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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"Refugeehood"”.
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Gender Identity, Refugeehood, and Belonging: Transgender Asylum-Seekers and International Refugee Status Determination (RSD)
This research deals with transgender asylum-seekers and refugee status determination (RSD). It considers the excessively complex legal developments and discourse surrounding gender-related asylum applications and challenges the strict interpretation of the 1951 Convention Relating to the Status of …
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The Performance of Refugeehood on Social Media in an Era of Superdiversity: A Digital Ethnographic Study of Arab Refugee Identities and Literacies on YouTube
The internet has increased the visibility of cultures and subcultures that would otherwise remain invisible (Varis & Wang, 2011). This study explores the post-migration identities and literacy practices of one such subculture, namely Arab refugees resettled in Europe, by taking a close look at …
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Humanization of the Refugee as the Modern Subject in Mohsin Hamid’s <em>Exit West</em>
… humans that are forced into the process of refugeehood and displacement. Throughout this thesis, I discuss what makes the novel so unique in representing the modern-day refugee. In the first section titled “II. Humanization of Hamid’s Characters,” I discuss what distinguishes this novel from …
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Ways to Refuge: Bosnians in Central New York in Ethnographic Perspective
… Refugees, and offers an experiential notion of refugeehood by identifying it as a cultural domain.</p> <p>Furthermore, the dissertation foregrounds the discipline's public and engagement roles by reminding of the need to intervene in debates about the impending immigration reform in the United …
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Seeding Sovereignty: Sensory Politics and Biodiversity in the Karen Diaspora
<p>This dissertation traces the sensory and political dimensions of Karen refugees' co-movements with their seeds, plants, and agricultural practices in exile. It also tentatively explores understandings of sovereignty beyond the frame of the Westphalian nation-state through engagements with seed …