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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"Transnationality"”.
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Reading Nation in Translation: The Spectral Transnationality of the Malaysian Racial Imaginary
<p>In recent decades, literary studies has experienced a global turn, often understood as a move beyond national paradigms of analysis, which are deemed to be narrow and particularistic. Although wary of the tacit universalizing tendencies of global frames, scholars of race and postcoloniality have …
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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
The main focus of the study 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 …
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Individuality, Collectivity, Locality and Transnationality in Armenian Genocide Processing = Egyéni, kollektív, helyi és transznacionális tényezők az örmény népirtás feldolgozásában
Az örmény népirtás egyike a 20. század tömeges traumáinak, amely máig érezteti hatását. Mivel az emberiség azóta is népirtások egész sorának volt szemtanúja, amelyek közül több is strukturális hasonlóságot mutatott az örményeket ért genocídiummal, a kérdés aktualitása egy évszázad múltával sem …
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Deconstructing "Abandonment of Seafarers": A study on the transnationality of abandonment of seafarers: To what extent do private actors/shipping industry stakeholders have an impact on abandonment of seafarers?
The Maritime Labour Convention amendments concerning abandonment of seafarers are expected to come into force in 2017, something long sought by seafarers’ representatives. The Convention is already considered a success, being referred to as a ‘super convention’ or ‘seafarers’ bill of rights’, and …
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Sri Lankan diaspora returning 'home' : transnational ways of belonging and being
… and their migration experience highlights their transnationality. The term transnationality is used to refer to the participants’ ways of being and belonging in transnational space. According to the research findings, the study identified that (1) return migration is not as permanent as it might …
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Transnational development: Limitations and potentialities of a model for 'Migration and Development' : case study Caxcania
… and concepts regarding studies on migrant‘s transnationality are linked, to mutually enrich both spheres. To contrast theory with practice, a case study (Caxcania) with appropriate characteristics was chosen, in which qualitative research was carried out, with a particular focus on …
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NOTIONS OF DISCONTENT AND DISTINCTION: REFLECTIONS OF YOUNG DIASPORIC TAIWANESE AMERICANS
… attachments and thoughts about the island, their transnationality, and the commonalities and differences that Taiwanese Americans and Taiwanese inhabitants have? This thesis aims to contribute to discourse on Asian Americans, specifically addressing Taiwanese Americans, their identity in America …
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Independent Visions of Marginal America: Reimagining a Nation Through Outsiders, Searching, and Non-Arrival
… is Missing, and The Watermelon Woman (1996). Transnationality reflects in the content and production of many “outsider” films; therefore my study replaces the category American films with films in and about America. These films about America are threaded together by the outsider as a position …
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Re -Imagining Istanbul: Globalization and Urban Change
… by local actors within the context of intense transnationality.
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Double Engagements: the Transnational Experiences of Ethiopian Immigrants in the Washington, D.C., Metropolitan Area
… views of immigrants and demonstrates how transnationality works in both directions.</p> <p>My research, based on 12 months of fieldwork in the metropolitan area of Washington, D.C., used participant observation, interviews, life histories and extended conversations to provide the first …
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Seeking Justice in Gender Revolution: He-Yin Zhen's Contributions to Chinese Political Thought
… of early Chinese feminism and testifies to the transnationality of anarchism and feminism in an era of emerging modernity.
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"""Little Manhattan"" in the Shadow of Global Prescriptions: The Spatial and Social Restructuring of the Banking Sector in Istanbul in the Era of Financial Liberalization"
… in social science that draws attention to the transnationality of social practices. From this dissertation, I hope to contribute to the development of this emerging field and show how this perspective can add a new analytical dimension to the study of globalization, world cities, the global …
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Visuality and the transnational urban space: Koreatown, Los Angeles
… Together, these findings propose that the transnationality shaping and permeating through the space is in turn shaped and perpetuated by the local constructions of the space, and as it becomes a claimable space, Koreatown can be a source of production of power for its various transnational …
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Minori rumeni tra percorsi migratori e rappresentazioni. Nè soli, nè accompagnati a Bologna
… migration to Italy, trafficking in human beings, transnationality of migrant’s migration and decentered cooperation as a means of contrasting illegal migration and trafficking. Each field of research is characterized by a specific methodological approach, but they are all linked by the …
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(in)Equality.
<p>(in)Equality. centers around my experiences as a transnational person and those around me who have affected my current concept of equality and cultural histories. My visual methodologies cover digital photography and editing, inkjet printing, and laser engraving: multimedia in a process of new …