The Politics of Diasporic Mobilization and Repression

Session Submission Type: Created Panel

Session Description

This session explore the diasporic outreach policies of a wide variety of sending states, with a particular focus on the behaviors of authoritarian or repressive states towards their diasporas. How do states engage in repressive tactics from afar, and how do states encourage and channel mobilization of their diasporic citizens? Countries under study include: China, the Philippines, Indonesia, India, Turkey, Senegal, Zimbabwe, Argentina, Brazil, and Chile.

Sub Unit

• Division 52: Migration & Citizenship

Individual Presentations

• Authoritarianism and Emigrant Political Behavior - Fulya Felicity Turkmen, University of California Riverside

• Dynamics of Diaspora Policy in China: From Deng Xiaoping to Xi Jinping - Yun-Tzu Chang

• Echoes of Inception: The Historical Roots of Diaspora Mobilisation - Juliette Saetre, European University Institute

• Diasporic Geopolitics and Transnational Repression - Fiona B. Adamson, SOAS University of London; Enze Han, University of Hong Kong

Discussant

• Kai Yui Samuel Chan University of California, Berkeley