Book Review: Diaspora Online: Identity Politics and Romanian Migrants

2015 ◽  
Vol 154 (1) ◽  
pp. 161-162
Author(s):  
Louis Everuss
Keyword(s):  
Identity Politics ◽  
Online Identity

scholarly journals Rerouting the Narrative: Mapping the Online Identity Politics of the Tamil and Palestinian Diaspora

2018 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 205630511876442 ◽  
Author(s):  
Priya Kumar
Keyword(s):  
Identity Politics ◽  
International System ◽  
Transnational Advocacy ◽  
Online Identity ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Web Presence ◽  
Transnational Advocacy Networks ◽  
Mainstream Media ◽  
Identity Based ◽  
The Right

Drawing on the e-Diasporas Atlas project ( www.e-diasporas.fr ) and original empirical research, this study examines the complex role of the World Wide Web in supporting and enabling new types of diaspora identity politics. It compares the online identity politics of two conflict-generated diasporas: Tamils and Palestinians. Both of these stateless diaspora communities maintain a strong web presence and have mobilized around various secessionist attempts, grievance narratives, issue-agendas, and calls for the right to self-determination that have garnered significant attention from the international community and mainstream media in recent times. Analytical concepts from transnational advocacy networks (TANs) and social movement literature are used to draw attention to the dynamic identity-based processes and framing mechanisms that connect diasporic demands and political claims across online and offline environments. The data combine Tamil and Palestinian e-Diasporas hyperlink network maps with web-based content analysis and key respondent interviews. The study argues that online diasporic exchanges transcend host–homeland territorial boundaries and invite comparatively expressive forms of identity-based political engagements that are simultaneously both deeply local and digitally global. In particular, the analysis demonstrates that human rights–based language offers a unique streamlining bridge between various locales, countries of settlement, and the international system more broadly.

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