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4 - Coming Out and Coming Together

Dana M. Moss
Dana M. Moss
Affiliation:
University of Notre Dame, Indiana
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Given the deterrent effects of transnational repression and conflict transmission in the United States and Britain before 2011, what brought anti-regime Libyans, Syrians, and Yemenis together for the Arab Spring? Chapter 4 describes how the Arab Spring mobilized members of the anti-regime diaspora by upending the normative operation and effects of transnational repression and conflict transmission in the diaspora. The Arab Spring did so by reducing the costs of activism, making members willing to take risks, and creating new solidarities against common threats. The extent to which diaspora groups experienced these quotidian disruptions determined whether or not they converted preexisting organizations to the cause and maintained solidarity over time.

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quotidian disruptionssocial movement emergenceArab Springtransnational repressionviolenceconflict transmissionsolidarityrevolution
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The Arab Spring Abroad
Diaspora Activism against Authoritarian Regimes
 , pp. 93 - 137
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2021

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