Mobilizing and Mobilized Diasporas

Session Submission Type: Full Paper Panel

Session Description

Migrant mobilization is a two-way street. Migrants, refugees, and diaspora communities assert their rights and organize transnationally. At the same time, migrant-sending states seek to engage with their diasporas, shape their identities, extend or limit their rights, and deploy them for political purposes. How do diasporas navigate this complex and interdependent relationship? The papers on this panel look at diaspora communities as both agents and subjects of political forces from a variety of countries: Syria, El Salvador, Poland, Bulgaria, Romania and Hungary.

Sub Unit

• Division 52: Migration & Citizenship

Individual Presentations

• Constructing & Resisting Non-democratic Practices in Hungary’s Diaspora Outreach - Myra A. Waterbury, Ohio University

• Citizenship of the Market and the Specter of Perpetual Return - Ruxandra Paul, Amherst College

• Nonviolent Action in Civil War Borderlands: Evidence from Syrian Facebook - Rana B. Khoury, University of Illinois; Alexandra Arons Siegel, University of Colorado Boulder

• Transnational Democratic Backsliding: El Salvador’s Diasporic Mobilization - Michael Ahn Paarlberg, Virginia Commonwealth University

Chair

• Elizabeth Iams Wellman University of Memphis

Discussant

• Hannah Marie Alarian University of Florida