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Embracing Complexity: Diaspora Politics as a Co-Construction

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  • Élise Féron

    (Tampere Peace Research Institute, Tampere University, Finland)

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Building on cases of conflict-generated diaspora groups, the article proposes to understand diaspora politics as a co-construction between a series of actors that is not limited to home and host states. It argues that repeated attempts to understand diaspora politics as mostly produced by home or host countries is the result of an unwillingness to embrace the fundamentally disruptive nature of diasporas in interstate politics. Diasporas are hybrid political actors that have connections, not only with their countries of origin and of residence, but also with other diaspora groups located in the same country or elsewhere as well as with other actors at the transnational level. Taking stock of state-based approaches to diaspora politics, as well as of analyses focusing on internal diaspora matters, the article shifts the focus towards the interstate and transnational dimensions of diaspora politics and emphasises their potential to move across levels and spheres of engagement

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  • Élise Féron, 2020. "Embracing Complexity: Diaspora Politics as a Co-Construction," Migration Letters, Migration Letters, vol. 17(1), pages 27-36, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:mig:journl:v:17:y:2020:i:1:p:27-36
    DOI: 10.33182/ml.v17i1.758
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