Politico-legal aspects of states in relation to foreign diasporas

Abstract

The article considers the problem of the relationship between the modern state and the diaspora usually seen in the cultural and social (less often historical) and rarely becomes the subject of political and legal studies. Today the diasporas are playing an increasingly active role not only in the cultural life of the society, their influence becomes more visible even in such areas as the formation and implementation of foreign policy, the domestic lobby, the economy and investment. This circumstance requires determining the policy and legal fields, in which the diasporas act as actors. At present, there is an intensification of national self-awareness and national self-identification in diasporas. Any country that conducts any diasporal policy today can and should use the political, cultural and economic potential of diaspora to protect its national interests and develop interstate relations. The growing global diaspora and the contributions they bring to the development have warranted such high-level attention. The article defines how the recognition of the diaspora at the international legal and national level has become an important milestone in the overall humanization of law and the state. This legitimized the right of nations to self-determination and opened the way to active influence on the political, legal and cultural life of modern states.