Dissertations / Theses: 'Identité transnationale'

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Zinonos, Panagiotis. "Identité(s) transnationale(s) de l'Union européenne : analyse juridique pour un système de protection effective des droits." Electronic Thesis or Diss., Strasbourg, 2022. https://buadistant.univ-angers.fr/login?url=https://www.stradalex.eu/fr/se_mono/toc/IDTRANSEU.

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La thèse forme une proposition normative sur les rapports de système entre les ordres juridiques des Etats membres et celui de l’Union. Elle analyse ces rapports à la lumière de l’objectif de protection effective des droits et de(s) l’identité(s) transnationale(s) de l’Union. Des jurisprudences européennes et nationales et des éléments théoriques tracent les conditions d’une protection systématisée. La thèse s’intéresse à l’identité du système pour exclure la rivalité inhérente entre les ordres juridiques des Etats membres et celui de l’Union. La démarche aboutit grâce au déplacement du curseur des rapports entre ordres juridiques vers leur fonction pour les acteurs du système juridique de l’Union et grâce à l’analyse du fonctionnement dudit système sur la base d’échelles de concrétisation du principe transnational de loyauté. La thèse s’intéresse d’abord à la systématisation de la protection dans l’Union avant d’aborder des techniques spécifiques de protection. Tant du point de vue théorique que procédural ressort une dualité de l’identité juridique de l’Union : formelle – relative à la perpétuation du système – et matérielle – relative à ses valeurs fondamentales
The thesis normatively assesses the relationship between the legal orders of the Member States and the one of the European Union. That relationship is assessed in the light of a main objective, the effective protection of rights, and of the transnational identity(ies) of the Union. National and European case-law together with theoretical analyses delineate the conditions of a systematized protection. By discussing the identity of the system, the thesis rejects any inherent rivalry between the national and the Union legal orders. Such a rejection stems, first, from moving from the relationship among legal orders towards its function for the actors of the system, and second, from the analysis of the functioning of that system with regard to a process of concretization of the transnational principle of loyalty. The thesis discusses the systematization of the protection of rights within the Union before introducing specific techniques of protection. From both a theoretical and a procedural standpoint the legal identity of the Union appears to be bifold: formal – related to the perpetuation of the system – and substantive – related to its fundamental values

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Amamou, Leila. "A la recherche d'une nouvelle identité artistique transnationale dans les spots publicitaires tunisiens (1994-2007) : oscillation entre esthétique de l'image et efficacité de la communication." Thesis, Paris 1, 2013. http://www.theses.fr/2013PA010625.

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L'objectif de cette thèse est de montrer comment les créateurs des spots publicitaires en Tunisie de 1994 jusqu'à 2007 ont cherché à créer une nouvelle identité artistique transnationale. Et cela suite aux mutations culturelles et sociologiques connues dans ce pays ces dernières années. Dans un premier temps, il me sera primordial d'exposer les différents facteurs identitaires, sociaux, historiques, politiques, communicationnels ... qui ont poussé les créateurs locaux à cette quête inévitable. Dans un second temps, et dans le cadre d'une analyse exhaustive des spots publicitaires, je vérifierai d'abord les résultats auxquels je suis parvenue dans la première partie. Mais, j'essayerai également de montrer la façon avec laquelle les concepteurs ont pu faire une réconciliation avec l'identité arabo-islamique, mémoire des ancêtres des tunisiens et d'une certaine identité moderne, s'inspirant considérablement de la culture globale; tel que le recours aux nouvelles images qui ont permis aux publicitaires de donner une nouvelle apparence à plusieurs codes stéréotypés. Finalement, dans la troisième partie, j'essayerai d'évaluer l'efficacité de cette communication. J'étudierai l'impact de cette nouvelle image publicitaire afin d'en déduire l'action de cette approche artistique récente
The aim of this thesis is to show how creative commercials in Tunisia from 1994 to 2007 sought to create a new transnational artistic identity. And that following the cultural and sociological mutations known in this country in recent years. At first, I will outline the various key elements of identity, social, historical, political, communicational ... which led local designers to this inevitable quest. In a second time, and as part of a comprehensive analysis of advertising spots, I will check first the results that I achieved in the first part. But I also try to show the way in which the designers have made a reconciliation with the Arab-Islamic identity, memory of' tunisian ancestors and some modern identity, inspired greatly from the global culture, as the use of new images that have allowed advertisers to give a new look to several codes stereotyped. Finally, in the third part, 1 will try to evaluate the effectiveness of this communication. I study the impact of this new advertising image in order to deduce the action of this recent artistic approach

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Ordonez, Charpentier Angelica. ""Les histoires vraies ne sont pas toujours racontées" : l'émigration transnationale à Peguche, Equateur et la fête du Pawkar Raymi." Paris, EHESS, 2009. http://www.theses.fr/2009EHES0035.

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Ce travail porte sur la migration transnationale et ses effets locaux. Je prends comme cas d’étude celui des communautés émigrantes kichwa otavalo qui appartiennent au plus puissant collectif kichwa – sur le plan économique et politique – de l’Équateur. La tradition textile, mercantile et translocale des kichwa otavalo permet d’illustrer la complexité des effets du mouvement global des communautés ethniques. Au contraire de certaines interprétations dominantes qui perçoivent la migration comme un mécanisme fondamentalement homogénéisant, le cas des indigènes kichwa otavalo illustre de façon éloquente l’existence de processus d’invention de nouvelles traditions et met en lumière des thèmes comme la réaffirmation d’histoires et de rituels spécifiques, le conflit intergénérationnel, la rupture des liens de parenté établis, la redéfinition des paysages ethniques sur la scène locale et la réorganisation symbolique des imaginaires collectifs
This dissertation examines transnational migration and its local effects. This study case focuses on a kichwa otavalo group -- the most powerful indigenous community in the Ecuadorian political and economic arena. Kichwa Otavalo textile, commercial and translocal traditions illustrate how complex the effects are of ethnic communities moving globally. In spite of some mainstream interpretations, which seek migration as a homogenizing mechanism, the case of kichwa otavalo indigenous group evidences the creation process of new traditions. Furthermore, this dissertation explores major issues such as: the reaffirmation of rituals and history, the conflict between different generations, the breakdown of kinship ties, the redefinition of ethnic scenarios in the local realm, and the symbolic reorganization of collective imaginaries

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Moliner, Christine. "Être sikh en diaspora : mobilité transnationale, politique de reconnaissance et reconfigurations identitaires chez les sikhs britanniques." Thesis, Paris Sciences et Lettres (ComUE), 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018PSLEH062/document.

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Minorité ethno-religieuse originaire du Nord-Ouest de l’Inde, les sikhs ont une longue histoire migratoire qui prend naissance pendant la colonisation britannique. Cette thèse s’intéresse à la manière dont les sikhs de la diaspora, et particulièrement ceux de Grande-Bretagne, ont contribué de manière décisive à définir les contours de l’identité sikhe contemporaine.Pour ce faire, nous nous intéressons à la genèse coloniale du discours identitaire dominant, développé par l’élite sikhe réformiste dans la deuxième moitié du 19e siècle, qui repose sur l’élaboration de frontières socio-culturelles rigides séparant les sikhs des non-sikhs et sur la création d’une communauté unie et distincte, dotée d’un univers symbolique autonome, de rites propres et d’une histoire particulière. Cette notion normative d’une communauté sikhe monolithique s'est trouvée consolidée en Grande-Bretagne sous l'effet des politiques publiques et de décennies de mobilisations communautaires pour le turban. La politique sikhe de reconnaissance repose sur l’idée d'exceptionnalisme des sikhs, de leur contribution importante à la société britannique et d’une relation historique privilégiée avec les anciens colonisateurs. Cependant, l’étude de la pluralité des appartenances socio-religieuses – en particulier sectaires et de caste - révèle la diversité des manières d’être sikh en diaspora et bat en brèche les prétentions du leadership à parler au nom de « la » communauté sikhe
As an ethno-religious minority originating from the North-West of India, the Sikhs have a long migration history, starting during the colonial period. This dissertation focuses on how the Sikh diaspora, particularly British Sikhs, have decisively shaped contemporary Sikh identity narratives.Sikh dominant identity narrative was shaped in a dialogic relation between the colonizers and Sikh intellectual elite in the 19th century and it relied on rigid boundaries between Sikhs and non-Sikhs. Sikh reformists strived to create a unified and distinct community, with its own rituals, symbols and collective memory. This normative definition of a homogeneous community has been strengthened in post-colonial Britain, under the influence of public policies towards immigrant minorities and of Sikh politics of recognition. The latter draws on the idea that Sikhs represent a model minority, entertaining a priviliged relationship with the British.However, the diversity of socio-religious practices and belonging observed during fieldwork highlights that, despite Sikh leadership claims to represent a homogenous community, there remains a plurality of ways to be a diasporic Sikh

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Muñoz, Azócar Diego. "Diaspora Rapanui (1871-2015). L’île de Pâques, le Chili continental et la Polynésie française : une ethnographie historique de la mobilité dans une société transnationale." Thesis, Paris, EHESS, 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017EHES0066/document.

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Le sujet de cette thèse est la société rapanui, quelques 5000 personnes, du nom de l’île qui en est le lieu d’origine et de référence, connue aussi comme l’île de Pâques. Si l’île demeure la référence pour chacun, la « société rapanui » n’est plus limitée à cette île de Polynésie orientale, mais inclut les communautés émigrées, installées au Chili continental (près de la moitié des Rapanui), principalement dans la grande région métropolitaine de Santiago, et un petit nombre à Tahiti, Polynésie française. Pour les Rapanui, Tahiti est un lieu important dans l’histoire de l’île, de la diaspora et dans la formation d’une identité polynésienne. Cette thèse vise à comprendre la configuration de la communauté rapanui, comprendre la manière dont ceux qui se reconnaissent comme « Rapanui » font société aujourd’hui, au travers de leurs relations sociales qui configurent une diaspora non figée mais façonnée par la mobilité entre les divers lieux. Notre démarche est à la fois anthropologique et historique. Nous observons et analysons les communautés contemporaines dans leur vie quotidienne (occupations, rapport de parenté, tenure foncière, rapport à l’histoire) à partir de plusieurs enquêtes de terrain, étalées entre 2006 et 2014, à Hanga Roa, « le » village sur l’île, dans l’immense réseau urbain de Santiago, et dans le quartier de Pamatai à Tahiti où des Rapanui se sont installés au cours de la deuxième moitié du XIXe siècle. Ce sont des parcours de vies discutés lors de très nombreux dialogues avec des Rapanui de tous âges et de toutes conditions. Les différents aspects de la diaspora sont le résultat d’une histoire longue, plus d’une fois dramatique, dont il faut remonter les fils, par la mémoire conservée et transmise ainsi que par des archives souvent méconnues jusqu’ici. Comme ailleurs en Océanie, cette histoire inclut l’arrivée des missionnaires et des colons. Mais elle est aussi marquée par les drames que furent les raids esclavagistes venus du Pérou, l’exode vers Tahiti et Mangareva décidé par une collusion entre missionnaires et colons, et puis la transformation d’une île en champ d’élevage de moutons pour une entreprise privée après la mainmise coloniale chilienne et sa féroce politique d’« enfermement », unique dans l’histoire et en place jusqu’en 1966. L’« enfermement » a conduit des Rapanui à s’« évader » de chez eux, au péril de leur vie. Aujourd’hui, c’est une toute autre histoire qui se joue : celle d’un tourisme débridé, de la réappropriation d’un héritage archéologique, de la réaffirmation d’une identité polynésienne et d’un début de développement économique où les Rapanui ont enfin leur part
The present thesis revolves around a group of about 5000 people, native to Easter Island and how they construct their society, and their relationships within their island and their diasporic communities. It is about the construction of Rapanui identity, how and who is and recognized as "Rapanui". Although the island is the reference point par excellence for Rapanui identity, "Rapanui society" is not limited to this eastern Polynesian island, but includes its migrant communities located in mainland Chile (about half of the population) that lives mainly in the large metropolitan area of Santiago, plus a small number of people that live in Tahiti, French Polynesia. For the Rapanui, Tahiti is an important place in the history of the island and of the diaspora and in the configuration of a Polynesian identity. Rapanui diaspora is not a fixed diaspora but is characterized by the mobility of its people between these different places. The characterization of this diasporic process is the main theme of this thesis. Our study is anthropological and historical. We observed and analyzed contemporary communities in their daily lives (occupations, kinship relations, land tenure, relationship to history). Several field seasons were conducted between 2006 and 2014 in Hanga Roa, the only town of Rapa Nui, as well as in the extensive urban network of Santiago and in the Pamatai neighborhood in Tahiti, where a group of Rapanui settled during the second half of the nineteenth century. Formal and informal interviews and conversations were carried out with Rapanui people of all conditions and ages. The characteristics of the diaspora are the result of a long, often dramatic history, that is threads of which are traced in the preserved and transmitted memories, and the analysis of previously unknown archival documentation. As elsewhere in Oceania, this story includes the arrival of missionaries and settlers. But for Rapanui this history also includes the drama of the slave raids from Peru, the massive exodus to Tahiti and Mangareva colluded by missionaries and merchants, as well as by a unique Chilean colonial policy of confinement that transformed the entire island into a private sheep station until 1966. This policy of confinement would lead to several Rapanui to escape from their home and island, at the risking of their lives. Today the story is very different: it is the story of "overflowing tourism", of the re-appropriation of their archaeological heritage, of the reaffirmation of a Polynesian identity and of the beginnings of an economic development in which the Rapanui finally recover the fruits of their island and their history
En esta tesis se estudia la sociedad rapanui, unas 5000 personas, que tiene como lugar de origen y de referencia a Rapa Nui, o Isla de Pascua. A pesar de que la isla es el lugar de referencia identitaria por excelencia, la « sociedad rapanui » no se limita solamente a esta isla de la Polinesia oriental, sino que incluye a sus comunidades de emigrantes instaladas en Chile continental (cerca de la mitad de la población) principalmente en la región metropolitana de Santiago, más un pequeño número en Tahiti, Polinesia francesa. Para los rapanui, Tahiti es un lugar importante en la historia de la isla, de la diáspora y en la formación de una identidad polinésica. El objetivo de esta tesis es comprender la configuración de la comunidad rapanui, comprender de qué manera aquellos que se reconocen « Rapanui » construyen su sociedad a través de diferentes tipos de relaciones, organizando una diáspora, una diáspora que no es fija sino que se establece en la movilidad entre los diversos lugares. Nuestro estudio es antropológico e histórico. Observamos y analizamos las comunidades contemporáneas en sus vidas cotidianas (ocupaciones, relaciones de parentesco, tenencia de la tierra, relación a la historia), a partir de varias investigaciones de terreno realizadas entre 2006 y 2014, tanto en Hanga Roa, el único pueblo de Rapa Nui, como en la extensa red urbana de Santiago y en el barrio de Pamatai en Tahiti, donde un grupo de rapanui se instaló durante la segunda mitad del siglo XIX. Son vidas evocadas en diálogos con personas rapanui de todas la condiciones y edades. Las diferentes características de la diáspora son el resultado de una larga historia, más de una vez dramática, de la cual es preciso reconstruir la trama mediante las memorias conservadas y transmitidas, así como por documentos de archivo, muchas veces desconocidos hasta ahora. Como en otras partes de Oceanía esta historia incluye la llegada de misioneros y colonos. Sin embargo, la historia rapanui está definida por el drama que significaron las redadas esclavista venidas del Perú, el masivo éxodo a Tahiti y Mangareva planeado por misioneros y comerciantes, así como por una política colonial chilena de encierro que transformó a la isla entera en una estancia ovejera privada hasta 1966. Este encierro condujo a varios rapanui a intentar escapar de la isla, arriesgando sus vidas. Actualmente es una otra historia, aquella de un «turismo desbordado», de la apropiación de una herencia arqueológica, de la reafirmación de una identidad polinésica y de los inicios de un desarrollo económico por el cual los rapanui recuperan, al fin, parte de las riquezas de la isla y de su historia

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Richter, Tina Julia. "Stéréotypes, représentations et identités en R.D.A. et en R.F.A. : une comparaison transnationale des discours journalistiques de Der Spiegel et de la Neue Berliner Illustrierte entre 1949 et 1989." Thesis, Strasbourg, 2014. http://www.theses.fr/2014STRAC028/document.

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D’où vient « le mur dans les têtes » des Allemands en 1989 ? Que signifient les stéréotypes Besserwessi / Jammerossi ? Quelles sont les représentations et les identités en R.D.A. et en R.F.A. ? Existe-t-il deux identités allemandes différentes ? Avec un corpus de 312 exemplaires de Der Spiegel et de la Neue Berliner Illustrierte, cette thèse étudie la dimension sémantique des stéréotypes, elle analyse les représentations en R.F.A. et en R.D.A. et définit une double identité allemande. L’année 1989 provoque une crise identitaire et langagière que nous étudions à l’aide de sondages, d’ouvrages, de caricatures et de journaux. La guerre froide, la manipulation du discours et un contexte économique déstabilisant font naître dès 1949 des stéréotypes qui s’intensifient en 1961 et s’accumulent en 1989. Ils se transforment du stéréotype de la revendication de représenter l’Allemagne dans son ensemble (1949) en celui de la grande famille socialiste (R.D.A.) et de la grande famille américaine (R.F.A.) en 1961 et en celui de la pérennité étatique (R.D.A.) et de la terra incognita (R.F.A.) en 1989. Les stéréotypes se diffusent avec des images et un vocabulaire de la consommation et de l’individualisme en R.F.A. et de la solidarité en R.D.A. L’identité est-allemande est une identité collective, solidaire et uniforme et l’identité ouest-allemande est une identité de plaisir, de liberté, d’esprit de compétitivité et d’individualisme. Avec une perspective de recherche pluridisciplinaire, comparative et transnationale, ce travail s’insère dans les champs des recherches historiques et linguistiques et s’appuie sur l’histoire comparée, l’analyse du discours et de l’image. L’enjeu identitaire est relié aux stéréotypes et aux représentations qui sont les faces visibles des stéréotypes. Cette thèse étudie aussi les lieux de mémoire textuels, culinaires, culturels, politiques et économiques est-allemands et ouest-allemands en se basant sur les travaux de Walter Lippmann, Ruth Amossy, Pierre Nora, Etienne François, Hagen Schulze, Pierre Moscovici, Christian Delporte, Dominique Maingueneau, Laurent Gervereau, Heinz Gerhard Haupt, Henri Ménudier, Sandrine Kott, Alain Lattard. C’est ce qui nous permet d’analyser les discours d’hommes politiques et de journalistes comme Helmut Kohl, Ludwig Erhard, Konrad Adenauer, Walter Ulbricht, Rudolf Augstein, Rudolf Hernnstadt et Lilly Becher
What is the origin of the « wall in the minds » between East-germans and West-germans in 1989 ? What is the significance of the stereotypes Besserwessi / Jammerossi ? Do we have two german identities ? Based on a corpus of 312 exemplars of Der Spiegel and Neue Berliner Illustrierte, this thesis analyses the relationship between GDR and West Germany during the cold war. It presents the social representations and defines a double german identity. In 1989, we have a crisis in german language and identity illustrated by soundings, literature, caricatures and stereotypes. Cold war, political speech and destabilizing aspects of 1989 push up stereotypes since 1949. In 1961 they grow up and in 1989 they are on the top. They transform themselves from the stereotype of sole and exclusive representation (1949) to the stereotype of the big socialiste family (GDR) and the big west family (West Germany) in 1961 and to the stereotype of endurance (GDR) and terra incognita (West Germany) in 1989. Stereotypes circulate by language, various leitmotiv and a vocabulary of consumption and egoism in West Germany and solidarity in GDR. They are the sign of a temporarily double german identity. Absence of the same identity and language markers bring up gap between Ossis and Wessis. With a interdisciplinary and comparative approach, this thesis takes place in historic and language studies. The innovation is to connect the question of german identity with stereotypes and representations by defining representations as visible faces of stereotypes. This work studies german history, est-german and west-german memory in the second half of the 20th century with the autors and journalistes Walter Lippmann, Ruth Amossy, Pierre Nora, Etienne François, Hagen Schulze, Pierre Moscovici, Christian Delporte, Dominique Maingueneau, Laurent Gervereau, Heinz-Gerhard Haupt, Henri Ménudier, Sandrine Kott, Alain Lattard and Helmut Kohl, Ludwig Erhard, Konrad Adenauer, Walter Ulbricht, Rudolf Augstein, Rudolf Hernnstadt and Lilly Becher

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Rispler, Isabelle. "“Lands of the future" : German-speaking identity, networks, and territoriality in the South Atlantic, 1820-1930." Thesis, Sorbonne Paris Cité, 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017USPCC072/document.

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Le mouvement de germanophones vers l’Atlantique Sud n’a pas commencé avec les Nazis cherchant refuge dans l’après-guerre, ni avec la mise en place d’un protectorat allemand au Sud-Ouest africain en 1884. Tout au long du XIXe siècle, la grande majorité des germanophones ayant quitté l’Europe a voyagé et migré en Amérique du Nord, mais un certain nombre de germanophones avaient choisi l’Argentine et la Namibie bien avant le tournant du XIXe siècle. Des marchands et missionnaires germanophones avaient commencé à voyager dans l’Atlantique Sud et à s’y installer dans les années 1820s. Ces germanophones de l’Atlantique Sud étaient influencés par les conditions changeantes en Europe : la mobilité accrue des personnes et des biens au travers de l’évolution technologique et de la dominance croissante d’Etats-nations sur la scène politique de l’Europe occidentale. Après sa fondation en 1871, l’Etat-nation allemand étendît son influence politique avec ses croissantes aspirations au pouvoir sur le marché global. Après 1900 en particulier, les Allemands politiquement actifs ont cherché à contrer la compétition croissante des Etats-Unis sur le plan économique ; en tentant de rediriger les migrants germanophones des Etats-Unis vers les territoires qu’ils considéraient plus aptes pour l’aide et le contrôle continu de la part de l’Etat-nation allemand. Dans ce contexte, la majorité des Allemands reconnaissaient le Sud-Ouest africain allemand en tant que seul territoire à la hauteur de la colonisation allemande à grande échelle. Au même moment, les germanophones en Argentine devenaient actifs en promouvant l’Argentine comme destination idéale pour la migration germanophone, et un grand nombre de publications le louaient en tant que « pays d’avenir ». Les publications sur les Allemands aux Etats-Unis et au Canada sont nombreuses, mais les germanophones ayant choisi l’Atlantique Sud ont reçu moins d’attention. Parmi cette littérature secondaire, les Allemands en Argentine étaient traités comme des migrants étrangers à la République, tandis que les Allemands en Namibie ont été tout d’abord étudiés par rapport au colonialisme allemand. J’argumente que c’est les historiens qui ont crée cette division qui accentue davantage les différences entre les trajectoires historiquement rendues, et qui cachent les connections et similarités qui étaient évidentes aux migrants germanophones du XIXe siècle. Je me propose d’étudier ces germanophones dans un seul champ analytique. J’argumente que malgré les différences des circonstances politiques respectives, les expériences du quotidien des germanophones de ces deux côtés de l’Atlantique Sud étaient plus similaires que différentes. J’analyse les publications et les pensées des contemporains du XIXe siècle afin de surmonter la dichotomie crée par les historiens en tant que genres de mouvement mondiaux distincts et mutuellement exclusifs. Ce qui s’est passé dans l’Atlantique Sud peut être appelé « colonisation transnationale » : des Etats-nations émergents étaient impliqués dans le processus de colonisation –l’Argentine en Amérique du Sud et l’Allemagne dans le Sud-Ouest africain – et des fonctionnaires aidaient à accroitre leur expansion. Cependant, au sein de ces Etats, les personnes qui maintenaient une variété d’identités et d’origines européennes, étaient des agents actifs dans le processus de colonisation. Mes sources primaires comprennent des textes produits par les migrants de courte et longue durée, comme les récits de voyage, ainsi que les archives des communautés et gouvernements actuellement situés en Allemagne, en Argentine et en Namibie
The movement of German-speakers to the South Atlantic did not begin with Nazis seeking refuge in Argentina in the aftermath of World War II, nor did it start with the organization of the German protectorate of South-West Africa in 1884. Throughout the nineteenth century, the great majority of German-speakers leaving Europe travelled and migrated to North America, but some German-speakers had begun settling in both Argentina and Namibia well before the turn of the twentieth century. German-speaking merchants and missionaries started travelling to and settling in the South Atlantic in the 1820s. These South Atlantic German-speakers were influenced by the changing conditions in Europe: the increasing mobility of people and goods through the advancement of technology, and the increasing dominance of Nation-states on Western Europe’s political scene. After its founding in 1871, the German nation-state expanded its political reach with the German Empire’s increasing desire for power on the global market. After 1900 in particular, politically active Germans sought to compete against the increasing economic competition from the United States by attempting to redirect German-speaking migrants from their U.S. rival to areas they deemed more apt for continued German state aid and control. In this context, many Germans recognized German South-West Africa as the only territory suitable for large-scale German settlement. Meanwhile, German-speakers in Argentina became involved in marketing Argentina as the ideal destination for German-speaking migration and numerous publications praised it as the “land of the future.”German-speaking migration to the United States and Canada is well documented, whereas scholars have paid less attention to those migrants who went to Argentina and Namibia. Within the existing secondary literature, scholars have treated German-speakers in Argentina mostly as foreign migrants in an established republic, while conversely studying German-speakers in Namibia primarily within the context of German colonialism. I argue that it is historians who have created this division which overemphasizes the differences between the continents’ historically rendered trajectories, while hiding the connections and similarities from the viewpoint of nineteenth-century German-speaking migrants. I propose to study the everyday life experiences of nineteenth-century German-speakers on both sides of the South Atlantic within one single analytical field. I argue that even though the respective political circumstances varied, the everyday life experiences of these German-speakers on both sides of the South Atlantic were more similar than different. I analyze the writings and belief-systems of nineteenth-century contemporaries in order to overcome the dichotomy that historians have created as distinct and mutually exclusive types of global movement. What happened in the South Atlantic was “transnational colonization:” emerging nation-states were involved in the colonization process – Argentina in South America and Germany in Namibia – and civil servants helped further their growth. However, within these states, people who maintained a variety of European identities and origins, were active agents in the colonization process. My sources include texts produced by short- and long-term migrants, such as travel writings as well as community and government records currently held in archives in Germany, Argentina and Namibia

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Celik, Zekeriya. "Dalkurd : Ett fotbollslag mellan det lokala och transnationella." Thesis, Södertörns högskola, Sociologi, 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-37630.

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The purpose of this thesis is to investigate how the football team Dalkurd act locally and transnationally through their identifications, relationships and activities with other actors with whom the footballsteam interacts. The study has also focused on the tensions that arise between the local Dalkurd and transnational Dalkurd. Theoretical starting points are based on the transnational perspective, which is important in order to understand how a football team like Dalkurd act through his activities, identifications and relationships. The second theoretical perspective is based on the social networks 'importance for the football clubs' culture and local identity, which is important for understanding the local identity based on Swedish club culture. The methodological approach of the study is based on case studies with qualitative focus. The empirical material consists of a large number of media texts in the form of existing interviews and reports published in newspapers, radio and television. Also materials from web-based websites, and other social media. The result shows that Dalkurd has, through his activities, social relations and belongings and also symbols created transnational identity, and the association has also created local identifications even that these are relatively limited. The study's results showed that the football team has created a triadic relationship in the form of "transnational social space" between a football association in the form of Dalkurd, the country of hostland Sweden and the home country Kurdistan.
Syftet med denna uppsats är att undersöka hur fotbollslaget Dalkurd verkar lokalt respektive transnationellt genom sina identifikationer, relationer och aktiviteter med andra aktörer som fotbollsföreningen interagerar med. Studien har även fokuserat på de spänningar som uppstår mellan det lokala Dalkurd och transnationella Dalkurd. Teoretiska utgångspunkter bygger på det transnationella perspektivet som är viktigt för att kunna förstå hur ett fotbollslag som Dalkurd verkar genom sina aktiviteter, identifikationer och relationer. Det andra teoretiska perspektivet bygger på de sociala nätverkens betydelse för fotbollsklubbarnas kultur och lokala identitet vilket är viktig för att förstå den lokala identiteten utifrån svensk klubbkultur. Studiens metodologiska ansats bygger på fallstudier med kvalitativ inriktning. Det empiriska materialet består av ett stort antal mediatexter i form av befintliga intervjuer och reportage publicerade i tidningar, radio och tv. Även material från webbaserade hemsidor, och andra sociala medier har tagits med. Resultatet visar att Dalkurd genom sina aktiviteter, sociala relationer samt tillhörigheter och symboler har skapat en transnationell identitet men föreningen har också skapat lokala identifikationer även att dessa är relativ begränsade. Studiens resultat visade att fotbollslaget har skapat ett triadisk förhållande i form av ”transnational social space” mellan en fotbollsförening i form av Dalkurd, bosättningslandet Sverige och hemlandet Kurdistan.

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Crowley-, Henry Marian. "Bounded transnationals : An identity and career framework." Thesis, Lancaster University, 2009. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.536066.

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Rognan, Camilla. "Living Transnational Lives: Investigating the Role of ICTs in Transnational Migrants’ Identity Formation." Thesis, Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet, Geografisk institutt, 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:no:ntnu:diva-22917.

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In a globalized world, the recent developments in information and communication technologies (ICTs) and transportation have facilitated international migration in ways that have led to great increases in this type of migration over the last decades. In the host country migrants are influenced by new cultural impulses that are different from the ones in their homeland. Over time, these may be incorporated into the migrants’ cultural identities and as time passes, the migrants may start to identify with more and more aspects of the host culture, creating a belonging to the new country. By adopting a transnational lens, the objective of this thesis is to examine how transnational migrants’ cultural identity is challenged, negotiated and formed through the use of modern ICTs that allow for frequent communication with homeland relations. This was done by investigating the role of ICTs in the migrants’ practices of ways of being in and ways of belonging to transnational social fields and the research questions that have been discussed and answered are as follows: 1)What is the role of transnational communication networks and technologies in identity formation? Can gender differences be identified? 2)Can today’s extensive use of information and communication technologies show that migrants maintain more of their ‘old’ identities? Are identities gendered? It is found that ICTs play a large role in the identity formation of transnational migrants and that migrants who live transnational lives constantly (re)negotiate and form transnational identities in relation to their respective social fields. In addition, analyses show that ICTs available today facilitate both practices of ways of being (transnational communication) and ways of belonging (identity-conscious practices) in transnational social fields, and may indeed contribute to the maintenance of more of migrants’ ‘old’ identities. The migrants are anchored in both transnational social fields and are rational actors that actively choose what to keep of their old and new identities through a constant (re)negotiation of their identities. Both analyses show that migrants’ identities are gendered and this, in combination with the constant reworking of identities, show that the migrants are reflexive life planners.

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Glöckner, Olaf. "Immigrated Russian Jewish elites in Israel and Germany after 1990 : their integration, self image and role in community building." Phd thesis, Universität Potsdam, 2010. http://opus.kobv.de/ubp/volltexte/2011/5036/.

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Russian Jews who left the Former Soviet Union (FSU) and its Successor States after 1989 are considered as one of the best qualified migrants group worldwide. In the preferred countries of destination (Israel, the United States and Germany) they are well-known for cultural self-assertion, strong social upward mobility and manifold forms of self organisation and empowerment. Using Suzanne Kellers sociological model of “Strategic Elites”, it easily becomes clear that a huge share of the Russian Jewish Immigrants in Germany and Israel are part of various elites due to their qualification and high positions in the FSU – first of all professional, cultural and intellectual elites (“Intelligentsija”). The study aimed to find out to what extent developments of cultural self-assertion, of local and transnational networking and of ethno-cultural empowerment are supported or even initiated by the immigrated (Russian Jewish) Elites. The empirical basis for this study have been 35 half-structured expert interviews with Russian Jews in both countries (Israel, Germany) – most of them scholars, artists, writers, journalists/publicists, teachers, engineers, social workers, students and politicians. The qualitative analysis of the interview material in Israel and Germany revealed that there are a lot of commonalities but also significant differences. It was obvious that almost all of the interview partners remained to be linked with Russian speaking networks and communities, irrespective of their success (or failure) in integration into the host societies. Many of them showed self-confidence with regard to the groups’ amazing professional resources (70% of the adults with academic degree), and the cultural, professional and political potential of the FSU immigrants was usually considered as equal to those of the host population(s). Thus, the immigrants’ interest in direct societal participation and social acceptance was accordingly high. Assimilation was no option. For the Russian Jewish “sense of community” in Israel and Germany, Russian Language, Arts and general Russian culture have remained of key importance. The Immigrants do not feel an insuperable contradiction when feeling “Russian” in cultural terms, “Jewish” in ethnical terms and “Israeli” / “German” in national terms – in that a typical case of additive identity shaping what is also significant for the Elites of these Immigrants. Tendencies of ethno-cultural self organisation – which do not necessarily hinder impressing individual careers in the new surroundings – are more noticeable in Israel. Thus, a part of the Russian Jewish Elites has responded to social exclusion, discrimination or blocking by local population (and by local elites) with intense efforts to build (Russian Jewish) Associations, Media, Educational Institutions and even Political Parties. All in all, the results of this study do very much contradict popular stereotypes of the Russian Jewish Immigrant as a pragmatic, passive “Homo Sovieticus”. Among the Interview Partners in this study, civil-societal commitment was not the exception but rather the rule. Traditional activities of the early, legendary Russian „Intelligentsija“ were marked by smooth transitions from arts, education and societal/political commitment. There seem to be certain continuities of this self-demand in some of the Russian Jewish groups in Israel. Though, nothing comparable could be drawn from the Interviews with the Immigrants in Germany. Thus, the myth and self-demand of Russian “Intelligentsija” is irrelevant for collective discourses among Russian Jews in Germany.
Russischsprachige Juden, die nach 1989 die Sowjetunion und ihre Nachfolgestaaten verlassen haben, zählen weltweit zu den bestqualifizierten Migranten. In ihren bevorzugten Zielländern (Israel, USA, Deutschland) zeichnen sie sich durch sichtbare Formen der kulturellen Selbstbehauptung, eine starke Aufstiegsmobilität und einen relativ hohen Grad der Selbstorganisation aus. Auf Grund des hohen Bildungsgrades und der dominierenden Berufsbilder konnte in Anlehnung an das Modell der „Strategic Elites“ von Suzanne Keller ein generell hoher Anteil an Eliten in der untersuchten Gruppe von Immigranten in Deutschland und Israel ausgemacht werden – v.a. professionelle, kulturelle und intellektuelle Eliten. Die Studie fragte danach, inwiefern Prozesse der kulturellen Selbstbehauptung, der lokalen und transnationalen Vernetzung und der ethno-kulturellen Selbstorganisation von den zugewanderten Eliten unterstützt oder sogar selbst befördert werden. Als empirische Grundlage dienten je 35 Experten-Interviews mit russisch-jüdischen Immigranten in beiden Ländern – dabei vorwiegend Wissenschaftler, Künstler, Schriftsteller, Publizisten/Journalisten, Lehrer, Ingenieure, Sozialarbeiter, Studenten und Politiker. Die qualitative Auswertung des Interviewmaterials in Deutschland und Israel ergab zahlreiche Gemeinsamkeiten, aber auch markante Unterschiede. Auffällig war, dass fast alle Interviewpartner mit russischsprachigen Netzwerken und Community-Strukturen gut verbunden blieben – unabhängig vom bisherigen Erfolg ihrer individuellen Integration. Fast durchweg waren sie sich ihrer überdurchschnittlichen beruflichen Kompetenzen (70% Akademiker) bewusst, die kulturellen, beruflichen und häufig auch politischen Ressourcen wurden mindestens als ebenbürtig zu jenen der Aufnahmegesellschaften betrachtet. Das Interesse an direkter gesellschaftlicher Partizipation und Akzeptanz war entsprechend hoch. Für das Zusammengehörigkeitsgefühl der Immigranten in Israel und Deutschland bilden russische Sprache, Kunst und (Alltags-) Kultur nach wie vor eine Schlüssel-Rolle. Dabei entsteht für die meisten Immigranten kein zwingender Widerspruch, sich "russisch" im kulturellen, "jüdisch" im ethnischen und "israelisch" / "deutsch" im nationalen Sinne zu fühlen - insofern ein klassischer Fall von additiver Identitätsbildung, der auch die zugewanderten Eliten charakterisiert. Assimilation in die Mehrheitsgesellschaft ist keine Option. Tendenzen ethno-kultureller Selbstorganisation, die erfolgreiche individuelle Integrationsverläufe im neuen Umfeld keineswegs ausschließen, zeigten sich am intensivsten in Israel. So reagiert ein Teil der russisch-jüdischen Eliten auf allgemeine Ausgrenzungserfahrungen und/oder Schließungsprozesse der lokalen Eliten bewusst mit der Bildung eigener Vereine, Medien, Bildungseinrichtungen und sogar politischer Parteien. Insgesamt widersprechen die Ergebnisse der Studie dem weitverbreiteten Stereotyp vom russisch-jüdischen Migranten als eines pragmatisch-passiven „Homo Sovieticus“. Zivilgesellschaftliches Engagement war bei den untersuchten Eliten eher der Regelfall. Zu den Traditionen der frühen, legendären russischen „Intelligentsija“ gehörten fließende Übergänge zwischen Kunst, Bildung und gesellschaftspolitischem Engagement. Dies setzt sich in Israel in einigen Gruppierungen der russisch-jüdischen Immigranten nahtlos fort. Dagegen machten die Experten-Interviews in Deutschland deutlich, dass ein vergleichbarer „Intelligentsija“-Effekt hier nicht zu erwarten ist - und daher für kollektive Orientierungsprozesse der russischen Juden irrelevant bleibt.

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Oh, David C. "Ethnic identity and transnational media: The relationship between second-generation Korean American adolescent ethnic identity and transnational Korean film." 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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Ricci, Daniela. "Cinémas transnationaux d'Afrique : identités, migrations et métissages culturels." Thesis, Lyon 3, 2013. http://www.theses.fr/2013LYO30061.

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Ce travail de thèse se propose d’analyser la question identitaire dans un corpus de films d’Afrique des années 2000. Echappant à la définition monolithique du "cinéma africain" comme genre à part, ces récits de fiction transnationaux reflètent la pluralité des appartenances culturelles des cinéastes. À partir de la notion de paraphrase, théorisée par Jean-Pierre Esquenazi dans son livre La vérité de la fiction. Comment peut-on croire que les récits de fiction nous parlent sérieusement de la réalité? nous étudions de quelle manière les fictions choisies exemplifient certains aspects des réalités complexes et des parcours de leurs auteurs. Il s’agit de parcours – personnels et collectifs – marqués par l’histoire de la colonisation, par des représentations initiales déformées des Africains et par l’expérience et les déchirures de la migration, celle-ci plaçant les cinéastes en position de minorité dans leur pays de résidence. Nous montrons que ce statut en marge, qui oblige à une redéfinition de soi, peut devenir source de créativité artistique et générer un style cinématographique original. Les fictions étudiées, tout en partant de contextes socioculturels spécifiques, touchent à des problématiques humaines universelles. Elles produisent des énonciations collectives qui prennent aussi une valeur politique. Grâce à des formes narratives et à des esthétiques sobres la plupart du temps, mais capables d’exprimer l’hybridité culturelle et la pluralité, ce sont des personnages complexes, aux identités composites, qui sont mis en scène dans leur devenir. Les notions de cinéma accentué d’Hamid Naficy et de mineur développée par Deleuze et Guattari nous aident à explorer comment le regard décentré, interstitiel et multifocal des cinéastes transnationaux offre des points de vue différents et novateurs
The aim of this thesis is to analyze the identity issues in a corpus of African films made in the 2000's. These transnational films escape from the monolithic definition of "African cinema" as a genre, and translate the plural belongings of filmmakers. Using the concept of paraphrase theorized by Jean-Pierre Esquenazi in his book La vérité de la fiction. Comment peut-on croire que les récits de fiction nous parlent sérieusement de la réalité?, we study how these fictions illustrate some aspects of their authors' complexe realities and paths. Their personal and collective experiences are marked by initial misrepresentations, by colonization, by migration and cultural ruptures, which place the filmmakers in a marginal position within their countries of residence. It will illustrate how the exilic condition, requiring a redefinition of oneself, could also become a source of artistic creativity, and could encourage one to invent an adequate cinematographic style. These fictions, even starting from specific socio-cultural contexts, expand to some larger human issues. Expressing collective statements, they become political movies. Through often sober narrative forms and aesthetics, but able to express cultural hybridity and plurality, complex characters, with shifting identities, are shown in their becoming process. The ideas of accented cinema by Hamid Naficy and of minor by Deleuze and Guattari help us to explore how the "off-centered", interstitial and multifocal perspective of the transnational filmmakers offer us different and innovatory points of view

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Tremblay-Auger, Benjamin, and Benjamin Tremblay-Auger. "Réputation, identités transnationales et soutien étranger de rébellions." Master's thesis, Université Laval, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11794/37256.

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Tableau d’honneur de la Faculté des études supérieures et postdoctorales, 2019-2020.
Tableau d’honneur de la Faculté des études supérieures et postdoctorales, 2019-2020.
Les États s’impliquent-ils parfois dans des conflits pour promouvoir une réputation de fermeté? Je revisite cette question fondamentale des relations internationales en l’étudiant dans un nouveau contexte. J’analyse les cas où des États soutiennent des rébellions de populations extérieures avec lesquelles ils ont des liens ethniques, religieux ou idéologiques. Je fais l’hypothèse que les États s’investissent dans certains de ces conflits afin de développer une réputation d’État défenseur d’une identité transnationale. Cette réputation leur permet de favoriser l’inclusion d’autres groupes co-identitaires ou d’obtenir des concessions en lien avec des enjeux internationaux. Puisque la construction de la réputation ne peut pas être observée directement, j’étudie des preuves indirectes de son existence. J’utilise un modèle formel inspiré de Kreps etWilson (1982) pour dériver trois prédictions directement reliées au mécanisme de la réputation: 1) Plus un État a de disputes avec d’autres pays en lien avec des groupes co-identitaires, plus il est probable qu’il soutienne une rébellion; 2) Plus un État a de disputes, plus il est probable que les groupes co-identitaires soient inclus politiquement dans leur pays; 3) Plus l’un de ces groupes est fort par rapport à son gouvernement, moins l’effet du nombre de disputes sur la probabilité qu’il se révolte est important. Pour tester ces prédictions, j’utilise des données sur les liens ethniques transnationaux, l’inclusion politique des groupes ethniques et le soutien étatique de groupes rebelles entre 1946 et 2010. Ces données riches me permettent de contourner certains des problèmes d’endogénéité et de taille d’échantillon qui affectent les études précédentes sur la réputation des États. J’obtiens des résultats cohérents avec mes prédictions, mais qui ne sont pas robustes à toutes les spécifications et tous les tests de robustesse.
Les États s’impliquent-ils parfois dans des conflits pour promouvoir une réputation de fermeté? Je revisite cette question fondamentale des relations internationales en l’étudiant dans un nouveau contexte. J’analyse les cas où des États soutiennent des rébellions de populations extérieures avec lesquelles ils ont des liens ethniques, religieux ou idéologiques. Je fais l’hypothèse que les États s’investissent dans certains de ces conflits afin de développer une réputation d’État défenseur d’une identité transnationale. Cette réputation leur permet de favoriser l’inclusion d’autres groupes co-identitaires ou d’obtenir des concessions en lien avec des enjeux internationaux. Puisque la construction de la réputation ne peut pas être observée directement, j’étudie des preuves indirectes de son existence. J’utilise un modèle formel inspiré de Kreps etWilson (1982) pour dériver trois prédictions directement reliées au mécanisme de la réputation: 1) Plus un État a de disputes avec d’autres pays en lien avec des groupes co-identitaires, plus il est probable qu’il soutienne une rébellion; 2) Plus un État a de disputes, plus il est probable que les groupes co-identitaires soient inclus politiquement dans leur pays; 3) Plus l’un de ces groupes est fort par rapport à son gouvernement, moins l’effet du nombre de disputes sur la probabilité qu’il se révolte est important. Pour tester ces prédictions, j’utilise des données sur les liens ethniques transnationaux, l’inclusion politique des groupes ethniques et le soutien étatique de groupes rebelles entre 1946 et 2010. Ces données riches me permettent de contourner certains des problèmes d’endogénéité et de taille d’échantillon qui affectent les études précédentes sur la réputation des États. J’obtiens des résultats cohérents avec mes prédictions, mais qui ne sont pas robustes à toutes les spécifications et tous les tests de robustesse.

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Patrice, Jessy. "Identités et pratiques culturelles autour de la migration : le cas des martiniquais installés en France hexagonale." Thesis, Antilles, 2016. http://www.theses.fr/2016ANTI0132/document.

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Depuis plus d’une décennie, les problèmes causés par la migration et touchant l’identité se retrouvent au centre de l’actualité en France. L’histoire de la Martinique, est composée de diverses migrations parfois forcées, d’épisodes tragiques, de l’influence de plusieurs cultures plus ou moins dominantes.Cette recherche vise à analyser la construction de l’identité, et les orientations des pratiques culturelles à travers l’expérience migratoire. Ainsi, notre ambition est d’observer les transformations a-priori survenant entre le territoire d’origine (Martinique) et le territoire d’accueil (France Hexagonale). Nos investigations ont mis en évidence la construction-continue de l’identité de ces individus, dont les pratiques transnationales (appuyées par l’usage des médias et des réseaux sociaux) servent de lien et de maintien avec le territoire et la culture d’origine. Pour autant, cette posture est chez certains individus concomitante d’une profonde volonté d’intégration, se manifestant par des stratégies localisées. Enfin, ces travaux offrent la lecture d’une possible identité collective reposant sur des référents socio-culturels qui circulent et qui sont largement partagés
For over a decade, the problems caused by migration and related identity have been at the center of the news in France. The history of Martinique, a French overseas department, is composed of various sometimes forced migrations, tragic episodes of the influence of several more or less dominant cultures.This research endeavors to analyze the construction of identity and the development of cultural practices through the migratory experience by observing the changes that occur between the territory of origin (Martinique) and the host country (France). Our investigations present identity construction in these individuals as a continual process, including transnational practices (supported by the use of media and social networks) that serve to establish and maintain contact with the area and the culture of origin. However, for some individuals, this posture is concomitant with a deep desire for integration, manifested by localized strategies. Finally, this work may be read as the account of a possible collective identity based on socio-cultural references that are widely shared

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Pischner, Kim. "EU-medborgares nationella och transnationella identiteter och dess påverkan på europeisk integration : Ett socialkonstruktivistiskt perspektiv på europeiskt integration." Thesis, Linköpings universitet, Statsvetenskap, 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-157385.

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The purpose of this thesis is to examine the role of identity when it comes to European integration. Specifically, the citizen of the European Union’s identity as exclusive national or as transnational. What does the social constructivist theory say when it comes to the role of EU-citizens identity and European integration? I also want to contribute to strengthen the social constructivist theory in political science and international politics. I will examine this through a discourse analysis on four different selected materials. A campaign webpage from the Vote Leave group who ran a campaign to make the Great Britain leave the European Union, an interview the German newspaper der SPIEGEL did with Marine Le Pen who is the party leader of the French right-winged party Rassemblent National, a debate article written by the French president Emmanuel Macron and the Swedish party Liberalernas webpage campaign for the European Parliament elections 2019. I analyse how the discourse these four examples shape and creates the feeling of national or transnational identity and what the message connected to that identity-making says about European integration. With my discourse analysis and the theories of Thomas Risse and Catherine E. De Vries on social constructivism, identity and European integration I analyse and see that those who identify exclusively with a national identity are less keen on solidarity between nations, common policies and have a xenophobic view as oppose to those who have a transnational identity who are positive towards solidarity between nations, want a closer European integration and are not hostile towards migrants. I come to the conclusion that the identity of the EU-citizens is a major factor in human action, political mobilization, political action as in choosing and voting for a party, the EU-institutions way of negotiating on common political issues, public opinion and election outcomes. This means that feeling of an exclusive national or transnational identity is an important factor of European integration.

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Alejandro, González-Lario. "Zainichi beyond the third way : towards a transnational identity." Thesis, University of Leeds, 2017. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/19480/.

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Since the end of the Pacific War, the existence of the Korean minority in Japan (Zainichi Koreans) has been trapped in a monolithic dichotomy of Koreanness and Japaneseness. In this situation, Zainichi Koreans faced the dilemma of whether to become full citizens of Japanese society through naturalisation and abandon their Korean ethnicity or to maintain either of their Korean legal affiliations (colonial Korean registration, Chôsen register, or South Korean citizenship) and their status of foreign resident as a means of claiming their Koreanness. In the late 1970s, Kim Tong-Myung proposed an alternative to the monolithic dichotomy in his articulation of the ‘Third Way’, which aimed at transcending nationalist discourses by advocating a new subjectivity for the younger generations as simply Zainichi. This study questions the Third Way discourse by criticising its failure to address the actual diversity within the Zainichi community. Furthermore, through the examination of a new set of empirical data collected from qualitative research methods involving participant observation as well as semi-structured and in-depth interviews, this work presents new insights into the question of the Zainichi identity. Focusing on the impact of ethnic education in the formation of an ethnic identity in third and fourth generation Zainichi individuals, this study analyses the similarities and divergences in the identity formation process of twelve Zainichi participants from four different educational backgrounds: Chôsen schools, South Korea-oriented Kenkoku school, extracurricular Minzoku Gakkyû courses, and Japanese public schools. In addition, the analysis of participants’ interpretations and conceptualisations of their own existence with respect to Japan and the Korean Peninsula permits the elaboration of a new theory that highlights the dynamism and the fluidity of Zainichi identities, which overcome traditional, nationalist discourses and seek new ways of transnational belonging.

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Goreau-Ponceaud, Anthony. "La diaspora tamoule : trajectoires spatio-temporelles et inscriptions territoriales en Île-de-France." Phd thesis, Université Michel de Montaigne - Bordeaux III, 2008. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00365365.

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La question de la diaspora tamoule est intimement liée à celle de l'existence d'une communauté à l'étranger prise en étau par une double ambivalence : entre ancrage et mobilité et entre ouverture et fermeture. La recherche se propose d'aborder cette question en revenant sur les conditions d'émergence d'une identité diasporique qui fait fi des clivages de toute sorte. Sur la base d'une série d'entretiens et de questionnaires prenant corps dans une ethnologie multisite, il s'agit plus largement de comprendre ce que signifie être tamoul en France et comment se structure cette expérience. La présentation des différentes trajectoires spatio-temporelles, d'une part, permet de révéler l'hétérogénéité de la catégorie diaspora tamoule, composée de trois segments dont les conditions d'émergence sont liées à des cadres migratoires divergents, d'autre part met en évidence l'émergence de Paris et plus généralement de l'Île-de-France comme pôle important de son fonctionnement.

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Virmani, Priya. "Consumption of transnational television and its impact on diaspora identity." Thesis, University of Bristol, 2006. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.442199.

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Krueger, Rebecca Chalk. "Longing and belonging transnational identity in The edge of heaven /." Click to view the E-thesis via HKUTO, 2009. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/B42926701.

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Carnine, Julia. "La mobilité estudiantine française, le « study abroad » américain et le « 留学 liu xue » chinois : une étude comparative des séjours internationaux au travers des réseaux sociaux et des identifications nationales." Thesis, Toulouse 2, 2014. http://www.theses.fr/2014TOU20042/document.

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Aujourd’hui, nous assistons à une véritable explosion de la mobilité académique internationale. Pourtant un étudiant mobile, est-il transformé après une expérience à l’étranger ? Est-ce que cela modifie sa vision de sa nation, d’autres nations? Et si oui, quels sont les facteurs déclencheurs des changements ? Il existe peu d’études empiriques comparatives internationales sur l’impact d’un séjour à l’étranger. Ceci est un travail de terrain dans trois pays avec de grands flux d’étudiants mobiles (la France, la Chine et les États-Unis) effectué de 2010 à 2011, et d’un échantillon de 180 étudiants mobiles enquêtés. L’objectif de cette thèse est d’examiner les éléments qui, pendant son séjour, peuvent influer sur le regard que l’étudiant porte sur lui-même et la manière dont il comprend ses attaches à son pays. Notre question centrale est de savoir si, grâce aux réseaux de relations interpersonnelles tissées lors du séjour à l'étranger, les éléments d'identification au pays d'origine et l'idée de la nation telle qu'elle est conçue dans chaque tradition nationale, subissent des transformations. Nous faisons l’hypothèse qu’il existe un lien entre la composition internationale du réseau et l’adhésion de l’étudiant aux identifications nationales ouvertes et tolérantes. L’analyse des réseaux sociaux ainsi qu’une analyse statistique multivariée qui définit un indicateur d’identification nationale servent à montrer ces articulations. En conclusion, il s’avère que les types de sociabilités développées lors du séjour international impactent les identifications. Les cadres institutionnels de la mobilité sont à réfléchir dans ce sens
We are currently witness to an explosion of international academic mobility across the globe. However, can we truly speak of a student returning ‘transformed’ by his or her foreign study experience with an altered worldview? And if so, what may have triggered such changes? As international educators we face a lack of international empirically based comparative studies on the impact of a study abroad as well as how the various institutional frameworks of mobility and students’ social lives in the host country contribute to different outcomes. This dissertation is based on fieldwork in three countries (France, China and the United States) undertaken in 2010 and 2011 with a sample of 180 mobile students surveyed. The various factors at play during an academic sojourn abroad that may impact a student’s self-understanding and his/her ties to his/her country are examined. Our central question is whether students’ national identifications and the idea of the nation as conceived in each national tradition undergo transformations influenced by the relationships and social networks woven during the stay abroad. We assume that there is a link between the internationally heterogeneous composition of a network and a more open and tolerant set of national identifications. Social network analyses and an original multivariate statistical indicator measuring national identity types are used to show this link. In conclusion, we demonstrate how types of social networks impact ideas about national identity. Given the strong structural influence of mobility frameworks on student sociability, we can more accurately compare them in terms of their potential impact on students’ international understanding

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Duchêne-Lacroix, Cédric. "Archipels transnationaux et agencements identitaires : Présences françaises à Berlin." Université Marc Bloch (Strasbourg) (1971-2008), 2006. http://www.theses.fr/2006STR20010.

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Dans nos sociétés haut-modernes se développent des manières de vivre fragmentées en plusieurs lieux éloignés géographiquement ou/et culturellement (archipélisation) soutenues par des moyens de communications tant physiques qu'informationnels rapides et popularisés. Des manières de vivre dépassant des aires culturelles nationales sont appelées transnationales. La persistance et la forme de ces archipels ainsi que les profils et représentations des individus y participant posent questions tant à un niveau personnel qu'au niveau social. Nos réponses empiriques s'appuient sur plus de 50 entretiens, 1000 questionnaires ménages, 14 ans d'extraits de registres et des observations participantes avec des Français de Berlin. L'appropriation et le maintien cognitif, fonctionnel, social et identitaire d'îlots nécessitent l'exercice de gymnastiques culturelles. Existence et formes d'îlots sont aussi construits de présence. Le marquage culturel des archipels reste national sauf exceptions notables
In our highly-modern societies, ways of living in different places away from one another geographically or/and culturally speaking are being developed (archipelisation) supported by fast and popularised, either material or informational means of communication. Living beyond national cultural spheres is called transnational. The persistence and the shape of those archipelagos as well as the profiles and representations of the participants arise questions at personal and social level. Our empiric answers are based on more than 50 interviews, 1000 household questionnaires, 14-year register extracts and observations about French people living in Berlin. The cognitive, functional, social appropriation and upholding of identifying communities require the practice of cultural gymnastics. Such communities also exist through the representation their members imagine of themselves. The cultural brand of the archipelagos mainly remains a national one except in some interesting new cases

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Ncube, Nolwazi Nadia. "Narratives of the transnational student: a complicated story of cultural identity, cultural exchange and homecoming." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/13703.

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This research study gives a glimpse into the ways in which transnational study complicates students' cultural identity, sense of belonging and homecoming; interweaving their experiences into a new transnational identity and a plural sense of belonging. The study examines a sub-group of elite, highly mobile people referred to as "transnational students" - who in a working definition are students who have travelled to; lived, studied and even sometimes worked in at least two countries during the course of their degree programmes. It draws on their autobiographical narratives in order to demonstrate the way in which they exist in a suspended state of 'temporary permanence' and with time, develop a' contaminated' sense of cultural identity, diluted by their 'foreign exchanges'. The study reveals the mercurial fluidity with which abstract and concrete constructions of home are made by transnational students. It also portrays the ways in which these students navigate their multiplied entities as a result of their cultural exchanges abroad. Finally, it tells a story of (dis)connects and (dis)connections to bring out the challenges faced by these students abroad and at home.

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Masdeu, Torruella Irene. "Mobilities and embodied transnational practices: An ethnography of return(s) and other intersections between China and Spain." Doctoral thesis, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/285193.

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Aquesta investigació té com a objectiu analitzar els vincles transnacionals i les pràctiques de retorn de les persones xineses que viuen a l’Estat espanyol des d’una perspectiva intergeneracional. L’estudi consisteix en una etnografia centrada a Qingtian, a la provincial de Zhejiang, que és el lloc de procedència de bona part dels xinesos que resideixen a l’Estat Espanyol. Aquesta tesis analitza els moviments de retorn tenint en compte la diversitat de pràctiques transnacionals entre Xina i l’estat Espanyol que perfilen la vida diària dels migrants procedents de Qingtian. Aquesta investigació no conceptualitza el retorn com una realitat aïllada i desvinculada d’altres pràctiques socials, sinó que s’aproxima a aquest fenomen a través de l’estudi d’altres formes de mobilitat i pràctiques transnacionals. Per això, l’etnografia no es centra únicament en els moviments, les trajectòries i experiències dels retornats, sinó que adopta una perspectiva relacional per tal d’explorar el rol de diferents actors social, de diferents espais i moviments en els actuals processos de migració. Per tal de d’assolir aquest objectiu s’ha desenvolupat un model analític que inclou les diferents pràctiques transnacionals en funció del seu grau de materialització física: des dels moviments de persones (visites, migració I retorn), a les mobilitats desenvolupades a través de l’agència dels objectes (circulació d’objectes, productes i de capital econòmic, així com del seu emplaçament en diferents espais), fins a les pràctiques transnacionals més etèries que es desenvolupen a través dels contactes virtuals i l’intercanvi d’informació. Aquest model conceptual i analític ens ha permès examinar de quina manera els moviments d’objectes, d’informació i d’idees, així com també de persones, s’erigeixen com a factors clau en les pràctiques transnacionals actuals i les diferents formes de mobilitat entre Qingtian i l’Estat Español. D’alguna manera, cadascuna d’aquestes pràctiques podrien ser en sí mateixes l’objecte de recerca però en aquest estudi ens hem centrat en la lògica que s’estableix entre diferents pràctiques en l’àmbit de la mobilitat entre Qingtian / Xina I l’Estat Espanyol. Aquest estudi ha demostrat que les pràctiques socials transnacionals han canviat el seu significant, la seva intensitat, la direcció i les dimensions, i que noves formes de mobilitat entre Xina i l’estat Espanyol estan emergent en els últims anys. L’estudi a permès veure de quina manera la transformació de les pràctiques transnacionals actuals està vinculada amb diversos aspectes como son els canvis estructurals, el contínuum generacional, factors de classe i la diversitat deformes de mobilitat. Finalment la recerca ha demostrat que els moviments de migració de persones xineses des de l’estat Espanyol en direcció a la Xina no es poden explicar usant el concepte de retorn en el seu sentit tradicional. Aquest fet és aplicable tant quan es fa referència als migrants de primera generació, així com també quan ens referim als seus descendent. Els actuals desplaçament cap a la Xina no només impliquen una mobilitat física sinó que també comporten una mobilitat social donat que tenen com a objectiu “tornar per seguir endavant”.
This dissertation aims to explore transnational links and contemporary return migration practices from Spain to China from an intergenerational perspective. The study is framed in an in-depth ethnography based in Qingtian (Zhejiang), the place from where most of the Chinese people in Spain come from. The ethnography conceptualizes and analyses return process inside the diversity of transnational practices and links between China and Spain that shape the life of Qingtianese migrants. Therefore this dissertation does not approach return as a detached and isolated phenomenon but approaches it within the wider scope of transnational practices. The aim of this research is not only to follow itineraries and understand the experience of migrants who return to China. Going beyond this one-sided perspective focused on the perspective of "returnees", this ethnography takes a relational perspective and explores the broader context of the migration process, which includes different social actors, different places and different forms of mobility. To do so, I developed an empirically-grounded analytical scheme, which includes the different bidirectional transnational practices according to their different nature and degrees of embodiment: from the physical movement of people (visits, migration and return) to object-mediated mobilities (circulation of objects, products and economic capital and their emplacement), and the more ethereal, virtual contacts and exchange of information through the new information and communication technologies. The conceptual and analytical model, explained in detail in the introduction of Chapter four, allowed me to underscore how different movements related to things, ideas and people are an integral part of present-day transnational practices between Qingtian and Spain. In a way, each one of those practices could stand as a single study but the aim of this research project is to underscore how are these transnational practices interrelated in the scope of the nowadays mobility between Qingtian / China and Spain. This study has shown that transnational social practices have changed in meaning, intensity, direction and dimension in the last few years and that new modes of mobility are arising within the China – Spain scope. Besides, the research revealed how nowadays transnational connections and mobilities are involved in a complex set of factors related to structural changes, generation continuum, class and different nature of mobility. Weather we are referring to migrants or to their descendants, nowadays movements from Spain to China featured by Chinese people cannot be explained as a return in its traditional sense. These practices not only involve a physical but also a social mobility and are aimed to keep on “moving on by going back”.

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Kingolo, Luzingu Michel. "Socio-anthropologie du phénomène des "combattants " dans la diaspora congolaise (RDC). INGETA, AINSI SOIT-IL." Thesis, Paris, EHESS, 2020. http://www.theses.fr/2020EHES0045.

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Le phénomène des Combattants dans la diaspora congolaise se révèle comme l’un des printemps chauds de l’histoire de la RDCONGO. Il traite de la réaction d’une diaspora devant l’absurdité de la guerre, de crises multiformes ainsi que de l’insécurité protéiforme dans une mère patrie taxée de scandale géologique à cause d’un sous-sol immensément riche, d’un écosystème diversifié et doté d’une exceptionnelle biodiversité, mais dont la population croupit dans l’indigence. Cette situation misérabiliste et paradoxale s’est traduite par une exaspération croissante qui a pris tout son sens dans la mobilisation des masses au sein de la diaspora qui intervient constamment, avec le fait des transferts d’argent. Depuis dix ans, la mobilisation des Combattants au sein de la communauté congolaise à l’étranger a marqué son empreinte dans les cinq continents. L’aspect visible de la mobilisation soudaine de cette communauté, internationale et originale par sa forme, n’a pas manqué de surprendre. Motivée par ce constat empirique, cette étude analyse ce phénomène inédit dans l’histoire de la République démocratique du Congo, dans la mesure où il met en jeu de nouvelles formes de mobilisations et de contestations qui, à notre avis, constituent une forme originale d’un mouvement contestataire à l’heure de la globalisation. L’étude analyse la mobilisation des Combattants par le prisme de la grille des nouveaux mouvements sociaux transnationaux ou des mouvements altermondialistes. De prime abord, elle propose ainsi un cadre de réflexion et développe une analyse rigoureuse du phénomène des Combattants : comprendre sa morphologie : sa structuration, son mode de fonctionnement, ses stratégies de militance, ses effets, ses causes et sa portée ; ensuite, elle rend compte du contenu de leur mobilisation dont quelques aspects touchent la question de l’humanité, de la dignité, de l’identité « Afropéenne » ou Afro-occidentale, de l’Ubuntu, des antagonismes, de la violence, de la dimension religieuse et de la responsabilité pour les générations futures. Elle saisit enfin à partir des perspectives élaborées par les membres de la diaspora africaine, comment les pratiques de la mobilisation transnationale participent concrètement à la construction du monde commun et dynamique autour des nouveaux acteurs dits « Afropéens » ou afro-occidentaux. Tout cela a permis, ensuite, à faire une lecture analytique de la mobilisation des Combattants à la lumière de théories et caractéristiques des NMST lorsque ces dernières se confrontent à la question des relations transnationales
The phenomenon of congolese combatants in the diaspora is proving to be one of the hot springs in the history of the DR CONGO. Il deals with the reaction of a diaspora faced with the absurdity of wars, multifaceted crises as well as protean insecurity in a country where geological scandals are common because of her rich natural ressources, her diverse ecosystem with an extraordinary biodiversity, but whose population languishes in abject poverty. This miserable and paradoxal situation has resulted in a growing exasperation that has taken on a sense of mobilizing of the masses within the diaspora constantly intervening, resulting in money transfers. Over the past ten years, the mobilization of these combatants within the Congolese community abroad has made its mark on all five continents. The visible aspect of the sudden mobilization of this community, international and original in its form, did not fail to surprise. Motivated by this empirical observation, this current study analyses this original phenomenon in the history of the Democratic Republic of Congo, inasmuch as it involves new forms of mobilization and protest which, in our opinion, constitute a form of an original protest movement in the age of globalization. This present study analyzes the mobilization of combatants through the prism of the grid of new socio-transnational movements or alter-globalization movements. In the first place, it thus proposes a framework for reflection and develops a rigorous analysis of the phenomenon of combatants : understanding its morphology : its structuring, its mode of operation, its strategies of militance, its effects, its causes and its scope; secondly, it takes into consideration the content of their mobilization, which affects some aspects of humanity, human dignity, "Afro-Western" (Afro-european) or Afro-Western identity, antagonisms, violence, religion and responsibility for future generations. Finally, from the perspectives elaborated by members of the African diaspora, it tackles how the practices of transnational mobilization are concretely involved in building the common and dynamic world around the new actors known as "Afropeans" or Afro-Westerns. All of this has allowed, then, to make an analytical reading of the combatants mobilization in the light of theories and NMST characteristics when they confront the issue of transnational relations

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Chapman, Daniel E. "A visual and textual analysis of transnational identity formation and representation." Greensboro, N.C. : University of North Carolina at Greensboro, 2007. http://libres.uncg.edu/edocs/etd/Chapman/Chapman.pdf.

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Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of North Carolina at Greensboro, 2007.
Directed by Leila E. Villaverde; submitted to the School of Education. Title from PDF t.p. (viewed Oct. 18, 2007). Includes bibliographical references (p. 197-203).

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Foxen, Patricia. "K'iche' Maya in a re-imagined world : transnational perspectives on identity." Thesis, McGill University, 2001. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=38191.

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Over the past two decades, large-scale transnational migrations between Central America and the United States have had a significant impact upon both home and host societies. In Guatemala, cross-border movement was spawned by the brutal civil war that devastated many indigenous communities in the early 1980s. Over time, this flow resulted in the formation of complex transnational networks and identities that span home and host locations. This thesis examines the manners in which a community of K'iche' Indians straddled between the highlands of El Quiche, Guatemala and an industrial New England city have responded to the deterritorialization caused by the confluence of violence and displacement. It describes, on the one hand, the context of post-war reconstruction in El Quiche, which is shaped by a fragile institutional peace process and an emerging ethnopolitical movement that emphasizes a pan-Maya identity. On the other hand, it depicts an inner-city space in the US where K'iche' labor migrants lead hidden, marginal lives, seeking to obscure any overt form of collective organization or identity. By examining the flows of people, money, commodities and symbols between these contrasting environments, the thesis shows how K'iche's in both communities maintain concrete and imaginary connections with each other despite the many ruptures caused by violence and dislocation. The thesis also teases out the manners in which today's cross-border movements, which involve ever larger distances, absences, and cash inflows, are both inscribed in, and differ from, previous local strategies of, and discourses on, internal movement and migration within Guatemala, which have long formed part of K'iche' culture. Specifically, it shows how K'iche's draw on their "mobile" past in order to maintain a sense of continuity in the present and elaborate viable identities and strategies for the future. Overall, the thesis argues that the multiplicity of strategies and discourses developed b

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Mitchell, Kathryn E. "Foreign Terrorist Organizations: The Correlation Between Group Identity and Becoming Transnational." Ohio University / OhioLINK, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1366131538.

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Montano, Charlene LaDawn. "The Transnational Gaze: Viewing Mexican Identity in Contemporary Corridos and Narcocorridos." Oberlin College Honors Theses / OhioLINK, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=oberlin1274477319.

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Katito, George. "Pink Atlantic : American Global Power and the Construction of Gay Identities in Paris and London (1940s-1980s)." Thesis, Sorbonne université, 2020. http://www.theses.fr/2020SORUL014.

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La construction des identités gay à Paris et à Londres depuis la fin de la deuxième guerre mondiale reflète l’ascendance du pouvoir politique, culturel, et économique états-unien et ses enjeux. Suivant l’œuvre de l’historien Alain Bérubé sur la Deuxième Guerre mondiale, ce projet de recherche part de ce moment quand des villes états-uniennes deviennent centrales aux rapports transatlantiques de savoir, capital économique, et influence culturelle. Dans ce contexte particulier, une conscience d’une identité homosexuelle masculine émerge, structurée par les échanges transatlantiques des nouveaux réseaux militants et culturels. Cela suscite résistances et adaptations. À Paris l’opposition à l’influence américaine sur la construction des identités gay se développe dans les politiques de la gauche comme celles de la droite où les deux s’accordaient curieusement sur ce sujet. Ce n’est qu’à la fin des années 70 et au début des années 80 qu’une influence états-unienne s’impose sur les identités gay de la capitale française. Les commerces américains en recherche des nouveaux marchés gay retrouvent une niche parisienne. Parallèlement, les petites entreprises parisiennes, inspirées par les modèles américains, construisent des espaces de consommation et d’acceptation de l’homosexualité masculine. L’arrivée des pratiques spatiales et comportements de consommateurs américains participe considérablement à la reconstitution des identités individuelles et collectives gay parisiennes. À Paris, comme à Londres, les identités gay se sont approprié, mais aussi ont renégocié et résisté les sémiotiques, pratiques politiques, sociales, et économiques nées dans les villes états-uniennes devenues globales, dans le sens que donne Saskia Sassen au mot
The construction of gay identities in Paris and London since the end of the Second World War has reflected the rise of American global political, economic, and sociocultural power. Building upon historian Alain Bérubé’s work on the Second World War, this thesis begins at this critical turning point when American cities became central to transatlantic flows of knowledge, economic capital, and cultural influence. It is within this context that a consciousness of a shared male homosexual identity began to emerge. Resistance, and adaptation, to this nascent awareness and the political activist and cultural networks that fed it, soon ensued. In Paris, the Left and Right made for strange bedfellows as they opposed the new transatlantic gay politics. As such, it would only be in the late 1970s and at the dawn of the 80s that American influence began to play a significant role in shaping gay identities in the French capital. At this point, American capital in search of new markets in Europe found an unexploited market in Paris. Furthermore, small business inspired by American models created spaces of consumption, and acceptance, for gay men. Americanized spatial practices and consumer behavior thus began to play a crucial role in the construction of individual and collective gay identities in Paris. In both Paris and London, gay identities took form as gay men appropriated, resisted ,and negotiated the symbols and political, social and economic practices of American-turned-global cities. “Global” understood in Saskia Sassen’s sense of the word

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Gardner, Jane. "Exile, transnational connections, and the construction of identity, Tibetan immigrants in Montreal." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2000. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp01/MQ47785.pdf.

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Walker, Erin F. "The Scottish Pipe Band in North America: Tradition, Transformation, and Transnational Identity." UKnowledge, 2015. http://uknowledge.uky.edu/music_etds/45.

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For Scots and non-Scots alike, the sounds of the bagpipes and the pipe band serve as a cultural metaphor for Scottish identity: the skirl of the pipes, the crisp sound of the snare drums, and the unique lilt of the music conjure an imagined Scotland of fierce, kilted clansmen and rugged, picturesque Highland scenery. This nearly global association appears to have been constructed on a series of transformations of cultural practices within Scotland itself, as well as throughout greater Britain and the lands of the Scottish diaspora, that began with the early “kiltophiles” in the late eighteenth century. Then, in the nineteenth century, its appeal was rendered greater by the romanticization of the Highlander in British literature, Queen Victoria's affinity for summer holidays at Balmoral Castle, expanded pipe band use in the British Army, and the formation of Scottish heritage societies embracing Highland dress, music, and sport. The turn of the twentieth century saw the pipe band move beyond military spheres to serve a range of civic and social purposes within Scotland, and throughout the subsequent hundred-plus year period, pipe bands as community musical ensembles have spread throughout the lands of the Scottish diaspora and other areas of the globe. Although there were and are a range of organizations, practices, and trends that offer insight into cultural developments within Scotland and the Scottish diaspora, the primary goal of this dissertation is to study the role of the pipe band in the construction and transformation of Scottish identity through an examination of the meanings, values, and musical practices that are built into ideas of "Scottishness" from the mid-nineteenth through the twenty-first century in the British Isles and North America. In its consideration of late twentieth- to twenty-first-century North American pipe bands, it will cast special light on selected bands of the Southeast and Ohio Valley regions, using two ensembles, the Kentucky United Pipes and Drums and the Knoxville Pipes and Drums, and one Highland festival, the Scotland County Highland Games, as case studies of present-day practices, but also as windows into identity formation within and through bands of the past.

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Ata, Ayar. "Transnational migration, integration, and identity : a study of Kurdish diaspora in London." Thesis, London South Bank University, 2017. http://researchopen.lsbu.ac.uk/1783/.

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To understand the Kurdish diaspora in London requires answering two interrelated questions of Kurdish forced migration history and Kurdish cultural identity. Thus, this study firstly examines the history of Kurdish forced migration and displacement, exploring a common historical argument which positions the Kurds as powerless victims of the First World War (WW1). To this end it looks critically at the post-WW1 era and the development of the modern nation state in the Middle East, namely Turkey, Iraq and Syria. This first part sets out the context for explaining and gaining a better understanding of the systematic sociopolitical marginalisation which led to the forced migration of the Kurds from the 1920s onwards. Secondly, this study evaluates the integration experiences of some members of the Kurdish diaspora in London, who have settled in this city since the1990s.1Furthermore, this part attempts to describe the shifting position of the Kurds from victims in the Middle East, with trends in ethnic integration, and their negotiations of multiculturalism in London. This capital city has historically held a promise and attraction for many migrants of becoming Londoners, and this now includes Kurdish-Londoners. Moreover, the comparison is made between the positions and perspectives of the first generation that came to Britain in the 1990s and the second generation Kurds born in Britain in this period. This allows an exploration of the notion of identity and ideas of home and belonging in light of contemporary changes and concomitant theories of diaspora and refugee studies, and, where necessary, challenges those ideas. Therefore, with the dual questions of history and identity in mind, this study attempts to innovate in terms of its methodology. The methodological chapter discusses the need for a particular epistemology; that is a more explicit method of combining diaspora history and diaspora identity. Evidence from previous academic work suggests that questions of Kurdish history and Kurdish cultural identity are inextricably linked. This study’s research method is based on ethnographic fieldwork and the collection of qualitative data through 25 one-to-one semi-structured interviews, with participants selected from across different sections of the Kurdish diaspora community(ies) in London. In order to test and clarify complex conceptual issues three focus group meetings were also organised which were held within community settings (one in North London, one in South London, and one in Central London at Birkbeck College, University of London). An important complementary factor in my systematic access to relevant and reliable data about refugee integration in London was my active advocacy and case work, from 2004 to 2014, at an NGO in South East London supporting refugee integration. This work involved 20 Kurdish refugee families and individuals.2 Finally, this study attempts to uncover the gaps in existing literature and to critically highlight the dominance of policy and politics driven research in this field, thereby justifying the need for a new approach. This approach recognises flexible, multiple and complex human cultural behaviors in different situations through consideration of the lived experiences of members of the Kurdish diaspora in London. This lived experience approach is useful in gaining an understanding of the complex processes and stages undertaken in becoming part of the diaspora and also part of London. The stages as reflected in the personal narratives include initial arrival in London and encounters with the British state’s immigration and integration policies, the actual process of rebuilding individual or family life, and new home making through the on-going challenges, shifts and negotiations of identities. That is, the slow process of becoming a Kurdish-Londoner.

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Cheung, Chi Kin. "Chinese nationalism : a critical understanding of Chinese identity in a transnational context." Thesis, University of Manchester, 2010. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.521639.

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Arikan, Burcak. "Assyrian Transnational Politics: Activism From Europe Towards Homeland." Master's thesis, METU, 2011. http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12612893/index.pdf.

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ASSYRIAN TRANSNATIONAL POLITICS: ACTIVISM FROM EUROPE TOWARDS HOMELAND ARIKAN BURÇ
AK Department of International Relations Supervisor: Assoc. Prof. Dr. Sabine Strasser January 2011, 105 pages This thesis examines the transnational political practices Assyrian diaspora undertakes in Europe to generate a positive change in the minority rights of Assyrians in Turkey. Based on inductive reading of existing literature on transnational migration and transnational politics and my own research I conducted in the form of expert interviews in Germany, Sweden and in Turkey with transmigrants and the representatives of Assyrian organisations I discuss the reasons, the contexts and the actual transnational political practices Assyrians undertake in Europe. The thesis argues that Assyrian transnational political practices intensified 2000 onwards after Assyrian community have developed a self representation of their emigration experience and have been through an identity building process in Europe which is referred to as &ldquo
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in this study. The thesis considers Mor Gabriel Case, which started to be seen in 2008 in Turkey, awakening a milestone in the fresh history of transnational political activism of this community
since the solidarity and transnational political networking towards this case are unprecedented in the Assyrian diaspora&rsquo
s half century of history in Europe. By focusing on the activities carried out with regards to this case, the study lastly attempts to reveal the inner tensions vested within the transnational political network and argues for further critical examination of the complex relations among Assyrian diaspora, the place of origin and the receiving countries.

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Salih, Ruba. "Transnational lives, plurinational subjects : identity, migration and difference among Moroccan women in Italy." Thesis, University of Sussex, 2000. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.302239.

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Lee, Ming-Tsung. "Absorbing 'Japan' : transnational media, cross-cultural consumption, and identity practice in contemporary Taiwan." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2005. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/284047.

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Starnes, Rebekah Ann. "Transnational Transports: Identity, Community, and Place in German-American Narratives from 1750s-1850s." The Ohio State University, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1333727595.

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Kerby, Erik R. "Negotiating identity in the transnational imaginary of Julia Alvarez and Edwidge Danticat's literature /." Diss., CLICK HERE for online access, 2008. http://contentdm.lib.byu.edu/ETD/image/etd2415.pdf.

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Wang, Suyang. "An investigation into the transnational identity of Chinese student returnees from the UK." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 2018. http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/49712/.

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This study explores the meaning of transnational identity of Chinese student returnees from the UK. The study is set in the context of transnationalism in the new era of globalisation. The scientific importance of this research lies in that it seeks to understand transnational identity in student returnees'experiences under the theory of transnationalism. It fills the research gap by providing a new theoretical perspective and methodological approach to identity. Under transnationalism, the study not only explores identity changes in a particular country and culture, but investigates it in the changing and overlapping countries and cultures, especially in China and the UK. To provide a more nuanced description of student returnees’ identity changes, qualitative methodology is adopted. Each student returnee is interviewed three times based on three different settings: first, based on their personal experiences in the UK; second, based on their personal experiences in China; the final round is the conclusion for the first two rounds. Altogether, 48 interviews were completed and analysed. Data based on the three rounds of interviews (two main settings) are organised into two finding chapters. The study finds that transnational identity is understood as single, composing several dimensions. For this study in particular, student returnees'transnational identity can be explained by four major dimensions: the capacity to build connections between cultures, diaspora consciousness, diaspora values and attitudes, and expansion of behaviours and actions. In terms of the process in which transnational identity is formed, the study also finds that Chinese student returnees went through different phases and levels of changes of transnational identity. More importantly, the complex changes in transnational identity show the interplay between agency and structure(s). On the one hand, Chinese student returnees negotiated their identity of various levels of structures, including society, social group, institutional and virtual levels. On the other hand, although various structures provided the context in which student returnees negotiated their transnational identity, it was student returnees'agency that shaped their sojourn and homecoming experience and further identity changes. In particular, it was the extent to which student returnees mobilized their agency that made the difference. Among many factors shaping different responses in agency, the divergence and convergence between agency and structure played a critical role in making the difference. The findings not only nuance the theories of identity and transnational identity, but also deepen our understanding of Chinese students and student returnees’ sojourn and homecoming experience, in addition to a new perspective into the phenomenon of culture shock and reverse culture shock. Finally, it is suggested that a more concerted effort from supra-national level to individual level is needed to provide Chinese students with more equal, qualified and intercultural education in the UK.

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Kerby, Erik R. "Negotiating Identity in the Transnational Imaginary of Julia Alvarez's and Edwidge Danticat's Literature." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2008. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/1402.

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The increased contact between nations and cultures in the globalization of the twenty-first century requires an increased accountability for the ways in which individuals and countries negotiate these points of contact. New World and Caribbean Studies envision the cross-cultural and transnational encounters between indigenous, European, and African peoples as important contributors to a paradigm within which identity in relation offers an alternative to identities rooted in national and filial frameworks. Such frameworks limit the ability to construct identity without relying upon static representations of history, culture, and ethnicity that tend to privilege one group over another. In the literature of Edwidge Danticat and Julia Alvarez, however, a fictional space is created that rewrites national histories and problematizes rooted identities through their novels' characterization. This fictional space is a transnational paradigm that—in the vocabulary of the critical theories of Édouard Glissant, Antonio Benítez-Rojo, and David A. Hollinger—explores the effects of cultures founded on ideas of relation and affiliation rather than on rooted socio-cultural legitimacy and ethno-political authority. Danticat and Alvarez's characters engage in a process of present living that allows them to negotiate their experience of diaspora and maintain a stable construction of identity in relation.

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McCutcheon, Stephanie. "The process of belonging: a critical autoethnographic exploration of national identity in transnational space." Diss., Kansas State University, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/2097/35434.

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Doctor of Philosophy
Curriculum and Instruction Programs
Kakali Bhattacharya
Thomas Vontz
The purpose of this study was to better understand constructs of national identity in transnational space by illuminating the processes and relations of national identity disruption and development. This study is pertinent as cultural and social identities are traditionally framed by nation-centric processes in education. However, the effects of globalization continue to transform education through learning abroad initiatives and changing migration behaviors, which necessitates perspectives de-centering the nation as an assumed boundary. The theoretical framework for this study was transnationalism. A transnational perspective has brought new focus to educational research and national identity development by questioning the multiculturalist assumption of nationality as stable national identity and exploring the concepts of national identity and nationalism in transnational spaces created by globalization. The methodological approach was critical autoethnography as informed by narrative inquiry, in which I critically examined my own disruptive experience as a teacher in the Marshall Islands by engaging in retellings of experiences with one of my former Marshallese students as an informant. The method of interactive interviewing with an informant was necessary to develop a critical lens and to connect individual reflexivity with writing ethnographically to relate to broader human experience. Qualitative coding methods were applied to our retellings as thematic analysis to categorize accounts in the narrative. Finally, writing as a method of inquiry and analysis was used to explore emotions, positionality, and perspective. Through iterations of performing narrative with the informant and applying narrative analysis I found that the theme of belonging was apparent as a personal feeling in our narrative. Recognizing this as the theme posed another question; how does this address the original guiding question: what is a sense of belonging in terms of relations and processes? To answer this I considered space-sensitive understandings of belonging as a transnational perspective. This conclusion reconceptualized and grounded national identity development in the materiality of belonging as a feeling to reflect (1) the material consequences of physical characteristics, (2) the allocation of resources, and (3) language as power. In curriculum and instruction, this understanding of belonging as process could reinforce the ideological inclusivity of multiculturalism while liberating constructs of identity from the constraints of the nation. This perspective could have implications on the development of students’ national and transnational identities, allowing for the recognition of diversity without diminishing issues of difference such as racism, sexism, classism, and xenophobia in society creating students capable of celebrating difference while recognizing inequity and promoting social critique.

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Von, Hofe Erin Althea. "Circling the underground transnational movements in urban dances and literatures /." Diss., Restricted to subscribing institutions, 2009. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1872924421&sid=1&Fmt=2&clientId=1564&RQT=309&VName=PQD.

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Hemsath, James R. "Beyond Culture: Success Factors for Transnational Multiparty Collaboration." Case Western Reserve University Doctor of Management / OhioLINK, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=casedm1556803713641637.

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Marassa', Fabiola. "Transiti, Dilatazioni Mnestiche e Identità in The Road to Fez." Doctoral thesis, Università di Catania, 2012.

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Nell intento di recuperare le eredità più complesse e la capacità di reazione di scritture dove più in evidenza sono i processi di migrazione tra America e Marocco, nel primo capitolo definiremo il profilo di una minoranza, i transiti e le erranze presenti e passate dei sefarditi, in quello spazio rappresentativo in cui identità e voce s intrecciano a ricerca storica, memoria e fiction. Chiariremo le genealogie matrilineari, la molteplicità di profili e di influenze che concorrono alla definizione dell identità transnazionale di Ruth Knafo Setton e fondamentale risulterà lo studio di Diane Matza, specialista di letteratura sefardita americana e responsabile di un autentico recupero critico volto a dimostrare la ricchezza di una tradizione per molto tempo trascurata. Nel secondo capitolo indicheremo le soglie e le strategie di un testo, The Road to Fez, che attraverso le sue innumerevoli e originali forme paratestuali presenta una intentio operis che celebra forme narrative ibridate che mostreremo essere in rapporto speculare con il percorso esistenziale della scrittrice. Conserva il valore di quesito quella complessità nei confronti dei concetti di vittima, di ebreo, di esilio, di scoperta dell io, di ricerca introspettiva a cui risponderemo attraverso un percorso interdisciplinare. Infine, nel capitolo conclusivo procederemo alla rilettura di tracce di quella tensione che si esplicita fin dalle prime pagine del romanzo, che contiene i termini di uno spaesamento storico e culturale, frutto del retaggio sefardita e della successiva acquisizione statunitense, capace di generare tutta la complessità di una coscienza-conoscenza qualora se ne rilevi un certo piacere topografico della scrittrice a s-figurare luoghi e miti di Fez attraversandoli con sguardi molteplici, lontani nel tempo e nei contesti.

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Andrews, Susan, and sue andrews@anu edu au. "Holocaust Remembrance in Australia: Gender, Memory and Identity between the Local and the Transnational." The Australian National University. School of Humanities, 2008. http://thesis.anu.edu.au./public/adt-ANU20090810.142945.

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This thesis examines the cultural politics of contemporary Holocaust remembrance in Australia and how meanings about gender, memory and identity and the Holocaust are produced through different representational sites and practices. This study is an intervention in and a contribution to the interdisciplinary field of Holocaust studies. I develop analyses using approaches that draw on feminist cultural theory, gender studies and memory studies. These analyses take account of the local particularities of Holocaust memory in Australia, while showing that at the same time it reproduces and recirculates a dominant transnational Holocaust memory discourse. Silences and the politics of unspeakability are central themes of this thesis. It was my late mothers silence about her history in Nazi Germany and exile to Australia, and a theoretical silence about gender in Holocaust studies more broadly, that initially engaged me in this study. ¶ I am interested in the relationships between personal and public memory and their interconnections as they contribute to cultural memory of the Holocaust. In my initial case study, the Sydney Jewish Museum, I discuss the museum as a multi-textual discursive space, one which incorporates personal memory of survivors as integral to its memorial project. My second case study involves a close reading of the role of survivor guides as embodied witnesses in the museum space where their gendered performances are framed by, and provide dissonances to, its universalised Holocaust narrative. I present three further cases studies as counterpoints to the Holocaust narrative produced in the Sydney Jewish Museum, where I argue that the universalised Holocaust narrative does not allow for dialogic or discursive spaces where such unsettling stories can be told or heard. First I analyse an Australian documentary film, The Mascot, which represents the story of an Australian man who was a child survivor from Belarus and whose memories were contested when he attempted to reclaim an authentic Jewish identity connected to his Holocaust experiences. ¶ In the final two cases studies I demonstrate the value of subjective, embodied personal approaches to analysing Holocaust memory and its effects. Here I draw on my mothers story. First in the local context I narrate a necessarily fragmented account of her exile to Australia and I undertake memory work to map out some of her history as a Jewish Australian woman and the social landscapes of her political activism. In the final chapter I reconnect my mothers story from Australia to her childhood city, Berlin where I undertake a personal reading of one particular Holocaust counter-memorial in Berlin-Schöneberg. ¶ Despite the power of the universalised Holocaust memory discourse, these case studies illustrate the diverse particularities of experiences of the Holocaust in local and transnational contexts. An analysis of the nuances and complexities of Holocaust remembrance that takes account of such particularities, and that is also gendered, can offer valuable insights into the machinations of the genocide and how it is variously remembered in the present through mourning as well as political and historical inquiry.

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Popov, Anton. "Transnational locals : the cultural production of identity among Greeks in the Southern Russian Federation." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 2005. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.559787.

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Liang, Yenan. "The construction of transnational identity : a case study of chinese immigrants in Quebec city." Master's thesis, Université Laval, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11794/67075.

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Cette recherche vise à comprendre la construction identitaire d’immigrants dans un monde où les réalités migratoires s’intensifient, en analysant les traits identitaires que ceux-ci associent à leur société d’origine et à la société d’accueil. Elle a également l’ambition d’interroger les théories du nationalisme dans le contexte de la mondialisation, à partir du concept de « nationalisme banal » (Billig, 1995). Dans cette perspective, la recherche explore les liens entre la construction identitaire et les pratiques culturelles de la vie quotidienne, telles que celles liées à l’alimentation et aux voyages transnationaux. Elle sélectionne le cas de Québec et ses immigrants d’origine chinoise. Selon une analyse qualitative de 20 entrevues semi-dirigées avec 21 participants, ce mémoire présente les résultats suivants. Premièrement, l’analyse des marqueurs identitaires constate que les marqueurs primordialistes possèdent de fortes fonctions constructivistes, et leur signification devient cruciale dans l’interaction sociale. Deuxièmement, l’analyse répertorie quatre types d’identité transnationale qui évoluent et se transforment au cours du temps et en fonction des situations sociales rencontrées. Troisièmement, l’étude propose un modèle conceptuel pour expliquer ces changements identitaires. Ce modèle démontre que les changements d’identité sont des réponses aux distinctions entre deux systèmes sociaux, particulièrement deux ensembles de normes sociales, et sont influencés par les facteurs de push et pull impliqués dans le processus de resocialisation. Quatrièmement, un examen plus approfondi des pratiques culturelles des participants souligne la nature complexe de leur rôle dans le processus d’identification nationale. Ces pratiques peuvent soit renforcer, soit réduire les identités nationales des individus en fonction de la façon dont elles sont étroitement liées aux facteurs de push et pull. Ainsi, la recherche suggère qu’il est essentiel de considérer l’implication des pratiques culturelles dans les mécanismes de push et pull pour saisir comment elles modifient le développement de l’identité nationale des individus.
Regarding today’s intensified transnational activities, this research aims to comprehend the identity construction of immigrants and to analyze the identity traits that they associate with their original country and host country. It also intends to interrogate nationalism theories in the context of globalization, as inspired by banal nationalism (Billig, 1995). From this perspective, the research explores the relations between identity construction and cultural practices in everyday life, such as food practices and transnational travel. It selects the case of Quebec City and its Chinese immigrants to proceed with the examination. Based on a qualitative analysis of 20 semi-structured interviews with 21 participants, this thesis presents the following findings. First, the analysis of identity markers shows that primordialist markers possess strong constructivist functions, and their significance only becomes crucial in social interaction. Second, the analysis presents four transnational identity types that can evolve through time and transform into one another in relation to specific social settings. Third, the thesis proposes a conceptual model to explain those identity changes. This model demonstrates that identity changes are responses to the distinction between two social systems, particularly two sets of social norms, and are influenced by the push and pull factors involved in the process of resocialization. Fourth, a further examination of participants’ cultural practices underlines the complex nature of their role in the national identification process. Those practices can either reinforce or reduce individuals’ national identities based on the way they are intertwined with the push and pull factors. Thus, the research suggests that it is vital to investigate the ways everyday life practices are involved in the push and pull mechanisms to understand how they consequently alter the trajectories of individuals’ national identity development

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Wen, Xiaoli. "Identity gaps: An analysis of Chinese academic mothers' transnational communicative experiences in the U.S." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1563050286843398.

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Aiello, Giorgia. "Visions of Europe : the semiotic production of transnational identity in contemporary European visual discourse /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/6206.

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