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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"transnational spaces"”.
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Examining Chinese International Secondary School Students in Transnational Spaces: Becoming Flexible Citizens?
… in and connecting across the home and host spaces of China and Canada. As the overarching frame, the study employs Ong’s (1999) notion of ‘flexible citizenship,’ examining the cultural logics mediating students’ lives and how they flexibly and not-so-flexibly engage in their learning and …
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Institutional Global Maternal Nutrition Communication: Unblackboxing Rhetorical Power Dynamics in Transnational Spaces
… and professional communication (TPC), and transnational institutional communication, my study aimed to explore the transnational issues of negotiation and power and (mis)articulations within the realm of global maternal nutrition (MN) communication design. Specifically, I sought to …
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Transnational Spaces within the European Union: the geographies of British migrants in France
… these theoretical tensions, this thesis examines transnational frameworks for discussing the reconfiguration of borders and spaces within the European Union. The aim of this research is to explore the extent to which European Union citizens, with freedom of movement, experience mobility between …
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(Im)mobility, digital technologies and transnational spaces of belonging: an ethnographic study of Somali migrants in Cape Town
… Africa, identity and social reproduction, and transnational belonging. Social exclusion may be a catalyst for Somali migrants’ transnational engagements in which digital technologies are a significant driver of heightened group consciousness and belonging. In many ways, the rise of online …
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From Haiti to Canada: The Migration That Binds
… decade beginning in 2010. The work investigates transnational spaces as a principal feature of contemporary Haitian migration and contends that Haitian cultural identity and solidarity within these spaces become decisive factors around why many Haitians choose to come to Canada. The concept of a …
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Roads of Rebellion: Cultural Contributions by Women of the Beat Generation
… Beat aesthetic and ethos--performed in domestic spaces or from the road--as examples of the complicated negotiation with the dominant culture and Beat lifestyle. Specifically, Joan Vollmer, Joyce Johnson, and Hettie Jones, who did not rebel on the road, instead challenged containment in their …
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Transnational Political Participation Among Diasporic Migrants
… Sending and receiving states overtly encourage transnational practices when they allow migrants to maintain homeland citizenship regardless of their citizenship status in their receiving communities. Yet, we know little about migrants' ability to enact their citizenship and their propensity to …
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Epistemic geographies of climate change: the IPCC and the spaces, boundaries and politics of knowing
… case studies which traverse a range of emergent transnational spaces of knowledge production. It begins inside the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and moves through the contested spaces of international climate diplomacy at the 2009 Copenhagen climate talks and through diverse …
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In times of “crisis”: Puerto Rican activism, gender, and belonging in Orlando
… rather continuities of social injustices across transnational spheres. This understanding also considers the ways that crisis is generative, producing alternative imaginings of a more just world and transnational spaces of belonging forged out of resistance. The first full-length ethnographic …
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Moving Through Space, Pausing In Place: Vietnamese Doctoral Sojourners’ Transnational Experiences of Identity (Re)Negotiation, Sense of Belonging, and Sense of Home
… projects. Informed by four theoretical turns in transnationalism, space, mobility, and imagination, this phenomenological study portrays the transnational experiences of the doctoral students and graduates at multiple points in time: pre-, during-, and post-doctoral studies. While imagination …
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Tamazgha in France: Indigeneity and Citizenship in the diasporic Amazigh movement
… change. As an Indigenous people, it is both a transnational social movement calling on the states where they live to uphold the rights of their Amazigh populations, and also a nation with a flag, asserting its claim to sovereignty, however limited. The diaspora associations frame themselves as …