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Gender-based digital transnational repression as a global authoritarian practice Globalizations (IF 1.9) Pub Date : 2024-09-16 Siena Anstis, Émilie LaFlèche
Digital transnational repression arises when authoritarian states seek to silence dissent from nationals living abroad. Studies on digital transnational repression show that this extension of autho...
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Social movements, INGOs, and the meaning of children’s political participation: lessons from the 1997 Oslo Working Children’s Forum Globalizations (IF 1.9) Pub Date : 2024-09-13 Jessica K. Taft
INGOs regularly take up mediating positions between young people and structures of global governance. This article explores this relationship through a particularly generative historical case: the ...
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The co-optation of regenerative agriculture: revisiting the corporate environmental food regime Globalizations (IF 1.9) Pub Date : 2024-09-04 Anja Bless
There is increasing concern regarding the influence corporations have over the global food system. The extent of this power is so great that it is described as a defining feature of the current glo...
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Fracasopolicy: toward a critical typology of policy failures Globalizations (IF 1.9) Pub Date : 2024-08-30 Adriana Mica, Gertrude J. Fraser, Mikołaj Pawlak, Paweł Kubicki
Policy failures in response to crises become visible, and the social reactions they trigger change the world. Building on critical failure studies and ontology of Spanish fracaso in policy research...
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Advancing emigrants’ rights in India: strategies of civil society in spaces for engagement Globalizations (IF 1.9) Pub Date : 2024-07-31 Mira Burmeister-Rudolph
This article explores Indian civil society’s efforts to promote the rights of migrant Indian labourers working abroad in low-wage employment as a response to weakly institutionalized rights framewo...
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It’s a women’s thing? Narratives in ethical trade campaigns Globalizations (IF 1.9) Pub Date : 2024-07-16 Lena Partzsch
Narratives about women and girls are often used to illustrate abuses in global trade. The article begins by amending the Narrative Policy Framework (NPF) to include the agency of (women) characters...
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State co-optation as habitus: Guatemala’s elite-driven pathway to a criminal state Globalizations (IF 1.9) Pub Date : 2024-07-17 Patrick Illmer
Ideas of state co-optation and corruption feature heavily in Latin American debates as scholars examine how elite factions and organized crime networks capture institutional operations. Based on th...
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The global (health) governance of antimicrobial resistance Globalizations (IF 1.9) Pub Date : 2024-07-10 Michael Rabi
This article advances the study of the global governance of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) in International Relations. It shows how the global (health) governance of AMR emerged, highlights the inh...
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Capital redefined: a commonist value theory for liberating life Globalizations (IF 1.9) Pub Date : 2024-06-16 Franklin Obeng-Odoom
Concepts of capital have become increasingly vacuous. Attempts to appear au courant have led to conceptualisations that create more confusion than clarification. A critical question is how to redef...
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How to get away with unequal gender equality: on hegemonic paradigms, masked exclusions, and self-legitimation strategies Globalizations (IF 1.9) Pub Date : 2024-06-06 Laís Rodrigues
The purpose of this work is to analyse hierarchies, gaps, and exclusions present in the gender equality framework of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, particularly its Sustainable Develo...
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Prices, values, and good: toward a synthesis of economic and normative theory Globalizations (IF 1.9) Pub Date : 2024-06-03 Heikki Patomäki
As Hosseini and Gills argue, value must be re-examined and liberated from its subservient ties to the logic of markets, price fluctuations, and the circuit of capital. The question is, what is the ...
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Inclusion of gender and labour standards in preferential trade agreements: evidence from North American and Canada-Chile agreements Globalizations (IF 1.9) Pub Date : 2024-05-26 Laura C. Macdonald
This article analyses the causes of the incorporation of gender provisions into preferential trade agreements (PTAs), based an analysis of the reasons for the inclusion of both labour and gender pr...
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The Bolivian pluriverse: the Comuna Group, emerging subjects, and transformative political action against neoliberalism Globalizations (IF 1.9) Pub Date : 2024-05-26 Rodrigo Santaella-Goncalves, Alfredo Saad-Filho
This article reviews an important experience of pluriversal political activity in Bolivia, through the prism of the theoretical and political contributions of Grupo Comuna, a local organization of ...
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Sovereignty, human rights and the regulation of transnational corporations: a critical spatial analysis of civil society proposals for a binding treaty Globalizations (IF 1.9) Pub Date : 2024-05-20 Dena Freeman
This article develops a critical spatial analysis of contemporary proposals to regulate transnational corporations (TNCs). Following an analysis of the existing topology of international regulatory...
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‘We are living in the time of a turning point’: exploring views on global entities in immigration – a comparative study of actors from different political leanings Globalizations (IF 1.9) Pub Date : 2024-05-22 Kristine Brastad Dammen, Katrine Fangen
In recent years, a series of global crises have triggered a heightened politicization of international policy efforts and a questioning of the role of global forums in the management of these crise...
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Capitalism, climate catastrophe and commoning: Hosseini and Gills on theory of value and what matters now Globalizations (IF 1.9) Pub Date : 2024-05-21 Jamie Morgan
The proliferation of policy notwithstanding, climate emergency continues to unfold and the need for new ideas is urgent. In this short article, I contextualize the need for ‘revolutions for life’ a...
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Weaving a rhizomatic pluriverse: Allin kawsay, the Crianza Mutua Networks, and the Global Tapestry of Alternatives Globalizations (IF 1.9) Pub Date : 2024-05-21 Jorge Garcia-Arias, Carlos Tornel, María Flores Gutiérrez
Drawing on experiences from Abya Yala/Latin America, and based on the Andean philosophy and praxes of Allin kawsay, this article proposes and introduces the idea of a ‘rhizomatic pluriverse’ as a h...
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Was postdevelopment too much? Autonomous struggle, academic coloniality & the radical roots of the pluriverse Globalizations (IF 1.9) Pub Date : 2024-05-16 Alexander Dunlap, Carlos Tornel
Where did postdevelopment thought go? Was its anti-development message too much for academia? While acknowledging some overlap between postdevelopment and mainstream academic decolonial thought, we...
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The impact of the Sustainable Development Goals on global policies on sustainable consumption and production Globalizations (IF 1.9) Pub Date : 2024-05-15 Melanie van Driel, Frank Biermann, Rakhyun E. Kim, Marjanneke J. Vijge
While some of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) rely on the support of established international organizations and regimes, others lack strong institutions in their governance areas. This...
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Trading-off or trading-in? A critical political economy perspective of green growth’s policy framing Globalizations (IF 1.9) Pub Date : 2024-05-08 James Jackson
The trade-off policy framing has been a central feature of green growth since the 1980s, employed to frame the countervailing spheres of social, environmental, and economic policies purported to en...
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Cultural globalization at sea: the rise of the modern Caribbean cruise industry Globalizations (IF 1.9) Pub Date : 2024-05-08 Shayan S. Lallani
Carnival, Royal Caribbean, and Norwegian—the largest cruise lines today—emerged in the late 1960s and early 1970s, advertising their packaged vacations to a growing audience of middle-class America...
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Coding regimes of possession. An essay on land, property, and law Globalizations (IF 1.9) Pub Date : 2024-04-29 Christian Lund
Regimes of possession are constituted by rules of property. This includes the asset, rights subjects, and institutions of public authority. They are all coded in specific ways, and they connect to ...
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Substance- or legitimacy-oriented (de)legitimation of global governance institutions. The double-edged role of complexity Globalizations (IF 1.9) Pub Date : 2024-04-18 Janne Mende
This paper contributes to International Relations studies on the (de)legitimation of global governance institutions by introducing a focus on substance-oriented (de)legitimation practices to comple...
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Regional governance, gender and the COVID-19 pandemic in the global south Globalizations (IF 1.9) Pub Date : 2024-04-16 Matt Barlow, Jean Grugel
Do regional institutions promote more equitable governance in the global South and, in particular, do they enable more gender-equitable governance? We examine these questions in the light of region...
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Conferencing in times of climate crisis and Covid-19: feminist and queer reflections on the digital shift in academic work Globalizations (IF 1.9) Pub Date : 2024-04-07 Selin Çağatay, Olga Sasunkevich, Mia Liinason, Lena Martinsson
This article employs a holistic understanding of environmental, social, and economic sustainability to explore the interaction between neoliberalism, climate crisis, digitalization, and academic wo...
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Reaching for the past: North Korea’s engagement with Koreans in Japan Globalizations (IF 1.9) Pub Date : 2024-04-07 Junhyoung Lee, Alexander Dukalskis
After the end of World War II about 600,000 Koreans remained in Japan and quickly faced a homeland divided along ideological lines. In this context Chongryon – the General Federation of Koreans in ...
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Fixing things from the outside? Diaspora politicians and transnational political engagement Globalizations (IF 1.9) Pub Date : 2024-04-03 Dženeta Karabegović
Scholarship on diaspora political engagement is unfolding in novel ways exploring the participation of second-generation diaspora individuals and engagement patters of authoritarian and hybrid regi...
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Intermediaries of citizenship by investment and Türkiye: ‘global citizenship market grows with us’ Globalizations (IF 1.9) Pub Date : 2024-04-02 Ayla Deniz, Sibel Can Çetinkaya
This paper discusses the roles of those who mediate citizenship by investment (CBI) in Türkiye. Within the scope of the study, those who mediate the sale of CBI to foreigners in 8 cities were inter...
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Tracking the sun: exposing India’s solar dispossessions Globalizations (IF 1.9) Pub Date : 2024-03-27 Ryan Stock, Trevor Birkenholtz
Utility-scale solar development in India has dispossessed peasants of land and livelihoods. Smallholders alienated from land have not been equitably remunerated, rehabilitated, nor offered employme...
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Explaining the Russian invasion in Ukraine: between geopolitics, civilisational choice, and dead-end capitalist transition Globalizations (IF 1.9) Pub Date : 2024-03-12 Ivan Bakalov
This article engages with the debate about the causes for Russia’s full-scale military invasion in Ukraine. The existing explanations are organized into three groups revolving around commonalities ...
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From a business risk to full-scale crisis: the understanding of ‘climate threat’ in the World Economic Forum’s Global Risks Reports Globalizations (IF 1.9) Pub Date : 2024-03-11 Salla Kaarina Pasula
This article suggests that the business sector’s engagement in climate governance is not only expanding but also providing them with an increasingly influential role in determining how climate risk...
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Unlearning possessive belonging: reading in relation with Indigenous science fiction Globalizations (IF 1.9) Pub Date : 2024-03-05 Lara Daley, Sarah Wright
The work of Indigenous thinkers as writers of, and commentators on, Indigenous science fiction, calls for the unmaking of settler futurities in ways that assert Indigenous belonging in all times. I...
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Ontological insecurity and urgency as a political value. Discourses of youth climate activists in Portugal Globalizations (IF 1.9) Pub Date : 2024-03-04 Ricardo Campos, João Carlos Martins
As seen in other countries, Portuguese youth have been inspired by Greta Thunberg and her actions, which has led to protest marches, sit-ins, blockades and other forms of manifestations calling for...
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From society to cyberspace: contentions with authoritarianism amongst second-generation Kurdish students in London Globalizations (IF 1.9) Pub Date : 2024-02-27 Shayan Moftizadeh
Though diasporas no longer reside in their homelands, the proliferation of globalization and movement, as well as the exponentially increasing reach of the Internet has meant that the link between ...
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Land-grabbing mafias and dispossession in the Brazilian Amazon: rural–urban land speculation and deforestation in the Santarém region Globalizations (IF 1.9) Pub Date : 2024-02-21 Markus Kröger
This article explores the ways that illegal land grabbing has taken place in contemporary Brazil since 2003. The findings suggest that much more attention needs to be paid to the various forms of v...
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Education and socio-environmental justice in the pluriverse: decolonial perspectives Globalizations (IF 1.9) Pub Date : 2024-02-20 Paola Minoia, José Castro-Sotomayor
A growing body of interdisciplinary scholarship underscores the imperative to explore and advance pluriversal education – an educational approach that embraces the diversity of ways of being, knowi...
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Engaging the postcolonial state: dam, forced relocation, and the Bhil Adivasi Group of the Narmada River Valley, India Globalizations (IF 1.9) Pub Date : 2024-02-15 Vikramaditya Thakur
This paper shows the limits of the Global North activism related to environment and indigenous identity for the South to instead highlight the primacy of regional political processes. It studies th...
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Negotiating the public: re-municipalization, water politics and social reproduction Globalizations (IF 1.9) Pub Date : 2024-02-08 Gemma Gasseau
In the context of the global wave of privatization of local public services, re-municipalization has emerged as a viable policy alternative, broadly understood as the return to public management. T...
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Conceptualizing variety in platform capitalism: the dynamics of variegated capitalism in Thai digital marketplace platforms Globalizations (IF 1.9) Pub Date : 2024-02-04 Christopher Foster
Digital platforms are expanding globally with significant implications for how economies operate. We argue that the literature has tended to over-emphasize the globalized and homogeneous impacts of...
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Globalizations from below: understanding the spatialities, mobilities and resources of transnational migrant entrepreneurs across the globe Globalizations (IF 1.9) Pub Date : 2024-01-30 Yvonne Riaño, Natasha Webster, Laure Sandoz, Giacomo Solano, Sakura Yamamura
Transnational corporations have been long recognized as the building blocks of global system theory and their impact is widely acknowledged and studied. By comparison, we have insufficient understa...
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Youth responses to state-manufactured diaspora mobilization: Turkey’s diaspora governance and the politics of selective engagement Globalizations (IF 1.9) Pub Date : 2024-01-26 Bahar Baser, Gözde Böcü
Turkey’s ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) has implemented transnational policies to strengthen ties among diaspora youth in Europe with Turkey. However, these policies have been highly se...
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Epistemic territories of kawsak sacha (living forest): cosmopolitics and cosmoeducation Globalizations (IF 1.9) Pub Date : 2024-01-26 Paola Minoia, Andrés Tapia, Riikka E. Kaukonen Lindholm
This article aims to present the experience of Kichwa Indigenous peoples of Pastaza in Ecuador, and their agency in enforcing their rights to their ancestral cultures and lands. In their political ...
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Theorizing ethnolinguistic diversity under globalization: beyond biocultural analogies Globalizations (IF 1.9) Pub Date : 2024-01-25 Alf Hornborg
This paper seeks to advance our theoretical understanding of diversifying and homogenizing processes in human societies by exploring the sources of and threats to ethnolinguistic or cultural divers...
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Neoliberalisation, dissensus, and the demise of tripartite bargaining in Italy after the 2011 debt crisis: a Gramscian ‘common sense’ approach Globalizations (IF 1.9) Pub Date : 2024-01-23 Davide Monaco
Against the backdrop of continent-wide neoliberal restructuring prompted by the Eurozone crisis, the demise of concertazione (tripartite bargaining) by technocratic and centre-left governments repr...
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Between (de-)mobilization, polarization, and transnational repression: the Egyptian diaspora in the wake of the January 25 uprising Globalizations (IF 1.9) Pub Date : 2024-01-17 Arne F. Wackenhut
More than a decade has passed since the Egyptian Uprising of 2011 resulted in the ouster of long-time president Hosni Mubarak. This large-scale protest episode mobilized not only tens of thousands ...
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Crafting professional identities at the bottom of the knowledge economy a critical analysis of managerial discourses Globalizations (IF 1.9) Pub Date : 2023-12-27 Maria-Carmen Pantea
In the context of labour arbitrage, Romania became home to an expanding nearshoring business service sector. Many graduates work in ‘call centres’: a generic term for various types of customer-orie...
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Diaspora activism in a non-traditional country of destination: the Gülen Movement in Czechia Globalizations (IF 1.9) Pub Date : 2023-12-12 Lucie Tungul
Diaspora groups have increasingly become active and influential transnational actors, whose mobilization strategies react to strategic opportunities and constraints. The article explores how the GM...
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Hypermarketization: standardized shopping in emerging economies Globalizations (IF 1.9) Pub Date : 2023-12-10 Johan Fischer
A hypermarket is a combined supermarket and department store that carries a large range of products. Since the opening of the first hypermarket in the US in the early 1930s, this concept has spread...
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Introduction: Che Guevara and world politics Globalizations (IF 1.9) Pub Date : 2023-12-04 Shannon Brincat
This introductory article to the volume Che Lives! provides a general primer to Che Guevara's thinking and practice in world politics. Situating Che's historical significance as a radical agent and...
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Che Guevara and the case for revolutionary feminism in global politics Globalizations (IF 1.9) Pub Date : 2023-12-04 Sara Meger
Despite his renown, feminists have had little to say about the ideals or legacy of Che Guevara. In global politics, feminism is more commonly associated with pacifist movements, and his advocacy of...
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The logic of appropriateness of unity in diversity: the institutionalization of a city network in global governance Globalizations (IF 1.9) Pub Date : 2023-12-04 Ricardo Martinez
Conceptualizing city networks as institutionalized organizations allows unveiling the internal dynamics beneath their increasing dynamism in global politics. The article taps into the insightful ye...
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Articulating post-apocalyptic environmentalism: global civil society and the struggle for anti-colonial climate politics in the climate movement Globalizations (IF 1.9) Pub Date : 2023-12-01 Ludvig Sunnemark
This article examines the dynamics of the climate movement’s (CM) engagement within global civil society (GCS), focusing on how this relates to its evolving commitment to anti-colonial climate poli...
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Transnational business governance (TBG) initiatives and global south governments: lessons from palm oil producing community in West Sumatra, Indonesia Globalizations (IF 1.9) Pub Date : 2023-11-23 Mariko Urano, Kurnia Warman
Based on interviews and participant observation in a community of small scale oil palm farmers in West Sumatra, Indonesia, this paper investigates to what extent the interaction between transnation...
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‘Throwing in my two cents’: Burundian diaspora youth between conventional and transformative forms of mobilization Globalizations (IF 1.9) Pub Date : 2023-11-14 Élise Féron
Since its independence in 1962, Burundi has witnessed several episodes of civil war and political unrest. The most recent of these, which started in 2015, triggered the migration of approx. 400,000...
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Legitimation struggles in international organizations: the case of the African Union Globalizations (IF 1.9) Pub Date : 2023-11-12 Linnéa Gelot, Fredrik Söderbaum
How do international organizations (IOs) and their proponents claim legitimacy, and how do their opponents undermine such legitimacy? This article develops a framework that accounts for the links b...
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Afro-optimism and progressive modernity: the Fintech story in the African press Globalizations (IF 1.9) Pub Date : 2023-11-12 Cathleen LeGrand, Chris Paterson, Jörg Wiegratz
This article offers a first analysis of representation in the African press of the fast-emerging amalgamation of online financial services popularized under the label ‘Fintech’. Authors conducted c...
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The ontology of financial markets and the policy paradigm of financial regulation Globalizations (IF 1.9) Pub Date : 2023-11-09 Jaehwan Jung
This study aims to discern the ontological assumptions of the financial regulatory paradigm to clarify the meaning of a paradigm shift and the significance of the macroprudential turn in global fin...
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Transnational networks and mobilities of IT migrant entrepreneurs in a globalizing world Globalizations (IF 1.9) Pub Date : 2023-11-09 Sakura Yamamura, Paul Lassalle
Transnational entrepreneurship has its origins in studies on IT entrepreneurs in the US, and on the role of contextual influences that enable the emergence of vibrant entrepreneurial ecosystems. In...
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The ‘ideal citizen’ abroad: engaging Rwanda’s young generation diaspora Globalizations (IF 1.9) Pub Date : 2023-11-03 Camilla Orjuela
When approaching its diaspora, the Rwandan government pays special attention to the young generation. Diaspora youth are seen as especially potent contributors to Rwanda’s development and security ...
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Blockchain-driven digital nomadism in the Basque e-Diaspora Globalizations (IF 1.9) Pub Date : 2023-10-23 Igor Calzada
E-diasporas are communities of diaspora members utilizing digital technologies and data platforms to establish connections among themselves and with their homelands. In response to the pandemic, go...