Diaspora Mobilizations for Transitional Justice

<p>Transitional justice and diaspora studies are interdisciplinary and expanding fields of study. Finding the right combination of mechanisms to forward transitional justice in post-conflict societies is an ongoing challenge for states and affected populations. Diasporas as non-state actors with increased agency in homelands host-lands and other global locations engage with their past from a distance but their actions are little understood. </p><p>Diaspora Mobilizations for Transitional Justice develops a novel framework to demonstrate how diasporas connect with local actors in transitional justice processes through a variety of mechanisms and their underlying analytical rationales—emotional cognitive symbolic/value-based strategic and networks-based. Mechanisms featured here are: thin sympathetic response and chosen trauma fear and hope contact and framing cooperation and coalition-building brokerage patronage and connective action among others. The contributors discuss the role of diasporas in truth commissions memorialization recognition of genocides and other human rights atrocities as well as their abilities to affect transitional justice from afar by holding particular attitudes or upon return temporarily or for good. </p><p>This book sheds light on how diasporas’ contextual embeddedness shapes their mobilization strategies and features empirical evidence from Europe United States and Canada as well as from conflict and postconflict polities in the Balkans Middle East Eurasia and Latin America. It was originally published as a special issue of <i>Ethnic and Racial Studies.</i></p>