Increasing international migration, the information revolution and democratization have propelled a globalization of the domestic politics of many states and, although diasporic politics is not new, emigrant political participation in homeland politics has grown as well as adapted to the new methods of the information revolution.

International Migration and the Globalization of Domestic Politics examines the participation of emigrants in their home-country politics. It considers the consequences of such participation for domestic and foreign policies in both host and home country, and explores the theoretical implications for democracy, nationalism, the state and the shape of world politics in the future. The book includes detailed case studies of Turkish emigrants in Europe, the US and Saudi Arabia, Kurds in Europe, Israeli emigrants and the American Jewish community, Mexicans in the US, Chinese throughout the Pacific Rim, Indians in the US and Russians who found themselves outside of Russia when the Soviet Union collapsed. By supplying extensive documentation of emigrant political activity with significant impact on homeland politics and foreign policies, this work provides ammunition to the argument that international migration, globalization and transnational phenomena pose serious challenges to the nation-state and the international system of states. It will be of interest to anthropologists, sociologists and area studies specialists as well as political science and international relations scholars.

The Editor

Rey Koslowski is Associate Professor of Political Science at Rutgers University, Newark. He has held fellowships at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Princeton University and Georgetown University. He is author of Migrants and Citizens: Demographic Change in the European States System (Cornell University Press, 2000) and co-editor of Global Human Smuggling: Comparative Perspectives ( Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001).