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Lenoir-Achdjian, Annick. "Appréhender la nation, vivre le diaspora, regards arméniens." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2001. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk3/ftp05/NQ65362.pdf.
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Lavi, Eyal. "Orientation to the nation : a phenomenology of media and diaspora." Thesis, Goldsmiths College (University of London), 2012. http://research.gold.ac.uk/8004/.
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This thesis examines the mediation of the nation-state as a dimension of the diasporic experience of place. It focuses on the consumption of mass-media about Israel or originating from it by people residing outside of the country. I understand this mediation to take place continuously throughout the day, in multiple spaces, through different technologies. As such, it forms part of the experience of place in media- saturated (urban) environments, allowing for a distant nation-state to become embedded in daily routines. In order to theorise this experience, I draw on Merleau- Ponty’s phenomenology, which understands place through embodied perception and habit, and on studies of diaspora and media, which examine the social meanings and uses of media among specific transnational groups. This qualitative project is based on a researcher-absent exercise and extended interviews with British Jews and Israeli immigrants in London. Analysis reveals that orientation includes four areas of practice: investing and withdrawing emotions as part of managing ‘care’, searching for truth, distinguishing between ordinary and extraordinary time, and domesticating media. Some of these practices may be particular to the case of Israel, but some are shaped by discourses around insecurity, rather than Zionism itself. Others appear to be related to experiences of migration and diaspora in general. I argue that these practices are ‘orientational practices’ in which people endeavour to make sense of spatial positioning through negotiating distance and controlling media. I theorise media as ‘orientation devices’ in diasporic everyday life, but ones that are unstable, contested and reflected upon, and hence never fully habituated. The resulting experience is one of increased reflexivity about everyday place and, paradoxically, increased dependency on media for orientation. I conclude by suggesting that practices of orientation point to a mode of being in place in globalisation that is not sufficiently addressed by the dominant understanding of ‘belonging’.
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Mirmotahari, Emad. "Islam and the Eastern African novel revisiting nation, diaspora, modernity /." Diss., Restricted to subscribing institutions, 2008. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1666396541&sid=12&Fmt=2&clientId=1564&RQT=309&VName=PQD.
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Thobani, Sitara. "Dancing diaspora, performing nation : Indian classical dance in multicultural London." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2013. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:c189d163-b113-408f-9f3b-181c6fd5fbce.
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This thesis examines the performance of Indian classical dance in the contemporary 'diaspora space' (Brah 1996) represented by the city of London. My aim is to analyse whether and how performances of "national" art, assumed to represent an equally "national" culture, change when performed in transnational contexts. Drawing upon theories of postcolonialism, multiculturalism and diaspora, I begin my study with an historical analysis of the reconstructed origins of the dance in the intertwined discourses of British colonialism and Indian nationalism. Using this analysis to ground my ethnography of the present-day practice of the dance, I unearth its relation to discourses of contemporary multiculturalism and South Asian diasporic identity. I then demonstrate specific ways in which the relationship between colonial and postcolonial artistic production on the one hand and contemporary performances of national and multicultural identity on the other are visible in the current practices and approaches of diasporic and multicultural Indian classical dancers. My thesis advances the scholarship that has demonstrated the link between the construction of Indian classical dance and the Indian nationalist movement by highlighting particular ways in which historical narrative, national and religious identities, gendered ideals and racialised categories are constituted through, and help produce in turn, contemporary Indian classical dance practices in the diaspora. Locating my study in the UK while still accounting for the Indian nationalist aspects of the dance, my contribution to the scholarly literature is to analyse its performance in relation to both Indian and British national identity. My research demonstrates that Indian classical dance is co-produced by both British and Indian national discourses and their respective cultural and political imperatives, even as the dance contributes to the formation of British, Indian and South Asian diasporic politico-cultural identities.
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Rabgey, Losang Chodon. "En-gendering Tibet : nation, narration and the woman's body in diaspora." Thesis, SOAS, University of London, 2006. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.432457.
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Stefaniuk, Thomas. "Diaspora Destiny: Joseph Jessing and Competing Narratives of Nation, 1860-1899." The Ohio State University, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1343309825.
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Tewelde, Yonatan. "Chatroom Nation: an Eritrean Case Study of a Diaspora PalTalk Public." Ohio University / OhioLINK, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1603897547633518.
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Habib, Jasmin. "Imagining Israel, belonging in diaspora, North American Jews' reflections on Israel as homeland, nation, and nation-state." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2000. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape2/PQDD_0035/NQ66269.pdf.
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Velasco, Gina. "Figures of transnational belonging : gender, sexuality, and the nation in the Filipino diaspora /." Diss., Digital Dissertations Database. Restricted to UC campuses, 2008. http://uclibs.org/PID/11984.
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Jilek, Grit [Verfasser]. "Nation ohne Territorium : Über die Organisierung der jüdischen Diaspora bei Simon Dubnow / Grit Jilek." Baden-Baden : Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft mbH & Co. KG, 2012. http://d-nb.info/1110055692/34.
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McKee, Kimberly Devon. "The Transnational Adoption Industrial Complex: An Analysis of Nation, Citizenship, and the Korean Diaspora." The Ohio State University, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1373460152.
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Hughes, Erin Elizabeth. "An American atra? : boundaries of diasporic nation-building amongst Assyrians and Chaldeans in the United States." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/30987.
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Voluntary and forced migrations over the past century have given rise to the number of displaced peoples and nations who consider themselves diasporas. The resiliency of these extra-territorial nations after displacement is something of a paradox in nationalism studies. For diaspora, the nation is simultaneously local and transnational, divided and caged by the confines of state borders, often intermixed with other ethnic groups, nations, and cultures, and yet, undeniably, a singular community. Through a comparative examination of the Assyrian and Chaldean diaspora in the United States, this dissertation uses boundary theory to explore the role of diasporic elites in making and sustaining a diasporic nation, and the events, identities, and ideologies that shape diasporic action. It draws from twenty-nine interviews held with Assyrian and Chaldean leaders in Michigan, Illinois, and California, and with policy-makers, as well as research into congressional documents, policy papers, and press reports. The multi-ethnic fabric of American society is formative to boundary-creation, and yet challenges its retention, providing an open society for ethnic expression and civic and political engagement, whilst at the same time facilitating assimilation and loss of diasporic culture and identity. Diasporic elites pursue institutional completeness to sustain diasporic presence in local societies, and cultivate national ideologies that in turn engender activism on behalf of the greater diasporic nation. The Iraq War served as a catalyst to nation-building, providing the first political opening in decades for diasporic actors to mobilize on behalf of Assyrians and Chaldeans in the homeland, seeking constitutional recognition as equal members of the Iraq state. However, the impermeable, exclusionary Iraqi national boundary wrought in conflict instead posed an existential crisis, forcing Assyrians and Chaldeans from Iraq and forcing diasporic leaders to confront questions of what will become of their nation if the homeland is lost. Revealed in the resulting political demands are two distinct strains of nationalism: that for resettlement into diaspora and continued integration into Iraq; and that for territorial autonomy within Iraq’s Nineveh Plain. This dissertation argues diaspora is a continuous, evolving product of boundary-making, often the result of diasporic elite mobilization. Diaspora is a nation not simply born of displacement, but formed through social boundaries encountered and made upon resettlement outside the homeland. Nationalism is a significant component of diasporic nation-building, offering insight into political goals, ideologies, and the dedication of diasporic elites to sustaining an Assyrian and Chaldean homeland, an atra, in diaspora.
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Achille, Etienne. "Jambe dlo… et apres? Participation de la diaspora antillaise a l’ecriture de la nation francaise." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1367934993.
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Edwards, Erika D. "Negotiating Identities, Striving for State Recongition: Blacks in Cordoba, Argentina 1776-1853." FIU Digital Commons, 2011. http://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/457.
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Race in Argentina played a significant role as a highly durable construct by identifying and advancing subjects (1776-1810) and citizens (1811-1853). My dissertation explores the intricacies of power relations by focusing on the ways in which race informed the legal process during the transition from a colonial to national State. It argues that the State’s development in both the colonial and national periods depended upon defining and classifying African descendants. In response, people of African descendent used the State’s assigned definitions and classifications to advance their legal identities. It employs race and culture as operative concepts, and law as a representation of the sometimes, tense relationship between social practices and the State’s concern for social peace.
This dissertation examines the dynamic nature of the court. It utilizes the theoretical concepts multicentric legal orders that are analyzed through weak and strong legal pluralisms, and jurisdictional politics, from the late eighteenth to early nineteenth centuries. This dissertation juxtaposes various levels of jurisdiction (canon/state law and colonial/national law) to illuminate how people of color used the legal system to ameliorate their social condition. In each chapter the primary source materials are state generated documents which include criminal, ecclesiastical, civil, and marriage dissent court cases along with notarial and census records. Though it would appear that these documents would provide a superficial understanding of people of color, my analysis provides both a top-down and bottom-up approach that reflects a continuous negotiation for African descendants’ goal for State recognition. These approaches allow for implicit or explicit negotiation of a legal identity that transformed slaves and free African descendants into active agents of their own destinies.
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Savage, Amanda Lee Heikialoha. "From Astoria to Annexation: The Hawaiian Diaspora and the Struggle for Race and Nation in the American Empire." W&M ScholarWorks, 2011. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539626664.
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Lee, Sangmi. "Between the diaspora and the nation-state : transnational continuity and fragmentation among Hmong in Laos and the United States." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2015. https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:644c93e2-ae52-494d-93ca-ebda995bd0a0.
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Based on fourteen-months of multi-sited, ethnographic fieldwork that compares two Hmong communities in Vang Vieng, Laos, and Sacramento, California in the United States, my doctoral thesis examines how the Hmong diaspora is constituted in the absence of a territorial ethnic homeland. Although scholars claim that the Hmong originated in the southwestern part of China, many Hmong are uncertain about their origins and have lost their connections to the ancestral homeland. This thesis suggests we examine diasporas as a dialectical process involving both transnational continuity and national differentiation. Despite their further migratory dispersal after the Vietnam War, Hmong in Laos and the United States have actively created a transnational diasporic community by maintaining their cultural practices across national borders, particularly in the domains of kinship practices and spiritual rituals. At the same time, diasporic Hmong have also created partial 'homes' in the nation-states where they reside. Therefore, their ethnic traditions and perceptions are transformed according to different national contexts, such as local socioeconomic conditions, state policies, and access to economic capital. This results in cultural differences within the diaspora. In addition, Hmong in different countries disagree about their relative position in the diaspora in relation to each other, leading to discursive fragmentation. As a result, diasporas are refracted through different national affiliations. Nonetheless, the sense of national belonging among diasporic Hmong remains partial because they continue to experience social, economic, and ethnic marginalization as an ethnic minority group in both Laos and the United States, which causes them to maintain a diasporic affiliation to Hmong scattered in other countries as an alternative source of ethnic belonging. In this sense, the Hmong are constantly positioned 'in-between' the diaspora and the nation-state.
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Shaheen, Basima. "The Palestinian Archipelago and the Construction of Palestinian Identity After Sixty-five Years of Diaspora: the Rebirth of the Nation." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2015. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc801889/.
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This dissertation conceptualizes a Palestinian archipelago based on Mikhail Bakhtin’s theory of the chronotope, and uses the archipelago model to illustrate the situation and development of Palestinian consciousness in diaspora. To gain insight into the personal lives of Palestinians in diaspora, This project highlights several islands of Palestinian identities as represented in the novels: Dancing Arabs, A Compass for the Sunflower, and The Inheritance. The identities of the characters in these works are organized according to the archipelago model, which illustrates how the characters rediscover, repress, or change their identities in order to accommodate life in diaspora. Analysis reveals that a major goal of Palestinian existence in diaspora is the maintenance of an authentic Palestinian identity. Therefore, my description of the characters’ identities and locations in the archipelago model are informed by various scholars and theories of nationalism. Moreover, this dissertation illustrates how different Palestinian identities coalesce into a single national consciousness that has been created and sustained by a collective experience of suffering and thirst for sense of belonging and community among Palestinians. Foremost in the memories of all Palestinians is the memory of the land of Palestine and the dream of national restoration; these are the main uniting factors between Palestinians revealed in my analysis. Furthermore, this project presents an argument that developing a Palestinian exceptionalism as both a response and a solution to the problems Palestine faced in the 20th century has already occurred among diasporic Palestinians as well as those settled in the West Bank. In addition, a significant finding of this dissertation is the generation clash in regarding to the methods of modernization of the West Bank society between the settled Palestinian and those returning from diaspora. Nevertheless, a Palestinian homecoming will require a renegotiation of Palestinian identities in which generation gaps and other disagreements will be resolved and transcended in favor of nation-state building.
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Chruscinska, Anna Zofia. "Les Polonais d'Afrique du Sud et leur identification nationale : le cas des immigrants polonais de la ville du Cap." Thesis, Sorbonne Paris Cité, 2015. http://www.theses.fr/2015PA05H008.
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Dans le milieu scientifique polonais, peu de travaux concernent l'Afrique du Sud et les communautés polonaises y habitant. Pourtant, ce territoire constitue un laboratoire social unique et les Polonais de l'Afrique du Sud sont soumis à des phénomènes qui peuvent retenir l'attention des sociologues. Cette recherche s'applique à repérer la dimension identitaire de ces phénomènes dynamiques avec l'exemple des trois vagues migratoires des Polonais habitant la ville du Cap. En alliant les techniques qualitatives de recherche en sciences sociales et la tradition de l'Ecole de Chicago de collecte des données, je présente l'évolution de l'attachement au pays d'origine, ainsi que différents types d'identité plurielle. La première partie est consacrée à la présentation historique et sociologique de mon terrain de recherche : l'Afrique du Sud en général, mais aussi les particularités de la région du Cap. Cette contextualisation comprend : l'organisation spatiale du Cap, la problématique interethnique dans la réalité post-apartheid, les conséquences urbaines des préjugés sociaux, et l'identification distinctive éventuelle des habitants de la ville du Cap par rapport au reste de l'Afrique du Sud. Dans la deuxième partie, je m'intéresse à la dimension diasporique de la communauté polonaise au Cap. A cette fin, j'examine les structures qui constituent l'une des facettes des Polonais du Cap : les organisations soumises à des processus de diasporisation. Elles ne sont pas à confondre avec les phénomènes de l'activité informelle, l'objet de l'analyse de la partie suivante. Dans la troisième partie, j'étudie la notion d'identité en général et, plus particulièrement, la question de l'identification à la nation polonaise. En donnant des exemples hors du contexte de la vie associative polonaise du Cap, je m'interroge sur : l'influence du contexte multiculturel de la société d'accueil sur l'identification des migrants polonais, l'approche dynamique de la présence des « traits » censées caractériser la nation polonaise au sein de la collectivité polonaise du Cap, et le processus de la transmission de l'identification nationale entre les générations. Dans mes résultats, je présente non seulement les différents types d'attachement au pays d'origine observés chez les acteurs sociaux, mais j'essaie également de tracer l'avenir possible du processus d'identification nationale chez les Polonais de mon terrain de recherche. J'espère que cette thèse constituera un point de départ pour d'autres chercheurs qui s'intéresseront à cette collectivité si méconnue, mais aussi pour des recherches comparatives sur l'identification nationale au sein d'autres communautés de migrants polonais. En tenant compte du fait que l'identité nationale en Pologne est en pleine transition, l'analyse des différences identitaires entre les vagues migratoires du Cap peut également s'avérer utile dans les recherches comparatives avec l'identification des Polonais vivant en PologneWithin the Polish scientific community, few studies refer to South Africa and the Polish communities living in this place. However, this territory constitutes a unique social laboratory and Poles from South Africa are subject to phenomena that can hold the attention of sociologists. This research applies to pinpoint the identity dimension of these dynamic phenomena with the example of the three migratory waves of Poles living in the city of Cape Town. By combining qualitative techniques of social science research and the tradition of collecting data elaborated at the Chicago School, I present the evolution of attachment to the country of origin, as well as different types of plural identity. The first part is devoted to the historical and sociological presentation of my research field: South Africa in general, but also the peculiarities of the Cape region. This contextualization includes: the spatial organization of Cape Town, the inter-ethnic issues in the post-apartheid reality, the urban consequences of social prejudice, and the possible identification of the inhabitants of Cape Town distinctive from the rest of South Africa. In the second part, I put much interest in the diasporic dimension of the Polish community in Cape Town. To this end, I examine the structures which constitute one of facets of Polish people from Cape Town: the organizations subject to the process of diasporization. They are not to be confused with the phenomena of informal activity, the purpose of the analysis of the next section. In the third part, I study the notion of identity in general and, more specifically, the question of identification with the Polish nation. Giving examples out of context of the associative life of Polish people from Cape Town, I examine: the influence of the multicultural context of the host society on the identification of Polish migrants, the dynamic approach of the presence of " features" meant to characterize the Polish nation in the Polish community of Cape Town, and the process of transmitting national identification between generations. In my results, I present not only the different types of attachment to the country observed among social actors, but I also try to trace the possible future of the national identification process among Poles of my field research. I hope that this thesis will be a starting point for other researchers who might get interested in this community remained unrecognized, but also for comparative research on national identification within other Polish migrant communities. Taking into account that national identity in Poland is in transition, the analysis of identity differences between the migratory waves in Cape Town may also be useful in comparative research with the identification of Poles living in Poland
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Aliberti, Davide. "Sefarad : une communauté imaginée : 1924-2015." Thesis, Aix-Marseille, 2015. http://www.theses.fr/2015AIXM3092.
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Le décret royal du 1924 est souvent considéré le point culminant de la campagne séfardiste du sénateur espagnol Ángel Pulido. Il s'agit d'une initiative qui reflète l’ambiguë de toutes les dynamiques espagnoles envers les Séfarades. La loi de 2015, relative à l’octroi de la nationalité aux descendants des juifs expulsés au XV siècle, et le décret royal de 1924 ont été choisis respectivement comme le point d'arrivée et le point de départ de ce travail. Durant cette période, a eu lieu une série d'événements qui ont constitué l'épine dorsale de cette communauté imaginée appelée Sefarad. Sefarad correspond à un espace indéfini résultant d'une erreur d'interprétation biblique. Cependant, pendant des siècles l'idée de Sefarad a continué à être associée à l'espace géographique connu comme l'Espagne et, à partir de la seconde moitié du XXe siècle, le gouvernement espagnol s'est de plus en plus identifié à cet espace idéal. Ce processus de superposition vise à soutenir les intérêts nationaux. La loi de 2015, ainsi que le décret royal de 1924, sont deux initiatives qui s’adressent à l'opinion publique internationale plutôt qu’aux Séfarades. Ces deux lois sont révélatrices d'une tendance politique espagnole basée sur des argumentations séfardistes. L'objectif de ce travail est donc de montrer comment le gouvernement espagnol, à travers la reproduction de cette rhétorique séfardiste, a réussi à reconstruire une communauté imaginée connu comme SefaradThe Royal Decree of 1924 is often considered the culminating point of the campaign of Spanish senator Ángel Pulido. It’s an initiative that reflects the Spanish ambiguity towards Sephardim. The law of 2015 concerning the granting of nationality to descendants of Jews expelled in the XV century and the Royal Decree of 1924 were respectively chosen as the starting point and the end point of the present work. During this period, there was a series of events that have been the backbone of this imagined community called Sepharad. Sepharad corresponds to an undefined space resulting from a biblical misinterpretation. However, for centuries the idea of Sepharad continued to be associated with the geographical area known as Spain. From the second half of the twentieth century, the Spanish government has increasingly identified himself with this ideal space. This superposition process aims to support the national interests. The law of 2015 and the Royal Decree of 1924, are two initiatives addressed to the international public opinion rather than Sephardim. These two laws are indicative of a Spanish political tendency based on sephardist argumentations. The purpose of this work is to show how the Spanish Government, through the reproduction of this sephardist rhetoric, managed to rebuild an imagined community known as Sepharad
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Hübinette, Tobias. "Comforting an orphaned nation : Representations of international adoption and adopted Koreans in Korean popular culture." Doctoral thesis, Stockholm University, Division of Korean Studies, 2005. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-696.
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This is a study of popular cultural representations of international adoption and adopted Koreans in Western countries. The study is carried out from a postcolonial perspective and uses a cultural studies reading of four feature films and four popular songs as primary sources. The aim is to examine how nationalism is articulated in various ways in light of the colonial experiences in modern Korean history and recent postcolonial developments within contemporary Korean society. The principal question addressed is: What are the implications for a nation depicting itself as one extended family and which has sent away so many of its own children, and what are the reactions from a culture emphasising homogeneity when encountering and dealing with the adopted Koreans? After an introductory chapter, Chapter 2 gives the history of international adoption from Korea, and Chapter 3 is an account of the development of the adoption issue in the political discussion. Chapters 4, 5, 6 and 7 analyse the cinematic and lyrical representations of adopted Koreans in four feature films and popular songs respectively. Chapter 4 considers the gendering of the colonised nation and the maternalisation of roots, drawing on theories of nationalism as a gendered discourse. Chapter 5 examines the issue of hybridity and the relationship between Koreanness and Whiteness, which are related to the notions of third space, mimicry and passing. Linked to studies of national division, reunification and family separation, Chapter 6 looks at the adopted Koreans as symbols of a fractured and fragmented nation. Chapter 7 focuses on the emergence of a global Korean community, with regards to theories of globalisation, diasporas and transnationalism. In the concluding chapter, the study argues that the Korean adoption issue can be conceptualised as an attempt at overcoming a difficult past and imagining a common future for all ethnic Koreans at a transnational level.
Avhandlingen är även utgiven på Jimoondang Publishing Company (Seoul, 2006) och ingår där i Korean Studies Series No.32, isbn 8988095952. The thesis is also published at Jimoondang Publishing Company (Seoul, 2006) in Korean Studies Series No. 32, isbn 8988095952.
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Plumly, Vanessa D. "BLACK-Red-Gold in “der bunten Republik”: Constructions and Performances of Heimat/en in Post-Wende Afro-/Black German Cultural Productions." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2015. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1439562438.
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Davis-McElligatt, Joanna Christine. "'In the same boat now': peoples of the African diaspora and/as immigrants: the politics of race, migration, and nation in twentieth-century American literature." Diss., University of Iowa, 2010. https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/485.
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In this dissertation, I take seriously Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s assertion that even though non-indigenous peoples in America "may have come over on different ships," they are all, in spite of and in the face of their particular ethnic, racial, gender, class, tribal, or national identities, nevertheless together "in the same boat now." In particular, in this project I reconstruct and reinterpret the process of migration, assimilation, and the realization of full sociopolitical participation in the United States in terms of the relationship between peoples of African descent--who were compelled to migrate as slaves across the Middle Passage, and who also voluntarily immigrated from various localities within the Black Atlantic--and select groups of immigrants from other locations around the globe. In my thesis, I concentrate on novels by William Faulkner, Paule Marshall, James Baldwin, Gayl Jones, and cartoonist Chris Ware, and examine closely how these authors, in their respective texts, work to restructure, reimagine, and thereby challenge the enshrined American narratives of national belonging and acculturation through literary constructions of the identities and experiences of peoples of African descent, as migrants themselves, in tandem with their social, political, economic, sexual, racial, and cultural engagements with other immigrants to the nation-state. In the introduction to my text, I survey and carefully synthesize diverse literary, historical, sociological, postcolonial, and feminist approaches to and theories of the problems of race, immigration, and nationalization, and formulate a new critical interdisciplinary framework for the mutual (de)construction of peoples of African descent as immigrants among immigrants in America.
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NANQUE, Roclaudelo N'Dafá de Paulo Silva. "Poética da dor-esperança: nação e diáspora em Noites de insônia na terra adormecida e Guiné, sabura que dói de Tony Tcheka." Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, 2016. https://repositorio.ufpe.br/handle/123456789/17586.
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Investigação com o escopo de descobrir qual o coração da poética de Tony Tcheka, esta dissertação reflete sobre a nação e a diáspora na poesia tchekana numa perspectiva de separação e conexionamento. Uma análise da poesia tchekana que, não negligenciando as características técnicas da arte poética, dá ênfase às especificidades históricas, sociais e culturais dos lugares de onde surge esta poesia e que, outrossim, busca expor as formas como a diáspora e a nação são representadas poeticamente nas obras estudadas.
An investigation with the aim of discovering the heart of Tony Tcheka’s poetic, this dissertation reflects on the nation and the diaspora in a separation and connection’s perspective. It is an analysis of the Tony Tcheka’s poetry that considers the inner constitution of the poetic art, emphasizes the historic, social and cultural singularities of the places from where this poetry got born; and, equally, exposes how the diaspora and nation are represented poetically in the books we studied.
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Gabriel, Sharmani Patricia. "Constructions of home and nation in the literature of the Indian diaspora, with particular reference to selected works of Bharati Mukherjee, Salman Rushdie, Amitav Ghosh and Rohinton Mistry." Thesis, University of Leeds, 1999. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/794/.
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This thesis is an attempt to grapple with the meaning of home and belonging, nation and identity, from the perspective of diaspora narratives. Recent theories of diaspora have produced profound epistemological shifts in the theoretical frameworks and modes of analysis informing intellectual and cultural production. It is within the context of these rearticulated notions of diaspora that I locate my own theoretical perspective in this thesis. My particular objective is to foreground the productive tensions of diaspora which can challenge the reductive processes of homogenization at work in the formation and consolidation of national and cultural identities. What lends particular urgency to my project is the frequency, and violence, with which 'Third World' ideologies of authenticity and cultural hegemony are now being articulated through the rhetoric of nationalism. To this end, I will examine and analyse representations of national and cultural identity in a selection of literary texts by writers of the Indian diaspora. Positioned at the 'in-between' spaces of nations and identities, the product of several interconnecting histories and cultures, writers in diaspora, such as Bharati Mukherjee, Salman Rushdie, Amitav Ghosh and Rohinton Mistry reject all appeals to an originary narrative of cultural identity in their attempt to dismantle and reconfigure the dominant narrative of the nation/state. In these texts, home and nation are renarrated, not in terms of a monolithic space, but as a historically constituted terrain, changing and contested, and cultural and national identity as a narrative-in- struggle, and therefore also always 'in process'. For all four novelists under study, diaspora exposes deep fissures in the imagined unity of the nation.
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Ebert, Christopher. "Studnicki-Gizbert, Daviken. A Nation upon the Ocean Sea: Portugal’s Atlantic Diaspora and the Crisis of the Spanish Empire, 1492-1640. New York: Oxford University Press, 2007, x + 242 pp." Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, 2012. http://repositorio.pucp.edu.pe/index/handle/123456789/122187.
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Faine, Miriam. "At home in Australia: identity, nation and the teaching of English as a second language to adult immigrants in Australia." Monash University. Faculty of Education, 2009. http://arrow.monash.edu.au/hdl/1959.1/68741.
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This is an autoethnographic study (e.g. Brodkey, 1994) based on ‘stories’ from my own personal and professional journey as an adult ESL teacher which I use to narrate some aspects of adult ESL teaching. With migration one of the most dramatically contested spheres of modern political life world wide (Hall, 1998), adult English as a Second Language (ESL) teaching is increasingly a matter of social concern and political policy, as we see in the current political debates in Australia concerning immigration, citizenship and language. In Australia as an imagined community (Anderson, 1991), the song goes ‘we are, you are Australian and in one voice we sing’. In this study I argue that this voice of normative ‘Australianess’ is discursively aligned with White Australians as native speakers (an essential, biological formulation). Stretching Pennycook’s (1994a) argument that ELT (English Language Teaching) as a discourse aligns with colonialism, I suggest that the field of adult ESL produces, classifies and measures the conditions of sameness and difference to this normative ‘Australian’. The second language speaker is discursively constructed as always a deficient communicator compared with the native speaker. The binary between an imagined homogeneous Australia and the ‘migrant’ as essentially other, works against the inclusion of the learner into the dominant groups represented by their teachers, so that the intentions of adult ESL pedagogy and provision are mitigated by this imagining, problematizing and containing of the learners as other. The role of ESL teachers is to supervise (Hage, 1998) the incorporation of this other. Important policy interventions (e.g. Department of Immigration and Citizenship, 2006; ALLP, 1991a) are based on understanding the English language as a universalist framework of language competences inherent in the native speaker; on understanding language as consisting of fixed structures which are external to the learner and their social contexts; and on a perception that language as generic, transferable cognitive skills can be taught universally with suitable curricula and sufficient funding. Conversely in this study I recognise language as linguistic systems that define groups and regulate social relations, forming ‘a will to community’ (Pennycook, op. cit.) or ‘communities of practice’ (Lave & Wenger, 1991). Language as complex local and communal practices emerges from specific contexts. Language is embedded in acts of identity (e.g. Bakhtin, 1981) developing through dialogue, involving the emotions as well as the intellect, so that ‘voice’ is internal to desires and thoughts and hence part of identity. Following Norton (2000) who links the practices of adult ESL learners as users of English within the social relations of their every day lives, with their identities as “migrants”, I suggest that the stabilisation of language by language learners known as interlanguage reflects diaspora as a hybrid life world. More effective ESL policies, programs and pedagogies that assist immigrant learners feel ‘at home’ within Australia as a community of practice (Wenger, 1998) rest on understanding immigrant life worlds as diasporic (Gilroy, 1997). The research recommends an adult ESL pedagogy that responds to the understanding of language as socially constituted practices that are situated in social, local, everyday workplace and community events and spaces. Practices of identity and their representation through language can be re-negotiated through engagement in collective activities in ESL classes that form third spaces (Soja, 1999). The possibilities for language development that emerge are in accord with the learners’ affective investment in the new language community, but occur as improvements in making effective meanings, rather than conformity to the formal linguistic system (Pavlenko & Lantolf, 2000).
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Reyhan, Dilnur. "Le rôle des technologies d'information et de communication (TIC) dans la contruction des nouvelles diasporas : le cas de la diaspora Ouïghoure." Thesis, Strasbourg, 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017STRAG003.
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Cette thèse s’intéresse aux rôles des TIC dans la constitution de la diaspora ouïghoure. L’approche sociologique choisie a permis d’aborder cette question sous l’angle politique et communicationnelle mais aussi historique et géographique et de prendre en compte tant les aspects idéologiques, sociaux qu’institutionnels et organisationnels. Les communautés ouïghoures à l’étranger commencent à être visibles et créent des organisations officielles représentant leur cause. La première partie met en évidence un réseau complexe constitué des communautés ouïghoures institutionalisées qui sont en interaction entre elles et avec le pays d’origine à travers les TIC, le Congrès Mondial Ouïghour rassemblant la majorité de ces associations. La deuxième partie montre à travers les analyses quantitatives et qualitatives de la cartographie du web ouïghour 2010 et 2016, l’apport et des limites des TIC dans le processus de construction de la diaspora. Cette analyse croisée a permis dans la troisième partie de comprendre et d’interpréter les formes d’identités qui se construisent : identité ethno-nationale ou ethno-culturelle ou ethno- religieuse, et les compromis sociaux qui tentent de se déterminer par des processus de négociation dans l’espace virtuel et au sein des institutions. Ce travail de recherche dévoile les différentes finalités recherchées par les acteurs tant officiels que lambda et de voir dans quelle mesure de nouvelles formes de régulations sont susceptibles d’aboutir à un nouveau compromis entre les acteurs. Mais pour l’instant, il n’existe ni de stratégie commune, en particulier vis-à-vis des politiques à tenir face à la Chine, ni une identité commune, mais des identités de la migration ouïghoureThis thesis focuses on the constitutive role of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) in the Uyghur diaspora. The sociological approach adopted in this thesis not only examines the aspects of politics and communication of this issue, but also allows a historical and geographical study which also takes into account the ideological, social, institutional and organizational points of view, as Uyghur communities abroad start to be visible and create formal organizations representing their cause. The first section of the thesis highlights, through ICT, a complex network of institutionalized Uyghur communities that interact with each other and their countries of origin, and demonstrates that the World Uyghur Congress is the most dominant of these associations. The second section shows, through quantitative and qualitative analysis of the mapping of the Uyghur web in 2010 and in 2016, the contributions and limitations of ICT in the diaspora construction process. This cross analysis sheds light in the third section on the forms of identities that are constructed, such as ethno-national, ethno-cultural or ethno-religious identity, and the social compromises tentatively formed through the negotiation process in virtual space and in the institutions. This study reveals the different purposes sought by both official and lambda actors and examines how new forms of regulation are likely to reach a new compromise between the actors. Presently, however, there is neither a common strategy, particularly vis-a-vis the political dealings with China, nor a common identity, but different identities of the Uyghur migration
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Pierre, Hazel A. "Auto-biographing Caribbeanness : re-imagining diasporic nation and identity." Thesis, University of Warwick, 2007. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/2397/.
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This thesis undertakes a multidisciplinary study of the construction of nation and identity in the context of the Caribbean and its diaspora in Britain. Taking Trinidad and Tobago, Guyana and Britain as the countries for comparative analysis two primary research questions are addressed: How can Caribbean nation and identity be re-conceptualised to represent its complex, heterogeneous societies? How have Caribbean identities resisted, metamorphosed and been re-constituted in the diasporic context of Britain? While current scholarship on nation and identity is interrogated, the principle guiding the methodology has been to engage with the specificities of the region's history and culture with a view to arriving at new interpretations that reflect the contemporary Caribbean situation. It is argued that Caribbean auto-biographical practice, prevalent in much of its artistic production, provides a conceptual tool for interpreting the Caribbean nation. As a site of resistance to received knowledges, Caribbean autolbiography has facilitated inter alia the re-inscription of histories and the imagining of nation spaces. Since as a genre it IS inherently democratic, multiple imaginings of nation emerge and coalesce from the wider range of voices accommodated by auto-biographical practice. The prismatic creolisation model is proposed as a re-visioning of Caribbean identity. This model modifies and augments Kamau Brathwaite's creolisation thesis with relevant scholarship from Stuart Hall and the artistic philosophy of the painter Dunstan St Orner, Prismism. Prismatic creolisation suggests a polycentric, more inclusive perspective from which Caribbean identity, culture and language might be interpreted. These theoretical tools - auto-biographical practice and prismatic creolisation - are applied to the examination of how Caribbean identity and culture are translated and re-constructed in the diaspora situation. The Windrush generation, it is argued, began negotiating Britishness by auto-biographing Caribbean transitional identities into the national imagination. Succeeding generations have been renegotiating these terms by creating new cultural forms and ways ofbeing that resist and inflect Britishness.
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Mitzscherlich, Birgit. "Diktatur und Diaspora : das Bistum Meissen 1932-1951 /." Paderborn : Schöningh, 2005. http://www.h-net.org/review/hrev-a0f7v7-aa.
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Carruthers, Ashley. "Exile and return : deterritorialising national imaginaries in Vietnam and the diaspora." University of Sydney, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/3566.
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Doctor of PhilosophyThis work draws on the insights of an anthropology of transnationalism to explore an emergent field of translocal connections, practices and identifications between reformed Vietnam and the post-1975 Vietnamese diaspora in the West. In the post Cold War period, it is argued, we have witnessed a collapse of the geopolitics of exile that once divided diaspora and homeland. In this context, it is not appropriate for Vietnamese migration studies to speak of "two" discrete national and diasporic Vietnamese communities. Rather, the discipline is required to come to terms (theoretically and empirically) with a complex and contradictory field of transnational social relationships through which diaspora and homeland are co-constituted. The thesis charts this field via the study of phenomena such as: the explosion of mobility between Vietnam and diaspora· the emergence of a transnational Vietnamese language commercial music culture; the constitution of translocal Vietnamese urban spaces in the host nations; the enabling of symbolic and market citizenship in a Vietnamese "transnation"; and the flow of overseas Vietnamese "grey" and "green" matter (cultural and material capital) back into Vietnam. Exile and fleturn shows how the state in Vietnam, and elites in the diaspora, have responded to the advent of transnational flows between homeland and diasporic sites by authoring both traditional, border-enforcing and novel, borderexpanding strategies of imagining and governing the "national" community. It argues that overseas Vietnamese have made sense of their own transits to and engagements with Vietnam through a logic of' transnational exilic space" that variously resists and accommodates the claims of capital, the state and diasporic belonging.
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Skulte, Jennifer Annemarie. "Returned diaspora, national identity and political leadership in Lativa and Lithuania." College Park, Md. : University of Maryland, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/1903/2475.
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Thesis (Ph. D.) -- University of Maryland, College Park, 2005.Thesis research directed by: Government and Politics. Title from t.p. of PDF. Includes bibliographical references. Published by UMI Dissertation Services, Ann Arbor, Mich. Also available in paper.
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Hilde, Paal Sigurd. "Nationalism in post-Communist Slovakia and the Slovak nationalist diaspora (1989-1992)." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2003. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.273215.
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Knoll, Michael Hinson Glenn. "All Nations Evangelical Church bringing the nations together and creating a community of faith in the New African Diaspora /." Chapel Hill, N.C. : University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2008. http://dc.lib.unc.edu/u?/etd,2138.
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Thesis (M.A.)--University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2008.Title from electronic title page (viewed Feb. 17, 2009). "... in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in the Curriculum in Folklore." Discipline: Folklore; Department/School: Folklore.
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Mulligan, Scott E. "Radicalization within the Somali-American diaspora countering the homegrown terrorist threat /." Thesis, Monterey, California : Naval Postgraduate School, 2009. http://handle.dtic.mil/100.2/ADA518724.
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Thesis (M. A. in Security Studies (Homeland Security and Defense))--Naval Postgraduate School, December 2009.Thesis Advisor(s): Morag, Nadav ; Second Reader: Moghaddam, Fathali. "December 2009." Description based on title screen as viewed on January 27, 2010. DTIC Descriptor(s): Profiles, Recruits, Refugees, Youth, Somalia, Transformations, Terrorists, Vulnerability, Law Enforcement, Terrorism, Interviewing, United Kingdom, Homeland Security, Culture, Conflict, History, Theses, Recruiting, Threats, Islam, Immigrants, Communities. DTIC Identifier(s): Somali Americans, Salafi Jihadists, Radicalization, Somali Diaspora, Islamic Fundamentalism, Shirwa Ahmed, Burhan Hassan, Mohamoud Hassan, Columbus(Ohio), Minneapolis(Minnesota), Acculturation, Assimilation Conflicts, Al-Shabaab, Suicide Bombers, Clan Identity, Pastoralism, Nationalism, Socioeconomic Status, Ethnic Conflict, Religious Conflict, Cultural Traits, Contest Program, Al Qaeda, Second Generation Immigrants, Third Generation Immigrants, Outreach Efforts, Interviews, Homegrown Terrorism, Muslim Refugees. Author(s) subject terms: Somali, Somalia, diaspora, Jihadism, Shirwa Ahmed, Minneapolis, MN, Columbus, OH, recruitment, radicalization, acculturation, Salafi jihadists, al-Shabaab, Transportation Security Administration. Includes bibliographical references (p. 83-92). Also available in print.
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Shen, Shuang. "Self, nations, and the diaspora re-reading Lin Yutang, Bai Xianyong, and Frank Chin /." access full-text online access from Digital Dissertation Consortium, 1998. http://libweb.cityu.edu.hk/cgi-bin/er/db/ddcdiss.pl?9820580.
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Elliott, Cara Anson. ""Exile from My Native Shore": The Loyalist Diaspora and the Epistolary Family." W&M ScholarWorks, 2013. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539626723.
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Scully, Marc. "Discourses of authenticity and national identity among the Irish diaspora in England." Thesis, Open University, 2010. http://oro.open.ac.uk/25474/.
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This thesis explores the ways in which Irish people in England draw on discourses of authenticity in constructing and articulating Irish identities. It is based on the theoretical assumption that identities are constructed through discourse, which is understood as a broad horizon of meaning-making. The Irish in England are discussed as a population that negotiate both their personal identities and putative collective identity within discourses of Irishness as diasporic and as a minority identity within multicultural England. It is argued that 'authenticity' is central to both these positionings, but that personal constructions of authentic Irishness may differ from hegemonic constructions. Additionally, a distinction is made between diasporic and transnational Irish identities. Using a convenience sample, participants who self-identified as Irish were recruited from three English cities. Thirty individual interviews and four group discussions were carried out - the interview schedules and analysis was informed by ongoing 'informal' participant observation. In analysing the corpus of data, narratives of a 'typical' Irish life were attended to as well as the rhetorical means by which Irishness was contested. A clear canonical narrative of a 'collective' Irish experience in post-war England emerges, alongside three major areas of contestation through which claims on authenticity were made: public displays of Irishness, local identities, and generational differences. It is concluded that 'authenticity' is central to understanding how individuals situate their personal identities within collective identities. In particular, three distinct but overlapping discourses of Irish authenticity are identified: authenticity through collective experience and memory; authenticity through transnational knowledge and authenticity through diasporic claim. The implications of these findings, the original contribution they make both to Irish Studies and the social psychological study of identity, and how they may inform future study are also discussed, with an emphasis on the need to further examine the importance of county identity.
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Dlol, Somer. "The Palestinian Diaspora in Jordan: A case of Systematic Discriminations." Thesis, Malmö högskola, Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS), 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-22959.
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The purpose of this research is to study the discourse constructions of the Palestinians in the diaspora residing in Jordan. The discourse constructed of the Palestinian, enables the government to discriminatory actions towards the Palestinians residing in Jordan, where for example Palestinian-origin Jordanian citizens have in recent years experienced their Jordanian citizenship been revoked. Jordan does this as an action to protect their own cultural and national identity. The theoretical framework which will be used in this research will be the one of constructivism, where the theory is used to analyze the construction of a threat. The research will be using a critical discourse analysis and will be analyzing speeches held from King Abdullah II of Jordan. The conclusions of this research will show how the Palestinian discourse in Jordan enables the Jordanian government to implement discriminatory policies toward the Palestinian-origin Jordanian citizens.
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Sapre, Manasi. "Memories of Motherland: Gender, Diaspora and National Identity in 1990s Indian Popular Culture." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2002. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc3076/.
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This thesis examines the role of globalization, an open economy and diasporic experiences on the 1990s popular Indian culture, focusing on discourses of gender, national identity and family. Recent Indian beauty queens and international beauty contests are discussed in the context of gendered nationhood in 1990s India. Several popular films of the 1990s are discussed as narratives expressing longing for an extended family and a homogeneous national identity under the leadership of a traditional father figure. In contrast, independent films interrogate the primacy of ethnic and national identity and raise interesting questions about exilic experience. All of these forms of national and popular culture reflect the conflicting and ever-changing anxieties surrounding national identity and the role of women in India.
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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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Balalovska, Kristina. "Multiple voices of "Macedonian diaspora" : politics and practices of (trans)national identities, national (re)constructions and state (re)ordering." Paris, Institut d'études politiques, 2013. http://www.theses.fr/2013IEPP0014.
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A travers l’étude du cas macédonien, «Macédoine» étant un objet de contestation intéressant (qui sont les Macédoniens ? où sont les frontières macédoniennes ? à qui est à la Macédoine), l'objectif de cette thèse est d'analyser les processus de transformation des populations résidant à l’étranger en «diaspora» en tant que catégorie sociale et sujet politique - ce que nous appelons diasporisation. L'accent est mis sur les processus, dont le dynamisme intrinsèque et la pluralité démontrent que « diaspora » ne doit pas être envisagé comme une communauté statique ou une catégorie fixe, ni même comme le produit de l’action politique d’un acteur (gouvernemental) déterminé. « Diaspora » ne doit pas non plus être considérée comme un simple acte de langage, un mot qui fait quelque chose. Au lieu de cela, nous l'analysons comme un symbole politique mobilisateur qui est utilisé dans les stratégies de multiples acteurs, à la fois dans les États d’origine et d’accueil, tant gouvernementaux et privés, et qui s’auto-légitiment en tant que porte-paroles de la « diaspora », dans leur participation aux processus et pratiques d'identités (trans)nationales, de (re)constructions nationales et de la (re)mise en ordre de l’État. Ainsi, nous soutenons que « diaspora » est au cœur des processus politiques et des pratiques d'identification, de légitimation et de mobilisation des acteurs. Leurs compétitions définissent un champ dynamique Bourdieusien au sein duquel les participants luttent pour renforcer leurs positions à travers la définition et l'utilisation du symbole, et aussi, par là, en essayant de définir légitimement l’identité, les frontières et l’ordre de l'État et de la nation macédoniensThrough an exploration of the Macedonian case, ‘Macedonia’ being an interesting object of contestation (who are the Macedonians? where are the Macedonian borders? whose is Macedonia?), the aim of this dissertation is to analyze processes of transformation of populations abroad into ‘diaspora’ as a social category and a political subject – what we call diasporization. The accent is on processes, the intrinsic dynamism and plurality of which indicates that ‘diaspora’ is not approached in this dissertation as a set community or a fixed category and neither as an intended political act of a given (governmental) actor. Nor is it approached as simply a speech act, a word that does things. Instead, we analyze it as a mobilizing political symbol used in the strategies of multiple actors, both home and abroad, both governmental and not, who are self-legitimated as ‘diaspora’ spokespersons, in their participation in processes of (trans)national identity and national (re)constructions and state (re)ordering. As such, we argue that ‘diaspora’ is at the core of political processes and the identification, legitimation and mobilization practices of actors. Their competitions define a dynamic Bourdeusian field through which they struggle to reinforce their positions through the definition and use of the symbol, and also, through there, by attempting to legitimately define the identities, borders and orders of the Macedonian state and nation
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Pnevmatikakis, Vassilis. "La géopolitique de la diaspora orthodoxe en France : territoire, pouvoir, identité." Paris 8, 2014. http://www.theses.fr/2014PA084085.
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Les analyses géopolitiques de l’Eglise orthodoxe se focalisent pour la plupart sur l’étude du lien entre orthodoxie, ethnogenèse et territorialisation étatique dans les pays où l’orthodoxie est majoritaire. Mais alors que ces analyses se limitent à l’intérieur du monde orthodoxe et ne sortent pas de son cadre territorial « oriental », l’Eglise orthodoxe se trouve en Occident depuis presque un siècle. La diaspora orthodoxe, par la violence des changements géopolitiques qui l’ont affectée et l’importance des enjeux politiques, identitaires et ecclésiologiques auxquels elle s’est liée, a ouvert des pistes pour une nouvelle conception géopolitique de l’Eglise orthodoxe tant sur le plan de son organisation institutionnelle que sur celui de son rapport avec le territoire, le pouvoir politique et l’identité nationale. Dans le cadre d’un pays comme la France en particulier, l’Eglise orthodoxe est soumise à des considérations qui sortent du cadre des relations traditionnelles entre Nation, Etat et Eglise nationale. La question qui se pose donc est celle de la structuration de l’Eglise orthodoxe en France par rapport à ses caractéristiques nationales : pourquoi existe-il en France une multitude d’Eglises orthodoxes « nationales » superposées et rattachées aux Eglises patriarcales d’Orient et non pas une seule Eglise orthodoxe locale ? Pourquoi certaines orthodoxies « nationales » furent-elles partagées entre plusieurs diocèses parallèles et rattachés à différents Eglises patriarcales ? Est-il possible qu’il existe dans la diaspora d’autres critères d’appartenance ecclésiastique en plus du critère national et si oui, quelles sont les dynamiques géopolitiques qu’ils génèrent ?Geopolitical analysis of the Orthodox Church has focused primarily on the historical link between Orthodoxy and the processes of nation-building and border making in the countries of Eastern Europe. But while these studies elaborate mainly on what is happening within the boundaries of the orthodox world in the East, they seem to ignore the position of the Orthodox Church in the West. Due to major geopolitical changes and important political, ideological and ecclesiological issues associated with the orthodox presence in the West, the study of the orthodox Diaspora can offer a new geopolitical understanding of the Orthodox Church in terms of institutional organization, territory, political power and national identity. Especially in the case of France, the Orthodox Church is subject to ideological identifications that surpass the traditional relations between nations, states and national churches in the orthodox world. In fact, what actually seems to be at stake inside the orthodox Diaspora in France is the way in which the Church is structured in relation to its national characteristics: why is there in France a multitude of national Orthodox Churches attached to the Eastern Patriarchates and not a single independent Orthodox Church? How are we to explain that some of these different national orthodoxies have been divided on their part into numerous parallel bishoprics attached to different Patriarchates? Is it possible that there are more criteria of ecclesiastical affiliation than that of the national origin of a diocese, parish or community and, if this is indeed the case, what are the geopolitical processes linked to it?
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Parnell, Matthew B. "Palestinian-Americans: construction and maintainence [i.e. maintenance] of political and cultural identity in diaspora /." Electronic version (PDF), 2006. http://dl.uncw.edu/etd/2006/parnellm/matthewparnell.pdf.
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Le, Noan Rachel. "The strategic use of diaspora politics in Russia's national security policy : evidence from the Commonwealth of Independent States, 1991-2010." Thesis, University of Aberdeen, 2012. http://digitool.abdn.ac.uk:80/webclient/DeliveryManager?pid=196198.
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This thesis examines Russia’s national security policies and objectives by strictly focusing on the role of Russia and the strategic use of diaspora politics in Moldova, Ukraine and Georgia. The research specifically emphasises the emergence of the Russian diaspora as an instrument of power and specifically assesses the strategic use of diaspora politics and the varied relationships existing between the Kremlin and the diaspora Diasporas do not only represent sociological or economic phenomena, these formations are also political and redefine the notions of sovereignty, power and national identity that permeate world politics. In the current geopolitical environment, sovereign states need to find new ways of enhancing their influence locally, regionally and internationally. Consequently, it is worth considering the impact of these socio-political formations as national security actors, and as worthy subjects of attention in the field of security studies. By focusing on Moscow’s view and the examples of Moldova, Ukraine and Georgia, the purpose of the thesis is threefold. Firstly, it will demonstrate the pertinence of diaspora politics as an element of the international security logic by proposing a framework that emphasises a realist interpretation of diaspora politics highlighting the use of diasporas as tools of power politics. Secondly, it will determine in what ways Moscow has shaped its diaspora as an instrument of power in the Commonwealth of Independent States exploiting both ‘hard’ and ‘soft’ power resources resulting in the establishment of ‘ethnic’ and ‘legal’ relationships with compatriots abroad. Thirdly, it will emphasise the continuities and changes of diaspora politics from Boris Yeltsin to Dmitri Medvedev. This thesis highlights the extent to which the Russian diaspora has either been ignored, treated as an asset or treated as a liability depending on the evolution of Russia's national strategic interests and circumstances between 1991 and 2010.
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Arami, Sara. "Cartographies : rewriting the body and the nation in Contemporary Middle Eastern American women’s diasporic fiction." Thesis, Strasbourg, 2020. http://www.theses.fr/2020STRAC004.
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Cette thèse analyse les œuvres de fiction des femmes moyen orientales américaines contemporaines du point de vu de la cartographie littéraire. Les œuvres étudiées sont The Girl in the Tangerine Scarf de Mohja Kahf, Once in a Promised Land et West of Jordan de Laila Halaby, The Inheritance of Exile de Susan Muaddi Darraj, The Night Counter d’Alia Yunis et Crescent de Diana Abu Jaber. Les œuvres de fiction sélectionnées et étudiées dans cette thèse contribuent toutes à la remise en question des discours dominants qui dépeignent la diaspora arabo-américaine et suscitent le scepticisme des lecteurs en leur présentant des contre-histoires ou des versions alternatives aux histoires et aux identités qu'ils pensent connaître déjà. Nous pourrons retracer l'évolution des tentatives de réappropriation du mythe américain pour y inclure l'identité arabe, un mélange des deux (mythes occidental et arabes), et la réécriture des histoires arabes en fonction du contexte américain à travers les romans étudiés dans les différentes partiesThis thesis analyzes the works of fiction written by contemporary Middle Eastern American women from the point of view of literary cartography. The works studied are Mohja Kahf’s The Girl in the Tangerine Scarf, Laila Halaby’s Once in a Promised Land and West of Jordan, Susan Muaddi Darraj’s The Inheritance of Exile, Alia Yunis’ The Night Counter and Diana Abu Jaber’s Crescent. The selected works of fiction all contribute to the questioning of the dominant discourses surrounding the Arab-American diaspora. The skepticism of the readers is aroused through presenting counter-histories or alternative versions to the stories and identities that they think they already know. Through a close reading of these works of fiction, the various chapters of the thesis trace an evolution of attempts to reappropriate the American myth to include Arab identity, to a mixture of the two (Western and Arab myths), and the rewriting of Arab stories in line with the American context
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Shanes, Joshua. "National regeneration in the Diaspora Zionism, politics and Jewish identity in late Habsburg Galicia 1883-1907 /." [S.l.] : [s.n.], 2005. http://lib.haifa.ac.il/theses/general/001318596.pdf.
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Panossian, Razmik. "The evolution of multilocal national identity and the contemporary politics of nationalism : Armenia and its diaspora." Thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London), 2002. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.399000.
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Hannum, Kathryn Laura. "DIASPORA ENGAGEMENT BETWEEN GALICIA, SPAIN AND BUENOS AIRES, ARGENTINA: AIMS AND BENEFITS OF A TRANSLATIONAL COALITION." Kent State University / OhioLINK, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1594393030662703.
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Kouta, Georgia. "The London Greek diaspora and national politics : the Anglo-Hellenic League and the idea of Greece, 1913-1919." Thesis, King's College London (University of London), 2018. https://kclpure.kcl.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/the-london-greek-diaspora-and-national-politics(0fba745c-fcdc-4f35-909f-4b878c358fd9).html.
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This dissertation attempts to understand the complex interactions between British and Greek political and business figures in London and Athens during the early twentieth century. It is a portrait, in particular, of the importance of the Greek diaspora in the politics of modern Greece. The role of diasporas is one of the most important current interpretative emphases of transnational historians, and I seek to map how diasporic Greeks, Anglo-Greeks and Philhellenes produced an extended programme of propaganda for the cause of the Greek Prime Minister Eleftherios Venizelos. The focus of the dissertation is the Anglo-Hellenic League, which was founded in 1913 in London to ‘defend the just claims of Greece’. Since this is the first time the League has been the focus of a work of scholarship, it is one of the priorities of this dissertation to examine its identity, activity and discourse, which are contained in its public interventions. The dissertation, at its core, is a study of the origins and ideology of the League, based on manuscript and pamphlet sources and applying theoretical approaches drawn from both discourse analysis and the study of diasporas and nationalism. Following the history of the London Greek community from the late nineteenth century, I study how the economic interests of this commercial bourgeoisie shaped their political interventions in early twentieth-century Greece, and in particular their activity as an influential transnational interest group in favour of Venizelist politics. Through a meticulous study of the League’s forms of political speech in its pamphlets and other writings and its relations with eminent British and Greek figures, this thesis intends to map Anglo-Hellenic interactions during the First World War through the scope of this particular political organ of the Greek London diaspora. It seeks to provide a diasporic dimension to the internal Greek political crisis of that period, in which the League played an active role in debates about the future of Greek politics, the National Schism (1915–1917) and the aims of Greek foreign policy during the Balkan and First World War, as well as towards the Greek populations under Ottoman rule. In this context, I aim to show how the Greek diaspora of London constituted an idea of Greece for both British and Greek consumption which connected the aims of British imperial grand strategy with those of the Greek bourgeoisie.
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Martin, MaryAnn Elizabeth. "Immigrant family, national borders: mainstream and diasporic news media, audiences, and the Oklahoma Taxpayer and Citizen Protection Act." Diss., University of Iowa, 2010. https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/706.
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This study examined the role mass media play in animating the relationship between globalization and the nation-state. This study interrogated this relationship using a multi-method approach that analyzed news coverage, the general "media climate" in Oklahoma, and audience responses to the media climate regarding the Oklahoma Taxpayer and Citizen Protection Act, a comprehensive immigration reform bill passed into law in 2007.
The key goals of this study were to examine the ways in which news media in Oklahoma cover the issue of immigration, particularly as it relates to the Oklahoma Taxpayer and Citizen Protection Act, in order to garner a deeper understanding of the ways in which the mass media participate in global processes while cementing the national imagined community. Moreover, by examining audience interpretations of news coverage from mainstream and diasporic news outlets regarding this legislation, this study provided insight into the ways messages about the immigrant family and its contingent gender roles circulate and incorporate into day-to-day culture and how, in turn, these cultural meanings are put into the service of the nation-state.
This study used a multi-method approach comprising of a textual analysis of the bill itself and news coverage of the two largest English-language newspapers in the state. I also analyzed the text of a Spanish-language paper based in Tulsa and conducted in-depth, semi-structured interviews with various state legislators, journalists, community members, and staff members at and clients of the Latino Community Development Agency in Oklahoma City.
In my analysis of the text of the Oklahoma Taxpayer and Citizen Protection Act, or, as it is commonly referred to, HB 1804, I argue that the bill established the ideological parameters of the immigration reform debate in the state. The text of the bill also reifies the nation-state, produces a subaltern immigrant community without recourse to the legal system, and provides a template of the ideal U.S. citizen through its representation of the deviant immigrant. My textual analysis of the two largest English-language newspapers in Oklahoma posits that these news discourses criminalize the immigrant, and gender, racialize, and class the immigrant worker, family unit, and its contingent members. As a result, the news coverage can be seen to highlight the ways in which 1804 is an attempt at resistance to global intrusions in Oklahoma and to offer assurance to the citizen community that cultural turmoil will be calmed. The figures of the bill's main author and the Catholic Church also symbolize the tension between the nation-state and the global in these news discourses. Finally, I argue that the Spanish-language media and the LCDA serve to unify the Latino community in Oklahoma in the context of immigration reform discourses, regardless of legal status, providing cultural sustenance and support when 1804 would deny this to the immigrant community.