The multiple politics and identities of many contemporary diasporic configurations raise a
number of important conceptual issues for the study of diaspora politics, including what …

This article seeks to explore the question of why and how autocrats update their diaspora
policy. Building on scholarship that deals with states' motivations to engage with …

This article discusses the Muslim discourse concerning the Coptic Christian minority since
the 2000s in Egypt. Emphasizing the effects of the January 2011 uprising, the paper …

Cultural trauma theory illuminates the meaning-making process that collectivities undergo in
the wake of tragedy. I advance this theory by attending to the role of interpretive fields, and …

In almost every conflict around the world today, diasporas are identified as critical
stakeholders (Geukjian 2014; Probst 2016: 2; Shain 2002). Indeed, the growing importance …

In recent years, a growing number of migrant children have been seeking psychological
assistance or mental health treatment in European Union countries. Many of these minors, of …

This chapter outlines the historical trajectory of emigration from Egypt and the formation of
Coptic diasporic organisations following a critical event in al-Khanka in 1972. At a time of …

This dissertation takes the oral testimonies of immigrants as the point of departure and seeks
to restore agency to modern Coptic Orthodox Christians as a heterogeneous group. It charts …

Christian presence across the Middle East (West Asia) region is facing a variety of acuate
challenges which are increasingly considered as existential. In terms of history the current …

There is extensive research in cross-cultural psychology on acculturation. Coptic Egyptians
are an underrepresented ethnic minority in the United States as well as in cross-cultural …