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Locating Premigration as a Critical Stage in the Migration Value Chain: The Premigration Experiences of Zimbabwean Migrant Women Diaspora Studies Pub Date : 2024-03-11 Sehlaphi Sibanda, Mondli Hlatshwayo
This article draws on the narratives of 29 Zimbabwean migrant women employed in the Johannesburg restaurant industry. It uses qualitative methods through in-depth interviews. Although there is a growing amount of research on the migration experiences of Zimbabwean migrant women, the paper argues that there is a need to deepen the examination of the premigration phase because it is the foundation of
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The Czech Republic Diaspora Care Institutions and Policies Diaspora Studies Pub Date : 2024-03-07 Tomáš Kristek
The period following 1989 witnessed a resurgence of the Czech diaspora’s involvement in the country’s political life. Rekindling ties with compatriots affirmed their integral role in the Czech Republic, and establishing institutions and policies aimed at diaspora engagement became a key priority. This study seeks to identify the primary areas of concern for the Czech Republic regarding the diaspora
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A Global Pela: The Moluccan Diaspora in the Sister City of Vlissingen-Ambon Diaspora Studies Pub Date : 2024-03-07 Amin Mudzakkir, Prima Nurahmi Mulyasari, Ray Ferza
This research delves into the activities of the SSVA, a Moluccan diaspora organisation based in Vlissingen, the Netherlands, explicitly focusing on its pivotal role in establishing a sister-city relationship with the ancestral homeland, Ambon. Moving beyond a conventional development initiative, we posit that the Vlissingen-Ambon sister-city programme is rooted in a Moluccan traditional bond known
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African Diasporic Narratives from the Czech Republic Diaspora Studies Pub Date : 2024-03-07 Stephanie Rudwick, Nsama Jonathan Simuziya
Studies have addressed the historical trajectories of people of African heritage in the Czech Republic (CR), but there is no comprehensive study of the contemporary lives and identities of African people. Given the increasing number of African people living in the country, research into an emerging African diaspora is imperative. This empirical study emerges as part of a larger project which aims to
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Diasporas and Political Instability Diaspora Studies Pub Date : 2024-03-07 Torcia-Chanelle Banengaï-Koyama, Lucas Kluge
Many studies have been published during the past decades highlighting the role played by diasporas in conflicts raging in their home countries and on the links between diasporas and international terrorism. Contemporary literature treats the links between diasporas and conflicts in a simplistic manner. For instance, little space is dedicated to determining the effect of diaspora on political instability
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Still in the ‘Waiting Room’ Diaspora Studies Pub Date : 2024-03-07 Pavithra Jayawardena
Voting is predominantly understood through resident citizens’ viewpoints. Many resident citizens are nervous about the perceived consequences of voting by resident noncitizens. Although New Zealand is the only Western democratic host country that currently allows noncitizens to vote in national elections, citizens have concerns about how noncitizens use this right. This study investigates noncitizen
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Developed Country Diaspora Strategy Framework Diaspora Studies Pub Date : 2024-03-07 Ieva Birka, Romy Wasserman
As developed countries become more and more interested in implementing diaspora strategies, this article reviews relevant literature for diaspora strategy design and implementation and distils elements of existing typologies into a conceptual framework for evaluating developed country diaspora strategies. The framework is then applied to the evaluation of the diaspora policies of Ireland and Australia
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It Is Our Motherland Too Diaspora Studies Pub Date : 2024-03-07 Mohamed Munas
Foregrounding fluid processes of group identity re/formation, this article advances the debates on the nature of collective mobilisation among diasporas. Specifically, it contributes to a relatively underexplored diaspora studies sub-field: the role of religion in diasporic identity formation. Empirical material from the immigrant group Muslims of Sri Lankan origin in the United Kingdom indicates that
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Diaspora Protests and Social Uprisings under Authoritarianism Diaspora Studies Pub Date : 2024-03-07 Bashir Tofangsazi
Expatriate citizens of countries under authoritarian rule have been increasingly engaging in protest against repression in their home countries. Whether such diaspora protests can boost social uprisings inside authoritarian countries, however, is yet to be analysed. I hypothesise that diaspora protests inspire protest against authoritarian rulers inside the home country by reducing political repression
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The Diaspora and Sociopolitical Mobilisations in Nigeria Diaspora Studies Pub Date : 2024-03-07 Olayinka Akanle
Nigeria has a significant body of diasporic nationals. While studies abound on the economic and developmental roles of the diaspora, there is a paucity of research on the sociopolitical mobilisation interfaces of diasporas with their countries of origin. This article contributes to an understanding of the complexities and multiplicities of the roles of the diaspora in their countries of origin, using
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Integration Challenges of Immigrants from Non-English-Speaking Backgrounds in Australia Diaspora Studies Pub Date : 2024-03-07 Omid Rezaei, Hossein Adibi, Vicki Banham
Migrants have played a crucial role in shaping the history of Australian society and its development, particularly after 1975, when Australia formally dismantled its White Australia Policy and welcomed immigrants from around the world. Since then, millions of immigrants from non-English-speaking backgrounds have settled in Australia. This review aims to critically discuss the main challenges that many
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Forced, Fooled or Free Will Diaspora Studies Pub Date : 2024-03-06 Khemendra K. Kumar, Runaaz Ali, Satish Prakash Chand, Subashni Lata Kumar
This paper explores the narratives and counter-narratives of indenture experience in Fiji in the works of Totaram Sanadhya, John Wear Burton, Kenneth Gillion, Brij Lal and Satish Rai. The recruitment of Indian indentured labourers in Fiji began in 1879, much later than in other colonies. Yet the experiences of the labourers in Fiji were not markedly different. The indenture system, or girmit, was considered
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Jasmine in the Search of Identity through a Postcolonial Diaspora Lens Diaspora Studies Pub Date : 2024-03-06 Roshan K. Morve, Nashrin A. Kadri
Applying a postcolonial diaspora lens through Homi K. Bhabha’s theory of the ‘third space’ to Bharati Mukherjee’s novel Jasmine (1989), this paper aims to demonstrate how diasporic women negotiate for an identity in their struggle for a better life in the host land. Having ‘no home’ and ‘no host’, Mukherjee’s protagonist, Jasmine, whose life represents that of the postcolonial immigrant woman, finds
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State Relationships with the Diaspora Diaspora Studies Pub Date : 2024-03-06 Jana Peterková, Jana Kohoutová
Currently, diasporas are perceived as important non-state actors in international relations and essential partners of the country of origin. The article focuses on this topic using the example of Czechia and Slovakia as two small Central European states that once shared a common past and are now independently developing a relationship with their diaspora. The article explores these interactions in
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Extending Voting Rights to Emigrants: A Global Analysis of Actors, Processes and Outcomes Diaspora Studies Pub Date : 2024-02-15 Nathan W. Allen, Elizabeth Iams Wellman
Since 1980, most states have granted voting rights to citizens living abroad. Although cross-national research focuses on when and where emigrant enfranchisement occurs, there has been little systematic attention to the variation in how enfranchisement occurs (for example, by constitutional amendment) and who extends these rights (international actors, for example). We argue that the variation in legal
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‘Banana’, Vietnamese or Czech?: The Identity Struggles of Second-Generation Vietnamese in the Czech Republic Diaspora Studies Pub Date : 2024-01-22 Thu Huong Pham, Filip Kraus
Second-generation members of the Vietnamese diaspora living in the Czech Republic (CR) are living between two cultures, which confuses their identity. The aim of the article is to understand the identity formation and sense of self of second-generation Vietnamese Czechs. The study analysed 31 in-depth interviews and three important situations to form engaged observations that show that neither the
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Social Cohesion in the Indian Community in Vietnam Diaspora Studies Pub Date : 2023-11-08 Nguyen Le Thy Thuong, Nguyen Van Linh
Social cohesion holds significant importance within immigrant communities, providing them with a sense of belonging to a group of people who share many similarities while they are adapting to an unfamiliar environment. This article explores social cohesion in the Indian community in Vietnam through the primary method of surveying and in-depth interviews. The authors believe that the Indian community
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Identity, Belonging and Home Diaspora Studies Pub Date : 2023-11-08 Ahmet Emre Dikyurt
This research paper studies second-generation Bosnians in the United States, to understand the identity formation of this population after the Bosnian War through the lenses of home, belonging and borders. Through archival research and extended interviews, second-generation Bosnian-Americans were asked questions about their dual/hybrid identity and their sense of home and belonging. Analysis of the
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The State of Acculturation and Identity Distress among Stranded Adolescent Biharis in Bangladesh Diaspora Studies Pub Date : 2023-11-08 Md Rafiqul Islam, Sharmin Ahmed
The Urdu-speaking Bihari people in Bangladesh, living in dilapidated camps with compromised rights and opportunities, constitute one of the most vulnerable diasporas in the South Asian region. These camps have existed for generations and consequently house many adolescents. Yet studies on the acculturation and identity distress of adolescent Biharis are nonexistent. This paper addresses this significant
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An Investigation into the Relationship between Diaspora and Identity with Reference to the Iranian Diaspora Diaspora Studies Pub Date : 2023-11-08 Mohammed Taghi Amrollahi, Mohammad Reza Saeidabadi
The purpose of this article is to examine the relationship between diaspora and identity with reference to the Iranian diaspora as a case study. Although there has been a recent growth in the study of ideational factors and their effects on sociopolitical issues, identity remains understudied within the mainstream literature on diaspora studies, international relations (IR) and foreign policy analysis
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Post-diasporic Resilience to Assimilation via the Heritagisation of the Diasporic Legacy among the Descendants of Lithuanian Exiles to Trans-Volga Russia Diaspora Studies Pub Date : 2023-10-30 Vytis Ciubrinskas
The Trans-Volga Lithuanian diaspora has for more than 150 years traversed the challenges of assimilation into a majoritarian Russian society. However, in the contemporary era, the third- and fourth-generation descendants’ resilience to assimilation is focused on sensitivity to roots and a valorisation of the diasporic past. The role of agency in diasporic memory, place-making and cultural representations
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US Soft Power and Value Transfer Modalities: The Case of Armenia and the Armenian-American Community Diaspora Studies Pub Date : 2023-10-30 Nora Gevorgyan
The article underscores the conceptual nexus of diaspora and soft power. It analyses US soft power, its main operating mechanisms and tools, and the role of diaspora groups in the transfer of American values, using Armenia and the Armenian-American diaspora community as a case study. The paper argues that ethnic diaspora groups are increasingly important actors of soft power. Along with protecting
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Transnational Engagement in Education by the Kenyan Diaspora in the United States Diaspora Studies Pub Date : 2022-12-07 Lucy Mule, James Ngundi
The Kenyan diaspora’s involvement in development has increasingly become an object of research and government policy. This paper explores the ways that members of the contemporary Kenyan diaspora in the United States participate in education-related activities ‘back home’, emphasising their motivation as well as barriers to and facilitators of their engagement. Findings from this mixed-method study
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Making Sense of ‘Homemaking’ in the Diaspora Diaspora Studies Pub Date : 2022-11-18 Roshni Sengupta
Diaspora groups across the world have been known for adopting and inventing processes and forms of ‘homemaking’ in their host lands. This article brings into focus the methods of homemaking assumed by the Indo-Surinamese Hindustani diaspora in the Netherlands, which owes its origin to colonial dispersal. Considering their status as a ‘twice-migrant’ diaspora, the process may appear to be distinctly
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Understanding Turkey’s Long Debate on Extending Voting Rights to External Residents through Parliamentary Minutes Diaspora Studies Pub Date : 2022-11-18 Necati Anaz, Mehmet Kose
Extending voting rights to citizens living abroad has been one of the longest debated subjects in the Turkish Parliament, even more persistent than is generally assumed in academic and political circles. In this study, we aim to understand how Turkish political decision-makers conceived Turkey’s external residents’ right to vote from abroad and the rationalisations and conjectures put forward by parliamentarians
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Negotiating Home in Exile Diaspora Studies Pub Date : 2022-08-23 Omair Anas
The Arab uprisings of 2011, and their slogans of freedom, dignity and justice, gave the Arab diaspora hope. Their aftermath led to disappointment, but many Arab diasporans still dream of returning home. The tension between their real, imagined and in-transit homes keeps these immigrants in home and exile simultaneously. The paper analyses the negotiation between distant and present, real and imagined
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Emigrate out of National Borders, Immigrate into Diasporic Spaces Diaspora Studies Pub Date : 2022-08-10 Anh Ngoc Quynh Phan
The article explores the ways in which Vietnamese international doctoral students participated in and influenced social spaces to produce diasporic subjectivity among Vietnamese diasporic communities in the study countries, and how this diasporic subjectivity was produced in what I term ‘diasporised moments’. Guided by theory of space, I look at how Vietnamese doctoral students negotiated their ‘membership’
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The Politics of Cultural Production Diaspora Studies Pub Date : 2022-08-10 Veysi Dag
This article examines the politics of cultural production in the Kurdish diaspora in Berlin and Stockholm. The paper argues that Kurdish cultural actors deploy various forms of cultural production as a strategy to restore Kurdish collective heritage and cultural identities and achieve visibility for the Kurdish cause. Furthermore, the politics of cultural production serves to promote universal solidarity
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The Arabs and the Muslims Diaspora Studies Pub Date : 2022-07-29 Mohammed Alrmizan
Both Arab and Muslim migrants have noticeable populations in all parts of the world. This article qualitatively investigates the Arabs, the Muslims, and mainly diaspora and transnationalism theories from historical and social understandings, based on primary and secondary sources. It engages conceptually in defining Arabs and Muslims through the lenses of diaspora and transnationalism theories, discusses
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Establishing a Digital Belonging Diaspora Studies Pub Date : 2022-07-29 Dila Naz Madenoglu
A sense of belonging is one of the most important human needs. Immigrants might experience this differently because they tend to feel a lack of belonging to their host or home country. Nowadays, however, social media allows immigrants and diasporic groups to establish a digital sense of belonging. Members of the Turkish diaspora in Germany are inclined to use social media, especially Facebook, as a
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How Good Governance (GG) Affects Diaspora Motivations for Remittances to Iran Diaspora Studies Pub Date : 2022-07-29 Mohammad Reza Lotfalipour, Mohammad Ali Falahi, Afsaneh Zareei, Anna Matuszczak
In this study, we examined different models for the motivation of the Iranian diaspora to send remittances to Iran, with and without governance indicators, to analyse the impact of economic factors and governance indicators on remittances. The results based on the generalised method of moments (GMM) method show that the income level of the origin and host country had positive and significant effects
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Basque Food Diaspora Studies Pub Date : 2022-07-29 Maialen Goirizelaia, Leire Iturregui, Annette Unda
This study looks at Basque migrants in the United States and shows how different geographical locations there attracted different groups of migrants over time and how the immigrants organised themselves as a diaspora community and maintained their identity. Emigration from the Basque Country to the United States began during the Gold Rush in 1848; since then there have been multiple, distinct waves
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Migration, Discrimination and Assimilation in the State of Israel Diaspora Studies Pub Date : 2022-07-29 Suraj Rajan Kadanthodu
The coalescence of Jews from across the world to form a unified Jewish nation-state has been the dream of many Jewish and Zionist leaders. With the gathering of immigrants after the State of Israel was established, the founders strived for a ‘fusion of exiles’ (mizug hagaluyot), where individual migrant cultural identities would assimilate to form a new Israeli identity that was predominantly European
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Populist Diaspora Engagement Diaspora Studies Pub Date : 2022-07-29 Gözde Böcü, Nidhi Panwar
How and why do right-wing populist parties engage in diaspora outreach? This article uses populism as a lens through to study diaspora engagement, and compares strategies used by right-wing parties in power (Turkey’s AKP and India’s BJP) to access their diasporas. While we find that polarising and civilisationist discourses are adopted in both cases for uniting the diaspora behind the populist in power
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The Widening Global Network of Indonesian Diaspora Scholars in Malaysia Diaspora Studies Pub Date : 2022-02-23 Betti Rosita Sari, Yekti Maunati, Ganewati Wuryandari, Lamijo
The paper discusses the global network for Indonesian diaspora scholars who work in Malaysian tertiary education, an emerging Asian education hub. The study is based on documents, text reviews, interviews, and reflections from Indonesian diaspora scholars. Our analysis identified three main themes: building academic success, brain circulation, and contributing to development in the country of origin
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Are Africans in Australia a Diaspora? Diaspora Studies Pub Date : 2022-02-21 Farida Fozdar, Sarah Prout Quicke, David Mickler
Migration from the African continent to Australia has increased in volume and diversity in the last three decades, with the most recent census identifying 2.6 % of the total Australian population as either born in, or having at least one parent born in, Africa. In examining demographic and socioeconomic characteristics, and interrogating political, economic, social and cultural transnational practices
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The Diverse Roles of Bangladesh’s Diaspora Communities in Jihadism Diaspora Studies Pub Date : 2022-02-21 Shafi Md Mostofa
Diaspora radicalisation has increasingly become a source of major concern for home and host countries, especially with technology facilitating easier communication with the global village. The popular perception used to be that expatriates were less vulnerable to radicalisation, but this paper argues that in reality the scenario is completely different. Using a desk-based literature review and interviews
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Identity, Diaspora and Development: The Case of Armenia Diaspora Studies Pub Date : 2022-02-21 Yeva Aleksanyan
The Armenian diaspora started about two millennia ago. Today’s Armenian diaspora, largely formed during and after World War I, plays a prominent role in the country’s international relations, attracting foreign direct investments, sending remittances and boosting domestic demand. It has been argued that Armenians living abroad invest in Armenia, cooperate with Armenia-based businesses or send remittances
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Re-orienting the Diaspora–Development Nexus Diaspora Studies Pub Date : 2022-02-04 Sarah Peck
Since the 1990s diasporic communities have increasingly been recognized as agents of development, with states, citizens, and the global development community keen to harness their knowledge, skills, and economic capital. Approaches to the ‘diaspora option’ tend to be rooted in the discourses, practices, and products of neoliberal globalization. Yet the most recent decade of the 21st century has witnessed
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Heterogenising the Indian Hindu Diaspora in Thailand: Case Studies of Hybridised Multi-Ethnic-Religious Identities among Thai-Indian Hindu Communities in the Chiang Mai Province Diaspora Studies Pub Date : 2022-01-18 Pittikorn Panyamanee
The Indian diaspora is a diverse community of migrants who live dispersed around the globe. This includes the situation of Indian emigration to Thailand, which has been ongoing for hundreds of years. Several scholars in Indian Diaspora Studies have previously contributed to an understanding of the different social groups of the heterogenous Indian diaspora in terms of ethnicities, religions, periods
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Diaspora as a soft power in India’s foreign policy towards Singapore Diaspora Studies Pub Date : 2021-11-12 Atanu Mohapatra, Aparna Tripathi
India’s connections with Southeast Asia are rooted in history in terms of geography, civilization, culture, economy and strategy. These connections became deeper since the 1990s as India initiated the policy of ‘Look East’ that resulted in manifold growth with ASEAN and Singapore. The initiation of ‘Look East Policy’ opened the door for Singaporean Indians for investments and interaction with their
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Diasporas intersect in Turtle Island: examining diasporic intersectionality in Canada from critical race, postcolonial and Indigenous perspectives Diaspora Studies Pub Date : 2021-11-12 Chitra Kumar Karki
While Bitran and Tan (2013. Diaspora Nation: An Inquiry into the Economic Potential of Diaspora Networks in Canada. Toronto: Mowat Centre, University of Toronto, 8) believe that Canada (Turtle Island) is a ‘diaspora nation’, it is also evident that Canada as a settler colonial state has deeply rooted systemic and blatant forms of racism that have historically victimized and otherized diasporic communities
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Building a culture of deference: American Jewish givers, Israelis and control over donations to Israel, 1920–1989 Diaspora Studies Pub Date : 2021-11-12 Eric Fleisch
This article tells the story of duelling philosophies over money and power in the philanthropic relationship between American Jews and Israelis during the twentieth century. Its purpose is to provide one case study for how an affluent diaspora community and the leadership of the corresponding ethnic homeland viewed the roles each should play in allocating funds. It details the battle over two conflicting
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Explaining the evolution of Turkey’s diaspora engagement policy: a holistic approach Diaspora Studies Pub Date : 2021-11-12 Ayca Arkilic
This article provides a comprehensive framework to explain why Turkey has adopted a pro-active diaspora agenda since the early 2000s. It shows that Turkey’s diaspora policy is the result of an amalgamation of domestic, transnational, and international factors: Domestically, the AKP’s rise to power resulted in drastic economic and political reforms and the promotion of a new identity based on neo-Ottomanism
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Mobilizing diaspora during crisis: Ukrainian diaspora in Canada and the intergenerational sweet spot Diaspora Studies Pub Date : 2021-11-12 David Carment, Milana Nikolko, Sam MacIsaac
Canada’s Ukrainian diaspora occupy an enviable, if not rare, ‘intergenerational sweet spot’. This sweet spot endows them with a high degree of positionality within Canada, enabling both long and short-term support for Ukraine since the crisis began in 2014. In examining Ukrainian diaspora positionality in the Canadian context, we find there are varied strategies that help offset hardship at the community
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Return after 500 years? Spanish and Portuguese repatriation laws and the reconstruction of Sephardic identity Diaspora Studies Pub Date : 2021-11-12 Arielle Goldschläger, Camilla Orjuela
In a gesture of reconciliation, Spain and Portugal in 2015 passed bills inviting the descendants of Sephardic Jews – expelled 500 years earlier – to acquire citizenship. Applicants are to ascertain their Sephardic heritage through family trees, evidence of belonging to a religious community, language skills and/or retained links with the homeland. This article explores applicants’ motivations to request
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Explaining (non) participation in overseas voting: the case of overseas Filipino voters in Japan in the 2016 elections Diaspora Studies Pub Date : 2021-11-12 Georgeline B. Jaca, Ador R. Torneo
This study explains the low Overseas Voting (OV) participation among Filipino migrants, by examining OV in Japan in the 2016 elections. Feddersen and Sandroni’s ([2006]. “A Theory of Participation in Elections.” American Economic Review 96 (4): 1271– 1282. doi:10.1257/aer.96.4.1271) rational model of electoral participation is adopted to produce evidence-based claims on why OV among Filipino migrants
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Indians in Apartheid South Africa: class, compromise and controversy in the era of the Group Areas Act, 1952–1962 Diaspora Studies Pub Date : 2021-11-12 Suraj Yengde
This paper looks at the implementation of the notorious Group Areas Act between 1952 and 1962, and the struggle of the Transvaal Indian community in responding to the Act. Since the Group Areas Act threatened the very existence of the Indian community in South Africa, two major Indian bodies – Natal Indian Congress (NIC) and Transvaal Indian Congress (TIC) – played a pivotal role in promoting regional
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Indentured and post-indentured experience of women in the Indian diaspora Diaspora Studies Pub Date : 2020-12-07 Mousumi Ray
(2021). Indentured and post-indentured experience of women in the Indian diaspora. Diaspora Studies: Vol. 14, No. 2, pp. 193-197.
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Liminal spaces: migration and women of the Guyanese diaspora Diaspora Studies Pub Date : 2020-12-02 Sarita Nandmehar
(2021). Liminal spaces: migration and women of the Guyanese diaspora. Diaspora Studies: Vol. 14, No. 2, pp. 191-193.
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Dharma in America: a short history of Hindu-Jain diaspora Diaspora Studies Pub Date : 2020-12-02 Uma Purushothaman
(2021). Dharma in America: a short history of Hindu-Jain diaspora. Diaspora Studies: Vol. 14, No. 2, pp. 189-190.
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South Asian diaspora narratives: roots and routes, by Amit Sarwal, Singapore, Springer, 2017, 191 pp., € 74.89 (eBook), ISBN: 9789811036293 Diaspora Studies Pub Date : 2020-11-12 Vibhanshu Shekhar
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(Re)negotiation of the cultural and linguistic identities of the Azorean Portuguese in Eastern Massachusetts Diaspora Studies Pub Date : 2020-11-12 Patricia Gubitosi, Judy de Oliveira
Linguistic identity of migrant communities is highly related to cultural practices. Given that social and individual identity emerges through social interaction and discursive practices where the role of linguistic processes is fundamental, this paper analyses how Portuguese migrants and their descendants negotiate and contest their cultural and linguistic identity while struggling to maintain their
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Cooking Curries for change: four desi food blogs in the UK, cyberactivism, & the transnational public sphere Diaspora Studies Pub Date : 2020-11-12 Sukanya Gupta
This paper focuses on four popular UK based, desi food blogs by Anjali Pathak, Hari Ghotra, Mallika Basu, and Chintal Kakaya, who are ambassadors of the global justice charity Find Your Feet’s (FYF) ‘Curry for Change’ (CFC) campaign. Reconfiguring and challenging geographical parameters and national boundaries, the bloggers team up with FYF to help fight hunger in African and Asian rural communities
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Diasporic stances, homeland prisms: representing diaspora in the homeland as internal negotiation of national identity Diaspora Studies Pub Date : 2020-11-12 Omri Asscher, Ofer Shiff
This paper suggests that images and stances associated with the diaspora in the homeland culture offer a unique prism through which internal tensions in homeland collective identity may be dissected and understood. We believe it is worthwhile to broaden the spectrum of inquiry of recent research on quantifiable diaspora economic and political involvement in homeland nation-states to the inherently
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Korean Diaspora in the South Korean media discourse: changing narrative Diaspora Studies Pub Date : 2020-11-12 Ekaterina Gorbunova
This paper aims to analyse the perception of Koreans overseas in South Korean mass media. Nowadays, due to globalization processes, the economic, political and cultural contacts between South Korean society and Korean diaspora has intensified. As a result, the perception of Korean immigrants in South Korea is becoming more positive. The analyses of media materials show that South Korean media highly
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Diaspora diplomacy: Nordic and Baltic perspective Diaspora Studies Pub Date : 2020-11-12 Leva Birka, Didzis Kļaviņš
The aim of the article is to offer a comparative overview of the latest developments in the Baltic and Nordic state diaspora engagement policies and outreach practices, and to further the understanding of the term diaspora diplomacy. In this article, diaspora diplomacy is understood as the use of Foreign Service, or other branches of government, to promote the systematic relationship, for mutual benefit
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The process to rapprochement between Vietnam and its diaspora in the United States Diaspora Studies Pub Date : 2020-11-12 Nguyen Le Hanh Nguyen
Despite the lingering conflict between the government of Vietnam and the Vietnamese diaspora in the United States, issues of remittance and relationship relaxation between the refugees and Vietnamese government happened both in the 1990s. Recent years have seen the attitude-change of the returning diaspora and their shifting strategies of working in Vietnam. This paper describes the first step toward
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Identity from a conceptual and empirical perspective: a case study of the multiply identifications of Slovak diaspora living in Serbia Diaspora Studies Pub Date : 2020-11-12 Svetluša Surova
The current challenges stemming from migration, globalism, and the highly interconnected world, underline the importance of identities, not only for individuals but for social and political life too. For the past few decades, identity has become a significant concept in social sciences and an important political issue in many contemporary societies. Today collective identities seem to form a central