Navigating labels, seeking recognition for victimhood

Diaspora activism after mass‐atrocities

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ID7785461
AuthorsCamilla Orjuela (0000-0002-3405-4483, School of Global Studies University of Gothenburg Göteborg Sweden, corresponding author)
Year2022
Volume22
Issue1
Pages166-179
Publication date2022-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueGlobal Networks (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1470-2266 • E-ISSN: 1471-0374
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/glob.12337
OpenAlexW3201783467
LanguageEN
Citations received6
References cited37

This article analyses diaspora mobilization for transitional justice as efforts to gain recognition for victim‐based identities. Building on research among diaspora groups from Rwanda and Sri Lanka in North America and Europe, the article investigates how diaspora actors in their quest for victimhood recognition navigate, make use of and challenge labels such as “victim”, “perpetrator”, “genocide”, “survivor” and “terrorist”. The article uses Jacoby's theory of victimhood to draw attention to the diasporic space as particularly conducive for recognition struggles, and discuss the different stages through which victim‐based identities are constructed. The empirical examples reveal how serveral competing and interrelated processes towards victimhood recognition are simultaneously at work, and how diaspora actors both refute and creatively make use of categories that assign blame or signal victimhood and resilience

Blame · Criminology · Diaspora · Economic Justice · Genocide · Political science · Sociology · Terrorism · Transitional justice · Asian Geopolitics and Ethnography · Computer Science · Diaspora, migration, transnational identity · Gender Studies · Law · Migration, Refugees, and Integration · Psychology · Social Psychology

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