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Showing 1 to 20 of 20 for “"Diaspora Studies"”.
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Expatriation versus exile : departures and returns in modern American expatriate narratives and post-1948 exilic Palestinian writing
… conversation in comparative, postcolonial and diaspora studies. It accounts for the distinction between the departures and returns of the involuntary exile and the expatriate or self-imposed exile. In Chapter One, I analyse memoirs by Fawaz Turki (1941–) and Malcolm Cowley (1898– 1989) in order …
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Gendering Diaspora Across Generations: Lebanese Motherhood and Daughterhood Post-Emigration
… sits at the intersection of critical diaspora studies and Arab feminism, seeking to explore how migrant Lebanese women embody, design, and understand home, examined through the lens of motherhood and daughterhood. The following opening questions guided the study: Which aspects of …
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Rediasporizing Bahia: the lived experiences of blackness and the cultural politics of Bahian hip-hop
… essentialist tropes that Blacks in the African Diaspora are connected together by a common ancestry and culture. This has in turn been used to reify popular Brazilian mythologies of racial harmony, a mestiço racial identity, and an African-derived ethnicity. These cultural representations of the …
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Imagining sittee : constructions of homelands and grandmother narratives in Arab American literature
… in Arab American literature. Through the lens of diaspora studies, it argues that grandmother figures become integral in the creation of an Arab American imagined community based on two main tropes: a theoretical collapse between notions of patriotism and the maternal figure (in which the homeland …
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Los Angeles Artists and Revisionist Historiography: A Diasporic Intervention
… whose identity and work engages with issues of diaspora. I combine visual analysis of the artwork with interviews with the artists to look at the ways in which they utilize several visual and theoretical concepts of diaspora, arguing, that as diasporans they adopt a dialogic gaze that disallows …
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China’s African Economic Policies Evaluation
… and communities to promote global learning and studies. My supervisor, Dr. Akanmu Adebayo, is the executive director of the department. He is also a historian and focuses on African and African Diaspora studies. What I do during the internship are: 1) collecting the information about trade, …
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Negotiating hybridity in Gu Hongming’s English translation of Confucian texts
… approach of postcolonialism, cultural studies, diaspora studies and comparative literature, and a combination of contextual and textual analyses. This study also draws on a variety of primary materials, such as Gu’s English writings, periodicals, and archival materials of his private …
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Ethno-nationalism of the Ahiska (Meskhetian) Turks: A diaspora perspective of their response to change in multiple locations, with a particular emphasis on Turkey
… values particularly highlighted while being in diaspora. As the Ahiska Turks live scattered across ten nations, literature from diaspora studies is drawn upon to analyse different communities as they adjust transnationally and (re)connect with Turkey, which is one of their ‘homelands’. Applying …
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Versions of America: Reading American Literature for Identity and Difference
… examines how American authors of the South Asian Diaspora (Indian-American or South Asian American) can be read 1) as simply American and 2) without regard to ethnicity. I develop this argument using American authors Jhumpa Lahiri, a first generation American of Bengali-Indian descent, and Bharati …
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The Use of New Media by the UK's Palestinian Diaspora
… of major news events. The Palestinians in the diaspora are an active audience. They create websites and blogs to disseminate their personal stories and to receive updates from Gaza and the West Bank from the people who live there. The new technologies are bypassing geographical distance and …
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Haunted belongings: testimonios of body and home as autoethnography
… as geography, communications, education, and diaspora studies, but which tend to ignore the ""affective"" elements of belonging over the material. The second is methodological insofar as my critical work is in conversation with diverse intellectual formations such as queer theory, women of …
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Postcolonial Trauma in the Mediterranean: The Italian-Libyan Transnational Community
… anthropology, history, literary and trauma studies I argue that these cultural representations prove the existence of a transnational and transcultural community, which still today is traumatized by the postcolonial vicissitudes. Chapter One focuses on the deportation of the settlers …
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“The Journey of Relocation,” A Reflective Autoethnography, Digital Story Telling, and Netnography: Experiences of South Asian Immigrants in Canada
… to analyze online communities where South Asian diasporas negotiate identity, belonging, and resistance. This study investigates the complex realities of South Asian migrants in Canada amid rising anti-immigration sentiments post-COVID-19 and systemic inequities rooted in colonial legacies and …
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Imagining Un Futuro Digno: Indigenous Youth Striving For Non-Migration In Guatemala
… of migration and education, critical diaspora studies, and the work of critical indigenous and feminist scholars, I demonstrate how aspirations of non-migration come into being, the ways in which youth work towards their actualization, and the achievability of these aspirations. I …
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Anti-black racism and the foreign black other: constructing blackness and the sporting migrant
… expose the workings of race and racism in sport, studies have tended to homogenize black populations and have not taken into account the varying histories and complexities of, specifically, black African migrant athletes. In my work here I take ten black African (im)migrant athletes as a …
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IDENTITY AND IMPROVISATION: ARCHAEOLOGY AT THE AFRICAN AMERICAN COMMUNITY OF TIMBUCTOO, NEW JERSEY.
This dissertation focuses on the African American community of Timbuctoo, Westampton, New Jersey. Timbuctoo was founded circa 1825 by formerly enslaved and free born African Americans. The community operated as a "station" along the Underground Railroad. At its peak Timbuctoo had over 125-150 …
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Beyond the Banlieue: French Postcolonial Migration & the Politics of Sub-Saharan Identity
<p>“Beyond the Banlieue: French Postcolonial Migration & the Politics of a Sub-Saharan Identity” details and historicizes the interstitial area between French state acculturation policies and the lived experience of Afro-French residents from 1945-2018. The project uses oral histories from Black …
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Let My People Stay: Irregular Migrants' Struggle for Rights and Recognition
In January 2014, a mass protest of 40,000 African migrants, demanding rights, recognition and a fair asylum process took place in Tel-Aviv. Their demonstration was unprecedented in its nature and magnitude offering a unique and interesting puzzle: how a foreign-born community without resources or …
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Ethiopia in Focus: Photography, Nationalism, Diaspora, and Modernization
… works created by Ethiopian artists in the diaspora one generation after the Derg’s collapse. Exploring visual processes that concern, inform, and confront the practices of photographers working at the intersection of ethnic identity and nationalism, this dissertation scrutinizes Ethiopian …
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A map of this place: Memory and the afterlives of removal
… in transnational and transcultural memory studies. To that end, I develop a connective study of how memories of dispossession and removal travel across time, generations, and geographies. I do so through a contrapuntal study of contemporary Armenian American, Palestinian American, and …