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Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Figures and Tables -- List of Abbreviations -- Acknowledgements -- 1. Marginalised diasporas: A force in role contestation? -- Surface-level similarities? Examining Tamil diaspora mobilisation in Canadian and British role contestation -- Case selection -- Organisation of the book -- 2. Diaspora role contestation in Canada and the UK: Theoretical and analytical frameworks -- All the world's a stage: Role theory, diasporas and foreign policy analysis -- Diasporas and foreign policy analysis -- Disaggregating agency in foreign policy analysis: Diasporas as role-makers in domestic role contestation -- Role theory and agency: Mass movements as role-making foreign policy agents -- Role theory and agency: Government and non-government elites as role-making foreign policy agents -- Role theory and agency: Interaction at the intersection of mass movements, government elites and diaspora interest groups -- Disaggregating institutions in foreign policy analysis: Domestic institutions, diaspora influence and international role performance -- Role theory and institutions: Institutional factors and diaspora decision-making access -- Role theory and institutions: Diaspora influence on domestic role conception and role performance -- Role Theory and constraints on international role performance -- Role Theory and role position ascription -- Role Theory and "indispensable" states -- Conclusion -- 3. A marginalised minority: The Sri Lankan civil war, the Tamil diaspora and transnational regimes of marginalisation -- Defining the "Tamil diaspora" -- The Tamil diaspora in Canada and the UK -- The marginalization of the Tamil diaspora: Decolonisation and regimes of migration and securitisation -- Theories of marginalisation.

"Using a Role Theory lens, this book addresses this shortage of work through investigating Tamil diaspora mass movements and interest groups as forces of domestic foreign policy influence. Until now Role Theory has not considered diaspora mass movements as collective action actors, nor looked at how marginalised diasporas influence elite foreign policy decision-making. Matthew K. Godwin employs a comparative, microfoundational decision-making narrative that looks incisively at decisions faced by the British and Canadian governments in 2009 and 2013 toward the Sri Lankan civil war and its aftermath. Through qualitative, elite-level interviews and content analysis of other primary source data, Godwin convincingly argues that when diaspora interest group elites are leveraging the power of mass movements in concert with credible partisan advocates, they can influence foreign policy decision-making. However, international institutional constraints on role behaviour may stymie their preferred role performance, especially if states are indispensable to the institutions their behaviour may unravel. Ultimately, Godwin concludes that some states can't behave 'badly', even when they want to. This book will be of interest to students and researchers of International Relations, Foreign Policy Analysis, Comparative Politics, Migration Studies and to non-government organizations who seek to influence governments"--