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Author:   Maria Koinova 

Why do conflict-generated diasporas mobilize in contentious and non-contentious ways or use mixed strategies? This book develops a theory of socio-spatial positionality and its implications for the individual agency of diaspora entrepreneurs. A novel typology features four types of diaspora entrepreneurs—Broker, Local, Distant, and Reserved—depending on the relative strength of their socio-spatial linkages to host-land, original homeland, and other global locations. A two-level typological theory captures nine causal pathways unravelling how diaspora entrepreneurs operate in transnational social fields and interact with host-land foreign policies, homeland governments, parties, non-state actors, critical events, and limited global influences. Non-contention often occurs when diaspora entrepreneurs act autonomously and when host-state foreign policies converge with their goals. Dual-pronged contention is common under the influence of homeland governments, non-state actors, and political parties. The most contention occurs in response to violent events in the original homeland or adjacent to it fragile states. The book is informed by 300 interviews among the Albanian, Armenian, and Palestinian diasporas connected to de facto states, Kosovo, Nagorno-Karabakh, and Palestine respectively. Interviews were conducted in the UK, Germany, France, Netherlands, Sweden, Switzerland, Brussels in Belgium, as well as Kosovo and Armenia in the European neighbourhood.

Diaspora Entrepreneurs and Contested States 1st Table of contents:

1. Introduction: Individual Agency and Socio-spatial Linkages of Diaspora Entrepreneurs to Contested States
Why Study Diaspora Entrepreneurs from a Socio-spatial Perspective?
Other Intellectual Contributions of This Book
Defining Concepts
The Nature of Diaspora Entrepreneurs’ Socio-spatial Linkages
The Argument: Four Types of Diaspora Entrepreneurs and a Two-level Typological Theory
Scope Conditions and Methodology
The Dataset
The Plan of This Book
2. The Macrofoundations: Socio-spatial Positionality of Diaspora Entrepreneurs in Transnational Social Fields
Beyond Statist Perspectives
Transnational Social Fields and Spaces
Contested State Sovereignty in De Facto and Fragile States
Relational Theories in IR and Structural Configurations
Specifying Socio-spatial Positionality in Diaspora Politics
Structure and Agency
Conclusions
3. The Microfoundations: Four Types of Diaspora Entrepreneurs and a Two-level Typological Theory
Diaspora Entrepreneurs: Typology of Socio-spatial Linkages
Politically Relevant Environment for Diaspora Mobilization
Important PRE Factors
Causal Mechanisms
Outcomes: Mobilization in a Two-level Typological Theory
Typological Theory and Causal Pathways
Individual Diaspora Entrepreneurs and Their Causal Pathways
Non-contentious Causal Pathways
Dual-pronged and Contentious Pathways
Conclusions
4. Albanian Transnational Social Field and Diaspora Entrepreneurs
Kosovo Statehood in the Albanian Transnational Social Field
Weak Statehood in the Balkans
Increased Interactions Among Populations
Four Types of Albanian Diaspora Entrepreneurs
Conclusions
5. Albanian Diaspora Mobilization for Kosovo Statehood
The Secessionist Period
Seeking Autonomy and Contacts with Civil Society
Transnationally Close to Non-state Actors
Violence in Kosovo Increasing Contention in the Diaspora
The Post-conflict Period
Responding to Critical Events after the Kosovo War
Relative Autonomy in Mobilizing for Kosovo’s Independence
Close to Kosovo’s Government
Remotely Related to Homeland Parties
Conclusions
6. Palestinian Transnational Social Field and Diaspora Entrepreneurs
Palestinian Statehood in the Transnational Social Field
Weak and Fragile Statehood in the MENA Region
Palestinians in the Transnational Social Field
Four Types of Palestinian Diaspora Entrepreneurs
Conclusions
7. Diaspora Mobilization for Palestinian Statehood
Divergent Host-state Foreign Policies
Causal Pathways
Relatively Autonomous Diaspora Mobilizations
Close to the Palestinian Government
Close to Transnational Left-wing Movements
Related to Transnational Islamic Networks
Diaspora Initiatives Blurring the Ideological Divides
Mobilizations in Response to Violent Critical Events
Conclusions
8. Armenian Transnational Social Field and Diaspora Entrepreneurs
Armenians in Self-determination
Armenians and Weak Statehood in the Caucasus and the Middle East
Armenians in a Transnational Social Field
Types of Armenian Diaspora Entrepreneurs
Conclusions
9. Armenian Diaspora Mobilization for Nagorno-Karabakh and Genocide Recognition
Host-state Foreign Policies
Causal Pathways
Transnational Mobilization for Critical Events
Connections to the Homeland Government
Close to Transnational Parties
Diaspora Mobilizations in France
Relative Autonomy in Transnational Initiatives
Conclusions
10. The Impact of Host-states and Places Within Them on Diaspora Mobilizations
Host-states and Migration Integration Regimes
Migrant Integration and Diaspora Entrepreneurs
Systems of Interest Representation
Contextual Empowerment of Diaspora Entrepreneurs from a Socio-spatial Perspective
Conclusions
11. Conclusions: Follow the Socio-spatial Linkages
Contested States and Socio-spatial Positionality in Transnational Social Fields
Diaspora Entrepreneurs
Causal Pathways
Causal Mechanisms
Contextual and Socio-spatial Empowerment
Implications of Core Theoretical Claims to Emerging Research Programmes

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