Seeking justice from afar: Diasporas and transitional justice
Short description
Earlier research has shown how migrants can influence developments in their former home countries. However, less has been known about the role of diasporas in seeking justice, memorialization, and reconciliation after large-scale violence. Hence, the aim of the project has been to study how individuals and groups in the diaspora engage with transitional justice processes in two cases: Rwanda and Sri Lanka.
Background and research aims
Societies that have gone through genocide and war face considerable challenges related to justice, memorialization, and reconciliation. This project has drawn attention to and analyzed the fact that such processes - of transitional justice (TJ) - also take place outside of the country where the mass-atrocities occurred. Victims, perpetrators, and activists have, through migration, been spread around the globe. This means that the concerns and contestations that arise in TJ processes also play out in the diaspora. Earlier research has shown how migrants can influence developments in their former home countries. However, less has been known about the role of diasporas in seeking justice, memorialization, and reconciliation after large-scale violence. Hence, the aim of the project has been to study how individuals and groups in the diaspora engage with transitional justice processes in two cases: Rwanda and Sri Lanka. The project has looked at how diaspora actors initiate, participate in, and influence TJ processes as well as on how their TJ engagement shape diaspora identities.
Publications
- Camilla Orjuela, 鈥樷, Ethnopolitics, 2023.
- Camilla Orjuela, 鈥, Global Networks, 2021.
- Arielle Goldschl盲ger & Camilla Orjuela, 鈥樷, Diaspora Studies, 2021.
- Camilla Orjuela, 鈥樷, International Journal of Transitional Justice, 2020.
- Camilla Orjuela, 鈥樷, International Journal of Heritage Studies, 2020.
- Camilla Orjuela, 鈥樷 Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 2018.
- Camilla Orjuela, 鈥淪ri Lanka鈥, in Lavinia Stan and Nadya Nedelsky (eds.), , 2023.
- Dzeneta Karabegovic & Camilla Orjuela, 鈥樷 in Liam Kennedy (ed.) Routledge Handbook of Diaspora Diplomacy, 2021.
- Dzeneta Karabegovic & Camilla Orjuela, 鈥樷, in Oliver Richmond and Gezim Visoka (eds.), Palgrave Encyclopedia of Peace and Conflict Studies, 2021.
- Camilla Orjuela, 鈥楽eeking justice from afar: the Tamil diaspora and transitional justice鈥, conference proceedings from the Conference on Tamil Nationhood and Genocide, Ottawa 5-6 May 2018.
- Kristine H枚glund & Camilla Orjuela, 鈥楩riction over Justice in Post-War Sri Lanka: Actors in Local-Global Encounters鈥, in Annika Bj枚rkdahl, Kristine H枚glund, Gearold Millar, Jair van der Lljin, Willemijn Verkoren (eds.), Frictional Encounters in Peacebuilding. Routledge, 2016.
- Camilla Orjuela, 鈥樷, Sydasien, 2020.
- Camilla Orjuela, 鈥樷, Utrikesmagasinet, 2019.
- Camilla Orjuela, 鈥樷, Utrikesmagasinet, 2018.
- Astrid Nor茅n-Nilsson & Camilla Orjuela, 鈥橩ambodja och Sri Lanka: Hoten mot demokratin鈥, V盲rldspolitikens Dagsfr氓gor 7-8, 2018.