New blog by Élise Féron and Mari Toivanen
Jun 29, 2022
In a new blog titled “(Ukrainian) diasporas can play an important role during and after the conflict” on the site “Liikkeessä yli rajonen” (Moving across borders), Élise Féron and Mari Toivanen discuss the ways diasporas can contribute to reconstruction, solidarity-building and mobilization both during and after war. Read the full text here.
New forms of solidarity with Ukraine across diasporas in Sweden
Jun 27, 2022
Project researcher Sofiya Voytiv has written a blog on “Liikkeessä yli rajonen” (Moving across borders), in which she reflects on patterns of solidarity for Ukraine in diasporic spaces in Sweden in 2014 and now, based on her own experiences as a Ukrainian living in Sweden. Read the full post here
DIASCON participation in the 2022 European Peace Research Association conference this June
Apr 22, 2022
Great news! The DIASCON team will be hosting two panel sessions on “Diasporas and peace” at the 2022 European Peace Research Association (EuPRA) conference in Tampere from 1-4 June! The title of the conference is “Empowering Peace: The Role of Civil Society in Peacebuilding and Conflict Transformation” and we look forward to presenting our ongoing […]
DIASCON Handbook now available online!
Feb 02, 2022
We are happy to share with you that the DIASCON handbook is now fully available online and can be found here: DIASCON HANDBOOK The handbook is a result of interviews, workshops and additional research conducted in the frame of the DIASCON project and is intended for practitioners working with diasporas and migrants, civil society organizations […]
New publication by project members: “Toward a theory of diaspora formation through conflict deterritorialization”
Dec 20, 2021
DIASCON project members Élise Féron and Sofiya Voytiv published their article “Toward a Theory of Diaspora Formation through Conflict Deterritorialization” in Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism. You can find the article here: http://doi.org/10.1111/sena.12354
DIASCON Handbook now available in print
Oct 30, 2021
Our handbook ‘Diasporas and conflict transportation: Challenges and creative practices’ is now ready in print and we are very excited! The handbook is a guide for practitioners working with migrant and diaspora communities and it focuses on inter- and intra-diaspora relations in countries of settlement, as well as on relationships between diaspora organizations, policy makers […]
New DIASCON publication!
Oct 02, 2021
Bahar Baser and Élise Féron recently published their article “Host State Reactions to Home State Diaspora Engagement Policies: Rethinking State Sovereignty and Limits of Diaspora Governance” in Global Networks. You can find the full article right here: https://doi.org/10.1111/glob.12341
DIASCON at the international workshop ‘Dealing with the violent Past: Transnational Dimensions and Diasporic Experiences’
Sep 30, 2021
Held at the University of Zürich on September 23rd and 24th, project members Bruno Lefort, Élise Féron and Bahar Baser each presented in the workshop “Dealing with the past: transnational dimensions dimensions and diasporic experiences”. Their presentations dealt with transmission of conflict memories in different diasporic spaces. More information and the abstracts can be found […]
New publication: ‘Gender and Diasporas’ in Routledge Handbook of Feminist Peace Research
Sep 02, 2021
DIASCON project researcher Élise Féron recently published a chapter entitled ‘Gender and Diasporas’ in Routledge Handbook of Feminist Peace Research, edited by Tarja Väyrynen, Élise Féron, Swati Parashar and Catia C. Confortini. You can find the handbook here: https://www.routledge.com/Routledge-Handbook-of-Feminist-Peace-Research/Vayrynen-Parashar-Feron-Confortini/p/book/9780367109844
Project member Élise Féron is keynote speaker at The Migration Conference
Jul 24, 2021
DIASCON project member Élise Féron was invited as keynote speaker at the Migration Conference on July 6th-10th in London (ONLINE). Her keynote was entitled “Diasporas, new generations, and homeland conflicts: between transmission and rearticulation of the conflict heritage”.
DIASCON at the International online conference ‘Migrant belongings: Digital practices and the everyday’
May 02, 2021
On April 21st-23rd, DIASCON project members Sofiya Voytiv and Cæcilie Svop Jensen presented their research at the online conference “Migrant belongings: digital practices and the everyday” organized by Utrecht University. The book of abstracts as well as the programme can be viewed here
DIASCON 2nd tripartite workshop
Apr 20, 2021
DIASCON hosted its 2nd tripartite workshop online on the 16th of April 2021. This workshop focused on the inclusion and exclusion from policymaking faced by diasporas in host country settings. Migrant and diaspora groups are more often than not targets, rather than actors in security politics, and/or have limited access to policy processes in the […]
Sri Lankan diasporas in Italy between participation and conflict
Sep 22, 2020
By Anna Quattrone I recently analysed the processes of identification and mobilisation of Sri Lankan diasporas in Italy. It has proved of great interest, given the lack of comprehensive academic work on their political engagement in home and host countries beyond the peace vs war maker dichotomisation and the LTTE’s politics. My objective was […]
DIASCON tripartite workshop
Aug 13, 2020
DIASCON is hosting its first online workshop on diasporas the 2nd of October 2020. The workshop brings together relevant stakeholders working with diasporas to discuss approaches and challenges related to their work. Participants of the workshop include diaspora-organizations, NGOs and other relevant institutions working with diaspora groups. The workshop aims to explore the relationships between […]
Open access article by Féron and Lefort: Diasporas and conflicts – understanding the nexus
Jul 22, 2020
Project researchers Élise Féron and Bruno Lefort published their article “Diasporas and conflicts – understanding the nexus” in the journal Diaspora Studies in January 2019. In the article they bring forth alternative approaches to understanding and investigating the conflict-diaspora nexus through a critical examination of current academic literature on conflict-generated diasporas. Read the full article […]
Publication: Embracing complexity: Diaspora politics as a co-construction
Jan 23, 2020
Élise Féron’s article “Embracing complexity: Diaspora politics as a co-construction” is published in Migration Letters, vol. 17, no. 1. In the article, she argues how attempts to understand diaspora politics as produced mostly in host or home countries, fail to capture the complexity of diasporas as political actors. Instead she proposes to focus on transnational […]