Creating and destroying diaspora strategies
New Zealand, like many countries, has recently shifted from disparaging emigrants to celebrating expatriates as heroes. What explains this change? The new government initiatives towards expatriates have been attributed to a neoliberal diaspora strategy, aimed at constructing emigrants and their desc...
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| description | New Zealand, like many countries, has recently shifted from disparaging emigrants to celebrating expatriates as heroes. What explains this change? The new government initiatives towards expatriates have been attributed to a neoliberal diaspora strategy, aimed at constructing emigrants and their descendants as part of a community of knowledge-bearing subjects, in order to help the New Zealand economy go global (Larner 2007: 80). The research in this paper confirms that the new diaspora initiatives emerged from a process of neoliberal reform. However, it also highlights that, in the same period, older, inherited institutional frameworks for interacting with expatriates were being dismantled as part of a different dynamic within the same wider neoliberalization process. In this way, the research builds on and refines the diaspora strategy concept by placing it within a broader analysis of institutional transformation through creative destruction. At the same time, this study opens up a wider research agenda aimed at revealing, understanding and explaining how states have related to diasporas before and beyond the era of neoliberalism. |
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| spelling | oxford-uuid:7630e1e6-d83d-45ed-9c04-60fc926212432022-03-26T20:14:01ZCreating and destroying diaspora strategiesWorking paperhttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_8042uuid:7630e1e6-d83d-45ed-9c04-60fc92621243MigrationPolitical sciencePolitical economy of markets and statesTransnationalismGlobal economic governanceEnglishOxford University Research Archive - ValetInternational Migration Institute2011Gamlen, ANew Zealand, like many countries, has recently shifted from disparaging emigrants to celebrating expatriates as heroes. What explains this change? The new government initiatives towards expatriates have been attributed to a neoliberal diaspora strategy, aimed at constructing emigrants and their descendants as part of a community of knowledge-bearing subjects, in order to help the New Zealand economy go global (Larner 2007: 80). The research in this paper confirms that the new diaspora initiatives emerged from a process of neoliberal reform. However, it also highlights that, in the same period, older, inherited institutional frameworks for interacting with expatriates were being dismantled as part of a different dynamic within the same wider neoliberalization process. In this way, the research builds on and refines the diaspora strategy concept by placing it within a broader analysis of institutional transformation through creative destruction. At the same time, this study opens up a wider research agenda aimed at revealing, understanding and explaining how states have related to diasporas before and beyond the era of neoliberalism. |
| spellingShingle | Migration Political science Political economy of markets and states Transnationalism Global economic governance Gamlen, A Creating and destroying diaspora strategies |
| title | Creating and destroying diaspora strategies |
| title_full | Creating and destroying diaspora strategies |
| title_fullStr | Creating and destroying diaspora strategies |
| title_full_unstemmed | Creating and destroying diaspora strategies |
| title_short | Creating and destroying diaspora strategies |
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| topic | Migration Political science Political economy of markets and states Transnationalism Global economic governance |
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