Diaspora politics
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Diaspora politics is the
To understand a diaspora's politics, one must first understand its historical context and attachments.
Self-identified diasporas place great importance on their homeland, because of their ethnic and cultural association with it, especially if it has been 'lost' or 'conquered'. That has led
Ethnic diaspora communities are now recognized by scholars as "inevitable" and "endemic" features of the international system, writes Yossi Shain and Tamara Cofman Wittes,[1] for the following reasons:
- First, within each of a diaspora's host states, resident members can organize domestically to maximize their political clout.
- Second, a diaspora can exert significant pressure in its homeland's domestic political arena regarding issues of diaspora concern.
- Lately, a diaspora's transnational community can engage directly with third-party states and international organizations, in effect bypassing its homeland and host state governments.
Diasporas are thus perceived as transnational political entities, operating on "behalf of their entire people" and capable of acting independently from any individual state (their homeland or their host states).
See also
- African diaspora
- Diaspora politics in the United States
- Golus nationalism
- Identity politics
- Irredentism
- Tibetan independence movement
- Transnationalism
- Right to homeland
- Right of return
- Zionism
References
- ^ ISBN 0-275-97533-9
- ISBN 0-275-97533-9