ABSTRACT
Recent scholarship has emphasised that the relationship between conflict-generated diasporas (CGDs) and their conflict-prone agency is determined by their lived conditions, causal mechanisms and processes of diaspora mobilisation. Diasporas have linkages to different contexts, and their embeddedness in these contexts – simultaneously or sequentially in time – either shapes their mobilisation or is shaped by them. But there is not a homogenous outcome with regard to how these diasporas mobilise. A key component also lies in intergenerational differences in how the conflict in the homeland is perceived. This chapter specifically focuses on the mediated different approaches of younger and older CGDs and the varying lived experiences that inform the difference in approaches that produce intimate processes of diaspora engagement with the homeland.
