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A Transnational Account of Turkish Foreign PolicyConstructing Liberal Subjects? Turkey’s New Diaspora Strategy

A Transnational Account of Turkish Foreign Policy: Constructing Liberal Subjects? Turkey’s New... [This chapter argues that Turkey’s diaspora strategy is not about reacting to or courting an already existing Turkish diaspora but about constituting a transnational population. What was once seen as workers abroad or Euro-Turks is now being constructed as a liberal, politically active, and adapted diaspora. By using a governmentality perspective, the chapter shows that Turkey’s diaspora policies produce novel conceptualizations of Turkish migrants living abroad as a sociocultural population, seeking to govern them from abroad. The ideal diasporic subject is one that engages with the host country but keeps his/her cultural heritage intact, and maintains ties to the homeland. Diaspora members are constituted as liberal subjects who use a language of human rights against discriminatory practices in their host countries. In this way, it is shown that transnational non-state actors, in this case the diaspora, have intricate links with the state, and that authoritarian governments can deploy a human rights discourse.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

A Transnational Account of Turkish Foreign PolicyConstructing Liberal Subjects? Turkey’s New Diaspora Strategy

Part of the Middle East Today Book Series
Editors: Papuççular, Hazal; Kuru, Deniz
Bahçecik, Şerif Onur
A Transnational Account of Turkish Foreign Policy — May 26, 2020
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Publisher
Springer International Publishing
Copyright
© The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
ISBN
978-3-030-42896-9
Pages
175 –194
DOI
10.1007/978-3-030-42897-6_8
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Abstract

[This chapter argues that Turkey’s diaspora strategy is not about reacting to or courting an already existing Turkish diaspora but about constituting a transnational population. What was once seen as workers abroad or Euro-Turks is now being constructed as a liberal, politically active, and adapted diaspora. By using a governmentality perspective, the chapter shows that Turkey’s diaspora policies produce novel conceptualizations of Turkish migrants living abroad as a sociocultural population, seeking to govern them from abroad. The ideal diasporic subject is one that engages with the host country but keeps his/her cultural heritage intact, and maintains ties to the homeland. Diaspora members are constituted as liberal subjects who use a language of human rights against discriminatory practices in their host countries. In this way, it is shown that transnational non-state actors, in this case the diaspora, have intricate links with the state, and that authoritarian governments can deploy a human rights discourse.]

Published: May 26, 2020

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