“The enemy of my friend is my enemy”: Chinese leaders’ foreign visits and transnational repression of Uyghurs

Conflict Management and Peace Science, Год журнала: 2025, Номер unknown

Опубликована: Янв. 9, 2025

China has been targeting Uyghurs indiscriminately in many countries around the world. However, Uyghur diasporas some are more susceptible to China's repressive practices than other countries. What explains cross-country variations regarding repression of abroad? In this study, we explain variation by laying out a causal linkage between Chinese leaders’ foreign visits and transnational Uyghurs. We argue that rising global power translates into political weight over it frequently interacts with. For such countries, maintaining status quo bilateral relations is advantageous, whereas alienating costly. This dynamic highlights importance complying with strategic interests, one which As such, expect host population witness leaders operate according logic “the enemy my friend enemy” allow even help (the friend's) activities against friend) on their soil. Drawing Transnational Repression Dataset examining 43 period 1998–2020, find positive statistically significant relationship Uyghurs: leader country, likely diaspora subject repression. also severity

Язык: Английский

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Towards a functional place: Syrian refugees' contending with the European Union's host‐home schism

International Migration, Год журнала: 2025, Номер 63(1)

Опубликована: Янв. 1, 2025

Abstract The refugee crisis is rooted in the host‐home schism, a fundamental disconnection between host (the EU) and home (refugees' country of origin). This schism generated by EU's migratory policies resulting from struggles different political camps, compromise far‐right/exclusive camp liberal camp. To assess this we have conducted an in‐depth analysis Syrian refugees' perceptions with focus groups. Our findings demonstrate that countries shapes everyday experiences refugees EU. divide reflected their experiences, limiting agency distorting identity. As result, renders integration into European ineffective. Moreover, it creates multiple dilemmas for positions societies as they find themselves entrapped inside multifaceted contradictions cannot escape whatever do. We propose could be bridged institutionalizing both transnational activities responsibility towards home. label proposal functional place.

Язык: Английский

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Autocracy's long reach: explaining host country influences on transnational repression

Democratization, Год журнала: 2023, Номер 31(2), С. 290 - 314

Опубликована: Окт. 20, 2023

Authoritarian regimes frequently reach across borders to repress against exiled dissidents. Existing scholarship has investigated the methods and effects of transnational repression. Yet, we lack knowledge role that political context a host country its relations origin diasporas play in incidents Addressing this gap, use Freedom House dataset on physical acts repression (2014–2020) study how regime type regional ties between influence likelihood incidents. Conducting logistic regression analysis with yearly directed dyads, find target exiles autocratic states perpetrators primarily rely cooperation authorities, whereas democratic they resort more often direct attacks. We also show authoritarian is regionally clustered: it occurs when home state are situated within same neighbourhood, partly members organization. Our article reveals some conditions relational dynamics shape decisions strategies perpetrators.

Язык: Английский

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Cultivating seeds abroad: China’s and Turkey’s diaspora youth diplomacy

Globalizations, Год журнала: 2024, Номер unknown, С. 1 - 21

Опубликована: Июнь 4, 2024

China and Turkey are among the world's top emigrant sending countries. How why have they invested in their diaspora youth, particularly over last two decades? The significance of young diasporans for international affairs remains understudied. Building on concept 'diaspora youth diplomacy', we provide a rare comparative study investigating diplomacy show that similarly engage through homeland tours, linguistic educational programmes, empowerment strategies. These initiatives seek to maintain Chinese Turkish presence abroad by forging loyal support, which is crucial regime survival these countries' global reputation as strong powers. Yet host countries also interpreted endeavours security threat. Our findings draw from official documents, speeches, polls, news sources Chinese, Turkish, English better understanding foreign context state sovereignty, security, authoritarianism.

Язык: Английский

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Transnational Repression: International Cooperation in Silencing Dissent

International Studies Quarterly, Год журнала: 2024, Номер 68(3)

Опубликована: Июнь 24, 2024

Abstract Why do some states assist other countries to reach across national borders and repress their diaspora, while others not? Transnational repression involves host (including democracies) working closely with origin (typically autocracies) transfer citizens living abroad into custody silence dissent. We expect international cooperation on transnational rely a country’s domestic rule of law (opportunity repress) economic ties the country (leverage cooperate). To measure repression, we present new data containing 608 direct physical cases from 2014 2020 involving 160 unique dyads (79 31 countries). test our hypotheses using dataset 33,615 directed dyad-years that accounts for refugee flows between pairs find empirical support theoretical argument. Autocracies are better able elicit human rights violations have shared interests weak law. Our findings provide one first quantitative foreign complicity in extraterritorial policy implications civil society activists seek prevent governments committing future abuses against nationals abroad.

Язык: Английский

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Why do autocracies enfranchise their citizens abroad? A large-N event history analysis, 1990–2010

Democratization, Год журнала: 2024, Номер unknown, С. 1 - 25

Опубликована: Авг. 22, 2024

Autocratic ruling elites allow elections as a survival strategy. Many authoritarian regimes have taken this tactic one step further, also inviting their diaspora to vote from afar. This may seem puzzling given that abroad are difficult control and provide platform for exiled regime critics. So far, however, the reasons autocracies grant voting rights rarely been explored. In article, we address shortcoming. We employ cross-national, autocratic dataset discrete-time event history model. argue use suffrage repress co-opt citizens while legitimizing rule domestically internationally. Autocrats risk-averse decision enfranchise hinges on characteristics of regime's need legitimacy, repression co-optation after power transitions. substantiate these claims by demonstrating autocrats less likely largely resides in democracies or consists refugees democracies. turn, successful coups render adoption more probable. sum, external present critical case better understand why states adopt democratic institutions wish connect with internationally mobile population.

Язык: Английский

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Transnational Human Rights Violations: Addressing the Evolution of Globalized Repression through National Human Rights Institutions

Journal of Human Rights Practice, Год журнала: 2024, Номер 16(3), С. 770 - 793

Опубликована: Авг. 13, 2024

Abstract Transnational Human Rights Violations (THRV) are infringements of individual rights that originate outside the jurisdiction in which they take effect. Ranging from violent and criminal forms transnational repression through to coercion against targets’ family members abroad, digital surveillance, legal intimidation, THRVs today generate widespread systemic constraints on exercise human jurisdictions around world. At present, however, targets typically find few avenues raise complaints, receive assistance or pursue redress. This article proposes a new domestic institutional mechanism directly address this situation. It first examines mutually reinforcing, additive effects censorship era. Next, it identifies relevant standards showing state responsibilities monitor counter within their jurisdiction, growing recognition additive, broad populations. The third section policy responses United States, Australia, Kingdom, international organizations, noting none has adequately addressed contemporary nature scope as require. final argues meet obligations, states should establish Protection Offices (TRPOs) provide clear contact point for complaints support; report situation taking effect state’s jurisdiction; advise inform government departments THRV issues; develop evidence-based recommendations. We conclude by laying out rationale its status National Institutions (NHRIs).

Язык: Английский

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Paul Kagame and Rwanda Under His Rule

Опубликована: Янв. 1, 2024

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Introducing the Latin American Transnational Surveillance (LATS) dataset

Journal of Peace Research, Год журнала: 2024, Номер unknown

Опубликована: Окт. 31, 2024

Transnational surveillance is a powerful tool in the arsenal of autocrats world over. Despite its pervasive use extraterritorial coercion, systematic study regime opponents beyond national borders remains underdeveloped political science, primarily due to limited data availability. To help fill this gap, we constructed Latin American Surveillance dataset, micro-level dataset based on declassified foreign reports produced between 1966 and 1986 by autocratic Brazil. records identity, locations, social ties activism 17,000 individual targets transnational surveillance, vast majority whom were tracked neighbouring countries across America. Drawing these abundant data, empirically explore existing theoretical insights about motivations, methods consequences task that would be difficult do using other sources. We also leverage network analysis showcase potential applications testing collective-action theories violence.

Язык: Английский

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Theorizing the spatiality of ICT-mediated transnational repression: Evidence from China’s repression of Uyghurs in Turkiye

Environment and Planning C Politics and Space, Год журнала: 2024, Номер unknown

Опубликована: Ноя. 26, 2024

Recent years have witnessed burgeoning scholarly interest in how authoritarian states use transnational repression to intimidate and punish their citizens abroad. Our freshly collected surveys in-depth interviews with members of the Uyghur diaspora Turkiye reveal that China’s goes beyond preventing political mobilization. With Internet Communication Technologies (ICTs), China employs widespread against ordinary Uyghurs by cutting off communication lines homeland through Chinese police constantly harassing threatening them, mostly social media applications. Despite growing body literature on repression, spatial dimension ICT-mediated remains relatively undertheorized. Building critical geopolitics, digital geographies, Foucault’s concept panopticon this study theorizes ICT-based practices its borders led configuration “a space insecurity,” which constitutes an idiosyncratic form spatiality affecting Uyghurs’ everyday pervasive tech-based apparatuses mechanisms. This is constituted “disciplinary” “automated” subjects pushed toward constant self-surveillance self-discipline. While has physically turned East Turkestan into open prison education camps, forced labor production chains, ubiquitous installation CCTV cameras, frequent control phones computers, ICTs enable transfuse repressive system domain creating a parallel space, functions as quasi-spatial extension.

Язык: Английский

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