Migrant Mobilization for Homeland Politics: A Social Movement Approach

Quinsaat, Sharon M.

doi:10.1111/soc4.12086

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“…This perspective is a foundational concept in social movement studies (McAdam, 1982;McAdam, Tarrow, & Tilly, 2001;Meyer, 2004;Tarrow, 2011) and is complimentary to contexts-of-reception and incorporation arguments in migration studies (Bloemraad, 2006). In brief, the framework of political opportunities suggests that changes within a group's broader political and institutional environment fosters collective empowerment and the emergence of collective action (Koopmans, 2004;Quinsaat, 2013;Sökefeld, 2006). Before turning to our conceptual framework of constraints, we describe below the three general opportunity-driven approaches that underlie explanations of immigrant TPA.…”

Section: Opportunity-driven Accounts Of Immigrant Tpamentioning

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Suppressing transnationalism: bringing constraints into the study of transnational political action

Chaudhary

Moss

2019

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Studies of transnationalism typically account for homeland-oriented transnational political action (TPA) as the product of varying political opportunities. Yet, the opportunity-driven perspective overlooks why some immigrant and diaspora communities refrain from engaging in homeland politics or are forestalled in their attempts to do so. We address this shortcoming by theorizing how sociopolitical conditions can constrain TPA. Drawing inductively from primary data on Pakistani, Syrian, Libyan, and Yemeni diasporas as well as secondary sources, we identify four sources of constraint: 1) geopolitics and interstate relations; 2) origin-country authoritarianism; 3) weak origin-country governance; and 4) exclusionary receivingcountry contexts. By demonstrating how these socio-political forces suppress TPA, we contribute a new theoretical approach that emphasizes the conditions and relations that hinder cross-border political action. In sum, the article illustrates the theoretical importance of understanding variation in TPA and the utility of examining negative cases in the study of immigrant and diaspora transnational politics.

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Section: Opportunity-driven Accounts Of Immigrant Tpamentioning

confidence: 99%

Suppressing transnationalism: bringing constraints into the study of transnational political action

Chaudhary

Moss

2019

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“…A growing number of scholars on civil wars incorporate diasporas in their models as external nonstate actors in intrastate conflicts (Adamson 2002(Adamson , 2013Brinkerhoff 2009Brinkerhoff , 2011Collier and Hoeffler 2000;Hall 2015;Kaldor 2001;Koinova 2011;Lyons 2006;Shain 2002;Salehyan and Gleditsch 2006;Salehyan 2007;Smith and Stares 2007). Other scholars address diaspora mobilization from a transnational social movement perspective, seeking to explain conditions and causal mechanisms for mobilization (Adamson 2002(Adamson , 2013Koinova 2009, Sökefeld 2006Quinsaat 2013;Wayland 2004). This article calls attention to the need to analyze diaspora movements from relational and positional perspectives and highlights the importance of positional analysis.…”

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Beyond Statist Paradigms: Sociospatial Positionality and Diaspora Mobilization in International Relations

Koinova

2017

International Studies Review

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This article presents a new positional perspective for the analysis of diaspora mobilization in international relations (IR), seeking to shift debates beyond realist, liberalist, and constructivist thinking, and speaking to a cluster of sociopositional theories in IR. It provides a conceptual discussion and empirical illustrations of diaspora positionality-the power diaspora activists derive from their sociospatial positions in particular contexts-and its utility to account for different mobilization trajectories. Positionality as a sociospatial concept offers opportunities to analyze diaspora politics beyond statist paradigms, dominated by analyses of triadic relationships between diasporas, host states (immigration states), and home states (sending states). Diasporas have links to many contexts beyond host states and original home states. Such linkages structure their relationships globally. If diaspora entrepreneurs perceive themselves as deriving strong powers to achieve homeland-oriented goals from a particular sociospatial context, they are more likely to pursue claims through institutional politics and moderate means. If they perceive themselves as deriving weak powers from a context, they are more likely to engage with activist networks and pursue claims in transgressive ways. The conceptual discussion engages aspects of diaspora positionality in juxtaposition with other spatial concepts such as geographical proximity/distance and position in a social network. The empirical discussion brings patterns of mobilization trajectories from the Armenian diaspora mobilization for genocide recognition and the Palestinian diaspora mobilization for statehood, informed by a rich multisited fieldwork.

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“…Second, problematizing frames (Bennett, Ter Wal, Lipinski, Fabiszak, and Krzyzanowski, 2013;Goodman and Speer, 2007;Horsti, 2007) cover aspects like crime, terrorism, or illegality. Third, there are the economic consequences of a migration frame (Madra and Adaman, 2014;Quinsaat, 2013). This can include consequences for local economies or the welfare state.…”

Section: Immigration Discourses In Mass Mediamentioning

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New perspective? Comparing frame occurrence in online and traditional news media reporting on Europe’s “Migration Crisis”

Czymara

Klingeren

2021

Communications

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News media have transformed over the last decades, there being increasing numbers of online news suppliers and an increase in online news consumption. We examine how reporting on immigration differs between popular German online and print media over three crucial years of the so-called immigration crisis from 2015 to 2017. This study extends knowledge on the framing of the crisis by examining a period covering the start, peak, and time after the intake of refugees. Moreover, we establish whether online and print reporting differs in terms of both frame occurrence and variability. The period of the crisis provided an ideal test to see whether the focus of media reporting differed between online and print sources. Employing a most- similar- cases design based on (autonomous) online and print versions of three major German news outlets, we extract the dominant frames in almost 18,500 articles using algorithm-based topic modelling. While results indicate that many frames are more visible in either online or print media, these differences often do not follow theoretical expectations. Furthermore, online media are dominated by particular frames and, hence, show less diversity than print media. However, important key events happening during our period of investigation do not affect overall diversity of frames.

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Migrant Mobilization for Homeland Politics: A Social Movement Approach

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Cited by 20 publications

References 75 publications

Suppressing transnationalism: bringing constraints into the study of transnational political action

Suppressing transnationalism: bringing constraints into the study of transnational political action

Beyond Statist Paradigms: Sociospatial Positionality and Diaspora Mobilization in International Relations

New perspective? Comparing frame occurrence in online and traditional news media reporting on Europe’s “Migration Crisis”

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