Some states have a long history of reaching out to citizens living in other countries but since 2000 it has become much more common for states to encourage loyalty from current or former citizens living abroad. Using detailed case studies, this book sets out to explain this significant development, with an innovative new theoretical framework.1. Introduction: Locating and narrating emigration nations; Michael Collyer 2. 'Albania: ?1' or the Story of 'Big Policies, Small Outcomes': How Albania Constructs and Engages its Diaspora; Julie Vullnetari 3: Diaspora Engagement and Policy in Ethiopia; Katie Kuschminder and Melissa Siegel 4: Diaspora Engagement in India: From Non-Required Indians to Angels of Development; Metka Hercog and Melissa Siegel 5: Towards the Neo-institutionalisation of Irish State-Diaspora Relations in the Twenty-First Century; Breda Gray 6: Italy: The Continuing History of Emigrant Relations; Guido Tintori 7: Regime Change in Mexico and the Transformation of State-diaspora Relations; Jean-Michel Lafleur 8: The Moroccan State and Moroccan Citizens Abroad.; Michael Collyer 9: Creative Destruction in the New Zealand 'Diaspora Strategy' ; Alan Gamlen 10: Nigeria @ 50: Policies and Practices for Diaspora Engagement; Naluwembe Binaisa 11: Portuguese Emigrants and the State: An Ambivalent Relationship; Jos? Carlos Marques and Pedro G?is 12: From Economic to Political Engagement: Analysing the Changing Role of the Turkish Diaspora; ?zge Bilgili and Melissa Siegel, 13. An Emigrant Nation without an Emigrant Policy: The Curious Case of Britain ; James Hampshire?zge Bilgili, Maastricht University, The NetherlandsNaluwembe Binaisa, University of Oxford, UKAlan Gamlen, Victoria University of Wellington, New ZealandPedro G?is, University of Porto, PortugalBreda Gray, University of Limerick, IrelandJames Hampshire, University of Sussex, UKMetka Hercog, Ecole Polytechnique F?d?rale de Lausanne (EPFL), SwitzerlandKatie Kuschminder, Maastricht University, The NetherllS$