Global ETD Search
Search theses and dissertations gathered from participating repositories worldwide. Every result links back to the library that holds it. No account is needed.
Results
Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"Transnational communities"”.
-
Troubling Citizenship: Latino Immigrants and the Struggle for Participatory Belonging in the Midwest
… members of local, regional, national, and transnational communities. This study critically examines identity politics in the making and marking of community belonging in the United States. More specifically, the dissertation highlights a Mexican ethnic experience in relation to particular …
-
Soomaali Mi'yaa? an ethnographic exploration of Somali identity formation in Cape Town
… this word walks through borders, creating transnational communities. Somalis are viewed as one people, and Somalis believe themselves to be one people. This thesis explores the meaning and transformation behind this essentialism and how Somalis in South Africa employ this one ness to form …
-
The fraudulent family: humanitarianism, security, and kinship in refugee resettlement from Kenya
… resettlement processes. Moving between refugee communities and the patchwork of bureaucratic institutions that govern and aid them, the dissertation takes as its focal point discourses of fraud and anti-fraud practices that illuminate contemporary struggles over rights to mobility. More …
-
Transnational audiences and the reception of television news: a study of Mexicans in Los Angeles
… borrows from the discursive practices of transnationalism and diaspora in order to articulate the concept of "transnational audiences" in the United States. The project identifies transnational audiences as formed by individuals and families whose lives straddle two national territories. …
-
Home and away: British women's narratives of community in Spain
… to facilitate understanding of these new 'transnational' communities through lifestyle migration is a relatively new area of study and I aim to contribute to this. The idea that the absence of community is problematic combined with a romantic discourse relating to 'past ages'- or …
-
“LIFE IS VERY HARD HERE”: A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF CENTRAL AMERICAN MIGRANTS IN EL NORTE AND ENRIQUE’S JOURNEY
<p>The purpose of this paper is to reveal cultural challenges indigenous peoples and people in poverty face in their Central American homelands and in the United States when migrating northward. Central Americans living in economic and social structures of hardship and/or cultural persecution leave …