Emerging diasporas: Exploring mobilization outside the homeland
| Autor: | Erin K. Jenne, Kathleen Gallagher Cunningham, Stephen M. Saideman, Connor Kopchick |
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| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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education.field_of_study
Mobilization Sociology and Political Science 05 social sciences Population 0507 social and economic geography Identity (social science) Homeland 0506 political science Diaspora Political science Political Science and International Relations 050602 political science & public administration Ethnology education 050703 geography Safety Research |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Peace Research. 59:107-121 |
| ISSN: | 1460-3578 0022-3433 |
| Popis: | An enormous number of people are leaving their homelands around the world today. This has happened several times in the past, but migration has spiked in recent years. These population movements can have significant effects on both the host country (where emigrants or refugees settle), as well as politics back in the homeland. After they leave their homelands, why do some groups mobilize, and in what ways? In this article, we examine a number of factors that may impact when emigrated groups mobilize after they move. We develop a new dataset on potential diasporas in the United States to evaluate a series of hypotheses, including those about motivations for mobilization such as identity maintenance, the objective plight of co-ethnics in the homeland, and group capacity to mobilize. We find some merit in the identity preservation argument and a strong effect of geographic concentration of the diaspora segment. Surprisingly, diaspora mobilization does not appear to be strongly related to conflict in the homeland among these groups. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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