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Showing 1 to 20 of 23 for “"migrancy"”.
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Music, Migrancy, and Modernity: A Study of Brazilian Forró
"Chapter 1 deals with the genres that are considered under the umbrella term Forró, including baiao, xote, arrasta-pe, xaxado, coco, rojao, and forro itself, detailing each of them. Chapter 2 offers an overview of Forró music in the mass media during the 20th century, with a focus on the most …
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Home and Away: Home, Migrancy, and Belonging Through Landscape Photographic Practice
… Place, situated within the key themes of Home, Migrancy, and Belonging. The accompanying text details the development of the works through multiple readings of the relationship between material practices and ideas of landscape, Britishness and race. By taking a historical, but not chronological …
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A study of migrancy and reasons for resignations of professional social workers
(Research Project)--Michigan State University. School of Social Work, 1966
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Transforming migrancy: Basotho experience and participation in the South African labour system
… from the new dispensation? Understanding what migrancy means to working men and women from Lesotho is the objective of this study. Little has been done to analyse the consequences of rapid changes in the structure of employment in the mining industry for migrants and their kith and kin. As the …
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Basotho and the mines : towards a history of labour migrancy, c.1890-1940
… which sections of Basotho opted for labour migrancy; and why it was men and not women who, initially at least, became migrants. In discussing the decline of the Basotho economy in the 1920s and 1930s, this section also shows how this was characterised not only by dependence on migrants' …
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Dead cars in Westall: a narrative exploration of multicultural migrancy, postcolonial sexuality and commodity culture in cosmopolitan Melbourne
… the everyday practices of multicultural migrancy, postcolonial sexuality and commodity culture in the cosmopolitan global/local nexus of Melbourne. These narratives are supported by postmodern and poststructuralist theoretical underpinnings pertaining to gender, sexuality, class, …
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The international law on unaccompanied foreign migrant children : an evaluation of whether it reflects the modern realities of economic migrancy in Southern Africa
Mini Dissertation (LLM)--University of Pretoria, 2014.
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Migrant masculinities and spatial transformation in recent South African and Zimbabwean fiction
… masculinity are influenced by the status of his migrancy. The novels reveal that various degrees of migrancy influence the performance of masculinities both in private and public spaces. Migrancy between two cities in the same country, between rural and urban spaces in the same country, between …
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Beat sociology: Ethnographic journeys in event spaces
… help facilitate my project: identity, space, and migrancy. Through auto-ethnography I explore three types of Las Vegas spaces: event spaces, casino spaces and Fremont Street. Las Vegas has gained sociological, architectural and philosophic relevance in recent years, and through Beat Sociology I …
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Players in a storm: Climate and political migrants in The Tempest and Othello
… shipwreck and a postcolonial reading of migrancy. Ultimately, the enmeshed position of the migrant in history, economics, and their environment in Shakespeare’s works is more clearly articulated.</p>
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Changing migrant spaces and livelihoods: Hostels as community residential units, Kwa-Mashu KwaZulu-Natal South Africa
… which originate from the stubborn survival of migrancy as a key form of livelihoods procurement among large numbers of African working-class people.
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Single Mother, Migrant Domestic Workers: Exploring the coping experience of low-income Zimbabwean women raising their children in South Africa
… at women who have decided at some point in their migrancy experience to bring their children to raise in South Africa. The purpose of this research was to understand how they are managing to care for their children given their circumstances, and why they have chosen to do so as a family unit in …
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Through the garden fence
… and relationship against the backdrop of migrancy, the displacement of discarded people to infertile land, and the loss of indigenous cultures and natural areas. My intention in this work is for the viewer to be reminded of the unending cycles of nature - seasons, joy, nurturance and …
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Theatres of migritude: towards a dramaturgy of African futures
… out what alternative understandings of African migrancy exist in the spirit of the five case studies, namely Migritude by Shailja Patel, Every Year, Every Day I am Walking by Magnet Theatre, Moj of the Antartctic: An African Odyssey by Mojisola Adebayo, Afrogalactica Deep Space Scrolls by …
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Salman Rushdie's Fiction in a Global Perspective: Hybridity and Fundamentalism in The Satanic Verses and The Moor's Last Sigh
… as a capable of assuaging the problems of migrancy, he makes his point through a sustained critique of the dogmatic and fundamentalist propensities of religion, especially Islam. In my second chapter, I explore The Moor’s Last Sigh for evidence of an ideological revision, on the part of …
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Salman Rushdie's Fiction in a Global Perspective: Hybridity and Fundamentalism in The Satanic Verses and The Moor's Last Sigh
… as a capable of assuaging the problems of migrancy, he makes his point through a sustained critique of the dogmatic and fundamentalist propensities of religion, especially Islam. In my second chapter, I explore The Moor’s Last Sigh for evidence of an ideological revision, on the part of …
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Drag Across Borders: Negotiating 2SLGBTQ+ Refugee/Migrant Being and Belonging Through Drag Personas
… potential of drag in relation to refuge and migrancy. The study adds to queer/trans migration studies that centre the everyday lived experiences of 2SLGBTQ+ refugees and other migrants before and after conflict/arrival. By focusing on the experiential in and continuity of (queer/trans) …
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An investigation into the progression of premarital fertility since the onset of Zimbabwe's fertility transition
… cultural bias. Due to evidence of the effect of migrancy and tourism on premarital fertility in border and tourism towns, an extension into the theory of migrant premarital sexual behaviour to detail the risk of premarital fertility among border town residents who interact with but are neither …
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Representations of migrant and nation in selected works of Rohinton Mistry and Salman Rushdie
… and as a means of negotiating the politics of migrancy.
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Home, Belonging and Multiculturalism in Twenty-First-Century British South Asian Fiction
… seeks to demonstrate that terms like diaspora, migrancy, hybridity and liminality do not fully capture the experience of multiculturalism as depicted in the selected novels. Whilst the thesis does not fully dismiss these terms, it redirects attention to critical, non-celebratory conceptions of …
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