Leveraging Connectivities

Comparative Diaspora Strategies and Evolving Cultural Pluralities in China and Singapore

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ID4928787
AuthorsElaine Lynn-Ee Ho (0000-0002-5400-7668, National University of Singapore, Singapore, corresponding author)
Year2020
Volume64
Issue10
Pages1415-1429
Publication date2020-09-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueAmerican Behavioral Scientist (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0002-7642 • E-ISSN: 1552-3381
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/0002764220947754
OpenAlexW3047919591
LanguageEN
Citations received6
References cited43

Migrant-sending states are connecting systematically with their emigrants and diasporic descendants through policies known as "diaspora strategies." Underlying diaspora strategizing are the manifold ways in which states capitalize on past migration and present mobility patterns to advance national developmental agendas. Such agendas are conceived in terms of economic and (soft) political power, respectively referred to as "diaspora-and-development" and "diaspora diplomacy." This article undertakes a comparative analysis of the diaspora strategies by China and Singapore to ask critical questions about, first, the connectivities between migrant-sending states. Doing so elicits the multidirectional migration flows that connect nation-states, showing how the diaspora outreach of one affects the other. Second, the article examines the (multi)cultural logics that underpin diaspora strategizing and its possible impacts on domestic agendas. Such an approach urges researchers to study the race/ethnicity politics that underpin diaspora strategies

China · Diaspora · Diplomacy · Emigration · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Power (physics) · Public Diplomacy · Sociology · Soft power · Diaspora, migration, transnational identity · Gender Studies · Law · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy · Socioeconomic Development in Asia

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