The Role Of Transnational Diaspora Communities In The External Relations Of Western Countries Toward The South East Europe
The Role Of Transnational Diaspora Communities In The External Relations Of Western Countries Toward The South East Europe

Author(s): Veton Latifi
Subject(s): Migration Studies, Asylum, Refugees, Migration as Policy-fields
Published by: Transnational Press London
Keywords: Transnational; diaspora; communities; South East Europe;
Summary/Abstract: The paper aims to address the influences on the discourse and nature of the lobbyism activities with the EU and USA. Most of the countries in the South East Europe have been introduced in the government cabinets a position of ministries for diaspora community. In this view, the paper will discuss to what extent the coordinated strategies and actions of the ministries of diaspora of countries of the region are specifically targeting in a systematic way the American and EU external policies for the process of the EU and Euro-Atlantic integration? Among others, the paper explores to what extent and if at all the transnational diaspora ethnic communities of nations of the South East European countries have been influencing any action or strategy of the foreign policy of the European Union and USA through the national governments of the hosting countries that are members of the EU and NATO toward the SEE region, especially during the conflicts and peaceful resolution processes in the end of the XX and beginning of the XXI century since the bloodshed that followed the dissolution of former Yugoslav Socialist Federation?! It is believed that some of the nations in the region through the activities of the their transnational diaspora community based in the Western Europe and USA have been able to produce some important changes in the favor of their nations’ positions through the activities to influence the approach of the international community toward the region in various times conflict resolutions processes of the 20th century and that now they are attempting to achieve some kind of impact in the processes of the EU and NATO integration in terms of the foreign policy of the EU and USA via the member states national foreign policies. The paper eventually attempts to find out whether the activities of transnational diaspora ethnic communities for influencing the European and American external actions have been contributed towards the growth of internationalism, and thinning of nationalism in favor of cosmopolitanism, or the patriotic discourse it has been stronger in the case of the South East Europe in the beginning of the 20th century? The paper aims to examine the nature and forms of possible organized lobbyism activities of transnational diaspora communities in attempts for influencing the USA foreign policy and EU’s external relations and as well as aspects of diaspora politics in terms of the political behavior of the transnational ethnic diasporas in western countries.

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