1st Edition

Diasporas and Transportation of Homeland Conflicts Inter-group Dynamics and Host Country Responses

Edited By Élise Féron, Bahar Baser Copyright 2024
226 Pages
by Routledge

226 Pages
by Routledge

226 Pages
by Routledge

This book explores the transformation and reinvention of conflict-generated diaspora groups’ politics in countries of residence. Numerous narratives link diasporas and conflicts: diasporas are seen alternatively as peace wreckers or peace makers, as products of forced migration related to conflicts, or as targets of securitization policies. “Transported conflicts” occurring within and between... Read more

Introduction—Diasporas and Transportation of Homeland Conflicts: Inter-group Dynamics and Host-Country Responses

Élise Féron and Bahar Baser

 

1. Pathways to Conflict Transportation and Autonomisation: The Armenian Diaspora and the Conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh

Élise Féron and Bahar Baser

 

2. Autonomising Conflict: Conflict Transportation in Online Activity among Kurdish and Turkish Diasporas in Denmark

Cæcilie Svop Jensen

 

3. Sri Lankan Diasporas between Participation and Conflict: Intergroup Dynamics in Italy

Anna Quattrone

 

4. Conflicted Identities: Negotiating Belonging among Young People from the Lebanese Diasporas in Montreal

Bruno Lefort

 

5. Diaspora Memory Conflicts: Struggles over Genocide Commemoration, Recognition and Denial

Camilla Orjuela

 

6. Cypriot Youth Views Matter: Comparison of Diaspora and Islander Youth’s Views on Peace

Cihan Dizdaroğlu

 

7. A People In-Between: Examining Indicators of Collective Identity among

Georgian Azeri-Turks

Karli-Jo T. Storm

 

8. The Awakening of a Latent Diaspora: The Political Mobilization of First and Second Generation Turkish Migrants in Sweden

Bahar Baser

 

9. Identity and Integration of Russian Speakers in the Baltic States: A Framework for Analysis

Ammon Cheskin

 

10. Diasporas, Remittances and State Fragility: Assessing the Linkages

Brandon Lum, Milana Nikolko, Yiagadeesen Samy and David Carment

 

11. Divided Nationhood and Multiple Membership: A Framework for Assessing Kin-State Policies and Their Impact

Myra A. Waterbury

Biography

Élise Féron is a Docent and Senior Research Fellow at the Tampere Peace Research Institute, Tampere University, Finland.

Bahar Baser is Associate Professor at Durham University's School of Government and International Affairs, UK.