Transnational Diaspora Lobbying: Europeanization and the Kurdish Question

Berkowitz, Lenka; Mügge, Liza

doi:10.1080/07256868.2013.864625

Cited by 19 publications

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“…Diaspora-centered development influences the international relations between countries in the Global North and the Global South through development, migration and foreign policies (Shain, 2002; Varadarajan, 2010; Pellerin & Mullings, 2013). Diasporas engage in diplomatic tactics to communicate with and connect an array of stakeholders and audiences, including participating in high-level diplomatic negotiations; as advocates or lobbyists to influence domestic and foreign policies; or through their interactions with host communities (see Berkowitz & Mügge, 2014; Ho & McConnell, 2019; Newland, 2010; McConnell, 2016).…”

Section: Diaspora Strategies and Connectivitymentioning

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Leveraging Connectivities: Comparative Diaspora Strategies and Evolving Cultural Pluralities in China and Singapore

2020

American Behavioral Scientist

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Migrant-sending states are connecting systematically with their emigrants and diasporic descendants through policies known as “diaspora strategies.” Underlying diaspora strategizing are the manifold ways in which states capitalize on past migration and present mobility patterns to advance national developmental agendas. Such agendas are conceived in terms of economic and (soft) political power, respectively referred to as “diaspora-and-development” and “diaspora diplomacy.” This article undertakes a comparative analysis of the diaspora strategies by China and Singapore to ask critical questions about, first, the connectivities between migrant-sending states. Doing so elicits the multidirectional migration flows that connect nation-states, showing how the diaspora outreach of one affects the other. Second, the article examines the (multi)cultural logics that underpin diaspora strategizing and its possible impacts on domestic agendas. Such an approach urges researchers to study the race/ethnicity politics that underpin diaspora strategies.

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Leveraging Connectivities: Comparative Diaspora Strategies and Evolving Cultural Pluralities in China and Singapore

2020

American Behavioral Scientist

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“…Diaspora research to date has focused on the 'symbolic' roles diasporas play in framing political events in their homeland, and the role of remittances in post-conflict reconstruction and economic development [9]. If the country of origin is in a state of war, diasporas may engage in diplomacy, lobbying for their host country's support of the warring parties, or mobilize to promote international peace efforts [5], [7], [9]. A particularly illuminating study of Tamil diaspora [9] sheds light on the complexities of diasporic involvement in the time of crisis -people have different reasons to engage in 'homeland politics', and such engagement happens across diverse social contexts.…”

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confidence: 99%

Mobilizing Diasporas: Understanding Transnational Relief Efforts in the Age of Social Media

Boichak¹

2019

Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences

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Social media have reconfigured the international relief landscape by creating discursive spaces for grassroots activism. In this study, I use semantic networks to systematically investigate the role of social media in mobilizing a new actor-diasporas-for providing humanitarian aid. I visualize the structure of conversations among Ukrainian diaspora communities to illuminate the social contexts for two sets of behaviors: political advocacy, the traditional pathway for diaspora engagement with their country of origin; and humanitarian relief, an emergent collective behavior in which grassroots actors supply aid to their homeland directly, bypassing institutional brokers such as international nonprofit organizations. Leveraging data from online discussions within ten diaspora communities on Facebook, I demonstrate how social media facilitate diasporic activism by reinforcing horizontal ties between benefactors and affected communities. This comparative case study contributes to a deeper understanding of diasporic involvement in relief in the age of social media.

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“…A coalition of Kurdish organizations demanded that minority rights be made a condition for Turkey’s entry into the European Union. They invoked EU sanctioned democratic and human rights norms, and partnered with international human rights organizations to lobby the European Parliament, the European Commission and standing committees such as the EU–Turkey Joint Parliamentary Committee and the Committee of Women’s Rights and Gender Equality (see Berkowitz and Mugge, 2014).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Diasporas may also seek to influence domestic and foreign policy agendas in their countries of origin (see Newland, 2010), or lobby other state actors and international organizations for the right to create a new nation-state (e.g. on Kurds, see Berkowitz and Mugge, 2014; on Palestinians, see Mavroudi, 2008; on Tibetans, see McConnell, 2016). In such ways, diasporas play an increasingly important role in diplomatic negotiations by ‘partaking in governing’ (Sending et al, 2011).…”

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Conceptualizing ‘diaspora diplomacy’: Territory and populations betwixt the domestic and foreign

McConnell

2017

Progress in Human Geography

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This article bridges diaspora studies and diplomacy studies by proposing the concept of ‘diaspora diplomacy’, which considers the components of diplomacy and the changing relationships that diasporas have with states and other diplomatic actors. First, we ask who are the key actors engaged in diaspora diplomacy? Second, how is diplomatic work enacted by and through diasporas? Third, what are the geographies of diaspora diplomacy? Diaspora diplomacy directs researchers to reconsider the distinction between domestic and foreign policy, and the territorial dimensions of both diaspora and diplomacy. We engage with assemblage theory, highlighting the polylateral and multi-directional aspects of diaspora diplomacy.

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Transnational Diaspora Lobbying: Europeanization and the Kurdish Question

Cited by 19 publications

References 33 publications

Leveraging Connectivities: Comparative Diaspora Strategies and Evolving Cultural Pluralities in China and Singapore

Leveraging Connectivities: Comparative Diaspora Strategies and Evolving Cultural Pluralities in China and Singapore

Mobilizing Diasporas: Understanding Transnational Relief Efforts in the Age of Social Media

Conceptualizing ‘diaspora diplomacy’: Territory and populations betwixt the domestic and foreign

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