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Showing 1 to 20 of 28 for “"diasporic communities"”.
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The reimagined migrant portrait - exploring the lives of Chinese and Taiwanese minorities living in South Africa
… has simultaneously increased the spread of diasporic communities. China’s positionality as an economic powerhouse and the influx of East Asian migrants to South Africa in recent years has shone a light on this minority population group. However, much of what is known about them tends to be …
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Ou Ayisyen? The making of a Haitian diasporic community in Chicago, 1933-2010
… from the more recognized and studied Haitian diasporic communities in New York and Miami and other African diasporic communities for three reasons. First, Jean Baptiste Point DuSable, a fur trader believed to have been from Haiti, founded the city around 1780 which highlights the initial …
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Haitian Diaspora Impact on Haitian Socio-Political and Economic Development
… different socio-economic strategies to use when diasporic communities residing in developed countries (core) are assisting their homeland (periphery). This paper will look at the Haitian Diaspora in the United States and its active transnational link to Haiti. Since the days of post-Duvalierism, …
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Dress as metaphor in diasporic fiction
… constructions of gendered, especially female, diasporic identities and examines patterns of dressing as strategies that allow for engagement with a grander narrative that takes into consideration history and politics, mapped through changes in dress, during and post colonisation. The thesis is …
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Language and Identity: Sky Lee's Disappearing Moon Caf and Wayson Choy's The Jade Peony
… continue to impact Chinese-Canadians and other diasporic communities today. The thesis explores how language in the two novels reveals that Chinese Canadians have complex and mutable identities and how notions of identity challenge the control the hegemonic powers seek to construct and restrict …
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Stitching from afar. Palestinian embroidery between narration of the self and practice of belonging
… this artisanal practice is articulated within diasporic communities, institutional archives, and the economized frameworks of NGOs. Palestinian embroidery historically shifted from a regional visual language to a national signifier after the Nakba in 1948, and it is continuously evolving as a …
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In Search of Argentinidad: Identity Affirming Bodies in Movement in Latino-America
… of family and migration within Argentinean diasporic communities originating from the Provinces of Argentina and the suburbs of Buenos Aires and examines their individual and collective (re)settlement practices and rituals within global (Latino) cities such as New York City and Miami. …
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Continental Drifters: Holocaust Memory, Decolonization, and Postwar Migration to Europe
… critical resources for Europe's new migrants and diasporic communities. In these late-twentieth-century and contemporary works, the Holocaust represents the failures of assimilation, religious tolerance, and minority rights in Europe. This literature's attentiveness to Holocaust memory, I show, …
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Through the Body: Corporeality, Subjectivity, and Empathy in Contemporary American Art
… discourses in queer, African American, and diasporic communities that directly addressed issues of embodiment, knowledge, and identity. Additionally drawing from recent writings in feminist and political theory on corporeality and solidarity, I argue that these artworks enact a cooperative …
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Nationalism, Democracy, and State Building Among the Young Ireland Diasporic Generation, 1842-72
… offers new insights on the integration of Irish diasporic communities into the fledgling democracies of these new nations and states, to which they offered a significant ideological contribution as they engaged with key debates about nationalism, democracy, citizenship, and minority rights.
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Land, Water, and Stars: Relationality in Anishinaabe and Diasporic Literature
… and Stars: Relationality in Anishinaabe and Diasporic Literatureexamines how relationality is encoded and portrayed in poetry, short stories, and novels by Anishinaabe and diasporic authors, Elizabeth Acevedo, Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, Gerald Vizenor, and Mohsin Hamid. Through engagement …
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Locating the Indian Gendered Subaltern on Digital Platforms: Digital Activism in #section377 and #metooindia
… the use of protest hashtags in Indian and Indian diasporic communities in Canada. Simultaneously, however, this study illustrates that digital technologies also hinder the amplification of marginalized voices, and create barriers in participation, representation, and inclusion online. Despite the …
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IN THE WEB WE CONNECT: USES OF SOCIAL MEDIA AMONG THE SOUTH ASIAN DIASPORA IN THE U.S.
… mass communication history, and members of the diasporic communities use social media for building and maintaining relationships. Social media have taken an important step by allowing the users to communicate in their native languages online. Because of this new step, communication through …
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Japan's Asia-Pacific Migrations and the Making of the Japanese Empire, 1868-1945
… This study defines Japanese imperialism as "diasporic" in three dimensions. First, it illustrates the close and dynamic connections Japanese migration to the empire's Asian colonies and to other parts of the world. In particular, it highlights the important yet unexpected ways in which …
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Arirang People: A Study of Koreans in Transnational Diasporas of the Russian Far East and Manchuria, 1895-1920
… perspective, this is a study of transnational diasporic communities of Koreans in Russia and Manchuria, formed by their desire for better lives and their struggle for survival during a time of conflicts and dissatisfaction in their homeland. The Yi Dynasty was about to collapse in its attempts …
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The Role of Dress in the Embodiment and Articulation of Chinese Diaspora Identity in the UK
… styles. I position wearing Chinese dress as a diasporic act that emphasises group-belonging. In the absence of a developed Chinese diaspora fashion economy, such as supports other diasporic communities in the UK, acquiring Chinese dress involves family gifts, purchases made via e-commerce or …
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Grassroots Governance: Domestic Violence and Criminal Justice Partnerships in an Immigrant City
… is nothing new or unfamiliar within Toronto’s diasporic communities; several of the immigrant anti-violence experts involved in this research credit their politicization and training “back home” as foundational to their involvement in feminist and the anti-violence movement. These findings …
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Nigerian Pidgin: The Identity of a Nigerian Away from Home
… role in shaping identity, especially within diasporic communities. This study explores how Nigerian-Canadian speakers engage with Nigerian Pidgin (NP) and how their linguistic behaviors reflect broader socio-cultural and educational trends. Despite being Nigeria’s most widely spoken language, …
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SOUTH ASIAN AND (UNDOCUMENTED) LATINO/A IMMIGRANT BLOGGERS: A CRITICAL DISCOURSE ANALYSIS OF THEIR ENGAGEMENT WITH IMMIGRATION DISCOURSES
… of this project is to theorize how marginalized communities engage with dominant discourses and to locate possibilities for agency in contesting dominant representations of marginalized groups. I selected two discursive events as instances of a larger U.S. immigration discourse--the enactment of …
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Concepts of displacement and home: seeking asylum and becoming a refugee among the host community of Northern Ireland
… Belfast. There exists a lack of well-established diasporic communities in Northern Ireland. However, nascent social groupings are in the processes of being formed which compliment other modes of integrating into local society. What is it that makes a person 'feel at home?' My thesis explores the …
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