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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"Transnational identities"”.
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Afro-Latinx Transnational Identities: Adults in the San Francisco Bay and Los Angeles Area
<p>This paper examines the identity construction of Afro-Latinas/os/x in the San Francisco Bay and Los Angeles Area. Marginalized communities predominately Black and Latina/ o/x concentrated are at the epicenter of disenfranchisement caused by the globalization of neoliberalism. Neoliberal reforms …
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In Search of Home: How Kenyans Domiciled in the USA Negotiate Transnational Identities Online.
… the diaspora websites studied construct various identities in their website talk. These identities ranged from essentialist and cultural identities that support the status quo, to hybrid identities that indicate various levels of integration into the host society. The results also indicate new …
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An Investigation into the Transformation of Transnational Identities of Chinese Students with Study-Abroad Experiences
… examines the transformation of Chinese students’ transnational identities against the backdrop of the internationalisation of higher education (Varghese, 2008). Based on a social constructivism paradigm, the study used a qualitative research approach in order to probe issues lying beneath the …
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Latino\a Ethnic Identity in the New Diaspora: Perspectives of a Select Group of Latino\a Undergraduates at a Predominantly White Land Grant University
… and English and resist abandonment of national identities and culture. These are suggestive of transnational identities that are multiple and adaptive to a variety of contexts and situations; rather than being fixed and constant.
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Placing transnational migration: The circulation of Indian South African narratives of identity and belonging
… cultural membership have been questioned by the transnational approach to migration. However, transnationalism abstracts migrants' experiences outside of the historical-material circumstances of their production and organizes groups into bound categories without engaging in questions of …
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Moving to the West: Media, Cultural Transnationalism and Identity. Cultural Dynamics of Korean Women in Diaspora
… into media, diasporic identity, and cultural transnationalism. The analysis draws from six month of intensive fieldwork, including “following” in-depth interviews, participant observation, and digital ethnography. The study aims to investigate the interplay between media, social values, …
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Ethnicity Mediated: Identity Practices of Greek Diaspora on a Social Network Site
… and Wall posts, participants celebrate their transnational mobility, report on their experience of homeland in real time, participate in Groups for Greek diaspora and build networks of practice to engage with life in London. The analysis reveals the existence of an online space which …
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Crossing the boundary: transnationality and interracial marriage encounters in Jane Katjavivi's undisciplined heart and Trudie Amulungu's taming my Elephant
… was to explore the literary presentation of transnational identities and interracial marriage encounters as presented by two Namibian autobiographical texts, Taming my Elephant by Amulungu (2017) and Undisciplined Heart by Katjavivi (2010). It evaluated the strategies employed by the authors …
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Laowai: Contested Identity and Imagined Community among Shanghai's Expatriates
… a space for the performance of new, liminal, transnational identities - rooted in Shanghai but still comfortably Western.
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Neither Here nor There: Exploring the Transnational Identity of West African Migrants living in South Africa
Transnationalism as a theory has explained the causal nature of migration over time, against the backdrop of an ever-changing globalised world. The movement of people and their motivating factors have been deeply researched within migration literature and other surrounding fields. However, the …
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Transethnic America: nineteenth-century narratives of self, other, and nation
… reading brings the boundary-crossing gains of transnationalist studies to bear on comparative multiethnic literature, suggesting that American identities were fashioned in multiethnic as well as international matrices. Chapter one argues that William Apess's <italic>Eulogy on King …
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From Gwoka Modénn to Jazz Ka: Music, Nationalism, and Creolization in Guadeloupe
… to define and express their national cultural identities. Following an ethnographic description of traditional gwoka as it is practiced in Guadeloupe today, I explore the music's historical roots. I demonstrate how, from the eighteenth to the early twentieth century, colonial social dynamics …
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Sociolinguistic effects of mobility: Iranian Azerbaijanis in the U.S.
… processes of (de)authenticating certain identities. I illustrate how the spatiotemporal configurations in which interactions take place make certain chronotopes more salient, and that these more salient chronotopes are invoked by participants, organizing their discourses. Additionally, I …