Introduction
The wide range of different historical events and processes embraced by the term diasporas means that their relationships with international agencies vary considerably from case to case. If, for the sake of generalization, we adopt Robin Cohen’s typology and distinguish among victim, labor, trade, imperial, and cultural diasporas, while accepting that these are inevitably often overlapping rather than exclusive categories (Cohen, 1997), then we can see that international agencies are more likely to be involved with assisting victim diasporas and others (such as some imperial diasporas) forced by circumstances into exile from their homelands rather than those, such as traders, who are more enticed by the opportunities of diaspora life. It is also necessary to take a historical approach, recognizing that international agencies, as a predominantly twentieth- and twenty-first-century (indeed, largely a post-1945) phenomenon, have been more involved with what have been called...
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Leopold, M. (2005). Diasporas and International Agencies. In: Ember, M., Ember, C.R., Skoggard, I. (eds) Encyclopedia of Diasporas. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-29904-4_42
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