Remapping the Boundaries of `State' and `National Identity': Incorporating Diasporas into IR Theorizing

Abstract

The structural components of a state are regularly conflated with a state's national identity. In reality, however, the assumption that the boundaries of a state and its national identity are coterminous is problematic. While this has always been the case, changes in the ability of actors in the international system to use communication and transportation technologies to sustain transnational collective identities points to the need for new empirical research in this area. Contemporary diasporas are defined by a national or cultural identity, yet differ from nation-states in terms of their organizational and spatial logics. By comparing diaspora mobilization in two cases, we find that both non-state political entrepreneurs and state elites are using diasporic practices of identity formation as a means of generating economic and political support in an increasingly integrated global economy. This points to discontinuities between a territorially defined states system and deterritorialized practices of collective identity formation.

Three main approaches of diaspora diplomacy in foreign policy

“…Государство и мигранты» [7], в которой автор рассмотрел идеи ученых Фионы Адамсон и Мадлен Димитриу, утверждающих, что, с точки зрения международных отношений, диаспора может дополнять и другой список проблем, таких как про-цессы регионализации, космополитизм, появление структур мирового правительства -альтернативных тем, заслуживающих эмпирического исследования [8]. В условиях возрастающего интереса к исследованию данного вопроса [9,10] Франческо Рагацци рассмо-трел отношение государства и диаспоры в рамках теории политической социологии международных отношений.…”

Pedagogy of the Dispersed: A Cost-Benefit Analysis of the African Diaspora Phenomenon through the Human and Social Capital Lens

“…Community associations are used as a way of maintaining collective memories and cultural identities that connect members to a sense of common identity which the Africans in the diaspora are likely to lose through integration or assimilation into the dominant society. Therefore diaspora is a practice (Adamson & Demetriou, 2007), a stance (Brubaker, 2005), or a discourse (Van Hear, 2012) that is politically and socially constructed. As Betts and Jones (2012) noted, "It is subject to a process of contestation over insider/outsider boundaries and orientation, and can intersect with other organisations and identity categories in complex ways" (p. 6).…”

La identidad como identificación de idénticos. El gobierno hacia poblaciones emigradas*

“…Si el tratamiento más frecuente provenía de la Antropología, la Sociología o los Estudios Culturales, se reclama ahora una mayor dedicación por parte de la Ciencia Política o las Relaciones Internacionales (Adamson y Demetriou, 2007;Ragazzi, 2009). Dentro de estas disciplinas académicas, algunos autores se muestran más proclives a aportar argumentos que favorezcan la integración de los no nacionales tanto a las sociedades de residencia como a las de origen (Sheffer, 2003;Shain, 1999;Vertovec y Cohen, 1999;Fitzgerald, 2004), o analizar los fundamentos para posibilitar una especie de ciudadanía externa (Bauböck, 2003).…”