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Pike, Lisa. "Jason Frydman,Sounding the break: African American and Caribbean routes of world literature." Canadian Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Studies / Revue canadienne des études latino-américaines et caraïbes 41, no. 2 (2016): 303–4. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/08263663.2016.1186394.

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Phillips Casteel, Sarah. "Sounding the Break: African American and Caribbean Routes of World Literature. Jason Frydman." MELUS 43, no. 1 (2017): 219–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/melus/mlx072.

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Kubayanda, Josaphat Bekunuru. "Minority Discourse and the African Collective: Some Examples from Latin American and Caribbean Literature." Cultural Critique, no. 6 (1987): 113. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/1354258.

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Van Nyhuis, Alison J. "Sounding the Break: African American and Caribbean Routes of World Literature by Jason Frydman." CLA Journal 60, no. 3 (2017): 382–83. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/caj.2017.0006.

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Kuwabong, Dannabang. "Sounding the Break African American and Caribbean Routes of World Literature by Jason Frydman." Caribbean Studies 43, no. 2 (2015): 300–303. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/crb.2015.0031.

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Morales, Donald M. "The Pervasive Force of Music in African, Caribbean, and African American Drama." Research in African Literatures 34, no. 2 (2003): 145–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.2979/ral.2003.34.2.145.

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Morales, Donald M. "The Pervasive Force of Music in African, Caribbean, and African American Drama." Research in African Literatures 34, no. 2 (2003): 145–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/ral.2003.0039.

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Rajiva, Jay. "The Answer is Paracritical: Caribbean Literature and The Limits of Critique." Humanities 8, no. 3 (2019): 126. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/h8030126.

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I argue that both Rita Felski’s postcritical model (as articulated in The Limits of Critique) and its academic reception are made possible only by ignoring or erasing African-American and Afro-Caribbean modes of engagement with art that predate and complicate the critical-postcritical binary. To counteract the vanguardism of this trend in literary studies, I pair Caribbean philosopher-poet Edouard Glissant’s meditation on the origins of Creole speech as an indirect language of “detour” with Nathaniel Mackey’s theorizing of black art as “paracritical”—a mode that assimilates performance and critique, language and metalanguage, and that sits adjacent to (and not against or behind) traditionally academic discourses of engaging with literature. If Glissant provides the cultural and philosophical frame for an Afro-Caribbean way of reading literature, Mackey supplies the artistic metaphor par excellence of the paracritical hinge, voiced in the idioms of jazz and blues. Finally, I examine how Glissant and Mackey’s ideas find formal and aesthetic expression in Trinidadian-Canadian author Dionne Brand’s 2005 novel What We All Long For, paying attention to the reader response engendered by the adjacencies of violence, empowerment, possibility, and desire in the novel. In order to analyze What We All Long For, we must promote the liveliness and vivacity of the reading experience and put the text under ethical scrutiny, evincing the paracritical faculty that Afro-Caribbean art demands: commingling the twin pleasures of reading and interpretation, establishing a counter-hegemonic model of literary engagement that implicates the reader without stripping away reading’s pleasure.

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Maurer, Bill. "Caribbean dance: ‘resistance’, colonial discourse, and subjugated knowledges." New West Indian Guide / Nieuwe West-Indische Gids 65, no. 1-2 (1991): 1–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/13822373-90002014.

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Review of the literature on African-American dance in the Caribbean. The author focuses on 3 problems. The first is the construction of canons in dance anthropology. The second has to do with the ways in which these canons have dealt with dance in the Caribbean in particular. Finally, the author examines issues 'surrounding the ways anthropology creates its objects of study'.

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Chancy, Myriam J. A., and Tejumola Olaniyan. "Scars of Conquest/Masks of Resistance: The Invention of Cultural Identities in African, African-American, and Caribbean Drama." American Literature 68, no. 2 (1996): 480. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2928322.

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Halil, Karen. "Conjuring power in Caribbean and African-American literature." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1999. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape9/PQDD_0001/NQ39535.pdf.

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Alston, Vermonja Romona. "Race-crossings at the crossroads of African American travel in the Caribbean." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/280506.

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Traversing geographical borders frequently allows people the illusion of crossing social, political, and economic boundaries. For African-Americans of the early twentieth century, crossing physical borders offered the promise of freedom from racial segregation and discrimination in all aspects of social, political, and cultural life. Haiti became a site for African-American imaginings of a free and just society beyond the problem of the color line. From the 1920's through the 1980's, African-American travel writing was strategically deployed in efforts to transform a U.S. society characterized by Jim Crow segregation. In the process, Haiti and the rest of the Caribbean were romanticized as spaces of racial equality and political freedom. This project examines the ways in which the Caribbean has been packaged by and for African-Americans, of both U.S. and Caribbean ancestry, as a place to re-engage with romanticized African origins. In the selling of the Caribbean, cultural/heritage tourism, romance/sex tourism and ecotourism all trade on the same metaphors of loss and redemption of the innocence, equality, and purity found in a state of nature. Through analyses of standard commercial tourism advertising alongside of travel writing, I argue that with the growth of the black middle-class in the late 1980's crossings to the Caribbean have become romantic engagements with an idealized pastoral past believed lost in the transition to middle-class prosperity in the United States. African-American travel writers, writing about the Caribbean, tend to create a monolithic community of cultural belonging despite differences of geography and class, and gender hierarchies. Thus, African-American travelers' tales constitute narratives at the crossroads of celebrations of their economic progress in the United States and nostalgia for a racial community believed lost on the road to suburban prosperity. For them, the Caribbean stands in as the geographical metaphor for that idealized lost community.

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Carr, Rachel McKenzie. "But What Has Helga Crane to Do with the West Indies? Plantation Afterlives in the Black Atlantic." UKnowledge, 2019. https://uknowledge.uky.edu/english_etds/102.

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“But What Has Helga Crane to Do with the West Indies? Plantation Afterlives in the Black Atlantic” situates the emergence of the southern gothic in modernist American and Caribbean works as a response to the shifting cultural narrative of the plantation in the twentieth century. In this project, I argue that the plantation seeps out of its place and time to haunt landscapes it may never have touched and times in which slavery is long over. While the plantation system is broadly recognized as a literary, political, and cultural force in nineteenth-century literary studies, I conceive it is also a driving force of southern literature even after the physical plantations begin to fade. In this project, I examine how literary portrayals of plantations flourish in the 1920s and 30s, from the writings of the Nashville Agrarians to the popularity of Gone with the Wind, arguing that this period represents a literary re-mythologizing of the plantation’s legacy as a benevolent and positive model for the south. A significant contribution of this dissertation is then in demonstrating how plantations are present in works that are not traditionally understood as plantation fiction, and that these works offer a resistance to this re-mythologizing through turning to the gothic: the transatlantic plantation gothic in Nella Larsen’s Quicksand and Jean Rhys’ Voyage in the Dark, the impact of environmental labor on the plantation gothic in Jean Toomer’s Cane and Eric Walrond’s Tropic Death, and finally, how plantation modernity affects portrayals of natural disasters in plantation territories in Zora Neale Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God and M. NourbeSe Philip’s Zong!. Ultimately, this project contributes to the discussion of plantation modernity currently occurring in Southern Studies beyond the nineteenth century and into the modernist period, while also demonstrating how movements often construed as disparate in American literary studies, like the Harlem Renaissance and the Nashville Agrarians, were actually in close conversation.

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Scott, Mikana S. "AN AFROCENTRIC ANALYSIS OF SCHOLARLY LITERATURE ON THE CAYMAN ISLANDS: LOCATION THEORY IN A CARIBBEAN CONTEXT." Master's thesis, Temple University Libraries, 2014. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/272658.

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African American Studies<br>M.L.A.<br>This work addresses the following question: How has the prominent scholarly literature on the Cayman Islands promoted a discourse that serves to undermine the acknowledgment of African contributions as well as African self-identification in the country? Utilizing an Afrocentric inquiry, the method of content analysis was employed to interrogate selected texts using location theory. It was found that the majority of literature on the Cayman Islands, as well as the dominant ideology within the Caribbean has indeed undermined the acknowledgement of African contributions as well as African self-identification in the country. More scholarship is needed that examines the experiences of African descended people living in the Caribbean from their own perspective, and critically engages dislocated texts.<br>Temple University--Theses

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Jackson, Akia. "The mobility of memory and shame: African American and Afro-Caribbean women’s fiction 1980’s-1990’s." Diss., University of Iowa, 2019. https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/6962.

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The purpose of this dissertation is to understand the mixed legacy of shame. I work through the interrelationship between productive shame and debilitating shame and a character’s journey through this spectrum. In my research, I define shame not in the pejorative, but rather I repurpose the term to show its beneficiality in reshaping Black female characters during the period of Black Arts and Power Movements in America and the Caribbean. Essentially, my dissertation will argue that although debilitative shame seems overwhelmingly negative for the female characters, gradually they come to reassess this shame as a positive asset that helps them reevaluate societal and nationalistic expectations associated with their Blackness. I seek to redefine the globalized multiple dimensions of shame that Black authors confront throughout their novels because shame involves an often painful, sudden awareness of the self and trauma previously endured. Thus, the fluidity of Black transnational experiences frame my interrogation of the impact of colonialism and post-colonialism on the cultural history and collective shame of Afro-diasporic descended characters in Morrison’s Tar Baby (1981), Kincaid’s Annie John (1985), Cliff’s No Telephone to Heaven (1987), and Danticat’s Breath, Eyes, Memory (1994). My project complicates mobility by dissecting the disconnections that arise from separation from homelands, family, and cultural familiarity. I analyze the four novels through an ordered methodology of migration, disruption, discontinuity, and the renaming debilitative shame as a positive asset. This methodology informs my argument on the middle ground and Black female characters occupying multiple identities in their movement through different nation-states and empires.

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Koziatek, Zuzanna Ewelina. " Formal Affective Strategies in Contemporary African Diasporic Feminist Texts ." Cleveland State University / OhioLINK, 2021. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=csu1621007445234777.

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Neigh, Janet Marina. "Rhythmic Literacy: Poetry, Reading and Public Voices in Black Atlantic Poetics." Diss., Temple University Libraries, 2010. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/83661.

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English<br>Ph.D.<br>"Rhythmic Literacy: Poetry, Reading and Public Voices in Black Atlantic Poetics" analyzes the poetry of the African American Langston Hughes and the Jamaican Louise Bennett during the 1940s. Through an examination of the unique similarities of their poetic projects, namely their engagement of performance to build their audiences, their experiments with poetic personae to represent vernacular social voices, their doubleness as national and transnational figures, their circulation of poetry in radio and print journalism and their use of poetry as pedagogy to promote reading, this dissertation establishes a new perspective on the role of poetry in decolonizing language practices. While Hughes and Bennett are often celebrated for their representation of oral language and folk culture, this project reframes these critical discussions by drawing attention to how they engage performance to foster an embodied form of reading that draws on Creole knowledge systems, which I term rhythmic literacy. Growing up in the U.S and Jamaica in the early twentieth century, Hughes and Bennett were both subjected to a similar Anglophone transatlantic schoolroom poetry tradition, which they contend with as one of their only available poetic models. I argue that memorization and recitation practices play a formative role in the development of their poetic projects. As an enactment and metaphor for the dynamics of colonial control, this form of mimicry demonstrates to them the power of embodied performance to reclaim language from dominant forces. This dissertation reveals how black Atlantic poetics refashions the institutional uses of poetry in early twentieth-century U.S and British colonial education for the purposes of decolonization.<br>Temple University--Theses

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Harding, Warren. "Dubbin' the Literary Canon: Writin' and Soundin' A Transnational Caribbean Experience." Oberlin College Honors Theses / OhioLINK, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=oberlin1370484912.

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Burgess, Rachel. "Dementure." Ohio University / OhioLINK, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1289927073.

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Jones, Esther L. "Traveling discourses subjectivity, space and spirituality in black women's speculative fictions in the Americas /." Columbus, Ohio : Ohio State University, 2006. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=osu1155665383.

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Jones, Eldred Durosimi. African literature today. J. Currey, 1988.

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Eustace, Palmer, ed. African literature today. J. Currey, 1988.

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Jones, Eldred Durosimi. African literature today. J. Currey, 1988.

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Jones, Eldred Durosimi. African literature today. James Currey, 1988.

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Anderson, Debra L. Decolonizing the text: Glissantian readings in Caribbean and African-American literatures. P. Lang, 1995.

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Patterson, Anita Haya. Race, American literature and transnational modernisms. Cambridge University Press, 2008.

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Patterson, Anita Haya. Race, American literature and transnational modernisms. Cambridge University Press, 2008.

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Romance, diaspora, and black Atlantic literature. Cambridge University Press, 2010.

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Critical perspectives on Afro-Latin American literature. Routledge, 2011.

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The primordial image: African, Afro-American, and Caribbean mythopoetic text. P. Lang, 1993.

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Morgan, Paula. "When the Rainbow Is Not Enough: Using African American Literature to Demystify Race in a Caribbean Tertiary Environment." In Teaching African American Women’s Writing. Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2010. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9781137086471_8.

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Seymour-Smith, Martin. "African and Caribbean Literature." In Guide to Modern World Literature. Macmillan Education UK, 1985. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-06418-2_1.

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King, Nicole. "‘Getting in Conversation’: Teaching African American Literature and Training Critical Thinkers." In Teaching Literature. Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-31110-8_6.

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Leonard, Keith D. "Jazz and African American Literature." In A Companion to African American Literature. Wiley-Blackwell, 2010. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/9781444323474.ch19.

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Carpio, Glenda R. "Humor in African American Literature." In A Companion to African American Literature. Wiley-Blackwell, 2010. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/9781444323474.ch21.

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Keizer, Arlene R. "African American Literature and Psychoanalysis." In A Companion to African American Literature. Wiley-Blackwell, 2010. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/9781444323474.ch27.

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Tucker, Jeffrey Allen. "African American Science Fiction." In A Companion to African American Literature. Wiley-Blackwell, 2010. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/9781444323474.ch24.

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Levine, Robert S. "African American Literary Nationalism." In A Companion to African American Literature. Wiley-Blackwell, 2010. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/9781444323474.ch8.

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Sidbury, James. "Africa in Early African American Literature." In A Companion to African American Literature. Wiley-Blackwell, 2010. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/9781444323474.ch2.

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Brooks, Joanna, and Tyler Mabry. "Religion in Early African American Literature." In A Companion to African American Literature. Wiley-Blackwell, 2010. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/9781444323474.ch5.

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Beiyi, Sun. "Research on African American Vernacular English --in the film “Crash”." In 6th Annual International Conference on Language, Literature and Linguistics (L3 2017). Global Science & Technology Forum (GSTF), 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5176/2251-3566_l317.72.

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Wang, Yan, and Xiaolan Lei. "A Study of African American Vernacular English of Anti-language from the Perspective of Externality of Language." In 6th Annual International Conference on Language, Literature and Linguistics (L3 2017). Global Science & Technology Forum (GSTF), 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5176/2251-3566_l317.110.

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Vila, Adrián R. "Building a corpus of printed latin american and caribbean literature for the analysis of search outcomes on digital platforms and digital libraries." In the 3rd International Conference. ACM Press, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2808580.2808639.

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"Autoethnography of the Cultural Competence Exhibited at an African American Weekly Newspaper Organization." In InSITE 2019: Informing Science + IT Education Conferences: Jerusalem. Informing Science Institute, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.28945/4187.

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[This Proceedings paper was revised and published in the 2019 issue of the journal Issues in Informing Science and Information Technology, Volume 16] Aim/Purpose: Little is known of the cultural competence or leadership styles of a minority owned newspaper. This autoethnography serves to benchmark one early 1990s example. Background: I focused on a series of flashbacks to observe an African American weekly newspaper editor-in-chief for whom I reported to 25 years ago. In my reflections I sought to answer these questions: How do minorities in entrepreneurial organizations view their own identity, their cultural competence? What degree of this perception is conveyed fairly and equitably in the community they serve? Methodology: Autoethnography using both flashbacks and article artifacts applied to the leadership of an early 1990s African American weekly newspaper. Contribution: Since a literature gap of minority newspaper cultural competence examples is apparent, this observation can serve as a benchmark to springboard off older studies like that of Barbarin (1978) and that by examining the leadership styles and editorial authenticity as noted by The Chicago School of Media Theory (2018), these results can be used for comparison to other such minority owned publications. Findings: By bringing people together, mixing them up, and conducting business any other way than routine helped the Afro-American Gazette, Grand Rapids, proudly display a confidence sense of cultural competence. The result was a potentiating leadership style, and this style positively changed the perception of culture, a social theory change example. Recommendations for Practitioners: For the minority leaders of such publications, this example demonstrates effective use of potentiating leadership to positively change the perception of the quality of such minority owned newspapers. Recommendations for Researchers: Such an autoethnography could be used by others to help document other examples of cultural competence in other minority owned newspapers. Impact on Society: The overall impact shows that leadership at such minority owned publications can influence the community into a positive social change example. Future Research: Research in the areas of culture competence, leadership, within minority owned newspapers as well as other minority alternative publications and websites can be observed with a focus on what works right as well as examples that might show little social change model influence. The suggestion is to conduct the research while employed if possible, instead of relying on flashbacks.

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Reports on the topic "Literature American literature African literature Caribbean literature"

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Magee, Caroline E. The Characterization of the African-American Male in Literature by African-American Women. Defense Technical Information Center, 1995. http://dx.doi.org/10.21236/ada299399.

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Blyde, Juan S., Matías Busso, and Ana María Ibáñez. The Impact of Migration in Latin America and the Caribbean: A Review of Recent Evidence. Inter-American Development Bank, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.18235/0002866.

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This paper summarizes recent evidence on the effects of migration on a variety of outcomes including labor markets, education, health, crime and prejudice, international trade, assimilation, family separation, diaspora networks, and return migration. Given the lack of studies looking at migration flows between developing countries, this paper contributes to fill a gap in the literature by providing evidence of the impact of South - South migration in general and for the Latin American countries in particular. The evidence highlighted in this summary provides useful insights for designing policies to leverage the developmental outcomes of migration while limiting its potential negative effects.

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