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Improving EU and US Immigration Systems' Capacity for Responding to Global Challenges: Learning from experiences ; Faced with difficulties with the operation of their newly established Islam Councils, European governments are increasingly open to the involvement of erstwhile sending states in the social and religious lives of immigrant diasporas in Europe. This is especially visible in the provision of externally-funded religion services (imams and mosques) in the absence of viable domestic alternatives. This paper considers the British debate on social cohesion and offers some context and offers background on recent diaspora outreach from Morocco and Turkey. The sending states are natural partners of Europeans during the current phase of institution-building, and European governments have tried to channel these foreign influences to encourage the institutional integration of their Muslim minorities without ceding sovereignty over European citizens.

Abstract
Passage of the Diaspora Law of Latvia required policymakers to go through an arduous process of discussing the limitations of diaspora, weighing the potential risks and benefits of various possible approaches, and ultimately agreeing on a definition to be included in the law. The end result was a very broad interpretation of who can be recognized as part of the Latvian diaspora. In this paper, to understand the political process of arriving at a definition, the theoretical perspectives of the 'narrow' and 'broad' definitions of diaspora are discussed, the motivations driving national governments to engage with their diasporas are analysed, and the discourse used during the drafting process is reviewed.

In recent decades, more countries have started to recognize dual citizenship. Although overlooked in the literature, Africa is part of this trend with more than half of its governments now permitting their nationals to naturalize elsewhere while retaining home country rights. Why have some African countries embraced dual citizenship for emigrants, while others have not? We examine demographic, political, and economic data broadly across the continent and identify few clear patterns. We then explore the cases of Senegal, Ghana, and Kenya, finding that dual citizenship policies are driven as much by politics as they are by economic or security concerns.

USING AN INSTRUCTIVE ANTHOLOGY ENTITLED, "OUR FEET WALK THE SKY" WOMEN OF THE SOUTH ASIAN DIASPORA," EDITED BY A GROUP CALLING THEMSELVES THE WOMEN OF SOUTH ASIAN DESCENT COLLECTIVE, THE AUTHOR ARGUES THAT THE INTELLECTUAL AND POLITICAL USEFULNESS OF THE CATEGORY DIASPORA IS RELATED TO ITS CRITIQUE OF THE NATION AND ITS BORDERS, AND ITS "CROSSING" OF CERTAIN BOUNDARIES. AS SHE PROBLEMETIZES ONE USAGE OF IT, SHE MAINTAINS THE USEFULNESS OF THE TERM "SOUTH ASIAN." CONTENDING THAT "NATION," NOT "DIASPORA," IS THE STRUCTURING CATEGORY OF "OUR FEET WALK THE SKY," SHE CRITIQUES THIS TEXT FOR ITS REPLICATION OF LIBERAL DISCOURSES AND USES IT TO THEORIZE QUESTIONS OF RECEPTION, REPRESENTATION, FEMINISM, SUBJECTIVITY, AND SUBALTERNATE SPEECH IN THE CONTEXTS AND DISCOURSES OF NATION AND MIGRATION.

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: "Charity Begins at Home" -- 1. Good Diasporic Returns: Immigrant Philanthropy, Overseas Labor Remittances, and the American Dream -- 2. Homeland Disorientations: Toward Antidevelopmentalist Diaspora-Giving Politics -- 3. Incorporating Dreams: Discourses of Poverty and Responsibility in Diaspora -- 4. Philippine Environments and Critical Ecologies of Diaspora Giving -- Epilogue: Diasporic Love -- Notes -- Index.