1st Edition

International Migration and Globalization of Domestic Politics

Edited By Rey Koslowski Copyright 2005
216 Pages
by Routledge

216 Pages
by Routledge

216 Pages
by Routledge

Increasing international migration, the information revolution and democratization have propelled a globalization of the domestic politics of many states and, although diasporic politics is not new, emigrant political participation in homeland politics has grown as well as adapted to the new methods of the information revolution. This book examines the participation of emigrants in their home... Read more

1. International migration and the globalization of domestic politics: a conceptual framework  2. Immigrant organizations and the globalization of Turkey's domestic politics  3. Mobilizing ethnic conflict: Kurdish separatism in Germany and the PKK  4. Israelis in a Jewish diaspora: the dilemmas of a globalized group  5. Migrant membership as an instituted process: transnationalization, the state and the extra-territorial conduct of mexican politics  6. Politics from outside: Chinese overseas and political and economic change in China  7. Opposing constructions and agendas: the politics of Hindu and Indian American organizations  8. A marooned diaspora: ethnic Russians in the Near Abroad and their impact on Russia's foreign policy and domestic politics

 

Biography

Rey Koslowski is Associate Professor of Political Science at Rutgers University Newark. He has held fellowships at the Woodrow Wilson International Centre for Scholars, Princeton University and Georgetown University. He is author of Migrants and Citizens: Demographic Change in the European States System and co-editor of Global Human Smuggling: Comparative Perspectives.