Stakeholder Roles in the Participatory Management of Diasporic Built Heritage: A Systematic Literature Review

Cross-cultural diaspora has created diverse forms of built heritage across origins and destinations. Community participation for protecting diasporic built heritage has gained growing public attention alongside global advocacy for participatory heritage management. However, limited research has examined the participation strategies in diasporic built heritage management and the process through which diasporic communities negotiate their roles with other stakeholders, across origins and destinations. This study presents a systematic literature review of 106 publications to understand how diasporic communities and other stakeholders participate in diasporic built heritage management. The analysis includes (1) mapping global case patterns; (2) analysing stakeholder agency and cross-sector roles in origins and destinations; and (3) investigating geographic patterns of stakeholder roles. The results reveal strong geographic inequality in research coverage, with limited attention to the Global South and origin voices. A dynamic stakeholder framework is developed to bridge minority and mainstream (cross-sector) roles across origins and destinations, offering insights into the comprehensive understanding and identification of stakeholder roles for fostering inclusive diasporic built heritage research and management.