Diasporas and homeland conflict

Lyons, Terrence

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“…Understanding how sites of power (many of which are physically located in the global North) intersect with global peripheries (in the global South, but also in marginalized enclaves in the global North) is a key question for contemporary security studies and should be of particular interest to those interested in the dynamics of transnational contention. The study of diaspora politics (e.g., Shain and Barth 2003;Wayland 2004;Fair 2005;Lyons 2006;Brinkerhoff 2009;Koinova 2011Koinova , 2014Adamson 2013) can be helpful in shedding light on some of these broader power imbalances that structure the global polity as a single space. Ong (2003), for example, has noted the problems and complications that arise when a global northern-based elite seeks to speak "on behalf" of "its" diaspora, as in the case of Chinese political entrepreneurs in the West mobilizing on behalf of ethnic Chinese in Indonesia following intercommunal violence in 1998.…”

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Spaces of Global Security: Beyond Methodological Nationalism

Adamson

2016

J Glob Secur Stud

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The changing political and social meanings of space under conditions of advanced globalization point to the need to analyze security-or the deployment and management of violence-as a socio-spatial practice. This article draws attention to the "methodological nationalist' bias that has traditionally characterized mainstream security studies, and discusses its effect on how security issues are studied and conceptualized. Building on insights from political geography and sociology, the article makes the case for a "spatial turn" in the field. It demonstrates how a socio-spatial approach can help make sense of evolving state security practices, and presents examples of non-national spaces of securityincluding cities, cyberspace, and the global polity. Such spaces are increasingly objects of security practices, although the implications of this remain largely under-theorized in security studies.

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Section: The Global Politymentioning

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Spaces of Global Security: Beyond Methodological Nationalism

Adamson

2016

J Glob Secur Stud

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“…' Diasporas can mobilize in radical ways by contributing financially to rebel factions, recruiting soldiers, and staging violent demonstrations and boycotts (Adamson, 2006;Collier and Hoeffler, 2000;Shain, 2002). They can also act moderately by staging peaceful protests and campaigns, lobbying, reframing conflict issues, supporting democratic factions, diffusing democratic ideas and practices, and participating in transitional justice initiatives (Lyons, 2006;Koinova, 2011;Young and Park, 2009). Most examples of mobilization studied here fall into the moderate category, but differ in how sustained they are.…”

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Sustained vs episodic mobilization among conflict-generated diasporas

Koinova

2016

International Political Science Review

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There is increased interest in the connectivity of migrants with both their host-lands and their original homelands. This article brings a social movement perspective to bear on the issue of diaspora mobilization. Why do conflict-generated diasporas from the same original homeland and living in the same host-land mobilize in sustained versus episodic ways? This article focuses on the sustained mobilization of Bosnian Muslims versus the episodic mobilization of Croats and Serbs in the Netherlands in the early 2010s. I argue that a traumatic issue that binds three actors -diaspora, host-state, and home-state -is central to such mobilization. This issue is the failure of Dutch peace-keeping forces to protect the Srebrenica enclave in 1995. Migration integration regimes, threats from radical right parties, host-state foreign policy, and transnational influences can trigger episodic diaspora mobilization, but not sustain it.

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“…This distinction is especially relevant to conflict-generated diasporas, which can be mobilized in transnational processes but remain territorialized via specific goals tied to a homeland territory (Lyons 2006). Diaspora activists act as 'rooted cosmopolitans' embedded in social contexts (Tarrow 2005).…”

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Why do conflict-generated diasporas pursue sovereignty-based claims through state-based or transnational channels? Armenian, Albanian and Palestinian diasporas in the UK compared

Koinova

2014

European Journal of International Relations

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Diasporas and homeland conflict

Cited by 62 publications

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Spaces of Global Security: Beyond Methodological Nationalism

Spaces of Global Security: Beyond Methodological Nationalism

Sustained vs episodic mobilization among conflict-generated diasporas

Why do conflict-generated diasporas pursue sovereignty-based claims through state-based or transnational channels? Armenian, Albanian and Palestinian diasporas in the UK compared

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