Young people's articulations and geographies of diasporic politics: Perspectives from the Greek, Jewish and Palestinian diasporas
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This paper examines the geographies of how young people, aged 11–25, in the Greek, Jewish and Palestinian diasporas in the Midlands region of England articulate notions of formal and informal politics. In doing so, it connects work on diasporic politics with work on the geographies of diaspora, young people's politics, and, in particular, diasporic youth politics. The paper discusses how young people have views on politics and on being political but feel that they struggle to have their voices heard by those in positions of power. At the same time, it paints a picture of how these participants articulate such feelings of politics in complex, multi-scalar, multi-directional ways. In doing so, they are potentially creating new spaces to feel and be political. The paper therefore stresses that it is important that diasporic politics takes into account the views of young people and that assumptions should not be made as to where such politics are located.
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Youth Young Adults / Emerging Adulthood Teenagers Politics Main Topic: Other Interviews Diaspora Comparisons with other communities
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This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by
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101
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Young people's articulations and geographies of diasporic politics: Perspectives from the Greek, Jewish and Palestinian diasporas. 2023: https://archive.jpr.org.uk/10.1016/j.polgeo.2022.102822
