This is a conversation with Dana Moss, Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Notre Dame and the author of the book "The Arab Spring Abroad: Diaspora Activism against Authoritarian Regimes."
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Topics Discussed:
How Yemeni, Libyan and Syrian diasporas in the US and UK reacted to the Arab Spring
Risks of protesting in the diaspora
Government responses to diaspora pressures and activism
Personal insights from my own experience
Why diasporas are still undervalued
Impostor's syndrome and survivor's guilt
Diasporas are not homogeneous
The Interpol problem
Legacy of the Arab Spring
Recommended Books:
Burning Country: Syrians in Revolution and War by Leila Al-Shami and Robin Yassin-Kassab
We Crossed a Bridge and It Trembled: Voices from Syria by Wendy Pearlman
The Return: Fathers, Sons and the Land in Between by Hisham Matar
The War on the Uyghurs: China's Internal Campaign against a Muslim Minority by Sean R. Roberts
Dictators Without Borders: Power and Money in Central Asia by Alexander Cooley and John Heathershaw
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