This article presents a new positional perspective for the analysis of diaspora mobilization in International Relations, seeking to shift debates beyond realist, liberalist, and constructivist thinking, and speaking to a cluster of socio-positional theories in IR. It provides a conceptual discussion and empirical illustrations of diaspora positionality – the power diaspora activists derive from their socio-spatial positions in particular contexts – and its utility to account for different mobilization trajectories. Positionality as a socio-spatial concept offers opportunities to analyze diaspora politics beyond statist paradigms, dominated by analyses of triadic relationship between diasporas, host-states (immigration states), and home-states (sending states). Diasporas have links to many contexts beyond host-states and original home-states. Such linkages structure their relationships globally. If diaspora entrepreneurs perceive themselves as deriving strong powers to achieve homeland-oriented goals from a particular socio-spatial context, they are more likely to pursue claims through institutional politics and moderate means. If they perceive themselves as deriving weak powers from a context, they are more likely to engage with activist networks and pursue claims in transgressive ways. The conceptual discussion engages aspects of diaspora positionality in juxtaposition with other spatial concepts such as geographical proximity/distance and position in a social network. The empirical discussion brings patterns of mobilization trajectories from the Armenian diaspora mobilization for genocide recognition and the Palestinian diaspora mobilization for statehood, informed by a rich multi-sited fieldwork.

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超越国家主义范式：国际关系中的社会空间定位和侨民动员

本文为分析国际关系中的侨民动员提出了一个新的立场观点，试图将辩论转移到现实主义、自由主义和建构主义思维之外，并与国际关系中的一系列社会立场理论进行对话。它提供了关于侨民地位的概念性讨论和实证说明——侨民活动家在特定背景下的社会空间地位产生的权力——及其在解释不同动员轨迹方面的效用。地位作为一个社会空间概念提供了超越国家主义范式来分析侨民政治的机会，主要是分析侨民、东道国（移民国）和母国（派遣国）之间的三元关系。侨民与东道国和原始母国之外的许多环境都有联系。这种联系在全球范围内构建了他们的关系。如果侨民企业家认为自己从特定的社会空间背景中获得强大的力量来实现以本土为导向的目标，他们更有可能通过制度政治和温和的手段来追求要求。如果他们认为自己从环境中获得了微弱的权力，他们就更有可能与激进主义网络接触并以越轨的方式追求主张。概念性讨论将散居者位置的各个方面与其他空间概念（例如地理邻近/距离和社交网络中的位置）并置。实证讨论带来了亚美尼亚侨民为承认种族灭绝而动员和巴勒斯坦侨民为建国而动员的动员轨迹模式，