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Type: | Working paper |
Title: | Creating and destroying diaspora strategies |
Author: | Gamlen, A. |
Publisher: | International Migration Institute, University of Oxford |
Issue Date: | 2011 |
Series/Report no.: | IMI Working Paper; 31 |
Statement of Responsibility: | Alan Gamlen |
Abstract: | 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. |
Keywords: | New Zealand; diaspora strategies; multi‐sited ethnography; extra‐territorial citizenship; creative destruction; neoliberalism |
Rights: | Copyright status unknown |
Published version: | http://www.migration.ox.ac.uk/odp/working-papers.shtml |
Appears in Collections: | Aurora harvest 7 Geography, Environment and Population publications |
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