Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface and Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 Primary Questions and Hypotheses
- 2 Diasporism and Diasporas in History
- 3 A Collective Portrait of Contemporary Diasporas
- 4 Diasporas in Numbers
- 5 The Making, Development, and Unmaking of Diasporas
- 6 Stateless and State-Linked Diasporas
- 7 Trans-state Networks and Politics
- 8 Diasporas, the Nation-State, and Regional Integration
- 9 Loyalty
- 10 Diasporas at Home Abroad
- References
- Index
6 - Stateless and State-Linked Diasporas
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 28 July 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface and Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 Primary Questions and Hypotheses
- 2 Diasporism and Diasporas in History
- 3 A Collective Portrait of Contemporary Diasporas
- 4 Diasporas in Numbers
- 5 The Making, Development, and Unmaking of Diasporas
- 6 Stateless and State-Linked Diasporas
- 7 Trans-state Networks and Politics
- 8 Diasporas, the Nation-State, and Regional Integration
- 9 Loyalty
- 10 Diasporas at Home Abroad
- References
- Index
Summary
Fewer Stateless Diasporas
We have seen that some currently existing diasporas arose in antiquity or during the Middle Ages and despite enormous hardships have survived until today – those are the historical diasporas. The diasporas that arose much later, from the seventeenth century onward, many of which resulted from the great waves of migration that took place from the middle of the nineteenth century to World War II – those are the modern diasporas. Finally, all other diasporas either have been formed recently (i.e., since World War II) or are still in various stages of evolution – those are the incipient diasporas.
In Chapters 1 and 3 a further distinction was proposed: that between state-linked diasporas and stateless diasporas. It should be noted that although there are obvious differences between those two categories, most diasporas in both categories are similar in their attachments to their ethno-national identities and to their homelands and in regard to the problems they face in host countries. During certain periods in their histories, some diasporas were not connected to sovereign states, so at certain times those were stateless diasporas. For example, during long periods the Jews, Greeks, and Armenians (historical diasporas) and the African-Americans and Poles (modern diasporas) each had no sovereign national state in the territory they regarded as their homeland. Also, the Gypsies have no clearly defined homeland, and they have never had a state of their own.
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- Diaspora PoliticsAt Home Abroad, pp. 148 - 179Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2003