We're coming!' Danish American identity, fraternity, and political remittances in the era of World War II

Datos Bibliográficos

ID3646901
AutoresIain Anderson (Northeastern State University, autor de correspondencia)
Año2020
Volumen46
Número6
Páginas1094-1111
Fecha de publicación2020-04-25
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaNew Community (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0047-9586 • E-ISSN: 1469-9451
EditorialInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/1369183x.2018.1554297
OpenAlexW2910666354
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas5
Referencias citadas19

Recent research on political transnationalism raises tantalising questions about how people, organisations, and ideologies in both host and homeland countries activate, shape, and constrain political remittances. This article historicises and extends the literature by exploring ways the development of transcultural Danish American identities in fraternal lodges between the wars prepared an institutional conduit for Danish officials to successfully lobby United States policymakers during World War II. In the process it demonstrates that political divisions within the sending state, Denmark, elevated the importance of mutually held values in determining the diaspora’s overwhelming support for a pro-democratic diplomatic corps acting against official government policy. Thus it captures the multi-directionality of political remittances while problematising the role of the state and mapping the transformative potential of ideology and ethnic institutions in shaping their currents

Danish · Diaspora · Homeland · Ideology · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Transnationalism · Diaspora, migration, transnational identity · Gender Studies · Law · Migration and Labor Dynamics · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy