Diaspora incorporation mechanisms: sustained and episodic mobilisation among the British-Egyptian diaspora after the Arab Spring

Kennedy, Gillian

doi:10.1080/1369183x.2019.1693887

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“…The dominant geographies of the migration‐development nexus presume the movement of people from the global South to the global North, with diasporic‐led development centred around the transfer of varying forms of capital from unified groups of migrants connected through shared ancestry and values, oriented to bringing material changes to a static homeland (Brah, 1996; Mohan, 2008; Rollins, 2010). Scholarship in development studies, politics, geography and international relations amongst others, has considered diasporic relationships to countries of heritage, often in the global South, through varying forms of civic engagement and participation for example, hometown associations (HTAs) (Bada, 2015; Fischer, 2018; Lamba‐Nieves, 2018; Mercer et al., 2008; Strunk, 2014; Symth, 2017), financial and social remittances (Burman, 2002; Page & Mercer, 2012; Smyth, 2017) and political activism (Adamson, 2020; Bernal, 2018; Godin, 2018; Ho & McConnell, 2019; Kennedy, 2019; Koinova, 2018; Ndlovu, 2014). These bodies of work articulate the interconnected nature of diasporic engagement, with Mercer et al.…”

Section: The Diaspora‐development Nexusmentioning

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Global development, diasporic communities, and civic space

Peck

2022

Geography Compass

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Over the last twenty years increasing attention has been paid to the ways in which diasporic communities can shape global development processes, thorough a variety of intersecting scales and spatialities. This promotion of diasporic‐centred development has occurred in parallel to a narrowing of civic space and it is these juxtaposing narratives that this paper interrogates. This paper firstly considers diasporic‐centred development before moving on to think about how the contemporary narrowing of civic space may be (re)shaping diasporic civic life and participation in global development processes. The paper concludes that the spaces for diasporic civic participation in development are vulnerable to being squeezed in multiple intersecting ways, including through the racialised marginalisation of diasporic communities in everyday life, restrictions on diasporic associational life, the delegitimising of diasporic organisations in the (formal) development sphere and the extra‐territorial narrowing of diasporic civic space by state (and non‐state) actors. It is imperative that we explore the intersections in the diasporic‐civic space‐development nexus, with further research needed to understand how diasporic communities are responding to these changes, how diasporic civic spaces are reconfiguring and reconstituting themselves in this context, and what this means for global development.

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Section: The Diaspora‐development Nexusmentioning

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Global development, diasporic communities, and civic space

Peck

2022

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Between (de-)mobilization, polarization, and transnational repression: the Egyptian diaspora in the wake of the January 25 uprising

Wackenhut

2024

Globalizations

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Diaspora Protests and Social Uprisings under Authoritarianism

Tofangsazi

2023

Diaspora Studies

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Expatriate citizens of countries under authoritarian rule have been increasingly engaging in protest against repression in their home countries. Whether such diaspora protests can boost social uprisings inside authoritarian countries, however, is yet to be analysed. I hypothesise that diaspora protests inspire protest against authoritarian rulers inside the home country by reducing political repression or providing the dissidents with a perception of political opportunity. To test this hypothesis, I use Iran as a case study of an authoritarian regime with a sizeable diaspora and notable protest surges in recent decades. Using daily protest data from 1996 to 2018, results show that protests against the Iranian regime by Iranian expatriates were followed by a significant increase in the chance of protest incidence inside Iran. This association is robust to a variety of modelling specifications and independent of the role of transnational organisational links between activists, which has been documented in the literature previously.

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Diaspora incorporation mechanisms: sustained and episodic mobilisation among the British-Egyptian diaspora after the Arab Spring

Cited by 3 publications

References 34 publications

Global development, diasporic communities, and civic space

Global development, diasporic communities, and civic space

Between (de-)mobilization, polarization, and transnational repression: the Egyptian diaspora in the wake of the January 25 uprising

Diaspora Protests and Social Uprisings under Authoritarianism

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