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Diaspora Engagement Mapping

Diaspora engagement mapping is a systematic method for inventorying the institutions and policies through which states reach out to, claim, and govern their populations abroad. Alan Gamlen's 2014 work on diaspora institutions and diaspora governance showed that since the 1990s a striking number of states have created dedicated ministries, offices, councils, and programs aimed at emigrants and their descendants, turning the diaspora into an object of deliberate statecraft. The method catalogues these bodies and classifies what they do, distinguishing capacity-building (cultivating a diaspora identity and the institutions to reach it), extending rights (offering citizenship, voting, and protections abroad), and extracting obligations (mobilizing remittances, investment, lobbying, and taxes). By coding which instruments each state deploys and how they change over time, the analyst maps the evolving web of ties binding origin states to their emigrants. The product is both a descriptive atlas of who is governed how and an analytic tool for comparing diaspora-engagement strategies across countries and explaining why they spread.

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Diaspora Engagement and Institution Mapping
Taxonomic method record · process-pipeline / migration-studies
  • Gamlen, A. (2014). Diaspora Institutions and Diaspora Governance. International Migration Review, 48(s1), S180-S217. · DOI 10.1111/imre.12136
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