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Showing 1 to 20 of 692 for “"diaspora"”.
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The Newfoundland Diaspora
… referred to Newfoundland out-migration as a “diaspora,” few have examined the theoretical implications of applying this emotionally charged term to a predominantly white, economically motivated, inter-provincial movement. My dissertation addresses these issues, ultimately arguing that …
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Diaspora Nation: Ireland’s Diaspora and Asylum Policies, and the Attempt to Deterritorialise the Irish State
The Irish government is attempting to use its diaspora and asylum policies to reterritorialise the Irish state into a diaspora nation. This strategy aims to police the boundaries of the Irish nation by incorporating members of the diaspora and emigrants (predominantly Irish Americans and the …
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American Desi : representation and reproduction in diaspora /
… and reproduces South Asian identity in the diaspora. It commences with a review of the literature in cultural studies and post-colonial theory on identity in the diaspora. A textual analysis of three films: American Desi, Bollywood/Hollywood, and East Is East, helps frame the characteristics …
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Media consumption, identity and the Pakistani diaspora
… issue of media consumption and the formation of diaspora identity within second and third generation British-born residents of Pakistani origin. In recent years there has been much debate centred on this group within the context of domestic and wider international geopolitics of winning hearts …
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Cartographies of Black Diaspora and Foster Care Diaspora: Arguments Toward Abolition in the Aftermath of<em> Partus Sequitur Ventrem</em>
… Black and “Other” populations. I coin a diaspora of community and cultural destabilization called the foster care diaspora (FCD), a theory and framing device that explains the interconnectivities between methods of Black disbursement, which have continuously impacted the Black woman …
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The Tunisian Diaspora in Britain: The London Case
The rise of a transnational paradigm in migration studies reminds us that contemporary migrants construct homes and identities through complex networks that cut across their homelands and host countries. The intersection between home, identity and networks is at the centre of the multidisciplinary …
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Dreaming Woman: Argentine Modernity and the Psychoanalytic Diaspora
<p>Dreaming Woman decenters Europeanist histories of psychoanalysis by examining the ways in which forced migration has shaped psychoanalytic theories of sexual difference and evolving modes of feminist practice in Latin America. Home to more psychoanalysts per capita than any other country, …
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Ethiopia in Focus: Photography, Nationalism, Diaspora, and Modernization
… works created by Ethiopian artists in the diaspora one generation after the Derg’s collapse. Exploring visual processes that concern, inform, and confront the practices of photographers working at the intersection of ethnic identity and nationalism, this dissertation scrutinizes Ethiopian …
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What drives West African Diaspora students to success?
… investigated the first and second-generation diaspora of West Africa and also examined if there were differences between the two generations. The goal was that if such differences exist, it will help plan the learning experience for students with similar backgrounds. The research used …
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Roots and routes : locating Tibetan identities in diaspora
Cognisant of a legacy of exotification of Tibet and Tibetans, Tibetan studies scholars have argued for a certain instrumental internalisation of romantic Western portrayals by Tibetans. Exemplifying this perspective, Lopez worries that Tibetans have been forced to perpetuate limiting orientalist …
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Performing Bantu: Narrative Constructions of Identity in Diaspora
… young adults construct identity while living in diaspora. The subjects of the research came to the United States as a part of the Somali Bantu resettlement in 2004. The study begins with a trajectory analysis of the people now known as Somali Bantu, beginning with their forced migration to …
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Podcasting and the African diaspora in the United States
… for English-speaking Africans and African diaspora audiences in the United States. The study focuses on the types of podcast content produced, the target audience, the distribution platforms used, and the motivations of the podcasters who are actively targeting Africans and the African …
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Diaspora Citation: Choreographing Belonging in the Black Arts Movement
… of their work in the present. I use a method of diaspora citation to comprehend their choreographic strategies in articulating forms and critiques of belonging that continue to resonate today. My method builds on Brent Hayes Edwards’ theorization of diaspora as an articulated, or joined, …
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Communicative Construction and Maintenance of Palestinian Identity in Diaspora
… and maintenance of Palestinian identity in diaspora. It provided a synopsis of the political and cultural meanings behind concepts such as home, identity, diaspora, hybridity, culture and visions of return. The dissertation yielded the way in discovering the meaning of place/homeland in …
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Digital Diaspora and (Re)mediating Black Women in Britain
… is discussion of the notion of Black digital diaspora, in relation to analysis of the online media experiences of Black women in Britain. As part of this thesis, the concept of Black British diasporic literacy is also outlined, to further understand the particularities of Black identity …
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Single Saudi Women in the Diaspora: A Photographic Study
… as single Saudi women and as members of a diaspora, and hence as young persons navigating social worlds with norms that differ markedly from those of their homeland. In this context, geographical and social distance provide the participants with opportunities to renegotiate their previous …
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Migrant spatiality: Identity, belonging, and a question of diaspora
… their nation of origin, and its relationship to diaspora, identity and belonging.
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Feminizing the West African diaspora in France: 1974-2005
… France, completely changing the dynamics of the diaspora in France. My dissertation examines their experience from 1974-2005, in order to explore what it meant to be African, black and female in France, a country where citizenship has long been premised on an abstract model that is understood as …
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