Securitizing the nation beyond the state
Diasporas as Threats, Victims, and Assets
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6061279 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Yehonatan Abramson (0000-0001-6410-1212, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 30 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 78-103 |
| Publication date | 2024-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | European Journal of International Relations (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1354-0661 • E-ISSN: 1460-3713 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/13540661221151036 |
| OpenAlex | W4318715589 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 20 |
| References cited | 117 |
Securitization theory has paid extensive attention to transnational issues, actors, and processes. Surprisingly, however, only little attention has been paid to the securitization of diaspora communities, defined as overseas citizens or co-nationals abroad. This article fills this gap by developing an analytical framework to study the securitization of diasporas, focusing on three discursive formations: diasporas as threatening actors, as objects under threat, or as security resources. Building upon the recent literature on state–diaspora engagement and drawing on an analysis of Israeli elite discourse (from 1948 to 2022), this article demonstrates how the securitization of diasporas serves as a discursive mechanism that naturalizes and legitimizes extra-territorial policies towards Jews abroad. Thus, the article complements structural and rational explanations of state–diaspora engagement by examining the intersubjective process that endows diaspora policymaking with meaning. Against the backdrop of extensive securitization scholarship that focuses on attempts to keep “foreigners” out, this article shows how securitization justifies bringing certain people in or governing their national identity abroad
Aesthetics · Diaspora · Economics · Elite · Epistemology · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Scholarship · Securitization · Sociology · Diaspora, migration, transnational identity · Gender Studies · Global Security and Public Health · Law · Migration, Refugees, and Integration
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Diaspora Exclusion in Divided Home States
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The ‘ideal citizen’ abroad
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Elastic Borders
Identity, homeland and transformative events
Voices across borders
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Diasporic geopolitics and differentiated policies of transnational repression
The evolution of home-state positions towards diaspora formation
Jewish Nationalism in Israel
Israeli Statecraft
Mexico and its Diaspora in the United States
The State, War, and the State of War
Transnational Politics
The Domestic Abroad
Trends in Outside Support for Insurgent Movements
Diaspora Politics
Beyond Security, Ethics and Violence
Between State and Nation
Tours That Bind
Mechanisms of diaspora mobilization and the transnationalization of civil war
EU border security and migration into the European Union
Social construction of international politics
Discourse and social change
Old Europe, New Europe and the Transatlantic Security Agenda
The Routledge Handbook of Security Studies
Human Geopolitics
National Reproduction and ‘the Demographic Race’ in Israel
Courting Migrants
Diaspora Entrepreneurs and Contested States
Emigration Nations
Ecological Security
Israel, Diaspora, and the Routes of National Belonging
The Securitization of Migration
The Call of the Homeland
Beyond Dutch Borders
Diasporas and Development
Security
Nations Unbound
Securitization Theory. How Security Problems Emerge and Dissolve
Elite Discourse and Racism
Civil Religion in Israel
The Founding Myths of Israel
Archaeology of Knowledge
Demography and national security
Identity beyond othering
States of Exception on the Mexico?U.S. Border
Making the ‘Fifth Region’ a real place? Emigrant policies and the emigration-nation nexus in Ecuador
When do states (de)securitise minority identities? Conflict and Change in Turkey and Northern Ireland
Security as Practice — Discourse Analysis and the Bosnian War
Refugees as/at risk
Foucault in Guantánamo
Securitization and Minority Rights
The ‘human’ as referent object
How to do things with silence
Extraordinary or ordinary emergency measures
The “Boomerang Effect” of Kin-state Activism
From overt rejection to enthusiastic embracement
The Little Mermaid's Silent Security Dilemma and the Absence of Gender in the Copenhagen School
Friends, There Are No Friends? An Intimate Reframing of the International
The Negation of Galut in Religious Zionism
Modernity, identity and security
Constructing the homeland
Come Home, Be Professional
National Narratives and Migration
Soviet mentality?” The role of shared political culture in relations between the Armenian state and Russia's Armenian diaspora
Speaking Out against the Discrimination of Romanians Abroad
Kin-State Politics
Political aspects of repatriation
David Ben-Gurion and the ‘Demographic Threat’
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Israeli national security
Dictators without borders
The Dispersion
States of belonging
The European Union and the Securitization of Migration
Foreign policy priorities and ethnic return migration policies
The enfranchisement of citizens abroad
Securitizing Immigration in the Age of Terror
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Diasporas and International Relations Theory
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The Perverse Politics of Four-Letter Words
Extraterritorial authoritarian practices
Diaspora and Transnationalism
Security and Immigration
The Spectre of Comparisons
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State, nation, society
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Mobilizing in transnational space
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| Unique citing works | 20 |
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| Citations per year | 6,67 |
| Citation span | 2023 - 2026 (4) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 19 |