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 Micro-Foundations: 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
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.
Diaspora Entrepreneurs and Contested States is .... groundbreaking
for diaspora studies... Koinova offers a multi-layered and
multipronged framework of analysis, in a way seeking to offer a
metatheory to explain the behavior of diaspora as a political
actor... The comprehensive nature of this work promises to
stimulate and chart new directions in diaspora studies...
*Anna Ohanyan, Nationalities Papers*
Diaspora Entrepreneurs and Contested States is a remarkable
empirical, methodological and theoretical achievement. It will be
of interest primarily to IR scholars and comparativists of
ethnicity and diaspora studies and it is indispensable for
understanding the growing influence of diasporas in world
politics.
*Idlir Lika, Ethnic and Racial Studies*
a remarkable empirical, methodological and theoretical
achievement...indispensable for understanding the growing influence
of diasporas in world politics.
*Idlir Lika, Ethnic and Racial Studies*
Diasporas are growing in size and influence and Maria Koinova has
produced a definitive study of their political mobilization.
Focusing on what she calls 'diaspora entrepreneurs', she
effectively challenges statist theories of mobilization. She
identifies four types of entrepreneurs, and distinctive contexts in
which they operate. This generates nine pathways of mobilization
that are compellingly documented in case studies. Conceptually
sophisticated and empirically rich, this book makes a significant
contribution to our understanding of diasporas but also to
comparative politics more generally.
*Richard New Lebow, Professor of International Political Theory,
War Studies, King's College London*
This book is essential reading for understanding why diasporas from
contested states mobilize in such different ways. Koinova's
typology at once highlights individuals' agency and explains how
that agency is shaped by socio-political context. The pathways she
identifies confirm the interconnectedness of today's global
politics, suggesting an important shift in how we should understand
and investigate international relations.
*Jennifer M. Brinkerhoff, Professor of Public Administration and
International Affairs, George Washington University*
Koinova performs the tour de force of combining the literature on
social movements, diaspora entrepreneurs, and the policy decisions
of states, IGOs, NGOs, and engagement by non-state actors. Not only
a theoretically sophisticated framework, it also rests on massive
empirical analysis in host states in Western Europe as well as home
states in the European neighbourhood. A very impressive combination
of theoretical and empirical rigour.
*Gary Goertz, Professor of Political Science and Peace Studies,
Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, University of Notre
Dame*
Diasporic entrepreneurs and individual actors do more than send
remittances home. As Maria Koinova shows in her deft, timely, and
innovative study, they intercede importantly and dangerously in the
political and social battles of their homelands. Everyone who cares
about the critical impact of diasporic actors on bodies politic
across the globe can now turn to this timely, methodologically
sophisticated book for meaningful and policy shaping insights.
*Robert I. Rotberg, President Emeritus of the World Peace
Foundation and Founding Director of Harvard Kennedy School's
Programme on Intrastate Conflict*
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.
*Andrew Geddes, Chair in Migration Studies and Director, Migration
Policy Centre, European University Institute*
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