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INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF TRANSITIONAL JUSTICE
Volume 14, Issue 2, Pages 360-380Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/ijtj/ijaa005
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young generation diaspora; postmemory; Rwanda; Sri Lanka
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The role diaspora actors play in transitional justice (TJ) has recently been recognized by practitioners and scholars. This article focuses on how TJ initiatives, by reemphasizing, retelling or silencing traumas of the past, can play an important role for the transfer of diaspora identity and homeland engagement across generations. Based on research on the diasporas from Rwanda and Sri Lanka, the article highlights the different positions made available for and taken up by young people in TJ, and the ways the past is evoked by the homeland state, diaspora organizations and people they meet in their day-to-day lives. TJ initiatives, the article argues, can serve as critical events that mobilize the young generation to support - or resist - narratives of the past, while also providing them with experiences that add to a postmemory of the painful past of their parents' homeland.
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