Academic Publications

  • Baser, Bahar (2014). “The awakening of a latent diaspora: The political mobilization of first and second generation Turkish migrants in Sweden”, Ethnopolitics, 13(4), 355-376.
  • Baser, Bahar (2015). Diasporas and homeland conflicts: A comparative perspective. Routledge.
  • Baser, Bahar (2017). “Intricacies of engaging diasporas in conflict resolution and transitional justice: The Kurdish diaspora and the peace process in Turkey”,Civil Wars, 19(4), 470-494.
  • Baser, Bahar & Swain, Ashok (2008). “Diasporas as peacemakers: Third party mediation in homeland conflicts”, International Journal on World Peace: 7-28.
  • Baser, Bahar & Toivanen, Mari (2017). “Politicized and depoliticized ethnicities, power relations and temporality: Insights to outsider research from comparative and transnational fieldwork”, Ethnic and Racial Studies, vol. 41, no 11, pp. 2067-2084.
  • Baser, Bahar & Toivanen, Mari (2017). “Politics of genocide recognition – Kurdish regional government, Kurdish diaspora and the case of Anfal”, Journal of Genocide Research, vol. 19, no. 3, pp. 404-426.
  • Baser, Bahar & Toivanen, Mari (2018). “Diasporic homecomings to Kurdish Region of Iraq: Pre- and post-return experiences shaping motivations to re-return”, Ethnicities, vol. 13, no 5, pp. 901-924.
  • Baser, Bahar & Toivanen, Mari (2018). “Diasporas and peace-making: Reflections from Middle East experience” (eds. Caroline Fischer & Robin Cohen), Routledge Handbook of Diaspora Studies, Routledge.
  • Baser, Bahar, Ahmedi, Idris & Toivanen, Mari (2017). “Kurdish diaspora’s transnational activism and accommodation of the Kurdish question in Sweden”, in Migration from Turkey to Sweden: Integration, Belonging and Transnational Community, (eds.) Bahar Baser, Paul Levin & Hans-Ingvar Roth, I.B. Tauris.
  • Baser, Bahar and Féron, Élise (2021) “Host State Reactions to Home State Diaspora Engagement Policies: Rethinking State Sovereignty and Limits of Diaspora Governance”, Global Networks. https://doi.org/10.1111/glob.12341
  • Emanuelsson, Ann-Catrin, Baser, Bahar & Toivanen, Mari, (2015). Introduction to peace-building, post-conflict reconstruction, and return migration: a multidimensional approach on the Kurdish diaspora, Special Issue, Kurdish Studies Journal, vol. 3, no. 2, pp. 128-150.
  • Féron, Élise (2011). Transnational Communities and Conflicts – Challenges and how to address them. ELDIS. Full text available here 
  • Féron, Élise (2017). “Transporting and Re-Inventing Conflicts: Conflict-Generated Diasporas and Conflict Autonomisation.” Cooperation and Conflict, 52(3): 360-376.
  • Féron, Élise (2020). “Gender and diaspora.” In Tarja Väyrynen, Élise Féron, Swati Parashar and Catia C. Confortini (eds.), Handbook of Feminist Peace Research. London and New York: Routledge, 428-436
  • Féron, Élise (2020). “Embracing Complexity: Diaspora Politics as a Co-Construction”, Migration Letters, vol. 17 (1)
  • Féron, Élise & Lefort, Bruno (2019). “Diasporas and Conflicts – Understanding the Nexus”, Diaspora Studies, vol. 12 (1), pp. 34-51.
  • Féron, Élise and Voytiv, Sofiya (2021) “Toward a Theory of Diaspora Formation through Conflict Deterritorialization”, Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, 21(3): 210-224. http://doi.org/10.1111/sena.12354   
  • Féron, Élise (2022) “Diasporas, Home Conflicts, and Conflict Transportation in Countries of Settlement.” In Liam Kennedy (ed.), Routledge International Handbook of Diaspora Diplomacy. London and New York: Routledge: 296-306. https://www.routledge.com/Routledge-International-Handbook-of-Diaspora-Diplomacy/Kennedy/p/book/9780367468439
  • Lefort, Bruno (2017). “A confined youth? Lived space and shifting boundaries in Beirut”, Middle East – Topics &Arguments, Issue#9, “Youth”, edited by Christoph Schwarz and Anika Oettler (Fall 2017).
  • Lefort, Bruno (2017). “The art of bypassing: students’ politicization in Beirut”, Mediterranean Politics, vol. 22 (3), pp. 407-425.
  • Lefort, Bruno (2019). “Cartographies of Encounters: Understanding conflict transformation through a collaborative exploration of youth spaces in Beirut”, Political Geography, vol. 76 (1).
  • Lefort, Bruno (2019). “The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: narrating social bonds and boundaries in contemporary Lebanon”, British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, vol. 46 (4), pp. 663-680.
  • Lefort, Bruno (2022). Homemaking as sensemaking. American Ethnologist, 49: 266-278. https://doi.org/10.1111/amet.13074
  • Mencutek, Zeynep & Baser, Bahar (2018). “Mobilizing diasporas: Insights from Turkey’s attempts to reach Turkish citizens abroad”. Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies, 20(1), 86-105.
  • Toivanen, Mari (2018). “Kobanista Afriniin – Kurdistanin tapahtumat heijastuvat diasporassa” (From Kobane to Afrin – How the events in Kurdistan resonate in the diaspora), in the blog Liikkeessä yli rajojen. https://liikkeessaylirajojen.fi/kobanesta-afriniin-kurdistanin-tapahtumat-heijastuvat-diasporassa/
  • Toivanen, Mari (2015). “Reflections on the Kurdish diaspora: An interview with Dr. Kendal Nezan”, Kurdish Studies, Special Issue, Kurdish Studies Journal, vol. 3, no. 2, pp. 209-216.
  • Toivanen, Mari & Baser, Bahar (2020). “Diasporas’ Multiple Roles in Peace and Conflict: A Review of Current Debates”, Migration Letters.
  • Voytiv, Sofiya (2019). “Ukrainian and Russian organizations in Sweden and the conflict ‘back home'”, Connections, vol. 39 (1), pp. 1-20
  • Voytiv, Sofiya (2020) Conflict reterritorialisation: Shifting group boundaries in the diaspora during the armed conflict in the ‘homeland’, European Journal of Cultural and Political Sociology, DOI: 10.1080/23254823.2020.1823240