Transnational diaspora diplomacy, emotions and COVID-19: the Romanian diaspora in the UK

IF 1.9 Q3 HOSPITALITY, LEISURE, SPORT & TOURISM

Place Branding and Public Diplomacy Pub Date : 2021-10-26 DOI:10.1057/s41254-021-00243-1

Alina Dolea

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Abstract

The COVID-19 pandemic pushed irreversibly for expanding disciplinary boundaries to study diaspora diplomacy (Brinkerhoff 2019; Ho and McConnell 2017). Diaspora was placed in an unprecedented global spotlight, revealing a wide range of positionings in relation to home and host state. To understand these developments, public diplomacy (PD) needs a shift of focus: a diaspora-centred and transnational analytical approach to unpack the seeming ‘uniformity’ of diaspora and the homeland loyalties conflated in the concept of citizen diplomat that obscure contestation from within. Diasporas might be agents, instruments, and partners in PD, but they are also disruptors. Diasporas generate disruption and become a problem in PD, exposing the tensions, conflicts, protests emerging from domestic (and transnational) publics that PD scholarship has largely avoided. I will use this approach in a case study of the Romanian diaspora in the UK, informed by a research project conducted between 2018 and 2019.1

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跨国侨民外交、情感和COVID-19:在英国的罗马尼亚侨民

2019冠状病毒病大流行不可逆转地推动了学科界限的扩大，以研究侨民外交(Brinkerhoff 2019;Ho and McConnell, 2017)。侨民被置于前所未有的全球聚光灯下，揭示了与家乡和东道国有关的广泛定位。为了理解这些发展，公共外交(PD)需要转移焦点:一种以侨民为中心的跨国分析方法，以解开侨民的表面“一致性”和公民外交官概念中混淆的祖国忠诚，这些概念掩盖了内部的争论。侨民可能是PD的代理人、工具和合作伙伴，但他们也是破坏者。散居者造成混乱并成为PD的一个问题，暴露了PD奖学金在很大程度上避免的国内(和跨国)公众出现的紧张局势、冲突和抗议。我将在英国罗马尼亚侨民的案例研究中使用这种方法，该研究由2018年至2019年进行的一个研究项目提供信息

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Place Branding and Public Diplomacy

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3.80

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13.30%

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期刊介绍： Place Branding and Public Diplomacy?is a pioneering journal and the first to concentrate on this fast-growing field. Its scope and reach is global and culturally unbiased. Its primary objective is to broaden the understanding of the nature purposes and benefits of both place branding and public diplomacy and to demonstrate how place branding and public diplomacy strategies are implemented in practice.Place branding is the practice of applying brand strategy and other techniques and disciplines - some deriving from commercial practice others newly developed - to the economic social political and cultural development of cities regions and countries. Public diplomacy is the process by which an international actor – often but not exclusively a country – conducts foreign policy by engaging a foreign public. Public Diplomacy and Place Branding are not synonyms but their overlaps are sufficient to justify a journal which considers both activities in their own right and at their point of convergence.Both Place Branding and Public Diplomacy are significantly but not exclusively concerned with reputation management.