Extending comparative typologies of diaspora policies: towards a "cautiously proactive" diaspora policy state
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216208%3A11310%2F24%3A10484667" target="_blank" >RIV/00216208:11310/24:10484667 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=C7NaLokIzv" target="_blank" >https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=C7NaLokIzv</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.polgeo.2024.103189" target="_blank" >10.1016/j.polgeo.2024.103189</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Extending comparative typologies of diaspora policies: towards a "cautiously proactive" diaspora policy state
Original language description
In the past two decades, the 'diaspora turn' in research and policy has led to the development of several typologies of diaspora policies around the world. This study explores and extends Francesco Ragazzi's established 2014 global typology of diaspora policies. We use in-depth qualitative analysis of Czech diaspora policies to assess the internal validity of the typology and identify new dimensions that are central to our understanding of diaspora politics. We then replicate Ragazzi's quantitative analysis with the inclusion of new data on the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Croatia and Poland, assessing the typology's external validity. We find a new cluster of diaspora policy types, characterized by a "cautiously proactive" mix of diaspora policy mechanisms based on relatively generous cultural and citizenship policies, variably accentuated symbolic policies and limited social and economic policies. We suggest that this mix has been structured by the tension between the countries' commitment to a (neo) liberal emigration regime and the continued importance of ethno-cultural conceptions of nationhood. In addition, we identify three new variables that should be included in future typologies: 1) the volume and distribution of funding for diaspora policy; 2) the symbolic recognition of diaspora in the legal system; 3) policy differentiation among different kinds of diaspora. Our mixed-method approach illustrates the importance of using nuanced qualitative data to provide a meaningful depiction of policy.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
50701 - Cultural and economic geography
Result continuities
Project
<a href="/en/project/GA22-08304S" target="_blank" >GA22-08304S: Czech diaspora - Multidimensional relations and conditionality of Czechia and host countries</a><br>
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)
Others
Publication year
2024
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Political Geography
ISSN
0962-6298
e-ISSN
1873-5096
Volume of the periodical
114
Issue of the periodical within the volume
October
Country of publishing house
GB - UNITED KINGDOM
Number of pages
15
Pages from-to
103189
UT code for WoS article
001301216900001
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85201661200