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This book develops a novel understanding of four types of diaspora entrepreneurs based on their linkages to de facto states and different global contexts, and a theory about their interactions with host-land foreign policies, homeland governments, parties, non-state actors, critical events, and limited global influences.
List of contents
- 1: Introduction: Individual Agency and Socio-spatial Linkages of Diaspora Entrepreneurs to Contested States
- 2: The Macrofoundations: Socio-spatial Positionality of Diaspora Entrepreneurs in Transnational Social Fields
- 3: The Microfoundations: Four Types of Diaspora Entrepreneurs and a Two-level Typological Theory
- 4: Albanian Transnational Social Field and Diaspora Entrepreneurs
- 5: Albanian Diaspora Mobilization for Kosovo Statehood
- 6: Palestinian Transnational Social Field and Diaspora Entrepreneurs
- 7: Diaspora Mobilization for Palestinian Statehood
- 8: Armenian Transnational Social Field and Diaspora Entrepreneurs
- 9: Armenian Diaspora Mobilization for Nagorno-Karabakh and Genocide Recognition
- 10: The Impact of Host-states and Places Within Them on Diaspora Mobilizations
- 11: Conclusions: Follow the Socio-spatial Linkages
- Appendix
- Bibliography
About the author
Maria Koinova is Professor in International Relations at the University of Warwick in the UK. She is the author of Ethnonationalist Conflict in Postcommunist States (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2013), and she has published in numerous leading journals such as the European Journal of International Relations, International Studies Review, and Foreign Policy Analysis.
Summary
This book develops a novel understanding of four types of diaspora entrepreneurs based on their linkages to de facto states and different global contexts, and a theory about their interactions with host-land foreign policies, homeland governments, parties, non-state actors, critical events, and limited global influences.
Additional text
Koinova provides a fresh, innovative, and compelling perspective into the mobilization of conflict-generated diasporas. Built on a bedrock of impressive empirical evidence focused on diasporas from Kosovo, Nagorno-Karabakh, and Palestine, Koinova moves beyond a statist paradigm in diaspora studies to show how four types of diaspora-generated entrepreneurs Broker, Local, Distant, and Reserved are powerfully shaped by the contexts in which they operate to channel their homeland-oriented goals in transnational social fields.
