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Showing 1 to 20 of 61 for “"Diasporas"”.
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Taunggyi Dreamer: Exiles, Diasporas, and Pleasures
<p><em>Taunggyi Dreamer: Exiles, Diasporas, and Pleasures</em>, a collection of poetry and prose (creative non-fiction and fiction), reflecting themes of trauma, memory, psychic fragmentation and survival is told through hybrid narratives. The writing arises from my own multiple migrations from …
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Dangerous diasporas : émigré nationalism and ethnic violence
… their cousins abroad. Indeed, members of ethnic diasporas have shown a propensity to get involved in homeland wars. This study focuses on the extreme elements of these communities, tackling the question of why diaspora nationalists persist in advocating for maximalist solutions to home country …
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Invisibilized Providers: The Role of Racialized Diasporas in Refugee Sponsorship
… and work of sponsors who are part of racialized diasporas engaged in refugee sponsorship. This dissertation probes the invisibilized sponsorship role of racialized diasporas made up of former refugees and asylum seekers to Canada. Based on testimony from in-depth, semi-structured interviews with …
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Feminist counter-geopolitics: knowledges, practices, and spaces of activism in Iranian diasporas
… practices, and spaces of activism in Iranian diasporas across selected European and Canadian cities create alternatives to state political structures. The present research was conducted between December 2021 and June 2023 and employed different qualitative research methods, including …
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The location of settled diasporas: Atlantic crossings and shifting homelands in Nova Scotian fiction
… La Parte II, titulada ¿Homeland, Settled Diasporas and Belonging in Nova Scotian Narratives¿, se compone de tres capítulos donde se lleva a cabo el análisis literario de los textos. Su estructura sigue una comparación transversal y, dando especial importancia a las perspectivas de clase …
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The Role Of Nostalgia In The Literature Of The Caribbean Diasporas – Linking Memory, Globalization And Homemaking
… of Nostalgia in the Literature of the Caribbean Diasporas – Linking Memory, Globalization and Homemaking, investigates diverse manifestations of nostalgia in the literature of Puerto Rican, Cuban, and Dominican diasporas. My study offers a comparative analysis of Esmeralda Santiago’s Cuando era …
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"We'll Sail Like Columbus": Race, Indigeneity, Settler Colonialism, and the Making of South Asian Diasporas in Canada
… incommensurabilities in the making of racialized diasporas. However, it argues that varying loci of power and privilege render these complicities ambiguous, entwined, and invisible. Deploying traces as a methodological tool to study settler colonial processes, the dissertation explores the …
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Home making in small-town America: Mexican and Latina/o diasporas and citizenship practices in the Midwest
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At the Intersections of Nations, Diasporas, and Modernities: North American Finns in the Soviet Union in the 1930s
… were the ways by which social spaces such as diasporas (locally), nations (regionally), and modernities (globally) were culturally produced.
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Little short of national murder: Forced migration and the making of diasporas in the Atlantic world, 1745--1865
<p>Removal---or, the exile and forced migration of marginalized cultural and racial groups from one region of the British Empire and, later, the United States, to another less volatile region---emerged as a key tool in the construction of the Anglo-American Atlantic World. British officials used …
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Arirang People: A Study of Koreans in Transnational Diasporas of the Russian Far East and Manchuria, 1895-1920
… these Koreans came to settle as transnational diasporas in the Russian Far East and Manchuria at the end of the Yi Dynasty of Korea at the turn of the twentieth century, resulting in their involvement in the Japanese and the Russian military forces. From a geopolitical and multicultural …
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British Dance and the African Diasporas, the Discourses of Theatrical Dance and the Art of Choreography: 1985 to 2005
The aim of this thesis is to devise a theoretical approach to writing histories of theatrical dance, which draws on African and Diaspora forms. Most choreographers who work with these forms in Britain are usually of African or Caribbean descent and are racially black. I call the theoretical …
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Diaspora Missiology: Understanding Biblical Hospitality as a Means to Develop Church Planting Strategies Among Unreached Peoples in the United States
… of biblical hospitality as it relates to the diasporas peoples within the biblical context. Chapter 3 looks at current migration numbers and the types of societies to which the diasporas belong. It also looks at current church planting strategies to establish the need for understanding …
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Bosnian Immigrants: An Analysis of the Bosnian Community's Influence on the Cultural Landscape of Bowling Green, KY
<p>Diasporas have been occurring for thousands of years, and today globalization has facilitated the quick rate at which diasporas occur on a global scale. Diasporas entail the mass movement of refugees across international borders, and diasporic peoples today now find themselves journeying across …
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Diasporic connectivity and patriarchal formations in the sex trafficking of women
… composition, modus operandi, and to the role of diasporas in the trafficking process. Additionally, through data extracted from Crown Prosecution Service trafficking files, defendants are profiled and groups are allocated to models in a typology hypothesizing four possible intersections between …
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The Role of the Mexican Diaspora in National Emigration Policies
… of empowerment back in their homeland countries, diasporas are emerging as international actors able to transform the nation-state in development and economic issues, as traditional studies suggest, but also in the emigration policy-making process. Using an analysis of minutes from the plenary …
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Contemporary Art and Food: An Examination of Three Case Studies Using Anthropology and Diaspora as Key.
… between people and their communities, including diasporas.</p> <p>Rituals performed around food are essential to the social structure within diasporas. The incorporation of food as a medium to highlight and address inquiries that arise with diaspora identities are present in the works of Michael …
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Transnational Political Participation Among Diasporic Migrants
… state networks and structures. We know also that diasporas experience and shape transnational spaces differently than other migrants, but we have much to learn about what influences a diaspora's desire and ability to maintain a political affiliation with their homeland and to become politically …
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Disordering the Land: Visual and Material Strategies of Creating Futurity and the Otherwise in Contemporary Caribbean Art
… the land and people of the Caribbean and its diasporas and the ways the land and people of the Caribbean and its diasporas recast the colonial-imperial project to create transformative sites of radical possibility rather than ones that necessarily involve monotony, order, surveillance, and the …
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