Diasporas, Development and the Second Generation

Toivanen, Mari; Baser, Bahar

Diasporas, Development and the Second Generation

Toivanen, Mari; Baser, Bahar

Authors

Mari Toivanen

Dr Bahar Baser bahar.baser@durham.ac.uk
Associate Professor

Contributors

Liam Kennedy
Editor

Abstract

The new millennium has witnessed the proliferation of scholarship and research projects focusing on the nexus of migration and development (M&D). The dominant tendency in M&D research has been to assess the impact of diaspora’s involvement in homeland development, often approached within the national frame of reference. More recently, attempts to problematize the nation-state centred logic in M&D research have emerged, although generally theoretically informed discussions on what this means for conceptualizations of “development” and “diaspora” have been rare. Drawing from scholarship on transnationalism, we discuss the transnational frame as a way to problematize the nation-state centred logic in understandings of “diaspora” and “development” in M&D research. This opens a venue to examine the means, motivations and agency in terms of diaspora members’ – and their descendants’ – cross-border activities with clear development goal towards the sending region and to better grasp how diasporas operate as transnational agents of social change and development.

Citation

Toivanen, M., & Baser, B. (2022). Diasporas, Development and the Second Generation. In L. Kennedy (Ed.), Routledge International Handbook of Diaspora Diplomacy (366-378). Routledge

Online Publication Date	Feb 25, 2022
Publication Date	2022-02
Deposit Date	Dec 10, 2021
Publicly Available Date	Aug 26, 2023
Publisher	Routledge
Pages	366-378
Edition	1st ed.
Book Title	Routledge International Handbook of Diaspora Diplomacy
Chapter Number	28
Public URL	https://durham-repository.worktribe.com/output/1651919
Publisher URL	https://www.routledge.com/Routledge-International-Handbook-of-Diaspora-Diplomacy/Kennedy/p/book/9780367468439