Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of figures
- List of tables
- List of contributors
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Territoriality and conflict in an era of globalization
- Part I Territorial attachment and detachment
- 2 Bounded communities: territoriality, territorial attachment, and conflict
- 3 On giving ground: globalization, religion, and territorial detachment in a Papua New Guinea society
- 4 The resilience of territorial conflict in an era of globalization
- 5 Diasporas and homeland conflict
- Part II Territorial stakes and violent conflict
- Part III Territorial regimes in an era of globalization
- Conclusion
- References
- Index
5 - Diasporas and homeland conflict
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 22 September 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of figures
- List of tables
- List of contributors
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Territoriality and conflict in an era of globalization
- Part I Territorial attachment and detachment
- 2 Bounded communities: territoriality, territorial attachment, and conflict
- 3 On giving ground: globalization, religion, and territorial detachment in a Papua New Guinea society
- 4 The resilience of territorial conflict in an era of globalization
- 5 Diasporas and homeland conflict
- Part II Territorial stakes and violent conflict
- Part III Territorial regimes in an era of globalization
- Conclusion
- References
- Index
Summary
Diaspora groups link processes of globalization to conflicts over identity and territory. Globalization has increased cross-border migration and decreased communication and travel costs, thereby making it easier for migrants to form diaspora networks that build links between the original homeland and current place of residence. Those forced across borders by war commonly have a specific set of traumatic memories and hence create specific types of “conflict-generated diasporas” that sustain and sometimes amplify their strong sense of symbolic attachment to the homeland. “Homeland” is often understood in specific territorial terms where a space from which a group has been forcefully detached assumes a high symbolic value. Globalization has increased rather than decreased this particular type of territorial attachment and thereby shaped the dynamics of certain homeland conflicts.
Conflict-generated diasporas – with their origins in conflict and their identity linked to symbolically important territory – often play critical roles with regard to homeland conflicts. As other scholars have noted, diaspora remittances are key resources to a conflict and often sustain parties engaged in civil war. In addition, and the focus of this research, such diasporas frequently have a particularly important role in framing conflict issues. Diaspora groups created by conflict and sustained by memories of the trauma tend to be less willing to compromise and therefore reinforce and exacerbate the protractedness of conflicts.
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- Territoriality and Conflict in an Era of Globalization , pp. 111 - 130Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2006
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