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Showing 1 to 20 of 72 for “"exiles"”.
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Taunggyi Dreamer: Exiles, Diasporas, and Pleasures
<p><em>Taunggyi Dreamer: Exiles, Diasporas, and Pleasures</em>, a collection of poetry and prose (creative non-fiction and fiction), reflecting themes of trauma, memory, psychic fragmentation and survival is told through hybrid narratives. The writing arises from my own multiple migrations from …
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Government perceptions of Cape Muslim exiles : 1652-1806
… The essay contends that the way in which the exiles were perceived can only be understood by locating them in the wider Cape social, economic and political context. Accordingly, it describes elements of this context such as the Dutch colonial rationale, the Cape social structure, its culture …
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The Mazarin Salon: French Exiles in Seventeenth-Century London
… Annalisa Nicholson: The Mazarin Salon: French Exiles in Seventeenth-Century London This thesis examines the history and literary output of the Mazarin salon, which was formed by French exiles Hortense Mancini, Duchesse de Mazarin, and Charles de Saint-Évremond. Established in London in 1676, …
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URBAN EXILES. MIGRATION GOVERNANCE, ASYLUM, DISPLACEMENT AND SEGREGATION IN ATHENS.
The research examines the appearance of new figures of segregation and displacement following the turn in European migration governance. As new governmental instruments of containment, dispersal and concentration combine, new geographies of mobility and immobility (Tazzioli & Garelli, 2018) …
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Exiles From Spain's Civil War: Case Studies of Two Literary Figures
… of exile.</p> <p>Only a minority among those exiles settled in the nited States, due to isolationist policies and to stringent minigration legislation. Those who did settle in the United tates were brought primarily by the efforts of American irivate individuals and by American …
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‘Undetermined exiles’: a phenomenological exploration of transition out of Army life
What is it like for a soldier to leave the British Army? Can psychotherapy, and specifically existential psychotherapy, help in the transition process? These have become increasingly important questions since the Strategic Defence and Security Review (2010) set a government target of 7,000 British …
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Voices from the outside: Homeric exiles in twentieth-century French writing
This thesis explores the twentieth-century trope of the outsider but from a modern and Homeric perspective. The corpus of artists under review each develop a symbiotic relationship with Homer and his epics, the Iliad and the Odyssey. It is an encounter that repositions the outsider, shifting our …
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“Strangers and Exiles”: Christian Identity as the Foundation for Counseling Korean Americans
This thesis (1) examines the experience of Korean Americans, both sociologically and generationally and (2) establishes that Christian identity is an essential element for Korean Americans to endure challenging life situations. In sum, this thesis argues the significance of Christian identity as …
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EXILES OF HETERONORMATIVITY: QUEER REPRODUCTION AND FEMALE SAME-SEX FAMILIES IN SINGAPORE
… of female citizens who have been treated as exiles of heteronormative kinship.
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Exiles, Knowledge, and Power: Utopian and Dystopian Worlds in Early Modern England
… theory, identity politics, and feminist theory. Exiles can be defined as punitive, political, internal, and self-imposed, and some can inhabit more than one exilic identity. Each of these individuals engages with the power dynamics of their respective worlds, with some beginning in the center of …
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Home at last : the re-entry adaptation of returned South African exiles
… the adaptation of returning South African exiles. In Chapter 1, an account is given in broad outline of the present state of knowledge regarding the issue of repatriation as well as psychological explanations of cultural adaptation. Re-entry into the home culture after a period of forced …
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Italian Protestant exiles and the heresy debate in sixteenth-century Switzerland, 1553 - 1584
… explores the contributions of Italian Protestant exiles to the debate over the legitimacy of coercing or killing heretics which flared up in Switzerland following the burning at the stake of the Antitrinitarian Michael Servetus in Geneva in 1553. On the one hand, it reconstructs the development of …
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Fanaticos, Exiles and the Mexico-U.S. Border: Episodes of Mexican State Reconstruction, 1923-1929
Fanaticos, Exiles and the Mexico-United States Border: Episodes of Mexican State Reconstruction, 1923-1929,' examines the major challenges to state reconstruction in Mexico in the wake of its decade of revolutionary violence, 1910-1920. The Mexican state, since the beginning of the revolution, …
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Exiles on Main Street: A Pedagogy of Popular Music Through Technology and Aesthetic Education
<p>This dissertation investigates the application of instructional technology within the specific context of popular music education. Synthesizing the work of Mishra & Koehler (2006) and Bauer (2014), this dissertation operationalizes a broader, more contemporary definition of instructional …
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The Many States of Excess: Everyday Statecraft and Imperial Entanglement of Iraqi Exiles in Amman
… and migration backgrounds, I examine how exiles wrestle with the legal and existential uncertainty of their exilic predicament as they await resettlement, debate past and future state imaginaries in cultural salons, and lay citizenship claims among their jaliya. I demonstrate how, in …
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From Displaced Persons to Exiles: Nationalism, Anti-Communism, and the Shaping of Latvian American Diaspora
This dissertation explores the shaping of the Latvian American exile from temporary settlement in Displaced Persons (DP) camps in post-war Europe, to resettlement to the U.S. following the DP Act of 1948. Specifically, Latvian diasporic discourses of nationalism, transnationalism, and …
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Enduring suffering: the Cassinga Massacre of Namibian exiles in 1978 and the conflicts between survivors' memories
… Force (SADF) killed close to a thousand Namibian exiles at Cassinga in southern Angola. This happened on May 4 1978. In recent years, Namibia commemorates this day, nationwide, in remembrance of those killed and disappeared following the Cassinga attack. During each Cassinga anniversary, survivors …
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Nomads of the Body, Exiles of the Mind: Twentieth Century Transnational African American Mexican Art and Literature
<p>This dissertation examines the migration of African Americans from the U.S. to Mexico; however, these paths extend well beyond the North American continent and intersect with a much larger migration: the African Diaspora. The journeys of Langston Hughes, Audre Lorde, Willard Motley, and …
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Shelter, Knowledge, Activism: A Refuge in the Canadian Forest for Political Exiles and Intellectual Dissidents of Totalitarian Regimes
Issues of civil rights have been thrust into the spotlight due to the events in Hong Kong and China, with numerous attacks against journalists, activists and others who have spoken out against the censorship of free ideas and the ongoing genocide of the Uyghur people in the XUAR. The project, a …
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