Come to Move Mountains!

Diaspora and Development in a Transnational Age

Author(s): Tsypylma Darieva
Editor(s): Iris Kempe, Matthias Neumann, Robert Orttung, Jeronim Perovic, Lili Di Puppo
Series: Caucasus Analytical Digest (CAD)
Issue: 29
Pages: 2-4
Publisher(s): Center for Security Studies (CSS), ETH Zurich; Resource Security Institute (RSI), Arlington; Heinrich Böll Foundation, Tbilisi; Research Centre for East European Studies, University of Bremen
Publication Year: 2011

Second and third generation Armenian-Americans are no longer attracted to Armenia simply in order to reestablish their ethnic roots. Rather they increasingly seek to interact with the country as part of a much broader cosmopolitan movement that both revitalizes their ties to their historic homeland, but links them to a transnational movement that promotes diversity, democracy, environmental sustainability and tolerance.

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