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Empowering a Fragmented Diaspora: Turkish Immigrant Organizations’ Perceptions of and Responses to Turkey’s Diaspora Engagement Policy (Forthcoming)

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posted on 2020-11-17, 22:50 authored by Zekiye ArkilicZekiye Arkilic
The existing literature on state-diaspora relations, primarily in the MENA, has mostly focused on how and why home states engage their diasporas, rather than with what consequences. This article investigates how different groups within the diaspora community are affected by the homeland’s multi-tiered diaspora engagement policy. I argue that sending states influence select immigrant organizations’ mobilization by empowering them in two key ways: They instill self-confidence and collective identity in organization leaders and provide them with capacity-development and know-how support. Yet such differential treatment may become a source of suspicion in host states and cause resentment among the disregarded diaspora groups. The findings draw from extensive fieldwork conducted in France, Germany, and Turkey between 2013 and 2019 and original data derived from interviews, official documents, and news sources.

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Arkilic, A. (2020). Empowering a Fragmented Diaspora: Turkish Immigrant Organizations’ Perceptions of and Responses to Turkey’s Diaspora Engagement Policy (Forthcoming). Mediterranean Politics, 1-26. https://doi.org/10.1080/13629395.2020.1822058

Journal title

Mediterranean Politics

Publication date

2020-01-01

Pagination

1-26

Publisher

Taylor & Francis

Publication status

Accepted

Contribution type

Article

Online publication date

2020-11-16

ISSN

1362-9395

eISSN

1743-9418

Language

en

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