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Abobeker, Shoker. "Diaspora, identity and return : the Kurdish diaspora in Devon." Thesis, University of Exeter, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10871/27934.
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This research argues for a more nuanced understanding of the diverse motivations for diaspora movement and return. The study develops contemporary diaspora literature by critiquing the way that concepts of home and homeland are used, underscoring the overlooked importance of community engagement, and emphasising the role of racism and gender in return migration. Empirically, the argument draws on semi-structured interviews with 84 male and female participants from the county of Devon, located within the southwest of England, in the United Kingdom, and 32 male and female participants who have returned to south Kurdistan. Alongside contributions to extant literature about migration and diaspora, the thesis also contributes to the fields of diaspora and migration studies by shedding light on the current state of the Kurdish diaspora in particular. Since Kurds have experienced increased autonomy in recent years, the thesis takes the opportunity to reflect on the familiar themes of home, community, identity and belonging in research on diaspora when long-held dreams of autonomy are finally realised. The thesis also makes suggestions for working alongside marginalized and disadvantaged people and supporting their struggle for equal citizenship.
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Kaushik, Ratika. "Homing diaspora/diasporizing home : locating South Asian diasporic literature and film." Thesis, University of Sussex, 2018. http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/73136/.
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This thesis contains a detailed study of contemporary South Asian diasporic literary and cinematic works in English. The majority of the works analyzed and discussed are those produced from the 1980s onwards. My research investigates how selected diasporic texts and films from South Asia problematize representations of homeland and host spaces. I reveal in the course of this study, how these works, actively negotiate alternative modalities of belonging that celebrate the plurality of cultural identities within and outside the homeland. This exploration of diasporic narratives of homeland and host land is explored by examining these narratives across two mediums: the cinematic and the literary. In so doing, the thesis initiates a dialogue between the two mediums and locates these selected diasporic works within a larger tapestry of contemporary cultural, literary and global contexts. The thesis shows that these literary and filmic representations celebrate as well as present an incisive critique of the different cultural spaces they inhabit. The thesis also reveals how, in representing the experiences of multiple-linguistic, geographical, historical dislocations, these texts invite readers to see the changing faces of diasporic cultures and identities. My thesis complements this analysis of representation with a broader analysis of the reception of these diasporic works. My analysis sets out to move away from the critical tendency to scrutinize texts in relation to a politicized rhetoric of reception which privileges a reading of texts through insider/outsider binarism, by drawing together and contrasting academic and popular responses in the reception of diasporic texts. In so doing, my thesis reads these texts as agents of cultural production, focusing on interpretative possibilities of the literary critical mode of reading and enabling nuanced modes of analysis attentive to issues of diasporic identity, the identity of nation-states and the emergent global dynamics of migrant narratives. The texts I analyze are Salman Rushdie‘s Midnight's Children (1981) and The Satanic Verses (1988), Micheal Ondaatje‘s Running in the Family (1982) and Anil's Ghost (2000), Rohinton Mistry‘s A Fine Balance (1995), Mohsin Hamid‘s The Reluctant Fundamentalist (2007), and Hanif Kureishi‘s The Buddha of Suburbia (1990) and as well as two filmic texts, Mira Nair‘s The Namesake (2007) and Gurinder Chadha‘s Bend It Like Beckham (2001).
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Cohen, Michelle E. "Deconstructing diaspora dreams." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1997. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp01/MQ29152.pdf.
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Delisle, Jennifer. "The Newfoundland Diaspora." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/859.
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For over a century there has been a large ongoing migration from Newfoundland to other parts of Canada and the US. Between 1971 and 1998 alone, net out-migration amounted to 20% of the province’s population. This exodus has become a significant part of Newfoundland culture. While many literary critics, writers, and sociologists have referred to Newfoundland out-migration as a “diaspora,” few have examined the theoretical implications of applying this emotionally charged term to a predominantly white, economically motivated, inter-provincial movement. My dissertation addresses these issues, ultimately arguing that “diaspora” is an appropriate and helpful term to describe Newfoundland out-migration and its literature, because it connotes the painful displacement of a group that continues to identify with each other and with the homeland. I argue that considering Newfoundland a “diaspora” also provides a useful contribution to theoretical work on diaspora, because it reveals the ways in which labour movements and intra-national migrations can be meaningfully considered diasporic. It also rejects the Canadian tendency to conflate diaspora with racialized subjectivities, a tendency that problematically posits racialized Others as always from elsewhere, and that threatens to refigure experiences of racism as a problem of integration rather than of systemic, institutionalized racism.
I examine several important literary works of the Newfoundland diaspora, including the poetry of E.J. Pratt and Carl Leggo, the drama of David French, the fiction of Donna Morrissey and Wayne Johnston, and the memoirs of Helen M. Buss/ Margaret Clarke and David Macfarlane. These works also become the sites of a broader inquiry into several theoretical flashpoints, including diasporic authenticity, nostalgia, nationalism, race and whiteness, and ethnicity. I show that diasporic Newfoundlanders’ identifications involve a complex, self-reflexive, postmodern negotiation between the sometimes contradictory conditions of white privilege, cultural marginalization, and national and regional appropriations. Through these negotiations they both construct imagined literary communities, and problematize Newfoundland’s place within Canadian culture and a globalized world.
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Aydin, Paulina. "Home In Diaspora." Thesis, KTH, Arkitektur, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-276794.
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What happens when home moves and has to resettle somewhere else because of contemporary invocations of diaspora? In a series of meaningful displacements one might have multiple homes with different reasons for maintaining some form of attachment to each. Through a semi-structured approach, letting narratives unfold as they come up, I ask: What did you leave? What did you meet? What did you get and give? What could that be? An architectural alphabet evolves that tells stories, comes with things and moments but perhaps most important questions the habitual and the culturally specific. How can we understand what a home is if I do not ask what a home was, is for someone else or could be? And not only through the homes we idealize but through the displaced homes that actually have to meet ours. Could this alphabet be used to provoke the limited one we have today and help us towards the prospect of choice by imagining a future whereupon there could, or maybe simply should, be so many more? More to be used to rethink and deviate from a standard mark that negates a past for some and make the transition more than a continuum for others.
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Campbell, Kyle. "Sister Cities and Diaspora: From Diaspora to Potential Sister City Partnership." Thesis, Malmö högskola, Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS), 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-21219.
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The sister city concept has now been around for several decades and yet there remains to be a paucity of literature dealing with the subject. Despite this unfortunate fact, there has been some literature written trying to deal with the progression of what sparked cities to try to establish sister city relationships with one another. However, this is still not enough. Diasporas have been neglected as a potential cause, which I try to remedy by employing the method of explaining outcome process tracing in a case study of the sister city relationship that began to be explored between the cities of Governador Valadares, Brazil and Framingham, United States.Information was collected using materials such as news articles from such sources as the Metrowest Daily News and official websites such as Governador Valadares’ official city webpage, and various histories, ethnographies, and other sources were also considered especially focusing on Framingham and the Greater Boston Area, allowing for the collection of materials of both primary and secondary nature and thus an in-depth analysis.What was found was that indeed, it is true that diaspora had a hand in influencing the negotiation of a sister city relationship between the two cities; First, the context of the Brazilian Diaspora in the United States was explained and analysed and it was found that it could be termed a termed a proletarian labour diaspora.Explaining outcome process tracing was then employed to inductively explain how the spark can be created, which suggested that the causal mechanism between the diaspora and the negotiations for the SCR to begin were that of an enclave forming due to the diaspora which then allowed social capital to be accumulated, allowing for Governador Valadares to grow despite Brazil’s bad economic conditions due to remittances, leading to the mayor of Governador Valadares initiating the talks.
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Marchi, Lisa. "Creolizing Diaspora: Home and Identity, Language and Hospitality in Arab Diasporic Literature." Doctoral thesis, University of Trento, 2011. http://eprints-phd.biblio.unitn.it/567/1/tesi_di_dottorato_corretta_Marchi.pdf.
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This research investigates the extent to which diaspora can be considered a useful term of reference for the exploration and critical interrogation of the literary works written by authors of Arab origin in Europe, Canada and the United States.
The aim of this study is to develop an alternative theoretical model to analyze and critically interrogate works that have been written beyond the boundaries of a national literature and that blur the opposition "migrant" vs. "national" or "ethnic" vs. "mainstream."
This study makes use of an integrated methodology and draws its theoretical tools from deconstruction, post-colonial studies, feminist theory, and Edouard Glissant's poetics of creolization. It is an interdisciplinary and multilingual work that puts in dialogue literature with philosophy and sociology and explores texts written in English, French, German, and Italian.
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Keinan, Shay Baruch. "Diasporas and Deliberative Democracy: A case study of Jewish diaspora involvement in constitutional deliberations in Israel." Phd thesis, Canberra, ACT : The Australian National University, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/141459.
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The boundaries of citizenship are increasingly contested. The
trend among scholars is to try to expand the state’s
responsibilities and duties to include non-citizens in the
relevant polity. Legal, social and political theorists ask
whether citizenship can or should exist beyond the nation state
and a defined territory.
This debate closely relates to the burgeoning research regarding
diaspora communities and their connections with their countries
of origin or homelands (‘kin-states’). Diaspora communities
have always maintained some level of interest in the affairs of
their kin-states, but globalisation and advanced communication
technologies have made it easier for people in the diaspora to
engage in activities that are directed at the political and
social life of their kin-states. Kin-state governments also
increasingly extend their actions beyond their state borders and
reach out to their diaspora communities in order to promote a
specific definition of the national community and to reap
political and economic gains.
This trend of diaspora communities influencing political
decisions in a country in which they do not reside raises a
question of legitimacy in traditional liberal-democratic models
of governance: why should diaspora people be allowed to affect
political decisions in their kin-state when they may not have to
bear the consequences of such decisions? As diaspora populations
become more and more involved in political processes in their
kin-states, modern democratic theories need to adapt in order to
accommodate such encroachments on traditional democratic
principles.
In this thesis I analyse the challenges and legal implications
created by the existence of large and influential diaspora
communities in today’s globalised world. I connect diaspora
theory with deliberative democratic theory, filling a gap in
deliberative democratic literature. I contend that elite models
of deliberative democracy can be useful in overcoming the
challenges mentioned above. I examine the role of constitutional
courts in a deliberative democracy and argue that they may be
better situated to conduct deliberations in divided societies
where ethnic and religious tensions prevent other democratic
bodies from deliberating effectively. This is especially relevant
when dealing with divided societies with large diasporic
populations.
To support these claims, I examine the Israeli Supreme Court. I
analyse the Israeli Supreme Court’s unique deliberative
features and explain how these features have enabled diaspora
Jews (and other groups of non-citizens) to participate in the
Israeli democratic process. I examine illustrative cases in which
Jewish diaspora activists were involved in proceedings and
deliberations at the Israeli Supreme Court. The case studies
demonstrate that, under certain circumstances, diaspora
communities can legitimately and effectively participate in
political processes in their kin-states, challenge constitutional
norms and influence government policies and laws.
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Humboldt, Carmen. "Afrikanische Diaspora in Deutschland." Berlin Logos, 2006. http://deposit.ddb.de/cgi-bin/dokserv?id=2786089&prov=M&dokv̲ar=1&doke̲xt=htm.
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Cronemo, Ira. "Chilean Diaspora in Sweden." Thesis, Stockholms universitet, Institutionen för spanska, portugisiska och latinamerikastudier, 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-88411.
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This paper presents investigations on integration of Chilean Diaspora in Sweden. Largegroups of Chilean refugees arriving in the 1970s and 1980s in multiple waves. Sweden wasknown as a country with a very generous refugee policy allowing numerous entries to stay.Reflections are made on the refugees in the different waves, the legal view on refugee statusand the division into political and economical refugees. Interviews with Chileans how theyintegrated are included. The questions analysed are if there is any differences in integrationprocess between first and second wave and what the impact was of the first wave beingpolitical and second wave economical refugees. The paper includes a short summary of thehistorical events leading to the flow of refugees, theories behind integration and why languageand identity is important factors in the integration process. The political refugees in the firstwave had a significant influence on the awareness among the Swedish population on thesituation for Chileans after the military coup.
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Mahmod, Jowan. "Reconfiguring diaspora : Kurds online." Thesis, Goldsmiths College (University of London), 2012. http://research.gold.ac.uk/8010/.
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This research examines diasporic transformations and the construction of belongings through new technologies of communication by looking at young Kurdish diasporas in Sweden and the UK. It argues that the diaspora concept needs to be reconceptualised in light of digital information and communication technologies and in relation to the imagined community. Empirical evidence from Kurdish diasporas has drawn attention to some missing gaps in the literature. The research asks what it means to be a Kurd in diaspora and what role new media and online communities have in the renegotiation and construction of belongings. By engaging with post-colonial and feminist studies, I unpick fixed categories of identity, belongings and home, and I argue for performativities of those belongings. Based on a year-long ethnographic online study supplemented by offline face-to-face interviews with young Kurds in these locations, and with additional reference to homeland- based Kurds, the research presents three main empirical chapters based on themes derived from the online community’s concerns, and focuses on Swedish, British, and Kurdish forums. The chapters discuss gender and religious tensions; cultural elements and historical suffering; and political engagements in homeland and settlement countries. A fourth chapter takes a step back from online and offline material and examines the comparative approach between the two diasporas, diasporic and homeland Kurds, in both offline and online environments. Against the background of such a close-up comparative study, this research argues for a reconsideration of diasporic formations that are currently fixed between homeland and settlement country, and it presents new perspectives on these that relates to new definitional positions in diasporic formations that have significant implications for the concept of the imagined community.
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Dziekoński, Mieczysław. "Chorwacka diaspora w Trieście." Doctoral thesis, Katowice: Uniwersytet Śląski, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12128/5875.
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The dissertation The Croatian diaspora in Trieste (Chorwacka diaspora w Trieście),
provides the reader with an historical, political, cultural and linguistic perspective on the fates
of the Croatian people in Trieste. This respective diaspora belongs to a considerable community
of citizens of Croatian origin living in the Italian Republic.
Preparing a monograph about the Croatian diaspora in Trieste is a challenge and a rewarding
topic at the same time, which the author accepted, as he is convinced that it is essential
when describing the close ties between the Slavic civilization with the Roman and German
civilizations. This respective community was chosen for sociolinguistic research owing
to the attractiveness of its place of residence. The city of Trieste has always been in the center
of attention in European history from the very beginning, since it was a bastion of Western
civilization, playing a key role in the relations between neighboring nations, civilizations and
beliefs. Therefore, the city became -and still is- an attractive destination for numerous migrations
from close and remote places in the world.
The topic of migrating populations is a current social, political and especially economic
issue in the modern world. According to definitions in encyclopedias, migration is understood
as the journey of individuals with the aim to permanently change their place of residence.
The historical resettling of people is an entirely natural phenomenon which took place
at all times including the latest, which is intensified by complicated circumstances of economic,
political or climatic nature.
The Croatian people established their nation in turbulent and complicated historical
situations. During these times, they were exposed to various types of dangers and many took
the chance to resettle. According to official data, half of this population lives in the Croatian
Republic today whereas the other half is spread all over the world as a diaspora, which has
diverse status and life conditions. The Croatian diaspora of Trieste is one of them.
The discussed topic is vast and the present paper does not conclude research in this
matter, but rather opens it up for further discussion on its detailed issues. It lines up in a cycle
of monographs dedicated to contemporary Southern Slavic languages prepared at the Department
of Slavic Philology at the Faculty of Philology at the University of Silesia.
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Urmi, N. (Nawrin). "Diaspora and economic perspective." Master's thesis, University of Oulu, 2019. http://jultika.oulu.fi/Record/nbnfioulu-201906192579.
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Abstract. Diaspora members are migrants also inhabitants who contribute to the society in which they live in. It’s like a process that implies transforming the relationship between home countries and host countries. Diaspora members always try to establish a potential relationship between countries through their multiple networks, identities and share things of belonging. Though the knowledge about diaspora is still limited they play a crucial role in economic perspective. It’s really necessary to understand not only their motivations but also the modalities of the diaspora to facilitate the development is one of the most important matters. There is a strong connection between the diaspora and the financial market in developing and emerging economies. Sometimes it’s difficult to attract foreign investors due to perceptions of high risk, volatile currencies, also for asymmetric information.
In a border sense, diaspora may help to overcome this situation because of various perceptions of risk, informational advantages, and a bias toward home country capitalization. In economic perspective diaspora bonds, deposit account, remittance flows, transitional loans play a vital role in every sphere of development. A deposit account is conquered both in home and host countries. Another and most important part of a diaspora is the securitization of remittance flows. It allows banks to leverage remittance revenues for greater lending. Diaspora bonds permit the government to derive long term funds. There is also one kind of investment as a diaspora fund which assembles pools of individual investors for co-operative investments. Contributions of the diaspora to the home country beyond the standard monetary assistance. Ethnic and national identity make a difference between host countries and home countries.
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Oiarzabal, Pedro J. "The Basque diaspora webscape online discourses of Basque diaspora identity, nationhood, and homeland /." abstract and full text PDF (free order & download UNR users only), 2006. http://0-gateway.proquest.com.innopac.library.unr.edu/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:3221400.
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Kliukina, Sofia. "Engaging Diaspora in Homeland Development : A Case Study of Tajik Diaspora in Russia." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för samhällsstudier (SS), 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-95914.
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Policy makers in the global development industry in the past two decades have shown increasing interest in engaging diasporas in homeland development. This research aims to address the gap of searching for better practices of engaging diaspora in homeland development, using the case of Tajik diaspora in Russia. The research objective is to identify the most promising areas to effectively engage Tajik diaspora in Russia in homeland development. The research adheres to abductive logic of enquiry, and uses qualitative data collected through semi-structured interviews conducted remotely with representatives of Tajik diaspora organizations and Tajik diaspora members in three major Russian cities (Moscow, St Petersburg and Yekaterinburg). The study uses structuration theory as a theoretical framework to conceptualize diaspora organizations and their practices. For analysing data, pragmatic, administrative, centralized and decentralised approaches to diaspora engagement in homeland development are used as an analytical framework. The scope of this study is not able to generate representative results, but drawn conclusions provide basis for further research. The combination of the theoretical and analytical framework applied within this study allowed to identify gaps between existing diaspora engagement strategy and the actual capabilities present in the diaspora. This study indicates that the most promising areas for effectively engaging Tajik diaspora in Russia in homeland development is bridging said gaps by institutionalizing existing development practices through a decentralized pragmatic approach. The analysis also argues that diversifying channels of administrative approach to diaspora engagement and scaling down the projects to the local level could maximize effectiveness of diaspora engagement strategy.
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Canzutti, Lucrezia. "State-diaspora relations in illiberal contexts : the case of the Vietnamese diaspora in Cambodia." Thesis, University of York, 2018. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/21998/.
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The thesis investigates the reasons, modalities, and consequences of the Cambodian and Vietnamese governments’ engagement with the Vietnamese diaspora in Cambodia. The case of the Vietnamese in Cambodia is of particular interest because, unlike most existing studies on state-diaspora relations, it examines a group which stands between two illiberal countries and, partly as a consequence of this, does not represent a significant threat and/or resource to either the host-state or the homeland. Furthermore, despite having lived in the host-state for generations, the Vietnamese in Cambodia have been unable to access Cambodian citizenship and hold virtually no documents from Vietnam: they are de facto stateless. This thesis seeks to answer two, interrelated questions: how do the Cambodian state and the Vietnamese state perceive of and engage with the Vietnamese diaspora in Cambodia? What are the implications of their engagement on this diaspora’s enjoyment of citizenship? To answer these questions, the research uses documentary sources from the two governments and eighty-three in-depth interviews with Vietnamese villagers, members of the Association of Khmer-Vietnamese in the Kingdom of Cambodia (AKVKC), representatives of the Cambodian government, experts, and representatives of civil society organisations. Departing from existing perspectives on state-diaspora relations, the thesis argues that the governments of Cambodia and Vietnam have viewed the diaspora as “inconvenient subjects” and engaged, respectively, in the bounded exclusion and the bounded inclusion of the group. Rather than taking full responsibility of the diaspora, the Cambodian and Vietnamese governments have shared the custody of the Vietnamese, alternating care and control and co-governing it through the work of the AKVKC. This deliberately ambiguous strategy has resulted in the Vietnamese’ de facto enjoyment of some citizens’ rights in Cambodia and Vietnam; yet, it has also (re)produced a multi-level liminal space in which the Vietnamese are more easily governable.
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Lau, Timm. "The Tibetan diaspora in India : approaching itinerant trade, popular cultural consumption and diasporic sociality." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2007. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.613326.
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Ramirez, Carolina. "The Chilean diaspora of London : diasporic social scenes and the spatial politics of home." Thesis, Goldsmiths College (University of London), 2015. http://research.gold.ac.uk/11396/.
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This thesis traces the experience of home, migration and belonging of an intergenerational group of Chileans who have remained in the UK after being exiled by the Pinochet regime (1973-1990). The Chilean diaspora of London form one of the ‘new diasporas’ who are not straightforwardly connected to The UK’s imperial past but to its contemporary history. This case offers insight into diasporas’ power to unsettle spatial and temporal delimitations and to reveal alternative geopolitical connections and social webs. The research involved a multi-method and multi-site ethnography. Through biographical accounts, fieldwork conducted in situ, and both archive and contemporary photographs, I followed a web of social scenes dating from the 1970s. Long-standing diasporic social scenes allow for a conceptualisation of ‘home’ as made through continuity and change, and in relation to diverse public domains rather than in seclusion. Through social scenes, home-making is achieved through embodied practices, material objects and physical landscapes, dynamics that allow for a grounded approach to diaspora and home, both of which emerge as a process rather than as given. In this grounded approach, diasporas’ historical grievances and memories still matter. The focus is on how they are reinstated and made to matter in the local present. The thesis was accompanied by an exhibition which presented different research materials to provide to the reader alternative means to navigate and weave the lines that connect the scenes’ different temporalities and spaces. Complementing the written account, it offered a more vivid approach to the scenes’ connected actors, routines and atmospheres. Moreover, the exhibition established a parallel between ethnographic research and ‘curating’ – both involve managing, classifying, arranging and selecting ‘objects’, as well as using one’s knowledge to collect relevant pieces and make them public. As a form of assembled scenery, the exhibition also contributed to an interactive, multidimensional and dynamic understanding of home.
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Lebert, Joanne M. "Negotiating Angolan-ness in diaspora." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1999. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp01/MQ43390.pdf.
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Karabegovic, Dzeneta. "Bosnia abroad : transnational diaspora mobilization." Thesis, University of Warwick, 2017. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/93172/.
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There has been excellent academic research, not only on diaspora, but also on postconflict Bosnia and Herzegovina in regards to transitional justice and peacebuilding. However, the factors that play a role vis-à-vis diaspora mobilization and transitional justice have been explored less. Theorizing has been ad hoc. Thus, the guiding question of this thesis is: How do diaspora utilize the political environments in their hostlands when they mobilize towards issues of transitional justice, in what ways and why? I develop a typological theory of diaspora mobilization, focusing on transitional justice claims, to systematize understanding and to develop midrange level explanations. Four types of diaspora mobilization (engaged, involved, reactive, and inactive) are theorized based on three independent variables: citizenship regimes, collective claims, and the presence or absence of ‘translocalism’ within diaspora communities. In particular, the more open citizenship regimes are, the higher the potential for diaspora mobilization will be. The thesis builds on the idea of translocal communities being an important factor in helping to determine the level of diaspora mobilization, along with the presence of collective claims in relation to transitional justice processes in the post-conflict homeland environment. The study is based on a qualitative research design using a unique two-level comparative lens, focusing on three countries in Europe (Sweden, France, and Germany) as well as four different cities within Bosnia and Herzegovina (Sarajevo, Banja Luka, Prijedor, and Srebrenica). The research methods include semi-structured interviews, participant observation, and process tracing with multi-sited fieldwork. Thus, transnational, translocal, host country, and homeland influences are incorporated into analysis. The study provides comparative rigor to research on diaspora mobilization that is particular and rare. It establishes diaspora as an important actor to consider in transitional justice based efforts and provides a new perspective on the idea of translocalism.
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Ross, Larry. "Jazz musicians in the diaspora /." free to MU campus, to others for purchase, 1999. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/mo/fullcit?p9946292.
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Nováková, Michaela. "Migration and development in EU countries: comparative analysis of approaches and projects." Master's thesis, Vysoká škola ekonomická v Praze, 2013. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-199586.
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The dissertation is focusing on migration in the EU, specifically on comparing Vietnamese communities in the Czech Republic and in France. The first and the second part of the dissertation is comparing these two Vietnamese communities. The historical background, migrants'integration to local community and position of immigrants at the Czech and French labour markets. The third part is assessing the impact of these communities on Vietnam.
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Royan, Media. "Transnationalism Practices by the Kurdish Diaspora Elite : -The role of the Swedish Kurdish diaspora elite -." Thesis, Stockholms universitet, Kulturgeografiska institutionen, 2012. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-78370.
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Abstract In the past, the main focus of migration studies was the investigation of influences of immigrants on the host society and their integration into the country of settlement. However, transnationalism studies currently place much greater emphasis upon the other side – which is the effect of living in diaspora, in the society of origin with trans-border citizenship. The cultural, social and political interactions and connections between Sweden as a country of settlement and Kurdistan (especially Iraqi Kurdistan), create a transnational social space where the members of the Kurdish elite can play a major role in improvement of Kurdistan. From here, their adoption of a double identity makes it possible for them to permanently define and redefine their position in Swedish society while simultaneously participating in the inherent development of Kurdistan. The merging of the members of the Kurdish elite’s discourse in rebuilding of democracy and development with regard to reconstruction, leads to more focus on the role of diaspora and understanding the Swedish Kurdish elite’s impact on “functionalizing” and major contribution in the current state of Kurdistan. The ways of expression, increasing academic value, multicultural behavior, and the elite’s activities in civil society organization in between two or several states, their appearance in the international scene, experiences of living in both host / home societies, and multi-relations in a diasporic context continuing and re-adjusting national identities are essential indications of trans-border identity formation of Kurdish diaspora. After the liberation of Kurdistan (northern Iraq 2003), members of the Kurdish elite experienced transnationalism mainly through transferring their success in performing various activities for their homeland and at the same time integrating more into the host countries that received them. During this research, the researcher met and interviewed a number of members of Kurdish elites who had very interesting stories about the Kurdish diaspora, and more especially the important role they play in the transnational space that connects the Kurdish homeland to many European countries and the United States. Using a phenomenology method, the researcher classifies the elements that can characterize the practices of Kurdish diaspora elite as transnationalism. Sweden is one of the main countries where the Kurdish elite diaspora gathered and are organized to contribute to the development of Kurdistan. Since the Kurdish diaspora is the largest nation that lacks a state, the Kurdish diaspora has formed a long-distance nation in host country.
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Hussein, Abdirisaq, and Benedicto Lundholm. "Digital Diaspora : En Studie om hur individer i diaspora upprätthåller sin identitet via digital media." Thesis, Mittuniversitetet, Institutionen för humaniora och samhällsvetenskap, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:miun:diva-39659.
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I denna studie har vi undersökt hur individer i diaspora upprätthåller sin identitet via digital media. De teoretiska ramverk som vi har använt i denna studie är diaspora, digital diaspora, identitet, digitala medier, digital diaspora communities och hybriditet. Vi samlade vår data genom kvalitativa forskningsintervjuer och data analyserades med tematisk analys. Respondenterna som vi intervjuade var studenter från Mittuniversitet med utländsk härkomst. Vi höll intervjuerna i grupprummen på Mittuniversitetet. Inspelning av intervjuerna varierade mellan 20–40 minuter. Resultatet av vår studie visade att respondenterna i diaspora använder digitala medier för att bekräfta sin identitet, skapa hybrid identiteter och upprätthållning av sin identitet.In this study, we examined how individuals in diaspora maintain their identity via digital media. The theoretical framework we have used in this study is diaspora, digital diaspora, identity, digital media, digital diaspora communities and hybridity. We collected our data through qualitative research interviews and analysed it with thematic analysis. The respondents we interviewed were students from Mid Sweden University with foreign background. We held the interviews in the group rooms that Mid Sweden University offer. Recordings of the interviews varied between 20-40 minutes. The study shows that in the diaspora they use digital media to confirm their identity, create hybrid identities and in maintaining their identity.
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Farag, George. "Diaspora and transitional administration Shiite Iraqi diaspora and the administration of post-Saddam Hussein Iraq /." Related electronic resource: Current Research at SU : database of SU dissertations, recent titles available full text, 2007. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/syr/main.
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GALSTYAN, NARE. "ENGAGING STATELESS AND STATE-LINKED DIASPORAS: ASSYRIANS AND ARMENIANS IN THE NETHERLANDS." Doctoral thesis, Università degli Studi di Milano, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/2434/632297.
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The central aim of this research is to examine the complexities of relations between state, homeland, and diaspora by putting the existence and absence of nation-states as a salient divide between diaspora groups. At present, there have been few systematic, comparative studies that reflect commonalities and differences of stateless and state-linked diasporic networks. As the Armenian and Assyrian diasporas are two of the oldest diasporic communities in the world, they provide a backdrop for an expansive illustration of diaspora engagement practices in stateless and state-linked environments.
The research studies pro-active diaspora engagement practices: transnational justice-seeking activities for conflict, post-conflict settings and human rights violations; collective remittances in support of the homeland and other transnational communities in need; diasporas actions in support to newly-arrived migrants.
The findings of this research contribute to the field of diaspora studies by expanding understanding of the importance of homelands for diasporas and the complex relation of diasporas with the statehood dynamics of their homeland. The dissertation argues that “statelessness” and “state-linkedness” are not static and dichotomous, but rather contested and nuanced categories. Despite being neglected and dismembered from the “official” diaspora discourses, stateless diasporas find alternative links with territories within states that they refer to as homelands. Diasporas do this through their trusted networks and transnational institutions. Likewise, the existence of states is not a sufficient condition for diaspora-state cooperation. Despite the influence of structural factors, diasporas have the autonomy to decide on how to position themselves towards their homelands “of nation-state” and “without nation-state.” The research offers a closer look at the plurality of non-state organised actors in shaping both institutionalised and unofficial, non-institutionalised diaspora engagement practices.
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Ongaro, Laura <1992>. "La diaspora armena in Italia: dalle origini del movimento migratorio alla nascita della diaspora armena italiana." Master's Degree Thesis, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10579/10010.
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In questo elaborata si parla della diaspora armena sotto tre punti di vista differenti. Nel primo capitolo si studia il concetto teorico di diaspora, analizzando le teorie diasporiche di tre studiosi: Robin Cohen, Judith Shuval e Gabriel Sheffer. Il secondo capitolo è focalizzato sull'evoluzione della diaspora armena nel tempo(dalle origini al movimento migratorio successivo al genocidio del 1915. Il terzo capitolo, quello fondamentale, analizza la presenza armena in Italia, dal Medioevo ai giorni nostri, concentrandosi poi sugli aspetti culturali, attraverso una serie di approfondimenti delle associazioni, delle università in cui si studia armeno, delle chiese e dei collegi armeni. Nell'ultimo capitolo poi ho voluto riportare alcune interviste per mettere a confronto ciò che dicono le teorie diasporiche e cosa realmente pensano gli armeni residenti in Italia.
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Chen, Xu. "Dating, digital media, and diaspora: Contextualising the cultural uses of Tinder and Tantan among Australian Chinese diasporas." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2020. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/202944/1/Xu_Chen_Thesis.pdf.
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This thesis examines how Australian Chinese communities engage with dating apps Tinder and Tantan. With digital ethnographic approaches, it investigates the experiences of 23 interview participants - mainly young first-generation migrants from mainland China - on Tinder and Tantan in Australia. In doing so, it generates empirical evidences for research focusing on dating apps and dating practices among young Chinese people living in Australia. It deepens our understandings of how ethnic, sexual, and gender-related dynamics afforded by digital technologies intersect with Chinese identity negotiations.
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Houssouba, Mohomodou Strickland Ronald. "Teaching the diaspora beyond identity politics /." Normal, Ill. Illinois State University, 1998. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/ilstu/fullcit?p9914569.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Illinois State University, 1998.Title from title page screen, viewed July 11, 2006. Dissertation Committee: Ronald L. Strickland (chair), Jonathan M. Rosenthal, Cecil Giscombe. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 203-208) and abstract. Also available in print.
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Cheng, Wai-yen Selina, and 鄭慧賢. "The Diaspora museum of Hong Kong." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2000. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31985117.
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Lewis, I. Van Dyke. "Fashion preferences in the black Diaspora." Thesis, Birmingham City University, 2001. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.367473.
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Maslo, Ron. "The Armenian Diaspora Influencing International Relations." Thesis, Malmö universitet, Malmö högskola, Institutionen för globala politiska studier (GPS), 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-43342.
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This thesis explores the Armenian diaspora’s behavior concerning the issue of recognition of the Armenian genocide through lobbying within the US and EU. The purpose of this paper is, therefore, to grasp a deepened understanding of diasporic lobbying, while focusing on the Armenian case, as a case enabling further scholarly deepening for the field of IR. In order to achieve an understanding of the Armenian diaspora, the appropriated behavior through lobbying and the trajectorial changes concerning the recognition of the Armenian genocide, the paper puts forward historical process tracing, comparative research and qualitative content analysis. These methods are utilized as a means for tracing the events contributing to the construction of the diaspora. They also establish the lobby’s influence on ‘host-states’ and the understanding of internalized norms granting policy changes for the cause of recognizing the Armenian genocide, this is done through the concepts of identity, norms and recognition.
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Shridhar, Paras. "The guru-disciple relationship in diaspora." Thesis, University of Derby, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10545/559581.
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Gurus claim that they are able to act as mediators to put disciples on the path of spiritual development in diaspora. This study aims to investigate this claim, researching the hypothesis ‘that changing cultural environments in the United Kingdom, compared to those of the Indian sub-continent, requires a different model of the guru-chela (guru-disciple), relationship?’ In effect it seeks to test the differences, based on the stability and sustainability of the relationship in diaspora? This claim was endorsed by psychotherapist, J S Neki (1973), in a meeting in America and was published in The Journal of Ortho-psychiatry Volume 3. It discusses the possibility of the ‘guru-chela (disciple) relations’ acting as a model for ‘therapeutic care for the Hindu patient in diaspora.’ This research aims to examine critically the effectiveness of the guru-disciple relationship in light of changes the gurus have made in the delivery and quality of instructions they provide and the changes in the disciples’ aspirations in the new environment. The study investigates the meeting ground for science-based western psychotherapy and intuition-based spirituality. Both subjects deal with pastoral care components for their respective respondents, but are diametrically opposed in their approaches. The research sample in the study, are taken from Leicester, where the researcher is based, as the area provides a diverse group in the Heart of Hindu England, through which to examine the guru-disciple phenomena in diaspora.
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Ly, Tio Fane-Pineo Huguette. "Chinese diaspora in Western Indian Ocean /." [Rose Hill : [Mauritius] : Mauritius] : Éditions de l'Océan Indien ; Chinese catholic mission, 1985. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb36631208d.
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Adami, Esterino. "Rushdie, Kureishi, Syal : essays in diaspora /." New Delhi : Prestige Books, 2006. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb413278938.
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Cheng, Wai-yen Selina. "The Diaspora museum of Hong Kong." Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 2000. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B25947631.
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Zunzer, Wolfram. "Diaspora Communities and Civil Conflict Transformation." Berghof Research Center for Constructive Conflict Management, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/10454/4186.
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YesThis working paper deals with the nexus of diaspora communities living in European host countries, specifically in Germany, and the transformation of protracted violent conflicts in a number of home countries, including Sri Lanka, Cyprus, Somalia and Afghanistan. Firstly, the political and social role and importance of diaspora communities vis-à-vis their home and host countries is discussed, given the fact that the majority of immigrants to Germany, as well as to many other European countries, over the last ten years have come from countries with protracted civil wars and have thus had to apply for refugee or asylum status. One guiding question, then, is to what extent these groups can contribute politically and economically to supporting conflict transformation in their countries of origin. Secondly, the role and potentials of diaspora communities originating from countries with protracted violent conflicts for fostering conflict transformation activities are outlined. Thirdly, the current conflict situation in Sri Lanka is analyzed and a detailed overview of the structures and key organizations of the Tamil and Sinhalese diaspora worldwide is given. The structural potentials and levels for constructive intervention for working on conflict in Sri Lanka through the diasporas are then described. Fourthly, the socio-political roles of diaspora communities originating from Cyprus, Palestine, Somalia and Afghanistan for peacebuilding and rehabilitation in their home countries are discussed. The article finishes by drawing two conclusions. Firstly, it recommends the further development of domestic migration policies in Europe in light of current global challenges. Secondly, it points out that changes in foreign and development policies are crucial to make better use of the immense potential of diaspora communities for conflict transformation initiatives and development activities in their home countries. How this can best be achieved in practice should be clarified further through intensified action research and the launch of more pilot projects.
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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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Khayati, Khalid. "From Victim Diaspora to Transborder Citizenship? : Diaspora formation and transnational relations among Kurds in France and Sweden." Doctoral thesis, Linköping : Linköping University, Department of Social and Welfare Studies, 2008. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-11934.
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Haile, Markus. "Ethiopia´s Armenians – a lost Diaspora? : A study of the role of identity in the Armenian diaspora." Thesis, Stockholms universitet, Socialantropologiska institutionen, 2006. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-180264.
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The purpose of this study is to delve into the role of identity, an identity that is constantly in change in an every-changing national context. In this text I have studied the Armenian community of Ethiopia. A community that was once very strong and influential, a community that has made a considerable impact on the Ethiopian society over the years. This is a community that takes great pride in themselves, yet, at the same time has integrated into whichever society that they have settled into. The Ethio-Armenian community has maintained their core identity and at the same time absorbed the host society's customs and cultures. They are a unique community where most refer to themselves as 100% Armenian and at the same time 100% Ethiopian. This study explores a community that not too many people are aware of in a third world country.
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Lu, Jiajie. "Understanding the Chinese diaspora: The identity construction of diasporic Chinese in the age of digital media." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2017. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/112817/1/Jiajie_Lu_Thesis.pdf.
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This thesis investigates the formation of diasporic Chinese identity in the current media landscape. Through reviewing the history of Chinese emigration and the evolution of Chinese identity, this thesis proposes mediated social interaction as a new approach to the formation of Chinese identity. Following this proposal, this thesis explores how the social interactions and patterns of the Chinese diaspora in Australia have changed under the influences of media development. This research finds that transnational communications with family and friends in China via social media have become a significant part of Chinese diaspora's social life hence they are more socially and culturally connected with China than before. Simultaneously, diaspora Chinese use different social media platforms to maintain different social networks. They deliberately present different aspects of their national and parochial identity to adapt to different social settings.
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Ozkul, Kusoglu Sacide Derya. "Transformation of Diasporas from a Labour Movement towards a Transnational Religious Movement: The Alevi Diaspora in Germany and Australia." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/15939.
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This is a study about how destination countries affect the community formation and development of Alevis—a particular group from Turkey. Although there is a great amount of research on the effects of immigration on receiving countries, less consideration has been given to how the approach towards immigrants adopted by receiving states impacts on migrants’ cultural and religious practices as well as their diasporic community formation. Moreover, existing research essentialises diasporas as homogenous groups merely on the basis of common attachment to their homelands. The literature has not only ignored internal differences related to ethnicity, religion or class, but has also conceptualised them as static entities. Diasporas, however—like any other social group—can change over time and continue their activities under different frameworks. This is also true of existing Alevi studies: most explore the question of ‘why the Alevi movement emerged’ but none adopts a dynamic perspective to investigate changes within the movement. By incorporating diaspora mobilisation literature with social movement theories, this thesis specifically explores the question: ‘How did the Alevi diaspora emerge and change over time in different contexts?’. It examines the cases of Germany and Australia, two countries with very different historical traditions towards migrants, from a multi-scalar perspective that considers the shifting transnational and national ‘political opportunity structures’. It focuses on the period between the 1960s (when Turkey signed its first bilateral migration agreements) and 2013. The fieldwork for this study was carried out in both countries between 2012 and 2013, and the data collection methods were policy analysis, archival research, participant observation and semistructured in-depth interviews with 70 Alevi participants. The results show that Alevis who were initially part of the labour movement in the 1960s and 1970s in both Germany and Australia started organising around a newly emerging secular cultural identity movement in the 1980s and 1990s, and around an institutionalised religious/faith-based movement in the 2000s. In Germany, activists ultimately managed to obtain public recognition of Alevism from the German state as a unique religion separate from Islam. In Australia, despite the fact that religious institutions were not promoted in the same way, a similar pattern evolved at the federation level. Activists in both places sought to manage the dispersed Alevi ix population under new and integrative models (such as national federations, supranational institutions and global initiatives) and positioned Alevism largely as a unique faith system in its own right. Overall, these findings suggest that even if national ‘political opportunity structures’ develop in various ways in different countries, a diaspora movement can follow a largely similar path over time due to overarching transnational forces (such as, in this case, the construction of Muslims as a threat to national security in both Germany and Australia and the rise of Islamist politics in Turkey). In Australia, however, the two major organisations disagreed about the definition of Alevism. While the main organisation in Melbourne claimed Alevism as a unique faith system, its counterpart in Sydney sustained the view that Alevism was the true essence of Islam. Hence the case study in Australia suggests that, despite working in the same national political opportunity structures, local-level movements may follow very different routes. Moreover, in both countries, ‘framing contests’ among activists and community members resulted from personal conflicts and differences in political and geographical background, which further illustrates the complexities inherent in a social movement.
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Lee, Hojeong. "DIGITAL MEDIA AND THE KOREAN DIASPORA: A JOURNEY OF IDENTITY CONSTRUCTION." Diss., Temple University Libraries, 2018. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/512560.
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This dissertation explores how developed digital media technology influences individuals’ daily lives and their everyday practices. Furthermore, it examines how digital media usage has impacted diasporic members’ identity construction process. With the example of the Korean diaspora in the United States as a case study, this dissertation focuses on the impact of digital media, first, in regard to the ways in which diasporic members communicate with others and respond to the national and social issues of the homeland, and second in regard to their understanding of themselves, as well as their surroundings. Through an analysis of in-depth interviews with 35 Korean immigrants and my fieldwork in the New York City, Jersey City, and Philadelphia metropolitan areas from October 2016 to March 2017, this dissertation examines how and to what extent Korean diasporic members have connected to and paid attention to their homeland issues, and how they have responded to them, in tandem with the development of media communication technology throughout the immigration history of the Korean diaspora. This research finds that the advent of digital media has had a significant impact on the Korean diaspora. Despite a generational split in terms of Korean diasporic members’ digital media usage, all of my interviewees use digital media on a daily basis to interact with others, regardless of geographical limitations. As a result, global digital diaspora enables Korean diasporic members to reconfirm the significance of the Korean diaspora. These members recognize the Korean diaspora not as an exclusive community limited to specific local individuals, but rather as a transnational community on a global level. Hence, Korean diasporic members’ self-identification is often based on such an understanding of the Korean diaspora.
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Tondo, Josefina Socorro Flores. "Transnational Migration, Diaspora and Religion: Inscribing Identity through the Sacred (the Filipino Diaspora in New Zealand and Singapore)." Thesis, University of Canterbury. Social and Political Sciences, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10092/9241.
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The thesis is an anthropological exploration of the role of religion in Filipino
transnational migration and diaspora. The thesis takes the interpretive
approach, drawing from a variety of disciplines such as religious studies,
sociology, and geography to frame a holistic view of religion as a “lived”
experience that connects religious dispositions, symbols and ritual
performance to the diaspora’s place-making and home-making. It weaves
together anthropology’s conceptual strands of space, place, symbols and ritual
to present a view of Filipino migrant sociality and personhood not as
constituted by disparate fragmented experiences but as as a tapestry of woven
symbols and meanings that shape their diasporic life, even as they themselves
continuously shape their own experiences.
The thesis’ ethnography is based on participant observation among Filipino
migrants between 2007 and 2010 in New Zealand and Singapore. It focuses on
the celebration of the Santacruzan and Santo Niño-Sinulog fiesta in New
Zealand and Simbang Gabi novena masses in Singapore to examine how
Filipino cultural forms of expression connect and mix with notions of
homeland, family, home, sacred domain and identity as these have been
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The ethnography examines the interplay and connection between Filipino folk
religiosity, family and social networks. It looks at how the deeply held folk
Christian notions of kapalaran (destiny), swerte (luck), bahala na (whatever
God allows will happen /come what may God will take care) and imagery of
may awa ang Diyos (a compassionate God) are enmeshed in the migrant
exercise of agency, reflexive discourse, risk-taking, resilience and meaningmaking
in the diaspora. It demonstrates that among Filipino migrants, material
and communication flows are manifestations of religious dispositions that
support enduring family commitment and reciprocity. It shows that financial
and social capital provided by families and social networks for migrants are
supported by prayers for sacred assistance and blessings, indicating that the
Filipino migrants’ exercise of agency is familial and sacral rather than
individual and secular.
As a dominant Philippine lowland tradition, the fiesta is the locus of sacralmaterial
linkages constituted by Filipino home symbols, such as sacred icons,
costumes, cultural performance, semantic expressions, and food. By
examining the fiesta, its organisation and structure of power relations, the
thesis explores the metaphoric parallels and symbolic articulations between
two homes in migrants’ diasporic consciousness, and the significant role of
sacred symbols in aiding and facilitating the maintenance and inscription of
‘Filipino’ identity in a foreign land. Diaspora identity is a socially and spatially
inscribed identity. For Filipinos, it is inscribed through sacred icons and fiesta
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Rossetto, Piera. "Mémoires de diaspora, diaspora de mémoires : juifs de Libye entre Israël et l’Italie, de 1948 à nos jours." Paris, EHESS, 2015. http://www.theses.fr/2015EHES0656.
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Notre recherche vise à interroger les processus de reconstructions identitaires et de "memorialisation" de la diaspora juive libyenne à l'époque contemporaine. Il s'agit de poser la question de la production d'une "identité juive libyenne" aux caractéristiques multiples et changeantes et son evolution dans le parcours diasporique. Deux types de sources ont été interrogées: d'une part, nous avons re cueilli des dizaines d'entretiens avec des juifs de Libye dans différents pays d'installation. D'autre part, nous avons étudié comment cette identité progresse dans l'espace public, dans les musées et les centres d'héritage, aussi bien qu'à travers la littérature et d'autres formes de productions artistiques. Ce dernier type de sources, nous l'appelons la "mise en récit publique" des mémoires et des représentations des juifs de LibyeMy rersearch aims at exploring the processes of memory and identity reconstruction of the jews from Libya emigrated to Israel and Italy during the second half of the 20th century. Based on oral histories, literary sources and artistic productions, I interrogate different ideas of what a "Libyan Jewish identity" consists of, with reference to the past in Libya and the present in the receiving country. The research is based on two main sources on the one hand, I interviewed Jews of Libyan origin in different countries of arrival. On the other hand, I have explored how this identity is performed in the public space, such as museums, heritage centres, as well as in literature and other forms ovf artistic expressions. This last type of sources is what I term "mise en récit publique" of the memories and representations of Jews from Libya
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Rossetto, Piera. "Mémoires de diaspora, diaspora de mémoires. Juifs de Libye entre Israël et l'Italie, de 1948 à nos jours." Doctoral thesis, Université Ca’ Foscari et EHESS, 2015. https://hdl.handle.net/10278/5012741.
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My research aims to investigate the processes of memory and identity reconstruction of Libyan Jews who emigrated to Israel and Italy in the second half of the twentieth century. The research is based on oral sources (interviews and life stories) collected in Israel, Italy, France and Great Britain. It also studies the memorial and heritage activities promoted by individuals and institutions belonging to the Libyan Jewish community in Italy and Israel.
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Rossetto, Piera <1974>. "Mémoires de diaspora, diaspora de mémoires : juifs de Libye entre Israël et l'Italie, de 1948 à nos jours." Doctoral thesis, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10579/8269.
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La mia ricerca si propone di investigare i processi di ricostruzione memoriale e identitaria di ebrei di Libia emigrati in Israele e Italia nella seconda metà del ventesimo secolo. La ricerca si basa su fonti orali (interviste e racconti di vita)raccolti in Israele, Italia, Francia e Gran Bretagna. Essa studia inoltre le attività memoriali e di patrimonializzazione promosse da singoli individui e istituzioni afferenti alla comunità ebraica libica in Italia e Israele.
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Golovčenková, Valerie. "Teorie diaspory: židovská diaspora v USA a její vliv na americkou zahraniční politiku ve vztahu k Izraeli - případová studie." Master's thesis, Vysoká škola ekonomická v Praze, 2010. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-85181.
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In its theoretical part this master thesis identifies the main criteria determinating a diasporic ethnic group, based on publications from the scholarly journal Diaspora: A Journal of Transnational Studies. Further on the master thesis deals with the history of the Jewish diaspora, firstly with the worldwide Jewish diaspora and subsequently with the Jewish diaspora in the United States . The further part of the master thesis concerns a more specific determination of the Jewish diaspora in the United States -- the history, structure and influence of the Jewish lobby in the United States. The last part supports with illustrative examples the influence of the Jewish lobby on the United States foreign policy on the US economic and military aid to Israel in particular.
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Nilsson, Madleine. "Yezidier i Sverige : Diaspora, religion och identitet." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för kulturvetenskaper, KV, 2011. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-10021.
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Syftet med den här uppsatsen har varit att få en bild av yezidiernas religion och deras liv i exil. Hur yezidier ser på sin identitet och möjlighet att utöva sin religion i Sverige. I uppsatsen finns en kort forskningsöversikt av de centrala delarna i yezidismen. För att få svar på mina frågor har jag använt kvalitativ intervju som metod. Undersökningen är gjord i form av djupintervjuer med yezidier bosatta i Hässleholms kommun. Med hjälp av intervjuerna har jag tittat närmare på deras religiösa traditioner, tankar om andra religioner, regler och hur de upplever det är att leva som yezid i Sverige. Innehållet i intervjuerna har jag sedan kopplat till aktuell diasporaforskning och tidigare studier av yezidier i diaspora.
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Silva, Amber. "Unsettling diaspora: the Old Believers of Alaska." Thesis, McGill University, 2009. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=40808.
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Current analyses of ‘diaspora’ do not expose the various identity-constructs of the diverse communities to whom the term is applied. Discussions of diaspora reinforce a fictitious territorialization of identity that commonly orients migrants’ ethnoconsciousness ‘homeward bound’ and masks internal differentiation within international networks. The self-reinforcing diasporic condition overemphasizes co-ethnic and/or co-religious similarities in comparison to the unfamiliar societies of new settlements. Therefore, internal lines of diaspora must be explored to reveal the complexities of belonging to an international community. The Russian Orthodox Starover/Staroobryad (Old Believer/Old Ritualist) diaspora is a flexible ‘federation’ of distinct, closed congregations exchanging individuals, resources, and ethnohistories to create an international community of believers. The analysis of similar ethnoreligious groups, (i.e. Amish), will show the salience of ideological, nonterritorial constructions of diasporic identity. The “myths of migration,” proposed here counters myths of homeland return and belonging to demonstrate how movement itself is essential to diasporic ethnoconsciousness.RésuméLes analyses actuelles des « diasporas » escamotent les diverses conceptions identitaires des communautés ainsi qualifiées. Elles insistent sur une soi-disant territorialisation identitaire qui confère à l’ethnoconscience des migrants une orientation centrée sur « le retour chez soi », masquant les différences internes des réseaux internationaux. La condition diasporique, autosuffisante, surestime les similitudes co-ethniques et/ou co-religieuses et, parallèlement, l’étrangeté des sociétés d’accueil. Or, l’exploration des traits internes des diasporas permet de révéler les complexités de l’appartenance à une communauté internationale. La diaspora russe orthodoxe Starover (Vieux-Croyants) est une « fédération » flexible de congrégations distinctes échangeant individus, ressources et ethnohistoires, formant une communauté internationale de croyants. L’analyse de groupes ethnoreligieux similaires, comme les Amish, révèlent la pertinence de conceptions idéologiques et non territoriales de l’identité diasporique. Le « mythe migratoire » proposé va notamment à l’encontre de celui du « retour chez soi » et présente la mobilité comme essentielle à l’ethnoconscience diasporique.