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DIASPORA ENGAGEMENT BETWEEN GALICIA, SPAIN AND BUENOS AIRES, ARGENTINA: AIMS AND BENEFITS OF A TRANSLATIONAL COALITION

Hannum, Kathryn Laura
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1594393030662703

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2020, PHD, Kent State University, College of Arts and Sciences / Department of Geography.
In migration studies, sending state institutions now function to unite migrants as diaspora by tapping migrant skills and embracing lost citizens through a variety of strategies and policies broadly known as diaspora engagement. Over half of all United Nations member states now have diaspora engagement institutions, and it is generally agreed upon that the state remains the focus of diaspora engagement studies, yet the sub-state and individual effects of these policies are little understood. Individual connection to a territory is often strongest at the most local scale. Be that village, city, municipality, or region, people connect personal experiences and cultural practice to territory in a nested and scalar manner. While emigrant groups are lumped into categories of state of origin, personal connection may be much stronger based on the locality from which they hail. Building on an awareness of the inadequacy of state-centric diaspora and migration research, this dissertation aims to investigate diaspora engagement and its microfoundations at the sub-state scale. How do origin and emigre regions utilize diaspora institutions to their benefit, and how do these institutions affect national identity both in points of origin and in points of arrival? This central issue is explored through the relationship between the sub-state regions of Galicia, Spain, and the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires, Argentina. This study uses a mixed methods approach, including content analysis, expert and individual interviews, and participant observation over the course a four and a half month transnational field study. Findings suggest that Galician diaspora are being tapped for return to Galicia through targeted incentives which work to exclude non-Spaniards and Europeans from the immigration narrative in Spain. In Buenos Aires, minority European groups like Galicians are utilized to simultaneously promote diversity in the city and to maintain the hegemony of a European ethno-national narrative in Argentina. In the context of these regional policies, Galician diaspora themselves benefit from their dual status as minorities (sub-state nationality of Europe), and members of the ethnic majority in Argentina (white Europeans), while maintaining an emotional and official national affinity for both countries.
David Kaplan , PHD (Advisor)
Sarah Smiley, PHD (Committee Member)
Turner V. Kelly , PHD (Committee Member)
Amoaba Gooden, PHD (Committee Member)
Landon Hancock, PHD (Committee Member)
257 p.
Geography
Migration; Diaspora; Transnational; Translocal; National identity; Geography; Policy; Diversity; Regional

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  • Hannum, K. L. (2020). DIASPORA ENGAGEMENT BETWEEN GALICIA, SPAIN AND BUENOS AIRES, ARGENTINA: AIMS AND BENEFITS OF A TRANSLATIONAL COALITION [Doctoral dissertation, Kent State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1594393030662703

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Hannum, Kathryn . DIASPORA ENGAGEMENT BETWEEN GALICIA, SPAIN AND BUENOS AIRES, ARGENTINA: AIMS AND BENEFITS OF A TRANSLATIONAL COALITION . 2020. Kent State University, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1594393030662703.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Hannum, Kathryn . "DIASPORA ENGAGEMENT BETWEEN GALICIA, SPAIN AND BUENOS AIRES, ARGENTINA: AIMS AND BENEFITS OF A TRANSLATIONAL COALITION ." Doctoral dissertation, Kent State University, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1594393030662703

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