Scholarship on transitional justice, transnational social movements, and transnational diaspora mobilization has offered little understanding about how memorialization initiatives with substantial diaspora involvement emerge transnationally and are embedded and sustained in different contexts. We argue that diasporas play a galvanizing role in transnational interest-based and symbolic politics, expanding claim-making from the local to national, supranational, and global levels of engagement. Using initiatives to memorialize atrocities committed at the former Omarska concentration camp in Bosnia and Herzegovina, we identify a four-stage mobilization process. First, initiatives emerged and diffused across transnational networks after a local political opportunity opened in the homeland. Second, attempts at coordination of activities took place transnationally through an NGO. Third, initiatives were contextualized on the nation-state level in different host-states, depending on the political opportunities and constraints available there. Fourth, memorialization claims were eventually shifted from the national to the supranational and global levels. The article concludes by demonstrating the potential to apply the analysis to similar global movements in which diasporas are directly involved.\ud
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机译:关于过渡时期司法,跨国社会运动和跨国侨民动员的奖学金,对于具有大量侨民参与的纪念倡议如何跨国出现,如何在不同背景下得以嵌入和维持,人们鲜有了解。我们认为,散居海外的人在跨国基于利益的象征性政治中扮演着振奋人心的角色,将主张的范围从地方参与扩大到国家,超国家和全球参与。通过采取行动纪念在波斯尼亚和黑塞哥维那前奥马斯卡集中营犯下的暴行,我们确定了四个阶段的动员过程。首先,在祖国打开了一个当地政治机会之后,倡议就出现了,并在跨国网络中传播。第二,通过非政府组织跨国协调活动的尝试。第三,根据当地的政治机会和制约因素,在不同东道国的民族国家层面上对倡议进行了情境化。第四,追悼权最终从国家级转移到了超国家级和全球级。文章最后通过演示将分析应用于直接涉及海外侨民的类似全球运动的可能性。\ ud
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