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Sullivan, Amy Elizabeth Leslie Paul W. "Local lives, global stage diasporic experiences and changing family formation practices on the Caribbean island of Saba, Netherlands Antilles /." Chapel Hill, N.C. : University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2006. http://dc.lib.unc.edu/u?/etd,609.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2006.Title from electronic title page (viewed Oct. 10, 2007). "... in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the Department of Anthropology." Discipline: Anthropology; Department/School: Anthropology.
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Bempa-Boateng, Yaa. "Sexualized Black Bodies: The Lived Experiences and Perceptions of Diasporic Ghanaian Women within The United States as it Relates to Black Sexuality." Diss., NSUWorks, 2018. https://nsuworks.nova.edu/shss_dcar_etd/92.
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The central purpose of this study was to explore the conflict within the problematic racialized and gendered construction of black women as primarily sexualized objects. This study examined the impact of media cultural representations of black sexuality on identity formation, migrant integration (ethnic and cultural interactions within and between groups), and perceived social achievements of migrant Ghanaian women in the United States. The goal was to gain in-depth knowledge surrounding how media representations are resisted or internalized among Ghanaian migrant women. This research was designed to discover the conflict resolution process undertaken by Ghanaian migrant women regarding this struggle of resisting or internalizing media representations. This research is a qualitative research operating under the requirements of Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis and focusing on the population of migrant Ghanaian women. The phenomenon studied was the experience and perceptions of being exposed to media representations of black women. Participants were taken from the DC Metro Area, where a large Ghanaian population exists and is flourishing. Key findings discovered that for the participants studied there exist 3 prominent media representations perceived to directly impact lived experiences: Jezebel, Angry Black Woman, and Poverty/Ignorant representations. It is the researcher’s hope that this research will aid in improving the process of successfully empowering and providing positive integration for future black migrant women.
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Rahman, MD Shafiqur. "Transnational media reception, Islamophobia, and the identity constructions of a non-Arab Muslim diasporic community : the experiences of Bangladeshis in the United States since 9/11 /." Available to subscribers only, 2007. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1456295571&sid=11&Fmt=2&clientId=1509&RQT=309&VName=PQD.
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Rodrigues, Ester Fatima Vargem. "Imigrantes africanos no Brasil contemporâneo: fluxos e refluxos da diáspora." Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo, 2014. https://tede2.pucsp.br/handle/handle/12848.
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Previous issue date: 2014-07-21The present work on African immigration to Brazil in contemporary presents some aspects of my involvement with insertion in this subject, and brings up the question of the various forms and strategies that some African populations are able to cross the Atlantic, reviving diasporas. Was based on analysis of information from newspaper that made references to African immigrants , found in various forms to enter the ships anchored on the African coast, and thus achieve maximize their life chances . It also establishes dialogues with African immigrants who arrived here, in many different ways and times, with varying personal characteristics about their impressions about meanings that traverse the twenty-first century. Concludes with an overview of the political situation in Africa as well as the relationships that Brazil has established with African countries
O presente trabalho sobre a imigração africana no Brasil na contemporaneidade apresenta alguns aspectos da minha inserção no envolvimento com esta temática, e traz à tona a questão das diversas formas e estratégias que algumas populações africanas encontram para conseguir atravessar o Atlântico, revivendo diásporas. Baseou-se em análise de informações de notícias de jornais que fizessem referencias a imigrantes africanos, nas diversas formas encontradas para adentrar os navios ancorados no litoral africano, e desta forma conseguir potencializar suas possibilidades de vida. Também estabelece diálogos com imigrantes africanos que aqui chegaram, das mais diversas formas e épocas, com características pessoais variadas sobre suas impressões a respeito de significações dessa travessia no século XXI. Finaliza com um apanhado da situação política na África, bem como das relações que o Brasil vem estabelecendo com os países africanos
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Brown, La Tasha Amelia. "The diasporic black Caribbean experience : nostalgia, memory and identity." Thesis, University of Warwick, 2011. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/35719/.
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The purpose of this study is to examine how children of Jamaican parentage, who came of age during the 1980s in Britain and the 1990s in the United States, constructed their identity by using social memory and popular culture. This research project is an interdisciplinary, comparative study that seeks to analyze how the shifting of boundaries, sense of dislocation, and loss of rootedness are grounded in the construction of a new transnational urban Jamaican Black identity, for which I have coined the term yáad/yard-hip hop. Yáad/Yard-Hip Hop characterizes the post-1960s immigrant generation, who found themselves “locked symbiotically into an antagonistic relationship” between their parents’ memories of home and their understanding of self within the socio-political context of Britain and the United States (Gilroy, The Black Atlantic 1-2). The deconstruction of these two narratives exposes the position of this age group as being wedged in-between two temporal spaces. Therefore, the significance of this study serves to demonstrate that the state of ambivalence experienced by this post-1960s immigrant generation not only encapsulated their identity within the period of the 1980s and the 1990s, but can also be viewed as indicative of how Caribbeanness, or more specifically, Jamaicanness, came to be reconfigured outside of the Caribbean region from the 1960s onwards.
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Kizhakkethil, Priya. "Document and Information Experience in Virtual Zenanas: An Exploration of a Diaspora Small World." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2020. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1752398/.
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The word diaspora is currently understood as the large scale voluntary movement of people, along with capital and goods due to the mechanisms of globalization. Adopting a diaspora, gender and leisure perspective, this dissertation looked at the information and document experiences of a particular fan community of women belonging to the Indian diaspora and the online spaces created and occupied by them (fan fiction blogs which can be viewed as book clubs). The study also looked at memory making and documenting of the same as a part of document experience, resulting in what can be termed as "serendipitous memory archives." The blogs hosting fan fiction and the mediated practices they support were viewed as documents for the study. The online spaces were conceptualized as small worlds and the theoretical framework used for the study consisted of a preliminary model of a small world (based on literature review and my understanding of the world under study), information experience as a concept as well as document experience models. The results show that social ties play a big role in the information and document experience, while memory making and documenting of the same are also seen to happen as part of the document experience. The results also show that adopting a document perspective enables us to see the myriad ways in which information is experienced, freeing us from considering as information only that which helps us in meeting a purpose or which fills a gap. Implications and suggestions for future research are discussed.
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Woldegiyorgis, Ayenachew Aseffa. "Engaging with higher education back home: Experiences of Ethiopian academic diaspora in the United States." Thesis, Boston College, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/2345/bc-ir:108777.
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Thesis advisor: Hans deWitEthiopia has long been affected by the out flow of its educated citizens. In major host countries, like the United States, the Ethiopian diaspora constitutes a considerable number of highly educated professionals, including those who work in academic and research institutions. Meanwhile, the fast-growing Ethiopian higher education severely suffers from lack of highly qualified faculty. In recent years members of the Ethiopian academic diaspora have been engaged in various initiatives towards supporting the emerging Ethiopian higher education. Yet, these initiatives have been fragmented, individually carried out, and challenged by the lack of a systemic approach, among other things. Further, there are only few studies examining diaspora engagement in the Ethiopian context, much less specific to higher education. The purpose of this research is, therefore, to offer deeper insight into the formation and implementation of transnational engagement initiatives by the Ethiopian academic diaspora. The research explores the motivation for and the modalities of engagement, as well as the enabling and challenging factors. This study employs phenomenological approach and Bourdieu’s Theory of Practice as a lens to analyze data from in-depth interviews with 16 Ethiopian diaspora academics in the US. The research departs from previous works by examining the issues from the perspectives of those who have first-hand experience of the phenomenon. Its findings reveal that transnational engagement among academic diaspora is shaped by complex and multi-layer personal, institutional and broader environmental factors, which transcend common considerations in addressing brain drain
Thesis (PhD) — Boston College, 2020
Submitted to: Boston College. Lynch School of Education
Discipline: Educational Leadership and Higher Education
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Gilkes, Alwyn D. "The West Indian diaspora : experiences in the United States and Canada /." New York : LFB Scholarly publ. LLC, 2007. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb41383395v.
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Lewis, Liana. "Seeking a place on the island : refugee children's experiences of diaspora in England." Thesis, Nottingham Trent University, 2005. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.424176.
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Zhao, Tian-ying 1972. "Internet and diaspora : the experience of mainland Chinese immigrant women in Montreal." Thesis, McGill University, 2005. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=83156.
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This study examines the role of the Internet in the life of diasporic women. Twenty-nine qualitative interviews were conducted with Mainland Chinese immigrant women in Montreal, Canada to answer three research questions: (1) what is the use and value of the Internet as perceived by these women; (2) how have they experienced the Internet given their particular social situation as immigrants in Montreal; and (3) what diasporic identities are related to these women's Internet practices. The research found that the Internet was perceived by these women mainly as a tool to obtain information, facilitate communication, and access recreation. Its appropriation reflected their special social situation as immigrants and women. Their Internet experience was largely involved in the reproduction of their identification with China, Canada and the Mainland Chinese diaspora, and in some case, in the production of new cultural positions. The study also suggests directions for future research.
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Poikāne-Daumke, Aija. "African diasporas : Afro-German literature in the context of the African American experience /." Berlin ; Münster : Lit, 2006. http://bvbr.bib-bvb.de:8991/F?func=service&doc_library=BVB01&doc_number=015425726&line_number=0002&func_code=DB_RECORDS&service_type=MEDIA.
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Reid-Salmon, Delroy Antonio. "The Caribbean diasporan church in the Black Atlantic experience : home away from home." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 2006. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.600516.
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Smith, Alé Elizabeth. "Re-imagining the past, negotiating the present: the lived diasporic experience in S.J. Naudé and Jaco van Schalkwyk's fiction." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/28117.
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S.J. Naudé's collection of short stories, The Alphabet of Birds, foregrounds the diasporic experiences of its marginalised, transnational subjects. The stories unearth profound grief and a deep sense of loss and displacement. The title of the collection suggests that the content grapples with issues that are central to the discourse of diaspora: movement, freedom, borders, home, dwelling, meaning, and identity. Jaco van Schalkwyk's debut novel, The Alibi Club, is structured around the story of a young man's efforts to build a new life in an unfamiliar country. Although very different in style, tone, and form, Naudé and Van Schalkwyk both ask questions about the nature of belonging, pain and loss associated with the diasporic experience: How does one come to terms with one's past?; How does one navigate oneself in an increasingly estranging global world?; Is it possible to re-imagine the past, to rewrite the stories one tells about oneself? Naudé and Van Schalkwyk are not the first South Africans to give thought to these questions; in fact, our country has a rich history of pre- and post-apartheid diasporic writings. What I find compelling, however, is how a new generation of authors - a group of writers that faces unique challenges - draws on the literary form to engage with and relate to the past and present, their country of birth, and their language. I consider in what ways the literary form allows these two authors to articulate and re-imagine the lived diasporic experiences of their Afrikaans-speaking, contemporary transnational subjects who inhabit multiple identities.
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Alnahedh, Suha. "Borders of home and exile : four female artists from the Middle East and the trajectories of their diasporic experience." Thesis, King's College London (University of London), 2014. https://kclpure.kcl.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/borders-of-home-and-exile(8a749eec-4363-41e0-9f1f-08357621b621).html.
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This thesis critically evaluates the charting of ‘home’ and ‘exile’ in regards to four Diasporic female artists from the Middle East, specifically, Iraq and Palestine. The study employs a dual approach in the examination of Diaspora; a theoretical one that engages in the literature on Diaspora and a practical one founded on the author’s interviews with the artists. Thus a comparative analysis of their biographical narratives with the existing literature underpins the discussion of the various realities of home and exile. Moreover, the study links three broad themes in its analysis and is thereby divided thematically into six chapters, excluding the study’s introduction and conclusion. Providing a sociopolitical perspective, Chapters One and Two examine the modern histories of Iraq and Palestine, depicting the political climate of both countries in general but more specifically in regards to the personal and individual experiences of the artists in their homelands. This, essentially, is set up in a way to illustrate the physical locality from which their uprooting and Diasporic journeys were initiated. Chapters Three and Four offer a theoretical outlook in their analysis of the issues pertaining to Diaspora; Chapter Three examines the Diasporic memories of the artists and their sense of distance from, or attachment to, the homeland from their positions in exile. Through examining the artists’ relationship with the homeland this chapter sheds light on the relationality of place and thus conceptualizes their Diasporic consciousness. Subsequently, Chapter Four demonstrates how the Diasporic consciousness of the artists grounds their ascriptions of ‘home’ and ‘exile’ and the construction of their Diasporic identity. The concluding chapters, Five and Six, grant the artists’ Diasporic trajectories visual narratives through an exploration of their artwork. The chapters uncover personal links between their artwork and their Diasporic context, and therefore highlight their work’s Diasporic iconography and biographical significance. The imagery in these chapters thus offers unique insights into the turmoil of war, exile, and loss, and the complexities of the Diasporic experience. Overall, the study rethinks the concepts of ‘home’ and ‘exile’ as grounded in fixed geographical foundations, and upholds that fundamental to the complex mapping of such notions is its location within the geographies of the mind.
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Nduom, Nana Kweku. "Country of Origin Investment| Experience, Attitudes, and Motivating Factors in the Ghanaian Diaspora." Thesis, The George Washington University, 2018. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10744312.
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The body of research on the economic activities of diaspora communities has developed over several decades by researchers in a variety of academic disciplines, including economics, sociology, and entrepreneurship. Although international business (IB) research is primarily concerned with the internationalization of large, mature corporations, the cross-border economic activities by individuals, particularly from those who have crossed borders themselves (diasporans) has been identified as a significant gap in the existing body of literature (Cano-Kollmann, Cantwell, Hannigan, Mudambi, & Song, 2016; Ramamurti, 2004, 2011). This dissertation helps to fill this research gap by exploring homeland investment interest (Gillespie, Riddle, Sayre, & Sturges, 1999) in the context of the US-based Ghanaian diaspora. My dissertation makes three specific contributions to the existing international business literature. Firstly, I test the theory of diaspora investment motivation (Nielsen & Riddle, 2010) in a novel environment. Secondly, I draw the distinction between interest in diaspora direct investment and diaspora portfolio investment, identifying key differences in their antecedents. Finally, I investigate how sub-national location affects country of origin investment interest.
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O'Shea, Patrick. "Los que se quedan : non-migrant experiences of emigration, absence and diaspora in contemporary Cuba." Thesis, University of Manchester, 2014. https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/los-que-se-quedan-nonmigrant-experiences-of-emigration-absence-and-diaspora-in-contemporary-cuba(dbb4ce80-e8b8-4f34-beb9-13ed9751837d).html.
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Fundamentally, this thesis explores emigration, exile and diaspora as central experiences of contemporary Cuban society and culture but, crucially, understands the processes of experience as lived mutually and simultaneously by both those who emigrate and those who do not. Through interviews conducted in Cuba, the biographical narratives of those who have not emigrated serve to interrogate some assumptions that characterise the study of Cuba and attempt to account for the complexity of the Cuban cultural encounter with emigration, exile and diaspora since 1959. A generational approach is employed to better understand how the absence of family members, friends, colleagues and compatriots has been experienced over several generations of Cubans living on the island. Intertwined discourses of migration mediate various iterations of national, family and interpersonal relationships through complex and often conflictive emotional and psychological processes of separation and absence over time. The manner in which the absences of those who have left are articulated in the imaginations of those who have stayed can cast a certain degree of illumination upon how exile and emigration have been lived in contemporary Cuba, not exclusively as political or economic experiences, but as nuanced social and cultural experiences of diaspora.
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Zhu, Hong. "Active Academic Communication across the Pacific: the Experience of Chinese Academic Diasporas in the United States." Thesis, Boston College, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/2345/677.
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Thesis advisor: PhiliP G. AltbachToday the diaspora option is seen as an important strategy for decreasing the adverse impacts of brain drain. Chinese academic diasporas have increasingly begun to create academic ties with China, yet few studies have examined Chinese academic diasporas' scholarly ties with China. The purpose of this research study is to explore why and how Chinese academic diasporas develop their academic ties with China. In this study, 20 Chinese overseas scholars in the northeastern United States were interviewed. Grounded theory was employed to analyze the interview data. A spectrum of issues and topics, in the narratives of academic ties of Chinese overseas students, emerged from this study. Generally, the interviewed scholars had established active academic ties with the Chinese academic community. These academic ties mainly transferred three types of knowledge: network-building knowledge, outcome-oriented knowledge, and context-oriented knowledge. The intensity of academic ties was found to highly associate with the types of knowledge that were transferred. Academic ties were categorized into three modes: radio mode, outsourcing mode, and constructional mode. While radio and outsourcing modes have a separate process of producing and transmitting knowledge, Chinese academic diasporas and their Chinese counterparts can equally collaborate to create new knowledge in a constructional mode. This study found that cultural identity and academic identity influenced the scholars' motivations for maintaining academic ties with China and shaped the intensity of their academic ties. Finally, this study suggests that Chinese academic diasporas play a crucial role in communicating western values and norms with the Chinese academia and society via their scholarly ties with China. Limitations of this study include small sample size and distribution. Recommendations for future study include increasing sample size, recruiting more female participants, examining scholars from non-research universities and from other regions of the United States, and investigating how social values impact academic ties
Thesis (PhD) — Boston College, 2009
Submitted to: Boston College. Lynch School of Education
Discipline: Educational Administration and Higher Education
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Wijesekera, Karen. "Karen and Chin Virtual Communities: Uploading Music and Lived Experience to Social Media." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2015. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1431515301.
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Gutsche, Robert Edward Jr. "Mediated constructions and lived experiences of place: an analysis of news, sourcing, and mapping." Diss., University of Iowa, 2012. https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/1462.
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This dissertation advances previous research on the journalistic interpretive community by placing news at the center of a community's construction of place. By focusing on the construction of Iowa City, Iowa's "Southeast Side" - neighborhoods home to predominantly newly arrived black residents from Chicago and other urban areas - this study identifies dominant news characterizations of the Southeast Side that mark the place as a "ghetto" or "inner city."
Beyond providing information about community issues and social conditions from southeastern neighborhoods, the term Southeast Side performed a singular ideological purpose: to identify and maintain dominant community values throughout the rest of Iowa City. Racialized and stereotyped news narratives of urban people, places, and problems in a place called the Southeast Side created an ideological boundary between those in and outside the Southeast Side.
Such a boundary subjugated the Southeast Side's cultural diversity and its people, presenting them as being counter to Midwestern values and a threat to notions of a safe, white and historically homogeneous community. Indeed, the creation of Southeast Side was just as much about creating an "inner city" as it was about constructing notions of Iowa City itself.
Through mental mapping, this project then compares dominant news characterizations to those made by Southeast Side residents, journalists, and public officials. In the end, this study explores cultural meanings that emerged from examining the similarities or differences between the place-making of residents, journalists, and news sources.
This study reveals place-making as a fundamental role of the journalistic community and identifies another ideological function of the press in that they assign power and meanings by describing news by where it happens. Journalists and media scholars have long talked about the press as improving community journalism to meet the notion of the public sphere. Yet, this dissertation is not another such study that only encourages journalists to alter how they report on local news and communities. Instead, this study suggests that journalists and scholars recognize the cultural power of journalistic place-making and the challenge to their authority to do so by residents from a particular place.
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Gomez, Menjivar Jennifer Carolina. "Liminal Citizenry: Black Experience in the Central American Intellectual Imagination." The Ohio State University, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1305915276.
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Cribari-Assali, Carla Maria. "A cross-cultural view on well-being : children's experiences in the Tibetan diaspora in India and in Germany." Thesis, University of Stirling, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/1893/21916.
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This dissertation explores children’s (6-8 years old) perspectives and experiences of well-being in two different cultural contexts: in a Tibetan day-school (India) and in a German day-school (Germany). Ethnographic research was conducted with participants of a second-grade class (mixed gender) for six months at each site, 3-4 days a week in 2012. Participant observation was complemented by interviews with the children as well as with the staff of the school, documented by fieldnotes and sound recordings. Data was collected in line with postmodern grounded theory methodology and preliminary analysis accompanied the process of the fieldwork. The thesis explores the children’s views and social practices related to well-being which prove to be different in both cultures: the Tibetan children emphasized being skilful as a basic condition for well-being, while friendship with peers was most important at the German school. At both sites, the children would establish these conditions for well-being through competitions. Furthermore, the children’s different views and the social practices are considered against the backdrop of two ‘transcultural’ indicators of well-being: self-confidence and resilience. These indicators were not selected randomly but chosen inductively during fieldwork, as the difference in self-confidence and resilience between the children’s groups at each site was noticeable. The thesis demonstrates how these differences in self-confidence and resilience are likely to have been related to a) the children’s particular views and social practices linked to well-being b) the manner in which childhood is constructed within the children’s societies and c) particular basic beliefs and worldviews prevalent within the children’s societies. The results emphasize the usefulness of researching well-being cross-culturally and suggest that (socio-culturally specific) self- and worldviews significantly influence children’s well-being.
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Kavak, Seref. "Transnational community politics in the diaspora : agenda and agency building experiences of the Kurds from Turkey in the UK." Thesis, Keele University, 2017. http://eprints.keele.ac.uk/4367/.
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This thesis draws a picture of Kurdish diaspora politics, focusing on the community in London. Political activities carried out by the Kurds are contextualised within the framework of diasporas as transnational non-state actors, through their strong physical and psycho-social ties to their homeland, while they live in their ‘hostland.’ This work is in pursuit of understanding the attempts and strategies of the Kurds from Turkey in the UK to advance their interests as an ethno-national diaspora, and the extent to which these strategies and mechanisms provide the diaspora Kurds with necessary means to survive as a politically active group. The security concerns of the Kurdish activists have productive and destructive results for the Kurdish diaspora. The main negative outcome is the deepening of the already existing fear of politics that has been prevalent in Turkish society, including the Kurds, seemingly the most politicised segment of society since the 1980 military coup. The pressure of order-building through legal political activity and civic engagement pushed the Kurds into the pursuit of rights in various aspects of life that were conventionally seen as part of low politics; issues of secondary importance vis-a-vis national liberation, including gender equality, ecologism, social welfare, education, socialisation and cultural development, rather than issues of high politics, such as the PKK’s status, disarmament, political recognition, or autonomy. Local politics of the UK are perceived as positive, while its higher level policies and foreign policy are seen as mostly negative and "not Kurds-friendly". The diaspora Kurds emphasise negative dimensions of British state in relation to world politics and international relations. I argue that as a response to this negativity, the British Kurds pursue a survival strategy to beat “structure” with their "creative proactive agency" in the diasporan sphere, especially in local politics to which they attach more value and hope.
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Seepersad, Rehana. "Island Diasporas: Perceptions of Indo-Caribbean Protégés Regarding the Effects of their Cross-Cultural Mentoring Experiences in the United States." FIU Digital Commons, 2012. http://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/670.
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Mentoring is defined as an “intense caring relationship in which persons with more experience work with less experienced persons to promote both professional and personal development” (Caffarella, 1992, p. 38). It is “a powerful emotional, and passionate interaction whereby the mentor and protégé experience…intellectual growth and development” (Galbraith & Zelenak, 1991, p. 126).
In cross-cultural mentoring, mentors and protégés from different cultures confront social and cultural identities, goals, expectations, values, and beliefs (Cross & Lincoln, 2005) to “achieve a higher level of potency in education and society” (Mullen, 2005, p. 6). Cross-cultural mentoring research explores attitudes, behaviors, linguistics and motivators of the more visible racial and ethnic groups in the U.S. (Elmer, 1986, Ulmer, 2008). The cross-cultural mentoring experiences of Indo-Caribbeans in the U.S. are obscured from the research despite their rich socio-historic culture.
The purpose of this phenomenological study was to explore the perceptions of Indo-Caribbean protégés regarding the effects of their cross-cultural mentoring experiences in the United States. Phenomenology is “the systematic attempt to uncover and describe…the internal meaning structures, of lived experience [by studying the] particulars or instances as they are encountered” (Van Manen, 1990, p. 10).
Criterion and snowball sampling were used to recruit 15 participants. A semi-structured interview guide was used to gather data and Creswell’s (2007) simplified version of Moustakas’s (1994) Modification of the Stevick-Colaizzi-Keen Method of Analysis of Phenomenological Data was used to analyze the data.
Three themes emerged: (a) “Sitting at the feet of gurus” taught protégés how to accept guidance, (b) Guru-Shishya: Learning and Discipleship, ways that protégés perceived mentors’ guidance related to work, skill acquisition, and social or emotional support, and (c) Samavartan sanskar: Building Coherence, helped protégés understand, manage and find meaning. Protégés’ goals and professional expectations determined what they wanted from cross-cultural mentoring relationships and what they were willing to endure within those relationships. Since participants valued achievement and continuous improvement, mentor support was integral to making meaning and developing a sense of coherence in their lives.
Implications regarding cross-cultural mentoring relationships together with recommendations for future research conclude the study.
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Khawaja, Anastasia. "Occupation and Displacement of Palestinian Multilinguals: Language Emotional Perception, Language Practice, and Language Experiences in Palestine and in the Diaspora." Scholar Commons, 2019. https://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/7830.
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This study explores the emotional perceptions, language practices, and language experiences of Palestinian multilinguals in Palestine, and the more under-studied population in the diaspora - focusing on Arabic, English, and Hebrew. A total of 47 participants filled out the adapted Bilingual Emotional Questionnaire (Dewaele & Pavlenko, 2001-2003) in order to compare and contrast positive and negative emotional perception of participant reported languages via a Likert scale, and overall language practices and experiences via open-ended questions. Several independent sample t-tests were run by location of participants in order to determine significant differences in emotional perception, and a thematic analysis was run on selected open-ended responses in order to synthesize and better understand language practices and experiences. The findings of this study revealed that overall, there were very few differences between Palestinians in Palestine and in the diaspora with regard to emotional perception, and very similar categories revealed with regard to language practices and experiences. This study concludes with a call to further research the complexities of location regarding the reality of occupation and its impact regarding the role of languages.
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Trotter, Lesley Jane. "19th century emigration from Cornwall as experienced by the wives 'left behind'." Thesis, University of Exeter, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10871/18338.
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The 19th century is recognised as a period of mass emigration from Cornwall, with a significant proportion of the male population leaving to work overseas, mainly in the mining industry. Less appreciated is that many of these migrants were married men who left wives and children behind in Cornwall. This study seeks to shed some light on the experiences of these women, known as 'married widows'. It adopts a multi-faceted approach, which draws upon crowd-sourcing and digital resources, in combination with more traditional methodologies. Scattered and fragmentary qualitative evidence (drawn from correspondence, newspapers, remittance and poor law records, supplemented by personal testimony recorded in family histories) is examined within a quantitative framework produced by an innovative database created from census records and a longitudinal study of outcomes. This thesis describes how tens of thousands of wives were 'left behind' in the mining communities of Cornwall, and the wide range of resources they drew upon in the absence of their husbands. It examines the interaction between the wives and the State in the form of the Poor Law and the Courts, identifying a pragmatic response to the needs of the emerging transnational nuclear family. Male migration from Cornwall is revealed to vary widely in type, intent and duration, leading to great diversity of experiences and outcomes for the wives 'left behind'. The establishment of temporary male labour emigration from the Cornish mining communities is shown to have occurred earlier than in many other emigration centres, creating greater potential for cultural acclimatisation to the challenges of spousal separation. The findings of this study challenge existing, generalised, perceptions of the wives as passive victims in the Cornish emigration story. Levels of destitution or desertion appear low compared to the scale of the phenomenon, and wives are shown as active participants and influential voices in family strategies. Nonetheless, this study highlights the vulnerability and greater risks faced by the wives 'left behind', and identifies financial and emotional insecurity as common elements of their experience. This thesis demonstrates a methodology and reveals insights that might be applied to the study of wives 'left behind' in other parts of the British Isles, and a comparator for existing studies of those elsewhere in the world.
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Abusultan, Mahmoud. "A Palestinian Theatre: Experiences of Resistance, Sumud and Reaffirmation." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2021. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu161712185211754.
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Owens, Christopher Allen. "The Tangled Paths to Safety: A Comparison of the Migration and Settlement Experiences of Refugees and Voluntary Migrants." The Ohio State University, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1366550897.
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Wise, Amanda Yvonne. "No longer in exile? : shifting experiences of home, homeland and identity for the East Timorese refugee diaspora in Australia in light of East Timor's independence /." View thesis, 2002. http://library.uws.edu.au/adt-NUWS/public/adt-NUWS20031117.142448/index.html.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Western Sydney, 2002.A thesis submitted for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy, October 2002, Centre for Cultural Research, University of Western Sydney. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 281-291).
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Henry-Campbell, Suzette Amoy. "The Future of Work: An Investigation of the Expatriate Experiences of Jamaican C-suite Female Executives in the Diaspora, on Working in Multi-national Companies." Diss., NSUWorks, 2019. https://nsuworks.nova.edu/shss_dcar_etd/124.
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The purpose of this study was to understand the lived experiences of Jamaican Expatriate Female C-suite executives in the diaspora of working in Multi-national Companies (MNCs). A further question to be answered was the meaning they derived from their experiences. With little research emerging from the Caribbean about this elite class of professionals, the research intended to expose the challenges faced as an outsider in unfamiliar spaces. Research on other groups have exposed limiting factors to women’s progress in MNCs. Critical Race Theory with a brief mention of Critical Human Geography and Intersectionality are lens applied to critique the experiences of the eight participants.
This research mined the extant literature that looked at navigating barriers, disrupting stereotypes and gender diversity in international careers. The method of inquiry applied to this research was existential phenomenology and its utility in getting to the essence of the women’s lived experiences highlighted the glass-border phenomenon.
In reflecting on the outcome, this research opens the door for scholars and practitioners alike, to critically assess the expatriate literature and to probe further the complex relationship between international business, the movement of black talent across geographic and culturally diverse boundaries and the challenges encountered. The results of this study illuminated several themes from the participants textural descriptions: (1) Moving from Invisible to Visible – Disrupting Bias; (2) Who am I? – Identity, Gender and Heritage; (3) Renegotiating the Rules of Engagement paired with Re-branding the Role and Authority of Women in Business; (4) Male Sponsorship Leads to Acceptance; (5) Improving Skill and Competency Capital for New Roles; (6) Building and Maintaining Bridges – Network Management.
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Barnwell, Garret Christopher. "An investigation into refuge trauma experiences in an ethnic Somali community in Port Elizabeth, South Africa." Thesis, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10948/d1016061.
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The study aimed to explore and describe the forced migration experiences of Somali refugees living in Port Elizabeth, South Africa and the impact of refugee-specific trauma on this population. A mixed method triangulation research design with a quantitative weighting was employed and purposive snowball, non-probability sampling was used to construct a sample of 30 adult Somali refugees from Port Elizabeth’s Korsten community. Participants were included in the study if they fulfilled the pre-defined inclusion criteria of having successfully applied for refugee status, having resided in South Africa for at least six months and being 18 years or older. A semi-structured interview questionnaire was developed by the researcher to operationalise the constructs being measured. The questionnaire comprised a biographical and antecedent event(s) questionnaires as well as sections of the Harvard Trauma Questionnaire Revised Version. Data was then analysed via exploratory descriptive statistics and correlation coefficients. The research found that the majority of Somali refugees cited conflict, insecurity and instability as the mainn reasons for leaving their country of origin, suggesting the basic need for safety and security was unmet. One third of the sample reported that the main reason for leaving was the same as their most traumatic life event. The average participant had experienced 16 traumatic events and experienced 23 trauma symptoms on average, demonstrating high levels of trauma among the study population. The study recommends that the link between the main reason for forced migration and refugee trauma be explored.
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Abramovich, Dvir. "Resurrecting a long-vanished diaspora: The Portrayal of the Jewish Shtetl in Dvora Baron’s Sunbeams." HATiKVA e.V. – Die Hoffnung Bildungs- und Begegnungsstätte für Jüdische Geschichte und Kultur Sachsen, 2017. https://slub.qucosa.de/id/qucosa%3A34742.
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Arunga, Marcia Tate. "Back to Africa in the 21st Century: The Cultural Reconnection Experiences of African American Women." Antioch University / OhioLINK, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=antioch149315357668899.
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Niblick, Alison. "The Impact of Minority Faith on the Experience of Mental Health Services: The Perspectives of Devotees of Earth Religions." Wright State University Professional Psychology Program / OhioLINK, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=wsupsych1342202990.
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Ingridsdotter, Jenny. "The Promises of the Free World : Postsocialist Experience in Argentina and the Making of Migrants, Race, and Coloniality." Doctoral thesis, Södertörns högskola, Etnologi, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-32312.
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This thesis investigates the narrated experiences of a number of individuals that migrated to Argentina from Russia and Ukraine in the wake of the fall of the Soviet Union. The over-arching aim of this thesis is to study the ways in which these migrants navigated the social reality in Argentina, with regards to available physical, material, and socioeconomic positions as well as with regards to their narrated self-understandings and identifications. The empirical data consists of ethnographic in-depth interviews and participatory observation from Buenos Aires between the years 2011 and 2014. Through the theoretical frameworks of political discourse theory, critical race studies, auto-ethnography, and theories on coloniality, the author examines questions of migration, mobility, race, class, and gender in the processes of re-establishing a life in a new context. The interviewees were not only directly affected by the collapse of the USSR in the sense that it drastically changed their terrain of possible futures as well as retroactive understandings of their pasts, but they also began their lives in Argentina during the turmoil of the economic crisis that culminated in 2001. Central to this thesis is how these dislocatory events impacted the interviewees’ possibilities and limitations for living the life they had expected, and thus how discursive structures affect subject positions and identifications, and thereby create specific conditions for different relocatory trajectories. By focusing on how these individuals narrate their reasons for migration and their integration into Argentine labor and housing markets, the author demonstrates the role Argentine and East European history, as well as the neoliberal restructuring of the postsocialist region and Argentina in the 1990’s, had for self-understandings, subject positions, identities, and mobility. Various intersections of power, and particularly the making of race and whiteness, are important for the way that the interviewees negotiated subject positions and identifications. The author addresses how affect and hope played a part in these processes and how downward mobility was articulated and made meaningful. She also examines how participants’ ideas about a “good life” were related to understandings of the past, questions of race, social inequality, and a logic of coloniality.Den här avhandlingen undersöker hur ett antal individer som migrerade från Ryssland och Ukraina till Argentina efter Sovjetunionens fall berättar om sin erfarenhet. Det övergripande syftet är att studera hur dessa migranter navigerade i den sociala verkligheten i Argentina, särskilt vad det gäller kroppsliga, materiella och socioekonomiska positioner, såväl som hur detta påverkat deras berättade självförståelse och identifikationer. Det empiriska materialet består av etnografiska djupintervjuer och deltagande observationer gjorda i Buenos Aires mellan åren 2011 och 2014. Författaren använder sig av ett teoretiskt ramverk bestående av politisk diskursteori, kritiska ras- och vithetsstudier, autoetnografi och teorier om kolonialitet för att undersöka frågor om migration, mobilitet, rasialisering, klass och kön i en kontext av återetablering av ett liv i ett nytt samhälle. De som intervjuas i denna avhandling påverkades inte bara av Sovjetunionens kollaps, på så sätt att det påverkade deras förståelse av möjlig framtid samt deras retroaktiva förståelser av det förflutna, utan de påbörjade även sina nya liv i Argentina under den ekonomiska krisen som kulminerade år 2001. Centralt i avhandlingen är hur dessa dislokatoriska händelser inverkade på de intervjuades möjligheter och begränsningar för att kunna leva det liv som de hade förväntat sig, och därmed hur diskursiva strukturer påverkar subjektspositioner och identifikationer och därmed skapar specifika villkor för olika vägar för återetablering. Genom fokus på hur dessa individer berättar om sina anledningar för migrationen och om deras väg in i den argentinska arbets- och bostadsmarknaden visar författaren vilken roll argentinsk och östeuropeisk historia, såväl som 1990-talets nyliberala omstrukturering av den postsovjetiska regionen och Argentina, hade för deras självförståelse, subjektspositioner, identitet och mobilitet. Viktigt för hur de intervjuade förhandlade om olika subjektspositioner och identifikationer är intersektionella maktordningar och särskilt skapandet av ras och vithet. Författaren analyserar hur affekt och hopp spelade en roll i dessa processer och hur social deklassering artikulerades och gjordes meningsfull. Här undersöks även hur de intervjuades idéer om möjligheten att leva ett ”gott liv” var sammanflätade med förståelser av det förflutna, rasialisering, social ojämlikhet och en logik som präglades av kolonialitet.
Тема этой диссертации – это личный опыт ряда индивидуумов, переехавших в Аргентину вскоре после распада Советского Союза, на основе их собственных повествований. Основная цель работы заключается в исследовании того, как мигранты-участники вписывались в общественную реальность Аргентины на фоне её превалирующих физических, материальных и социо-экономических позиций, а также по отношению к тому, как согласно их рассказам, эти люди сами себя воспринимали и идентифицировали. Эмпирическая компонента диссертации включает в себя комплекс углубленных этнографических интервью и включенного наблюдения, проводимых в Буэнос Айрес в 2011 -2014 гг. Автор изучает вопросы миграции, класса, социальной мобильности, расы и гендера в процессе переустановки жизни в новых условиях, руководствуясь теоретическими посылами теорий политического дискурса, критических расовых исследований (critical race studies), автоэтнографии и теорий колониальности. В дополнение к тому факту, что на интервьюируемых оказал непосредственное влияние распад Советского Союза, который кардинальным образом изменил как возможные сценарии их будущего, так и ретроактивные интерпретации их прошлого, эти люди начали свою новую жизнь в Аргентине сразу после сумятицы экономического кризиса, достигшего кульминации в 2001 г. Центральным аспектом диссертации является изучение воздействия, которое имели эти дислоцирующие обстоятельства на спектр естественных возможностей и преград на пути реализации жизненного проекта участников исследования, как они себе его представляли, а также какое влияние оказывают соответствующие дискурсивные структуры на позиции и идентификации субъектов, обуславливая определенные условия реализации различных траекторий их жизни в эмиграции. Фокусируя внимание на том, как эти индивидуумы повествуют о том, что побудило их к эмиграции в Аргентину и интеграции в местные рынки труда и жилья, автор подчеркивает ту роль, которую сыграли в этом особенности как аргентинской, так и восточноевропейской истории, наряду с более поздними структурными изменениями 90х гг., происходившими как на постсоветском, так и аргентинском пространствах в эпоху неолиберализма. Это касается в равной степени аспектов самовосприятия, позиций субъектов, а также вопросов их идентификации и мобильности. Важной составляющей того, каким образом интервьюируемые устанавливали рамки своей субъективной идентификации и позиции, являлись различные грани концепции власти; в частности того, как возникают понятия расы и ‘белизны’ (whiteness). Автор обращается к вопросу, какую роль в этих процессах сыграли аффект и надежда, и как субъекты исследования артикулировали и находили смысл в своей нисходящей мобильности. Параллельно автор анализирует то, как представления участников о "хорошей жизни" ставились ими в зависимость от их собственной интерпретации прошлого, наряду с вопросами расы, общественного неравенства и колониальной логики.
Esta tesis investiga las experiencias narradas por una serie de individuos que emigraron a Argentina desde Rusia y Ucrania a raíz de la caída de la Unión Soviética. Su objetivo general es estudiar el modo en que estos inmigrantes transitaron la realidad social argentina en lo que se refiere a las posiciones físicas, materiales y socioeconómicas disponibles, así como también a su auto-comprensión y a las identidades construidas desde sus narraciones. La autora examina cuestiones de migración, movilidad, raza, clase y género en los procesos de restablecimiento de la vida de estos sujetos a través del marco de la teoría política del discurso, los estudios críticos de la raza, la auto-etnografía y teorías sobre la colonialidad. Los datos empíricos consisten en entrevistas etnográficas en profundidad y observación participante realizadas en Buenos Aires entre los años 2011 y 2014. Los entrevistados no sólo se vieron directamente afectados por el colapso de la URSS en el sentido de que éste cambió drásticamente su terreno de futuros posibles y la comprensión retroactiva de su pasado, sino que también comenzaron sus vidas en Argentina durante las turbulencias de la crisis económica que estalló en el año 2001. En esta tesis, es central la indagación sobre cómo estos eventos dislocatorios impactaron en las posibilidades y limitaciones de los entrevistados para vivir la vida que esperaban y cómo las estructuras discursivas afectan las posiciones y las identificaciones de los sujetos, creando condiciones específicas para diferentes trayectorias de reubicación. Al enfocarse en cómo estos individuos narran sus razones para la migración y su integración en los mercados laborales y de la vivienda en Argentina, la autora demuestra el papel que tienen en las auto-comprensiones, posiciones de sujeto, identidades y movilidad, tanto la historia argentina y de Europa del Este, así como también la reestructuración neoliberal de la región postsocialista y de la Argentina en los años 90. Diversas intersecciones de poder, y particularmente la raza y la blancura son importantes para la manera en que los entrevistados negociaron posiciones subjetivas e identificaciones. La autora aborda cómo el afecto y la esperanza desempeñaron un papel en estos procesos y cómo la movilidad descendente se articuló y se hizo significativa. También examina cómo las ideas de los participantes acerca de una "buena vida" se relacionan con la comprensión del pasado, las cuestiones de raza, desigualdad social y una lógica colonial.
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Miner, Jenny. "Migration for Education: Haitian University Students in the Dominican Republic." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2013. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/pomona_theses/89.
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Haitian university students represent a part of the increasing diversity of Haitian migrants in the Dominican Republic. Using an ethnographic approach, I explore university students’ motivations for studying in the Dominican Republic, their experiences at Dominican universities and in Dominican society, Haitian student organizations, and their future plans. Additionally, I focus on Haitian students’ experiences with discrimination and how they relate to other Haitian migrants in the Dominican Republic. I find that most students come to the Dominican Republic due to the difficulty of gaining entrance to affordable Haitian universities and logistical convenience. The university is a unique setting where Haitian and Dominican students are clearly peers, which results in increased interactions between the two groups and decreased discrimination towards Haitian students. However, Haitian students remain a relatively isolated group within the university and in the larger Dominican society. Many students reported experiencing discrimination, although students identified class, rather than race or nationality, as the main reason for discrimination. Furthermore, I focused on the role of language in migrants’ experiences. I found that while a high command of Spanish allowed migrants to avoid identification as Haitian and subsequent discrimination, Kreyòl was used as a resource to create solidarity and maintain cultural ties to Haiti. My research suggests that it is important to keep in mind the distinct notions of race and nationality in Haiti and in the Dominican Republic when considering contemporary struggles for the rights of Haitian migrants and their descendants in the Dominican Republic.
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Farber, Leora Naomi. "Representation of displacement in the exhibition Dis-Location/Re-Location." Thesis, University of Pretoria, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/23070.
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Identity always presupposes a sense of location and a relationship with others and the representation of identity most often occurs precisely at the point when there has been a displacement (Bhabha cited in Papastergiadis 1995:17, emphasis added). In this study I focus on the condition of displacement, placing emphasis on the disjunctures of identity arising from temporal and physical dislocations and relocations in historical and postapartheid South African contexts. Displacement, and the attendant senses of dislocation and alienation it may evoke, is explored with reference to three selected female personae. For each persona, displacement is shown to provoke transmutations in subjectivity and identity, resulting in disjunctive identities and relationships with place. Their individual narratives raise questions around the consequences of displacement for a sense of (un)belonging and the (re)making of identities across geographical, cultural, temporal, ethnic and environmental borders. The pivotal role displacement plays in the processes of formation and transformation of subjectivity and identity is foregrounded. Familial histories of diasporic displacement, together with colonial legacies that have shaped my subject position as a white, middle-class, female South African woman, are interlaced with a recounting of personal experience of displacement in postapartheid South Africa. This personal sense of displacement, experienced between the years 2000 to 2006, is extended to a discussion on what is argued to be collective forms of white, English-speaking South Africans’ dislocation during the same time period. I suggest that their sense of displacement was experienced in relation to the uncertainty of their subject positions in postapartheid South Africa. In the practical and theoretical components of the degree, I consider how the three personae’s subjectivities are practiced and lived from their different space-time continuums. This exploration prompts further questions around how the effects of displacement on subjectivity and new identity formations are contingent upon each persona’s relation to the Other of colonial discourse, or the other-strangerforeigner within. Although there are marked differences between their colonial, diasporic and postcolonial contexts, a central theme that underpins the study is that the three conditions of displacement are linked by disjunctures arising from processes of dislocation, alienation, relocation and adaptation. Each persona’s epistemological reality is shown to comprise multiple ambivalences and ambiguities, and is marked by processes of cultural contestation and inner conflict. Their ambivalences and ambiguities encompass slippages between positions of inclusion and exclusion; insider and outsider; inhabitant and immigrant; alienation and belonging; placelessness and locatedness; homely and unhomely that the experience of uprooting and relocating foregrounds. While displacement is understood in terms of trauma and conflict, this condition is also regarded as a generative space of possibility for the emergence of new identity formations. Using my experiences of self-transformation and renegotiation of my identity through processes of cultural contact and exchange as a departure point, I consider ways in which collective white, English-speaking South Africans’ cultural identities are being reformulated, renegotiated or ‘hybridised’ in postapartheid South Africa as a transforming, postcolonial society.Thesis (DPhil)--University of Pretoria, 2012.
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Chen, Kuan-Ling, and 陳冠伶. "“Mother•land” Revisited: Stories of Hakka Immigrants and Their Diasporic Experiences [Hualien, Taiwan]." Thesis, 2008. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/80537068742688382645.
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The thesis focuses on diasporic experiences of four Hakka immigrants and their everyday life in Hualien, Taiwan. Since leaving mother land as Mainland China for forty years, they are still trying to keep contact with home in China even though the home has been changed. However, immigrants’ life at the other home in Taiwan seems to overflow with complicated emotion of untouchable nostalgia to mother land. This research submits a significant point that once to be an stranger, the predicament and struggling between change of home and itself represents stranger’s everyday life. On the one face is a home immigrants moving to as a stranger, on the other face is another home immigrants leaving for as a stranger again. How to place “home” from the heart becomes a unknown, unspoken sadness. “Returning Home” as a ritual accompanies nostalgia memory becoming immigrants’ whole story.
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Yen, Hsun-Yeh, and 嚴勳業. "Diasporic Experiences and Memories of Place of Mainlander Chinese in Taipei’s Zhonghua Market (1950-2001)." Thesis, 2015. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/81511228553726619521.
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This research focuses on Zhonghua Market area in Taipei, its establishment, flourishing and demolishment, as well as the alternative experiences to local Chinese diaspora and spatial pracitces in Taipei. Zhonghua Market was built in 1961 and demolished in 1992; during the period of 31 years, it had played an important role in the development of consumer society in Taipei. This research will discuss three aspects. First of all, I would like to clarify the argument on the establishment and demolishment/relocation of Zhonghua Market. The second part includes oral history from the residing merchants when the consumer society emerged in the 1970s and 1980s, and a people’s history of Zhonghua Market is reconstructed, overriding the statement of authorities. Thirdly and not lastly, after Zhonghua Market was demolished, the remaining merchants of Zhonghua Market are often examined through fieldwork and ethnography, but I would like to discuss narrations from them and the sense of place around this area through the preferred food of Chinese diaspora. From the three aspects, this search investigates how Zhonghua Market as a modernized urban landmark was later declared an obstacle to urban renewal from the KMT government’s perspective. The market building embodied the conflict between people and authorities. The Chinese diaspora built shacks, which were not licensed buildings, and they presented a challenge to hygiene and security. Zhonghua Market was also different from resident villages designed for military dependents, and represented a kind of hybridity in the commercial space. By analyzing the social relationship and history embedded in Zhonghua Market, this research presents the modernity of daily life in Taipei, and the tension of abnormal conditions and everyday life in various power positions.
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Liu, Orpheus, and 劉士弘. "Diasporic Experiences---the Underclass, Social Movements and Identity Formation：Stories of Squatter Houses in the Po-Ai Special District." Thesis, 2003. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/21032608718351850143.
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多元文化研究所
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Abstract This research started from the crisis that the people of Po-Ai special district faced against the intension of the Taipei City government to take back the land of this district. Through the resistant movement of the local people, the researcher intended to explore the historical and spatial dimension of this action, and investigate the relation among the state, the diasporic situation, the land, the class, the identity formation, and the social movements. The researcher finds that the war and policies of state caused the diasporic situation for some people and the Underclass also came out from the development of the urbanization. The second chapter begins from the discussion of the phenomenon related to the spatial categorization/ borderline between “the squatter district” and “the Po-Ai special district”, and through the discussion about the successive changes of laws to investigate the historical traces that showed the power of the state intervening the definition for the public/ private sphere. Those laws, which signified the power of the state or the public sphere, were actually set up after the arrival of the immigrants. The laws regulating residents’ lives turned to be more specific in every field, which explained the state’s intension to control the daily lives of the designated others through the practice of categorization. Research on the related laws of the Po-Ai special district, the physical space signifying “the body” of the state, showed “the concealed” and “the unspeakable” situation, yet its boundary presented to be “flexible” to reveal the power of the state, which carries its metaphorical and general characteristics as the natural law existing everywhere. Chapter three deals with the Taiwanese history since the Japanese colonial era to the postwar era. The researcher tried to explain the transition of the land ownership during the changing time of the state power, and to represent the long-term diasporic situation, the imagined nationalism and the identity formation of these “real residents” in this district. In the process of evoking the nationalism ideology, these people “cooperated” well for exchanging their material benefits. However, the political structure changed (DPP in power) and caused the residents in the squatter houses to be exclusive by the rationality of the neo-nationalism. These people not only lose their material basis for life, but also lose their “consensus” which built their identity foundation. The residents in the squatter houses later chose to make demonstration and social movements, yet their action of resistance were taken as “irrational” at that time. During the process of negotiation and lawsuit with the Taipei City government, these people had their own resistant group, which played an important part in the social movement. Later with the support of “the logos as a rational voter” the rationality turned to be more influential than those angry bodies. In the fourth chapter, the researcher analyzed the narrations of the residents, and found the residents in the squatter houses were controlled by the ideology of “rationality” and were asked to change their identities. In the third and the fourth sections of this chapter showed that early arrival residents (without ownership of the land) living in the squatter houses were mostly the Underclass, who were unable to enter the labor market and stayed in the lower grades in the social categorization, and were related to some extent of “diasporic” situation. Directly or indirectly, this situation was also related to the war of stste in the history or the urbanization policy of the state. The research concluded, the diasporic situation of the residents was to some extent caused by the state, and among these people who not yet moved out (without ownership of the land) were also forced to stay in the social status of Underclass. When the state created the imagined “rational citizenship” during the process of urbanization and entering to the free market system of the liberalism/ capitalism, these residents could not claim for the amends for their historical loss caused by the civil war and state policies. However, these people showed their discursive strategies in their identities, and they also showed the agency in their participation in the social movement. The residents expressed their needs for citizenship in their narrations about how they made the lawsuit and asked for the compensation, and later the related discourse and identity formation came out, which came out from the residents’ intention for changing their social status and material basis.
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Weng, Chia-ping, and 翁佳萍. "Diasporic Experiences in V. S. Naipaul's The Mimic Men, A Bend in the River, and A Way in the World." Thesis, 2007. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/35665118311899086257.
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碩士國立高雄師範大學
英語學系
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This thesis explores the representation of diasporic experiences in V. S. Naipaul’s The Mimic Men, A Bend in the River, and A Way in the World. It situates a problematic dimension of postcolonial criticism and theory with a view to suggesting an alternative reading of transnational, diasporic and global cultures. The aims of this thesis are to lay the groundwork for a dialogue between diaspora and Naipaul and to re-evaluate Naipaul’s contribution in the field of diaspora. The introductory chapter provides overviews of the term “diaspora.” Avtar Brah’s theoretical approach to a critique of fixed origin and Paul Gilroy’s discourse on deterritorialization are stressed. It also highlights significant aspects concerning Naipaul’s controversial position in the topics of the deracination and displacement of migratory people. Three aspects of diaspora—identities, routes, and histories are explored in the following chapters. Chapter Two examines The Mimic Men by using Stuart Hall’s concept of fluid identity to elaborate the ambivalence Ralph suffers on the island he is born and in London he is as an exile. Chapter Three reads A Bend in the River in relation to a discussion of roots the Big Man builds up and routes Salim and other protagonists fumble for. Salman Rushdie’s notion of ‘imaginary homeland’ elucidates the sense of placelessness. Chapter Four discusses A Way in the World by using Hayden White’s theory of revised histories to dramatize a mobile sense of histories through the stories of historical figures and local transients. The concluding chapter emphasizes the importance of diaspora in Naipaul’s works and affirms Naipaul’s achievement.
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LI, WEN-SHIN, and 李文心. "Diasporic Experience and Cultural Identity in Le Ly Hayslip’s When Heaven and Earth Changed Places." Thesis, 2018. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/ppb4py.
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碩士國立高雄師範大學
英語學系
106
Le Ly Hayslip published the self-writing memoir When Heaven and Earth Changed Place in 1989 to reveal her life story from the Vietnam War to the American dream. Two storylines are involved for narrating strategy. One storyline is from the vision of a Vietnamese peasant girl who has suffered from wartime. The other is from the angle of an overseas Vietnamese who has left the country for sixteen years. The love toward the motherland and the traumatic memory during wartime provide the new aspiration to Hayslip’s future. This essay attempts to adopt diaspora discourse to analyze Hayslip’s diasporic experience and cultural identity. This article is divided into five chapters: The first chapter introduces the authors and the background of this memoir. The second chapter reviews the potential traumas. The definition of home is first portrayed by Maslow’s hierarchy of needs to discuss those various aspects of home images. Later, the interactions among diaspora, trauma, belongingness, collective memory and identity under colonial rule are explored. The third chapter illustrates the diasporic elements. This essay breaks the established timeline in the memoir and turns to four dimensions which include politics, emotion, nationality and geography. It clarifies the importance of the author’s diasporic experience for reforming her cultural identity. The fourth chapter contents the identity issue. The scenarios of the character’s attitude, ethnic awareness and political changes are quoted for further plot analysis. This chapter especially highlights the multi-reshaping process in Hayslip’s cultural identity which includes Ethnic Awareness, White Identification, Awakening to Social Political Consciousness, Redirection and Incorporation Stage. The fifth chapter takes “home” as the core to connect those main arguments in those previous chapters and concludes the significance of Hayslip’s self-writing memoir.
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張惠菁. "The Diasporic Experience: Home and Identity in V. S. Naipaul’s A Bend in the River." Thesis, 2006. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/64408591927640177969.
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碩士國立政治大學
外國語文研究所
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While most postcolonial writers and critics such as Salman Rushdie and Homi K. Bhabha celebrate the concepts of hybridity, heterogeneity, multiplicity and colonial mimicry, V. S. Naipaul’s works instead reveal his nostalgia for the loss of “Englishness” and his longing for singularity rather than plurality. Apparently, he is not popular with many postcolonial critics such as Edward Said, Chinua Achebe, and Derek Walcott. Unlike Irving Howe, who admires Naipaul for his disinterested representation of the instability, violence, poverty, and corruption of the Third World, they criticize Naipaul’s allegiance to the West and his attempt to court European readers. On the one hand, Naipaul’s bipolar essentialism should be put into question because it reduces complex social relations to absolute and fixed divisions and also limits the possibilities of the social mobility. On the other hand, too much emphasis on the problematic of Naipaul’s ideologies will reduce the contradictions, complexity and ambivalence in Naipaul’s works. Thus, rather than just accusing Naipaul of his bias against postcolonial societies, the thesis attempts to have a deep and comprehensive understanding of Naipaul’s A Bend in the River (hereafter BR). The thesis aims to analyze Naipaul’s BR from the perspective of “diaspora.” The concept of diaspora is annexed for anti-essentialism and anti-nation. However, in BR, the two protagonists, Salim and Indar, cannot embrace but try to get rid of their hybrid selves. Either to assume the new solidarity in the host country or to obtain a sense of belonging to the ancestral homeland is the way out. Their journey from East Africa to the interior of Africa, and finally to London reveals their reminiscence of the imperial past and their desire to leave the “margin” and head for the “center.” Their nostalgia for the loss of “Englishness” can be seen as the result of modernity, brought about by imperialism. Besides, as colonial subjects, they are not simply alienated but also made to alienate themselves; they adopt the identity of the “Other” as opposed to the “Self” that the British Empire represents. To solve their inferiority complex brought about by their self-alienation, they make efforts to imitate colonizers, seeing their success solely in terms of their acceptance by the “center.” However, it is never easy for the outsiders to assimilate themselves to host countries. Failing to making himself part of the “center,” Indar instead attempts to regain his sense of belonging to the ancestral homeland. However, the India he experiences is different from what he has imagined. The Indians he sees try to make themselves look like Britons but they are unable to shake off what the caste system has imposed on them. Indar’s disgust at his ancestral homeland should not be merely attributed to his belief in the hierarchical binarism of West/East. Instead, his contempt for those Indians can also be regarded as self-contempt. He sees himself in those Indians, aware that he is one of them, who dress like Britons but always feel alienated and inferior in the “center.” The theoretically celebrated concepts of “mimicry” and “hybridty” become marks of cultural fracture in Naipaul’s BR. Salim’s essentialism is reflected not only in his quest for home but also in his efforts to maintain his identities constructed within the imperial discourse. As a colonial subject, Salim has identified himself with an ideal image, a white male bourgeois. However, after the withdrawal of the Empire, the substantive and privileged “I” Salim has taken for granted is threatened as a result of political disorder. In the process of restoring what he sees as the coherent and unified self, he is somehow aware that the seeming fixed and essentialized self is constructed in his relation to others and is subject to change in different historical and cultural contexts. Nevertheless, Salim disavows what he has realized and keeps struggling to maintain his identity. The reason is that only by doing so can he at least have a secure sense of self in such a turbulent world. The foregoing argument is neither to show my disapproval of critics’ harsh remarks about Naipaul nor to make excuses for Naipaul’s tendency towards essentialism. Instead, the thesis not only criticizes Naipaul’s belief in essentialism but also explores the reasons why essentialism holds an appeal to Naipaul. The thesis is comprised of five chapters. The first chapter presents critics’ attitudes towards Naipaul and his works, which can be divided into two opposed camps, and points out why BR can be textually analyzed from the perspective of “diaspora.” The second chapter provides overviews of the term “diaspora.” Particularly, Avtar Brah’s and James Clifford’s theoretical and methodological approaches to “diaspora” are mostly stressed for they help illustrate the way the politics of home and identity will be dealt with in the following two chapters. Besides, the emergence of Indian diaspora in history will also be discussed in this chapter. The third chapter focuses on the politics of home. Bhabha’s discourse on modernity in postcolonial world and Frantz Fanon’s Black Skin, White Masks (1967) explain the two protagonists’ ambivalent and contradictory attitudes towards their motherland and ancestral homeland. By discussing the reasons for their imperialist ideologies, disclosed in the process of uprootings and regroundings, this chapter aims to present the dilemma colonial subjects lapse into, that is, inferiority complex, self-contempt and homing desire. Thus, “diaspora” cannot be merely seen as a celebratory term. Instead, in-betweenness, homelessness, multiple belongings, and mimicry anguish diasporans rather than empower them. The fourth chapter explores how diasprans solve their identity crises. This chapter not only explores why the protagonists have identity crises but also criticizes their tendency towards essentialism, emphasizing that identity, as Stuart Hall in his “Cultural Identity and Diaspora” argues, is both a matter of “being” and “becoming.” Though this chapter reveals that identity is constructed rather than fixed, the appeal of essentialism to diasporans should not be subject to the total negation particularly after the discussion of the reasons for diasporans’ identity crises. The fifth chapter is the conclusion of the thesis, briefly explicating the theme of the thesis. This chapter argues that diasporans’ obsession with essentialist notions of “center” and “essence” respectively disclosed in the process of seeking for/returning home and in the process of maintaining his “idealized” identity in BR should not lead to the rash accusation of Naipaul’s imperialist intention. By discussing what leads to Naipaul’s ideological interests, the thesis discloses the dilemma ex-colonials and post-colonial societies may be faced with. The humanistic approach to Naipaul’s work reveals that this very concept of essentialism should be understood in the specific historical context instead of being universally considered negative. The concepts of “hybridity,” “mimicry” and “border crossing” are emphasized and celebrated by most post-colonial critics; however, Naipaul’s BR reveals that those concepts which have inscribed in the two Indian diasporans make them suffer. Rather than accusing Naipaul of the problematic of his ideologies, the thesis attempts to focus on the dilemma both diasporans and postcolonial societies lapse into.
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Filippa, Olga Maddalena. "Zimbabwean adolescents’ experience of their parents’ absence due to Diaspora." Diss., 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/4656.
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As a result of the Zimbabwean socio-economic and political crisis many have joined the Diaspora leaving their children behind in the care of others. Qualitative research in the form of in-depth semi-structured interviews carried out with seventeen adolescent Zimbabwean Diaspora orphans evidenced a number of emerging themes that illuminate how these adolescents view their situation, such as symptomology of depression, feelings of abandonment and rejection, conflicting feelings, lack of social support, the importance of communication, role changes and additions, materialism, challenges presented by relationships with caregivers, and vulnerability to sexual abuse and molestation. Most of the themes do not appear to be country specific but are shared by adolescent Diaspora orphans world-wide. Defence and coping mechanisms employed by these adolescents to cope with parental absence were also identified. Recommendations aimed at optimising their integration in society and suggestions for further research in this field conclude this study.Psychology
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Hsu, Yun-Ying, and 徐韻&;#23190. "The Diasporic Experience and National/Ethnic Identities in Joyce Huang's Relatives from Homeland and Identity-Related Short Stories." Thesis, 2011. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/00243124020794648805.
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碩士國立交通大學
客家文化學院客家社會與文化學程
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Based on the background of history and the geographic environment of Taiwan, Taiwan people’s identification of countries and of who they are is keeping separated and multiple. The KMT government put an order of martial law into practice after it moved to Taiwan to control the thinkings and opinions of public affairs of people. Under the atmosphere of tension and terror, people with education wondered what they could do, and the only way was to study abroad. However, because the U.S. government aided Taiwan a lot in politics, economy and other aspects, people in Taiwan had a favorable impression of the U.S. and were eager to go to America for further studies, and then chose to build their family there. These overseas immigrants lived in the U.S. because of different reasons; however, they had difficulties integrating themselves with the American local societies and culture. Even though they were in America, what they concerned was still their hometown. For this reason, these immigrants took themselves as Taiwanese American, and kept disseminating the thought of democracy and liberty to people in Taiwan. Joyce Huang was one of them. She tried to reveal the subtle emotions of homesick and the unique experiences of Diasporas in her novels which strongly expressed her concern to Taiwan’s situations at that time. Through their objective views from overseas, many issues which were not thought highly were shown. This study tries to interpret the experiences of leaving hometown with the point of Diaspora and to identify the identification of countries of Taiwanese American on the culture identification and the same histories experiences through the studies of Stuart Hall’s “theory on cultural identity” , Benedict Anderson’s “theory on imagined communities” and Weider Shu’s “Taiwanese American Identities” to interpret the legitimacy of the name of Taiwanese American. Also the study tries to interpret Taiwanese American Literature with the concept of Shu-Mei Shih’s Sinophone Literature to manifest the attribute of Taiwan, which is used to separate the idea of world Chinese literature and Chinese-language literature in America. This study aims to analyze Joyce Huang’s novel which written after the 80s. The story described that the two generations of Taiwanese have different reasons of going to the U.S. and different attitudes toward life, and it expounds that because of the vigorous development of economy and politics of Taiwan, young people become short-sighted, utilitarian and selfish. The two generations have totally different destiny because of their different values. Furthermore, the researcher tries to probe the role that Taiwanese American play and their identification in the progress of democracy in Taiwan through the democratic movement during the years and events of political persecution to search for the development of the democracy of Taiwan. Besides, the researcher discusses part of Huang’s short stories which express Huang’s concern for the local underprivileged minority and Taiwanese American interpersonal interaction in the USA. Also, the study tries to probe how Taiwanese American keep their original thinkings influenced by their mother culture in the place other than their hometown or how they balance their mother culture and the foreign culture in order to interpret that although Taiwanese American are in a foreign country, they still never give up their own values developed in Taiwan, and how positive they devote themselves to their hometown.
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Reilly, Leigh Ann. "Zimbabwe Ruins: Claims of responsibility within speculations on psycho-social experiences of exile and diaspora." Thesis, 2011. https://doi.org/10.7916/D8D224KG.
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The Crisis' in Zimbabwe, which in significant part began in 2000 with the appropriation of white owned commercial farms, is political, economic and psycho-social, and has resulted in major upheavals and catastrophic changes to Zimbabwean society. The researcher investigates from an autobiographical and speculative point of view what it means to live in and after such a crisis by considering the experiences of loss, mourning and melancholia as they relate to the kind of exilic existence experienced by many Zimbabweans as a result of 'the Crisis'. This kind of exile has been called "internal" and "external" (2007) exile by the Zimbabwean poet Chenjerai Hove, by which he means that those still living in the country under the Mugabe regime are living in conditions of exile emotionally, psychically and psychologically just as those in the diaspora, numbering three million or a quarter of the population, are living in conditions of physical and geographic exile. The researcher uses 'the Crisis' as a site of inquiry into considerations of individual and collective responsibility as a possible response to the emotional, geographic, and existential rupture caused by crisis. This study, which is partly autobiographical, but also historical and political, takes a speculative and conceptual approach to understanding effects of 'the Crisis'. The hybridized methods of writing as inquiry (Richardson, 2000), speculative essay as philosophical inquiry (Schubert, 1991), and autobiography as a form of narrative research, allow the researcher to articulate, meditate and speculate on questions regarding loss, temporality, mourning, melancholia and nostalgia, community, and responsibility from a position of personal interpretation, while accepting that those interpretations are fractured, partial and biased. The study proposes responsibility as one possible response to 'the Crisis' and suggests five claims of responsibility as avenues to open up considerations of how one possibly could respond to such formative experiences. The five claims are: return, melancholia and reflective nostalgia (Boym, 2001), art, learning, and community. These claims are drawn directly in relation to the researcher's interpretations of 'The Crisis' and so are not meant to be seen as normative but rather as suggestive. The recent scholarship that has been produced in response to 'the Crisis' has predominantly focused on logistical and practical concerns; this researcher establishes that psycho-social considerations of how one experiences crisis and could live with/in it are of equal importance to the scholarship of 'the Crisis' in Zimbabwe.
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Huang, Ke-Hsien, and 黃克先. "Homeland, Host Country and Heaven: the Diaspora Experience and Conversion Prcocess of the first-generation mainlanders." Thesis, 2005. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/28661193203111732979.
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Cui, Yawei. "Chinese Television as a Medium of National Interpellation." Thesis, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/1807/19126.
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This dissertation considers how the party-state of the People’s Republic of China has been mobilizing various forms of interpellation in an attempt to sustain a continuous imagination of a particular community defined on the terms of a shared “Chinese” national identity. As well, the research considers how these forms of interpellation have been challenged by a range of complex diasporic viewer responses. Taking media productions of the Mainland China television industry as my point of reference, I have studied in detail, multiple productions of the widely popular, complex program, the Spring Festival Gala (SFG) produced by China Central Television. Though not without its contradictions, this show has employed various interpellative strategies, persistently and continuously hailing viewers into the subject position of loyal members of an enduring “Chinese
Nationality.”
However, interpellation is one thing, subjectification within it is another. To
better grapple with the cultural citizenship of transnationalized Chinese, this dissertation also considers observations regarding the receptions of the SFG by diasporic “Chinese subjects” who now live in Canada. While their continuous imagining of the “Chinese Nationality” helps to better understand the complex mechanisms which contribute to the retaining power of interpellation, their moments of “de-imagining” also shed light on the problems and difficulties of such interpellation. These moments are considered as possible openings to the formation of fluid, multiple Chinese subjectivities that lay the groundwork for a “flexible citizenship” (Ong, 1993; 1999) for all “Chinese,” furthering the endeavor to go beyond certain nationalist and/or statist visions of identity, subjectivity, and citizenship.
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Tsai, Ching-yu, and 蔡境予. "The Taiwan Publicness under the Diaspora scenario: the investigationfindings form the experience of Chinese wife of Taiwanese business people." Thesis, 2009. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/39489378245629553345.
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碩士東吳大學
社會學系
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The time-space compresses of the globalization did not falter the Nation system in Taiwan. On the contrary, it is often clear that a migrant move into the public space is subjected to insulation and oppression. The data from the depth interview show that these Taiwanese businessmen’s Chinese wife own too much conformity in marriage in Taiwan. The equality circumstances display that they are placed in a kind of special Diaspora scenario. In " heterotopia" s invoke, they express the public in Indigenous Culture. Whether their husbands are keeping company with them in a holiday or leaving China for work, they all face the complicated power operation and realm define. By querying and resisting various living businesses, they present the cross-cultural posture, erase the public/private boundary, and reorganized the public realm of the Taiwanese society.
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Alayon, John Richard. "Migration, remittances and development: the Filipino New Zealand experience." 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10292/789.
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This study examined how remittances from Filipinos living in New Zealand and their Associations and Organizations contributed to community development in the Philippines. It specifically examined the impacts of both individual and collective remittances to the household and community level and on the broader society as a whole. This study also identified the opportunities brought about by Filipino remittances from New Zealand to communities of origin in the Philippines and possible avenues for the enhancement of the impact of these remittances at the local community level and on society. Case study as a research methodology was used in the study in order to have an in depth, more exhaustive and more comprehensive understanding of the phenomenon. It helped captured the emerging themes of remittance practices and development work of Filipinos and their Associations and Organizations in New Zealand to communities of origin in the Philippines. It also helped understand the phenomenon in the real life context in which a one shot survey or observation failed to capture. The study found that while it was common for overseas Filipinos to send individual remittances to household members in the Philippines for household use and human investments for family members, this was not always the case for Filipinos in New Zealand. Most Filipino migrants in New Zealand had their immediate family living with them in the host country and they sent individual remittances to the Philippines either as gifts for parents to maintain their livelihood, for investment, and support for the education of nephews and nieces. With collective remittances, individual Filipinos and their Associations and Organizations in New Zealand were actively contributing in the pooling of resources for development works in communities of origins in the Philippines. At the same time, they engaged with their recipient communities in the Philippines in order to establish and maintain their transnational ties for effective implementation of development projects in the home country. The study also found that individual remittances coming from New Zealand for family members in the Philippines had a greater impact on the family as a whole. Remittances helped establish income generating activities in the family that have multiplier effects to the family such as a steady source of income, strong purchasing power and extra money for the health and education of children. Individual remittances coming from New Zealand to support the family activities in the community also helped the name of the family in the Philippines in a good stead. On a community level, collective remittances helped maintain culture and tradition as well as raised funds for the implementation of scholarship programs, medical missions, shelter for orphaned children, and basic infrastructures in the community such as school buildings, community roads and multipurpose halls. Collective remittances also built communities and gave recipients hope for a brighter future through equitable housing scheme, community empowerment, health, and education programs. Filipino Associations and Organizations in New Zealand were good vehicles in finding opportunities in their communities of origin. They must engaged with Filipino Associations and Organizations and local business people in their local communities and built partnership with them on community based development projects for the benefit of the wider community.
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Eybagi, Mahkia. "HUMAN CONSEQUENCES OF ECONOMIC SANCTIONS: ANALYZING THE EXPERIENCES OF IRANIAN RESIDENTS IN TORONTO AND HALIFAX ABOUT THE INTERNATIONAL SANCTIONS AGAINST IRAN." 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10222/35424.
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This study will examine the impact of the hotly-debated sanctions against Iran from the perspective of the civilians who live in a country other than their sanctioned homeland, yet keep ties with their country of origin, specifically Iranians immigrants in Toronto and Halifax. Using transnationalism theory, this study shows that human consequences of the sanctions are not limited to the Iranians who live inside Iran but reach out to immigrants who live across borders. In particular, the more extensive these ties are, the more severe are the effects of the sanctions on all the people involved. Although sanctions are ostensibly to pressure a government, my study demonstrates that the effect of sanctions has transnational consequences beyond that which is desirable or foreseen. This study broadens our understanding of human consequences of economic sanctions. It also has implications for policy-makers to consider their immigration populations before imposing sanctions.