Working paper
Creating and destroying diaspora strategies
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New Zealand, like many countries, has recently shifted from disparaging emigrants to celebrating expatriates as heroes. What explains this change? The new government initiatives towards expatriates have been attributed to a neoliberal diaspora strategy, aimed at constructing emigrants and their descendants as part of a community of knowledge-bearing subjects, in order to help the New Zealand economy go global (Larner 2007: 80). The research in this paper confirms that the new diaspora initiat...
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- Published
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- Reviewed (other)
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- Publisher:
- International Migration Institute Publisher's website
- Series:
- International Migration Institute Working Papers
- Place of publication:
- http://www.imi.ox.ac.uk/publications/working_papers
- Publication date:
- 2011-01-01
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- English
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- 2014-06-04
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- Copyright holder:
- Gamlen, A
- Copyright date:
- 2011
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