Diasporas and the Nation-State: From Victims to Challengers

Diasporas and the Nation-State: From Victims to Challengers

Robin Cohen

Luglio 1, 1996

Copyright © 1996 Royal Institute of International Affairs

Journal Article

Robin Cohen

Journal Article

10.2307/2625554

0020-5850

The notion of 'diaspora', used first in the classical world, has acquired renewed importance in the late twentieth century. Once the term applied principally to Jews and less commonly to Greeks, Armenians and Africans. Now at least thirty ethnic groups declare that they are a diaspora, or are so deemed by others. Why these sudden proclamation? Frightened by the extent of international migration and their inability to construct a stable, pluralist, social order, many states have turned away from the idea of assimilating or integrating their ethnic minorities. For their part, minorities no longer desire to abandon their pasts. Many retain or have acquired dual citizenship, while the consequences of globalization have meant that ties with a homeland can be preserved or even reinvented. How have diasporas changed? What consequences arise for the nationstate?

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Luglio 1, 1996

ArticleType: research-article / Issue Title: Ethnicity and International Relations / Full publication date: Jul., 1996 / Copyright © 1996 Royal Institute of International Affairs

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International Affairs (Royal Institute of International Affairs 1944-)

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International Affairs (Royal Institute of International Affairs 1944-)

Copyright © 1996 Royal Institute of International Affairs

Diasporas and the Nation-State

Diasporas and the Nation-State: From Victims to Challengers

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