Adamson, Fiona (2019) 'Sending States and the Making of Intra-Diasporic Politics: Turkey and Its Diaspora(s).' International Migration Review, 53 (1). pp. 210-236.
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Abstract
The multiple politics and identities of many contemporary diasporic configurations raise a number of important conceptual issues for the study of diaspora politics, including what counts as a “diaspora,” how do particular “diasporas” emerge, and what shapes their politics? This article discusses conceptual and substantive splits in the burgeoning social science literature on diasporas and suggests the value of analyzing the politics and policies of sending states as crucial factors in both “diaspora-shaping” and “diaspora-generating” processes. It presents an extended case study of the emergence of diaspora groups connected with contemporary Turkey, situating Turkey’s “New Diaspora Policy” in its historical context. The article concludes by suggesting that the proposed framework allows for a deeper theorization of the relationship between identity categories and political action, thus shedding light on the conceptual puzzle of what constitutes a diaspora.
| Item Type: | Journal Article |
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| SOAS Departments & Centres: | Departments and Subunits > Department of Politics & International Studies |
| ISSN: | 17477379 |
| Copyright Statement: | © The Author(s) 2018. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 License (http://www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits non-commercial use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access pages (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage). |
| DOI (Digital Object Identifier): | https://doi.org/10.1177/0197918318767665 |
| Date Deposited: | 25 Jul 2017 08:13 |
| URI: | https://eprints.soas.ac.uk/id/eprint/24378 |
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