Diaspora Mobilizations in the Egyptian (Post)Revolutionary Process: Comparing Transnational Political Participation in Paris and Vienna

Müller‐Funk, Lea

doi:10.1080/15562948.2016.1180471

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“…We expect that the degree to which more drastic action is feasible in a given home country will shape how extreme or moderate exiles’ demands are. This may be one reason why some past work suggests that exiles express more extreme positions (Koinova 2009) and other findings suggest that exiles are more moderate than those in the home country (Müller-Funk 2016; Nugent 2020; 2022).…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 96%

How Exile Shapes Online Opposition: Evidence from Venezuela

Esberg

Siegel

2022

Am Polit Sci Rev

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How does exile affect online dissent? By internationalizing activists’ networks and removing them from day-to-day life under the regime, we argue that exile fundamentally alters activists’ political opportunities and strategic behavior. We test the effect of exile on activists’ public discourse in the case of Venezuela, through an analysis of over 5 million tweets by 357 activists spanning seven years. Our results suggest that after going into exile activists increasingly emphasize foreign-led interventions to shape their home country politics, focus less on local grievances, and become more harshly critical of the regime. This is partly due to the changes in exiles’ networks: after leaving, activists increase their interactions with foreign actors and tweet more in English. This work contributes to our understanding of the relationship between exile—one of the most ubiquitous yet understudied forms of repression—and dissent in the digital age.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 96%

How Exile Shapes Online Opposition: Evidence from Venezuela

Esberg

Siegel

2022

Am Polit Sci Rev

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“…Similarly, recent work by Müller-Funk (2016) demonstrates that personal networks play a crucial role in diaspora mobilisation. Through these nets, migrants create links that cross-cut different spaces and organisations, such as religious groups, hometown associations and kinship organisations, which can be exploited to engage in transnational politics.…”

Section: Diaspora Mobilisation and Transnational Social Movementsmentioning

confidence: 92%

“…Recent work has focused on the mobilisation of diasporas during critical periods of war-time violence and instability in their homelands (Koinova, 2017a;Koinova, 2017b;Betts, 2016;Müller-Funk, 2016;Bermudez, 2016;Godin, 2017). Building on theories on social movements, these studies: (1) examine the mobilising structures, practices and strategies used by diasporic entrepreneurs at the macro, meso and micro levels;…”

Section: Diaspora Mobilisation and Transnational Social Movementsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“My guitar is my rifle”: Mexican migrants mobilising unconventionally through arts

Lara-Guerrero

Rojon

2022

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Diasporas can create, transform, and exploit transnational networks to engage in political movements in their homeland and in their hostland, engaging in both electoral and non-electoral politics through political parties, political campaigns, and hometown organisations. However, the individual processes of subjectivation and its relationship with arts as a form of political engagement have been under-explored especially in contexts of violence and insecurity. This ethnographic paper sheds light on the micro-level of diaspora mobilisation by introducing the concept of “subjectivity” as a key term to analyse the transnational and unconventional political practices organised by migrants. As a result, this research aims to answer the following questions: (1) How are Mexican migrants becoming diasporic political subjects and creating spaces of transnational political activism in reaction to the context of violence in their homeland? (2) What makes them resort to art as a repertoire of contention against violence in their home towns? The paper introduces empirical examples collected in Brussels during 19 months of fieldwork with members of the Mexican diaspora, including semi-structured interviews with key informants and participant observation at political demonstrations, music rehearsals, charity concerts, gastronomic and artistic festivals, and political debates.

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“…More recently, diasporas have mobilised in the context of the Arab Spring and as a result of critical events taking place back home. This has been the case, for instance, with the Egyptian diaspora in the UK (Underhill 2016) and in Austria (Müller-Funk 2016), with the Syrian, Libyan and Yemeni diasporas in the US and UK (Moss 2016) and with the Tunisian diaspora (Graziano 2012), to mention a few. 3 Different diaspora groups from the Middle East have participated in peace-making efforts in their conflict-ridden home countries (Baser & Toivanen 2018a).…”

Section: Diasporas As Non-state Actors: From Mobilisation To Contributionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Kobane Generation: Kurdish Diaspora Mobilising in France

Toivanen

2021

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A small Kurdish city located in northern Syria, Kobane, became symbolically significant when ISIS laid siege to the city between September 2014 and January 2015. This pivotal moment in the fight against ISIS threw the international spotlight on the Kurds. The Kobane Generation analyses how Kurdish diaspora communities mobilised in France after the breakout of the Syrian civil war and political unrest in Turkey and Iraq in the 2010s. Tens of thousands of people, mostly but not exclusively diaspora Kurds, demonstrated in major European capitals, expressed their solidarity with Kobane, and engaged in transnational political activism towards Kurdistan. In this book, Mari Toivanen discusses a series of critical events that led to different forms of transnational participation towards Kurdistan. The focus of this book is particularly on how diaspora mobilisations became visible among the second generation, the descendants of Kurdish migrants. The book addresses important questions, such as why second-generation members felt the need to mobilise and what kind of transnational participation this led to. How did the transnational participation and political activism of the second generation differ from that of their parents, and is such activism simply diasporic or also related to more global changes in political activism? The Kobane Generation offers important insights on the generational dynamics of political mobilisations and their significance to understanding diaspora contributions. More broadly, it sheds light on second-generation political activism beyond the diaspora context, analysing it in relation to global transformations in political subjectivities. Mari Toivanen (PhD) currently works as Academy Research Fellow at the Swedish School of Social Science, University of Helsinki. She has conducted ethnographic research on a wide range of migration-related topics, focusing on diaspora mobilisation, transnational connections and activities, second generation migrants, and questions of identity and belonging.

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Diaspora Mobilizations in the Egyptian (Post)Revolutionary Process: Comparing Transnational Political Participation in Paris and Vienna

Cited by 13 publications

References 30 publications

How Exile Shapes Online Opposition: Evidence from Venezuela

How Exile Shapes Online Opposition: Evidence from Venezuela

“My guitar is my rifle”: Mexican migrants mobilising unconventionally through arts

The Kobane Generation: Kurdish Diaspora Mobilising in France

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