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Showing 1 to 20 of 49 for “"Returning Home"”.
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Sri Lankan diaspora returning 'home' : transnational ways of belonging and being
… migration is often assumed to be a return to ‘home’ and to be the end of a migration cycle rather than another turn in that cycle. This research examines the links between return migration, transnationalism and (re)integration, among Sri Lankan-born migrants who returned to Sri Lanka. I explore …
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“Women of Allah” and “The Book of Kings:” Shirin Neshat’s Narratives of Returning Home
… and future. She constructs her longing for home in “Women of Allah'' and she visualizes her homecoming in “The Book of Kings.” The central point to this research is Neshat’s personal relationship to an event that caused her a traumatic experience, the experience that interrupted her sense of …
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Field notes for returning home: Creative-critical conversations on the home place in Kroetsch’s completed field notes
… approach to explore the concept of returning home as a place-based practice through the reading of three early poems from Robert Kroetsch’s Completed Field Notes. Each chapter begins with a personal, embodied experience related to the home place where I grew up and a Kroetsch poem …
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Coping with cross-cultural re-entry stress : the development; implementation and evaluation of 1 day group workshop
… shock (reentry), the stress associated with returning home after living in another country, has become an area of growing interest. Despite interest in the nature of this phenomena, few group programs have been designed to assist international sojourners in returning home. Even fewer programs …
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The Repatriation Experiences of American Third Culture Kids
… subsequent effects on their children, when returning home to their native cultures during the repatriation process. The children who experience the effect of living in a new culture and eventually repatriating are known as Third Culture Kids (TCK). As globalization and expatriate populations …
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American Anxiety: Stories
… from an old woman afraid of change to a veteran returning home to a people’s militia occupying a property, these stories reveal an often-overlooked perspective of the country. The author uses these stories to probe issues of prejudice, government, and the feeling of isolation in order to …
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Swimming Against the Current: Understanding Employment Strategies and Barriers to Re-Entry for Black Male Ex-Offenders
… that approximately 735,000 ex offenders return home to their communities annually. In the race to incarcerate, the US neglected to foresee the need for reentry policies that would prepare communities for the mass return of ex-offenders. The incarceration rate for Black males is seven times that …
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Categorizing Reentry and Reintegration Efforts Across Five States
… to create better pathways for individuals returning home. Ending the collateral damage caused by mass incarceration will require a change in the way reentry and reintegration are defined, policies are created, recidivism is defined, and services are provided to individuals affected by mass …
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Advent of the Everyday Cathleen: Katharine Tynan and Motifs of Irish Identity 1911-1921
… spent eighteen years of her career there before returning home, during which time she became disconnected from the politics of a changing Ireland, resulting in confusion and disillusionment upon her return. This research will contextualize Tynan’s unique and important literary contributions …
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The reactive
… the decision of continuing a life of evasion or returning home and facing the responsibility that comes with everything he left behind. "The Reactive' is a novel that seeks to explore the implications of an increasingly technologized society coming to a head with more traditionally based ideas of …
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The (in)Complete Warrior: Technology, Limb Loss and the Reformation of Identity
… an unprecedented number of U.S. combat veterans returning home from deployment missing one or more limbs. Through the application of advanced prosthetic systems, these veterans are not only able to recover but to return to or even exceed full physical functionality. The research presented in this …
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Endurance and evanescence : on the practice and performance of silence and meditation
… experienced during the five months upon returning home to Canada. The pupose of this paper is to demonstrate the experience of self through a meditative lens and describe the liminal and transformative states between silence and sound.
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Dvakrát nevstoupíš do stejné řeky? Rakousko a jeho "gastarbeiteři" v letech 1961-1974 a 2002-2011
… boom while securing their return back to their homelands in times of economic downturn. After the programme was abruptly ended in 1974, a majority of "guest workers" instead of returning home settled down in Austria. This however undermined the core idea of the programme and it became …
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A Case Study of Discipline Practices: Perceptions of Administrators, Teachers, and Foster Parents in Tibetan Children’s Village (TCV) Schools in India
… lives, and for their dreams and struggles of returning home. Findings also include the researcher’s observations of the influence and impact of the Tibetan Buddhist culture and refugee status in India and the challenges in eliminating corporal punishment in schools. This study will provide …
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Lost Soldiers from Lost War : a comparative study of the collective experience of soldiers of the Vietnam War and the Angolan/Namibian border war
… affiliation in combat, as well as the return home from lost wars of intervention. My evaluation discovers significant common ground between the physical demands of warfare, the social and political environment, and most importantly, similar expressions of mental and emotional strain both …
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The Impetus For Transitions From Relief to Development In Post-Conflict Environments: Food Security, Land Access, and Livelihood Reconstruction Among the Acholi of Northern Uganda
… people leaving internal displacement camps and returning home. However, there are countless obstacles complicating their return.</p> <p>For many people in northern Uganda, the paramount concerns during this transition period revolved around food security and reconstructing their livelihoods. As …
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An interpretive qualitative study of baccalaureate nursing students following an eight-day international cultural experience in Tanzania
… focus group discussions one month after returning home, and personal interviews 6 months later. The results indicated that the participants experienced culture shock, but they also gained in self-awareness, cultural empathy, leadership skills, a desire to learn more, and a new perspective …
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(De)composing Transhumanisms: Fungal and Trans Ecologies in Jeff VanderMeer's <em>Annihilation</em>
… texts such as Jackson Jesse Nash’s “‘I Am Not Returning Home’: A Transgender Reading of Jeff VanderMeer’s <em>Annihilation</em>”, this paper argues that representations of fungus in <em>Annihilation</em> present a possibility for trans futurity rooted in transformation, ecological entanglement, …
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