Feeding the Ties to “Home”: Diaspora Policies for the Next Generations

Mahieu, Rilke

doi:10.1111/imig.12183

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“…similar to Spain's Instituto Cervantes, Portugal's Instituto Luis de Camões), as well as of cultural promotion offices within the SO consulates and the existence of cultural programs abroad orchestrated by the state. Diaspora heritage tours (Mahieu, 2014) could fit here, but we found no evidence of their existence in LAC at the time of data collection.…”

Section: Policy Subcomponentscontrasting

confidence: 55%

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Diaspora policies in comparison: An application of the Emigrant Policies Index (EMIX) for the Latin American and Caribbean region

Pedroza

Palop-García

2017

Political Geography

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a b s t r a c tIn this paper we present the Emigrant Policies Index (EMIX), an index that summarizes the emigrant policies developed by 22 Latin American and Caribbean (LAC) states. In recent decades sending states have increasingly adopted policies to keep economic, political or social links with their emigrants. These "emigrant policies" vary in scope and nature between different countries and include measures as diverse as dual citizenship policies, programs to stimulate remittances, the right to vote in the home country from abroad, and the creation of government agencies to administer emigrant issues. The EMIX proposes a useful tool to condense and compare a wide spectrum of policies across countries. Its development involved the collection of official data, as well as a critical review of secondary literature and input from experts as complementary sources. Through a rigorous framework for constructing the index, we show how emigrant policies can be aggregated to measure the overall degree and volume of emigrant policies in LAC states. The results of the EMIX portray a region that has indeed made serious efforts to assist their diaspora in the states of reception and to encourage their involvement in the political, economic and social fabric in the states of origin. The results, however, also reveal great variation in the emigrant policies and the administrative setting adopted by LAC states.

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Section: Policy Subcomponentscontrasting

confidence: 55%

“…Margheritis, 2011;D elano, 2014;Escobar, 2007;Hoffmann, 2010;Ragazzi, 2014aRagazzi, , 2014bMahieu, 2014;Shain, 1999;Baub€ ock, 2008;Bravo, 2014;Bermúdez, 2014;Padilla, 2011;Margheritis, 2014;Crosa, 2014;Hinojosa Gordonova & Alfonso, n.d.). However, this is not to say that rigorous cross-case empirical research is lacking.…”

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Diaspora policies in comparison: An application of the Emigrant Policies Index (EMIX) for the Latin American and Caribbean region

Pedroza

Palop-García

2017

Political Geography

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“…Transgenerational transmission is largely focused on keeping the past present, so that foundational narratives of identity, such as chosen traumas and narratives of loss, continue to unite and mobilize the diasporic community. Diaspora organizations, homeland governments, and parents often seek to maintain these foundational narratives as the way to transmit and maintain diasporic identity for the next generations and cultivate attachments to homeland (see Abramson 2017;Darieva 2018;Mahieu 2015). Yet, this task is complicated by other factors, such as the dynamic relationships between diasporas and homeland, diasporas and host states, and the changing mediums through which they relate.…”

Section: Diaspora Identity Past Traumas and Generational Changementioning

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Diaspora Identity and a New Generation: Armenian Diaspora Youth on the Genocide and the Karabakh War

Chernobrov

Wilmers

2019

Nationalities Papers

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In this article, we explore the role of the early 20th-century Armenian genocide and the unresolved Karabakh conflict of the 1990s in identity shaping among the new generation of Armenian diaspora—those who grew up after the establishment of the independent Armenian state in 1991. We draw on original interviews with diasporic youth in France, the United Kingdom, and Russia—diasporas that were largely built in the aftermath of the genocide and the Karabakh war. Diaspora youth relate to these events through transmitted collective memories, but also reconnect with the distant homeland’s past and present in new ways as they engage with new possibilities of transnational digital communication and mobility. Their experiences of identity shed light on how the new generation of diasporic Armenians defines itself in relation to the past; how this past is (re)made present in their interpretations of the Karabakh conflict and in everyday behaviors; and how diasporic youth experience the dilemmas of “moving on” from traumatic narratives that for a long time have been seen as foundational to their identity.

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“…Since often only certain components of citizenship are extended to overseas populations (e.g. Collyer ), scholars have argued that diasporic citizenship is little more than a symbolic act of extra‐territorial nation‐building (Mahieu ), a re‐ethnicization of long‐distance nationalism (Joppke ) and/or a pragmatic means of facilitating resource transfer (see Gray ).…”

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The political geographies of diaspora strategies: Rethinking the ‘sending state’

Dickinson

2017

Geography Compass

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Diaspora strategies have been at the forefront of new studies of the political geographies of state‐led transnationalism, contributing important insights into the widespread socio‐economic impacts of initiatives used to engage émigrés in extra‐territorial nation‐building. The conceptualization of the ‘sending state’ as a central territorialized bureaucratic form has however contributed to binary framings of diasporic space by failing to capture the range of interplays in and between multiple scales and spaces that characterises the formulation of a states’ diaspora strategies, their evolution over time, and their variegated material outcomes. Alternative conceptualizations of the ‘sending state’ as a multi‐sited network of governing entities disrupts binary readings of diaspora space, but it is argued here that such an approach reproduces top‐down views of political agency. The review concludes by suggesting that scholars of diaspora strategies would benefit from exploring assemblage thinking, where a sustained engagement with spatial emergence and distributed socio‐material agencies has the potential to reveal the dynamic topological connections through which diasporic spatio‐political formations emerge, endure and may be unsettled. This has implications for understanding the variegated outcomes of diaspora strategies for individual diasporic subjectivities and ideas of common citizenship.

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Feeding the Ties to “Home”: Diaspora Policies for the Next Generations

Cited by 41 publications

References 8 publications

Diaspora policies in comparison: An application of the Emigrant Policies Index (EMIX) for the Latin American and Caribbean region

Diaspora policies in comparison: An application of the Emigrant Policies Index (EMIX) for the Latin American and Caribbean region

Diaspora Identity and a New Generation: Armenian Diaspora Youth on the Genocide and the Karabakh War

The political geographies of diaspora strategies: Rethinking the ‘sending state’

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