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Mobilising the Diaspora: How Refugees Challenge Authoritarianism
Alexander Betts,Will Jones +1 more
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In this paper, the authors examine the internal politics of transnational mobilisation, revealing the surprising and ambivalent role played by outsiders, from Rwandans resisting their repatriation, to Zimbabweans preventing arms shipments.Abstract:
Over half the world lives under authoritarian regimes. For these people, the opportunity to engage in politics moves outside the state's territory. Mobilising across borders, diasporas emerge to challenge such governments. This book offers an in-depth examination of the internal politics of transnational mobilisation. Studying Rwandan and Zimbabwean exiles, it exposes the power, interests, and unexpected agendas behind mobilisation, revealing the surprising and ambivalent role played by outsiders. Far from being passive victims waiting for humanitarian assistance, refugees engage actively in political struggle. From Rwandans resisting their repatriation, to Zimbabweans preventing arms shipments, political exiles have diverse aims and tactics. Conversely, the governments they face also deploy a range of transnational strategies, and those that purport to help them often do so with hidden agendas. This shifting political landscape reveals the centrality of transnationalism within global politics, the historical and political contingency of diasporas, and the precarious agency of refugees.read more
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Warlord Politics and African States
John Cartwright,William Reno +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors demonstrate how African rulers hold on to power while severed from foreign aid and subjected to collapsing economies and disappearing bureaucracies, focusing on the examples of Liberia, Nigeria, Sierra Leone and Zaire.
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Old Concepts Making New History: Refugee Self-reliance, Livelihoods and the ‘Refugee Entrepreneur’
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a short history of the evolution of the concept of self-reliance in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, including its linkage to livelihoods.
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Two centuries of flows between ‘here’ and ‘there’: political remittances and their transformative potential
TL;DR: In this paper, a concept of political remittances is proposed, which offers a distinct analytical perspective and enables a comparative assessment across time and space by providing a new conceptualisation.
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The Rhetoric and Reality of Localisation: Refugee-Led Organisations in Humanitarian Governance
TL;DR: When refugees flee war and persecution, protection and assistance are usually provided by United Nations organisations and their NGO implementing partners as discussed by the authors, but in parallel is a largely neglected story: the human rights of refugees.
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Mobilising diasporas for justice. Opportunity structures and the presencing of a violent past
TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigate how the global dominance of the transitional justice discourse and practice has come to make up an important context for diaspora mobilisation, and they show that in relation to Rwanda, state dominance and divides are largely replicated in the diasporic space.
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