Diasporas in Peace and Conflict: A look at Post-Communist Europe and Eurasia
Scholars and policymakers are increasingly attuned to the potential impact of migrants’ long-distance activism on politics and conflicts in their countries of origin. Sarah Garding surveyed diaspora politics in post-communist Europe and Eurasia by highlighting the major mechanisms of long-distance political participation and the way in which diaspora activism reshapes domestic politics in the region’s countries of emigration.
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow, School of Interdisciplinary Area Studies and Nuffield College, University of Oxford
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