Multi-scalar and diasporic integration: Kurdish populations in Europe between state, diaspora and geopolitics

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Main author: Adamson, Fiona
Other authors: Dag, Veysi
Craven, Catherine R
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id eprints-41925
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institution SOAS, University of London
collection SOAS Research Online
language English
language_search English
description This article challenges both methodological nationalist and decolonial approaches to ‘integration’ by drawing attention to how transnational factors—including trans-state diaspora networks and geopolitical relations between European states and Kurdish ‘homelands’—have direct impacts on the integration trajectories of newly arrived Kurdish displaced populations in Europe. Based on over 200 interviews with Kurdish immigrants, including refugees and asylum seekers across seventeen sites in rural and urban regions in six European countries, our research suggests the need to move beyond local and national-level understandings of integration to one which is also transnational, diasporic, and multi-scalar, taking account of the enduring effects of homeland politics on integration determinants. Such a model of integration does not throw out the concept, but recognizes both the protective and empowering role that local and national policies can play in enabling refugee and diaspora populations to function autonomously in a broader transnational and global context.
format Journal Article
author Adamson, Fiona
author_facet Adamson, Fiona
Dag, Veysi
Craven, Catherine R
authorStr Adamson, Fiona
author_letter Adamson, Fiona
author2 Dag, Veysi
Craven, Catherine R
author2Str Dag, Veysi
Craven, Catherine R
title Multi-scalar and diasporic integration: Kurdish populations in Europe between state, diaspora and geopolitics
publisher Oxford University Press
publishDate 2024
url https://eprints.soas.ac.uk/41925/

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