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Mobilizing Presence across Borders: Devotion to Papua New Guinea's Blessed Peter To Rot in Australia
Oceania, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article engages with the conjunctures between migration and religion by focusing on the celebration of Papua New Guinea's ‘National Patron Saint’, the Blessed Peter To Rot, in the Australian diaspora. Both in Sydney and Brisbane, Catholic Papua New Guinea (PNG) migrants have been ‘relocating’ PNG shrines, regalia, relics and ritual ...
Anna‐Karina Hermkens
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Explaining the rise of diaspora institutions
The Microfoundations of Diaspora Politics, 2017 Origin-state institutions dedicated to emigrants and their descendants have been largely unnoticed by mainstream political studies even though diaspora institutions are now found in over half the countries of the world.
A. Gamlen +3 more
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Diaspora Remittances and Financial Inclusion in Kenya
, 2020 DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.24018/ejbmr.2020.5.2.289 1 Abstract —This study examined the effect of diaspora remittances on financial inclusion in Kenya for a quarterly period from 2008 to 2018.
E. Arthur, S. Musau, F. Wanjohi
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PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.Cities can harbor greater plant diversity than other ecosystems, yet how city sociocultural factors may determine differences in plant composition across equivalent urban green space types remains understudied. Here, we compare plant communities in five main urban greenspace types across three Swiss cities representing the country's French (Geneva ...
Joan Casanelles‐Abella +7 more
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WorldCuP: A database of checklists documenting the World's Cultivated Plants and their distributions
PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.Human life would be unrecognizable without the benefits of cultivated plants, including crops, ornamentals, or plants with other uses. Despite their importance in daily life and prevalence across landscapes, we know surprisingly little about global cultivated plant distributions.
Nicole L. Kinlock +2 more
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The power of the strong state: A comparative analysis of the diaspora engagement strategies of India and Ethiopia [PDF]
Migrant-sending countries are increasingly exploring schemes where human capital of expatriates can be used for the benefit of the home country's socioeconomic development.
Hercog, Metka, Kuschminder, Katie
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Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The dynamic nature of small islands being geographically isolated and their perceived connectedness with global networks complicates research attempts to draw general conclusions on whether insularity leads to marginalization or strengthens their resilience for sustainable development.
Toheeb Lekan Jolaosho +2 more
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Diaspora, Culture and Memory in Black British Cinema (Dreaming Rivers, Memsahib Rita, Body Beautiful). [PDF]
, 2001 Ann Kaplan led a lecture on Diaspora, culture, memory and Black British ...
SFU Women\u27s Studies Department +1 more
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Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The fifth industrial revolution (I5.0), which is based on the utilization of interconnected data for efficient resource usage in meeting human requirements, proposes efficient solutions to resource constraint situations. However, the transition to I5.0 in the health sector is not easy and has to face several obstacles.
Ajay Jha +5 more
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Social Sciences and Humanities OpenUbuntu has been generalized for Africa without paying attention to the plurality of cultures within the continent. This creates the need to put Ubuntu in dialogue with other African theories of social interactions.
Akinmayowa Akin-Otiko
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