| Description |
Based on review of documentary sources on state-emigrant relations, the dataset reviews how 64 states relate to their diasporas. It shows how
states constitute various extra-territorial groups as members of a loyal diaspora, through a diverse range of institutions and practices. Three higher-level types of diaspora engagement policy are identified:
1 - capacity building policies, aimed at discursively producing a state-centric ‘transnational national society’, and developing a set of corresponding state institution;
2 - extending rights to the diaspora, thus playing a role that befits a legitimate sovereign, and
3 - extracting obligations from the diaspora, based on the premise that emigrants owe loyalty to this legitimate sovereign.
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