To Be or Not to Be: Diasporic Foreign Policy Interest Group Formation in the US

• In Event: Diaspora and Transnational Politics

Brief Overview

Why do some diasporic communities in the US seek to influence foreign policy, while others make no such attempt? We use a multi-method research design to show that democratic experience and crises in the origin country affect diaspora mobilization.

Authors

• Filip Savatic, Georgetown University

• Shubha Kamala Prasad, Georgetown University