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Until very recently emigrants were considered an embarrassment, an
irritation or an irrelevance by most states. The long experience of
emigrant engagement in certain historical emigration countries,
such as Italy, was very much the exception. Since about 2000,
countries around the world have shown much greater enthusiasm for
policies to encourage the loyalty of nationals who have made a
permanent home elsewhere. These developments have changed the
relationship between state institutions and emigrant nationals.
Policies of emigrant engagement also challenge fundamental
understandings about the nature of political society in the modern
era; the notion of states as territorial institutions or the
understanding of citizenship as membership in a territorially
bounded polity are both undermined. This book provides copious
evidence of this process, with detailed, comparable case studies of
twelve countries and a new theoretical framework that helps explain
changing policies towards emigrants.
Some states have a long history of reaching out to citizens living
in other countries but since 2000 it has become much more common
for states to encourage loyalty from current or former citizens
living abroad. Using detailed case studies, this book sets out to
explain this significant development, with an innovative new
theoretical framework.
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