:10.1080/01419870.2019.1624802

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“…In recent years, a wide range of scholarship has contributed to a better understanding of diasporas' engagement with transitional justice institutions and procedures (see also Koinova and Karabegovic 2019). Several aspects find a clear connection with the experiences and working methods of the Argentine and Colombian diaspora communities.…”

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“…Various factors can account for the heterogeneity and the relative salience of specific framings of the past in diasporas' relations to transitional justice at home. They include, first of all, diaspora migration experiences and organizational characteristics, and how these interact with the agendas and interests of their members (Orjuela 2008) and the political fields and opportunities of the home and host settings (Amarasingam 2015;Koinova and Karabegovic 2019). Moreover, these factors are linked to differences in access to broader international and transnational political fields and the actors occupying them, such as advocacy groups, the media, etc.…”

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In the Shadow of Transitional Justice

Elcheroth¹,

Mel²

2021

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This volume bridges two different research fields and the current debates within them. On the one hand, the transitional justice literature has been shaken by powerful calls to make the doctrine and practice of justice more transformative. On the other hand, collective memory studies now tend to look more closely at meaningful silences to make sense of what nations leave out when they remember their pasts. The book extends the scope of this heuristic approach to the different mechanisms that come under the umbrella of transitional justice, including legal prosecution, truth-seeking and reparations, alongside memorialization.The 15 chapters included in the volume, written by expert scholars from diverse disciplinary and societal backgrounds, explore a range of practices intended to deal with the past, and how making the invisible visible again can make transitional justiceor indeed any societal engagement with the pastmore transformative. Seeking to combine contextual depth and comparative width, the book features two key case analyses -South Africa and Sri Lankaalongside discussions of multiple cases, including such emblematic sites as Rwanda and Argentina, but also sites better known for resisting than for embracing international norms of transitional justice, such as Turkey or Côte d'Ivoire. The different contributions, grouped in themed sections, progressively explore the issues, actors and resources that are typically forgotten when societies celebrate their pasts rather than mourning their losses and, in doing so, open new possibilities to build more inclusive processes for addressing the present consequences of past injustice.

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In the Shadow of Transitional Justice

Elcheroth¹,

Mel²

2021

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“…Accordingly, second-generation diaspora Eritreans have grown up with mixed feelings between pride about the glorious struggle and doubts due to unfulfilled promises of a prosperous future. Koinova and Karabegović (2019: 1819) assert that new diaspora generations can either acquire old ideas and values from their predecessors and thus perpetuate conflict-generated identities, or they can internalise democratic values acquired in liberal host societies. I argue that narratives created by transnational political institutions and political entrepreneurs serving authoritarian regimes often have a bigger impact on substantive parts of the diaspora than the historical narratives of the host society linked to struggles for democracy and civil liberties, which are not a part of their collective memory.…”

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Eritrea’s Chosen Trauma and the Legacy of the Martyrs: The Impact of Postmemory on Political Identity Formation of Second-Generation Diaspora Eritreans

Hirt

2021

Africa Spectrum

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In the collective memory of Eritreans, the liberation struggle against Ethiopia symbolises the heroic fight of their fallen martyrs against oppression. After independence, the Eritrean People’s Liberation Front created an autocratic regime, which is adored by many second-generation diaspora Eritreans living in democracies. I engage with bodies of literature exploring the political importance of collective trauma in post-conflict societies and apply two theoretical notions, “postmemory” and “chosen trauma,” to explain how the government’s narrative of Eritrean history produced a culture of nationalism through the glorification of the martyrs. This narrative and the trauma experienced by their parents created experiences of postmemory among the second-generation diaspora that have influenced their worldview. I demonstrate how Eritrean pro-government activists utilise US-born artists who recently discovered their Eritreanness, such as Tiffany Haddish, to instil long-distance nationalism. The article is based on a social media analysis, long-term observation of Eritrean diaspora communities, and recent fieldwork.

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“…Several studies of such diasporas have nuanced the dichotomy of diasporas as either "warriors" or "peace-makers" (Kleist 2008;Orjuela 2008;Koinova 2018), and moved beyond the "securitization trope" in research on diasporas and conflict (Féron and Lefort 2019, 34). Recent contributions in this field focus on the range of mechanisms through which diasporas mobilise in processes of transitional justice (Koinova and Karabegovic 2019) or unpack how conflict-generated diasporas' embeddedness in different contexts is related to diaspora mobilisation (Koinova 2018). This article offers nuance by zooming in on diasporas' attitudes to law and institutions, drawing on the concepts of legal pluralism and legal consciousness to study the Chechen diaspora in Norway as embedded in multiple legal and normative contexts.…”

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The Chechen post-war diaspora in Norway and their visions of legal models

Sugaipova

Wilhelmsen

2021

CASU

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This article examines how understandings of the rule of law are shaped in the Chechen diaspora in Norway. Taking as our point of departure studies of legal pluralism and the co-existence of traditional Adat, religious Sharia and Russian secular law in Chechnya, we examine the effect of living in a host country by asking: How do members of the Chechen diaspora, here defined as conflict-generated diaspora, view and internalize legal models in Norway? What type of state governance do they see as ideal for themselves and for Chechnya in the future? Further: what might the underlying explanation for their choices be? We assume that just as different waves of violence in Chechnya created different diaspora communities that today exhibit specific social, cultural and political traits, the latest wave of forced emigration to Europe after the post-Soviet Russo-Chechen wars may have made specific imprints on the legal preferences of this diaspora. The picture that emerges from our in-depth individual interviews and surveys is one of gradual adaptation and adjustment to Norwegian state governance and rule of law, demonstrating the complex and co-constitutive relationships between changing identities and legal preferences.

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Cited by 25 publications

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In the Shadow of Transitional Justice

In the Shadow of Transitional Justice

Eritrea’s Chosen Trauma and the Legacy of the Martyrs: The Impact of Postmemory on Political Identity Formation of Second-Generation Diaspora Eritreans

The Chechen post-war diaspora in Norway and their visions of legal models

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