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  • The Kobane Generation

    Kurdish Diaspora Mobilising in France

    Mari Toivanen

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    The Kobane Generation: Kurdish Diaspora Mobilising in France has been awarded the 2022 Alixa Naff Book Prize in Migration Studies.

    A small Kurdish city located in northern Syria, Kobane, became symbolically significant when ISIS laid siege to the city between September 2014 and January 2015. This pivotal moment in the fight against ISIS threw the international spotlight on the Kurds. The Kobane Generation analyses how Kurdish diaspora communities mobilised in France after the breakout of the Syrian civil war and political unrest in Turkey and Iraq in the 2010s. Tens of thousands of people, mostly but not exclusively diaspora Kurds, demonstrated in major European capitals, expressed their solidarity with Kobane, and engaged in transnational political activism towards Kurdistan.

    In this book, Mari Toivanen discusses a series of critical events that led to different forms of transnational participation towards Kurdistan. The focus of this book is particularly on how diaspora mobilisations became visible among the second generation, the descendants of Kurdish migrants. The book addresses important questions, such as why second-generation members felt the need to mobilise and what kind of transnational participation this led to. How did the transnational participation and political activism of the second generation differ from that of their parents, and is such activism simply diasporic or also related to more global changes in political activism?

    The Kobane Generation offers important insights on the generational dynamics of political mobilisations and their significance to understanding diaspora contributions. More broadly, it sheds light on second-generation political activism beyond the diaspora context, analysing it in relation to global transformations in political subjectivities.

    Mari Toivanen (PhD) currently works as Academy Research Fellow at the Swedish School of Social Science, University of Helsinki. She has conducted ethnographic research on a wide range of migration-related topics, focusing on diaspora mobilisation, transnational connections and activities, second-generation members, and questions of identity and belonging.

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      Review from 23 Jan 2024: Allegra Lab
      The Kobane Generation

      Clare Maxwell

      Summary: Of particular interest is the idea of generation. The book opens with the question of whether second generation diaporans, those who were born to immigrant parents in a “hostland” consider their own relationship with the Kurdish “homeland.” Rather than simply consider the binary between the “first” and “second” generations of migration, Toivanen further considers the impact of political, social and technological trends on diasporans of different ages, and how actions within the diaspora radiate out and become touchpoints for both the Kurds back home, and the societies surrounding diasporans.

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      Review from 01 Sep 2022: Kurdish Studies 2022, Volume 10 (2), pp. 209–211
      Mari Toivanen, The Kobane Generation: Kurdish Diaspora Mobilising in France. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press, 2021, 294 pp., ISBN: 9789523690431.

      Chra Rasheed Mahmud

      Summary: This interesting and well-written book recognizes and addresses the experiences of second-generation Kurds in France, thus providing compelling and much-needed reflection on the topics of transnationalism and second-generation migrants. It is essential reading for anybody looking for a comprehensive view of the Kurdish diaspora.

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    Toivanen, M. 2021. The Kobane Generation: Kurdish Diaspora Mobilising in France. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press. DOI: https://doi.org/10.33134/HUP-11
    Toivanen, M., 2021. The Kobane Generation: Kurdish Diaspora Mobilising in France. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press. DOI: https://doi.org/10.33134/HUP-11
    Toivanen, M. The Kobane Generation: Kurdish Diaspora Mobilising in France. Helsinki University Press, 2021. DOI: https://doi.org/10.33134/HUP-11
    Toivanen, M. (2021). The Kobane Generation: Kurdish Diaspora Mobilising in France. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press. DOI: https://doi.org/10.33134/HUP-11
    Toivanen, Mari. 2021. The Kobane Generation: Kurdish Diaspora Mobilising in France. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press. DOI: https://doi.org/10.33134/HUP-11




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    Published on Sept. 21, 2021

    Language

    English

    Pages:

    294

    ISBN
    EPUB 978-952-369-044-8
    Mobi 978-952-369-045-5
    Paperback 978-952-369-042-4
    PDF 978-952-369-043-1

    DOI
    https://doi.org/10.33134/HUP-11



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