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Redefining Diaspora through a Phenomenology of Postmemory [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
This article seeks to intervene in the debates about the definition of diaspora by attending to the way in which it is a phenomenon, rooted in a particular kind of experience and consciousness.
Sandra So Hee Chi Kim
core   +1 more source

Building Community Amidst the Institutional Whiteness of Graduate Study: Black Joy and Maroon Moves in an Academic Marronage

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article reflects on the construction of a supportive community of Black Afro‐diasporic graduate students and their supervisors researching issues relating to race in the field of education in Australia. It draws on the concept of marronage—a term rooted in the fugitive act of becoming a maroon, where enslaved people enacted an escape in ...
Hellen Magoi   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Transnational transitional justice and reconciliation: the participation of conflict-generated diaspora in addressing the legacy of mass violence [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
This paper is a preliminary exploration of the role that conflict-generated diaspora communities can play in transitional justice and processes of reconciliation.
Haider, Huma
core  

Afro‐Amerindian cosmopolitics in environmental education: A decolonial analysis of academic discourses involving the epistemological disputes around the term sustainability

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Considering the growing calls for decolonial approaches within the scope of Climate Change and Sustainability Education (CCSE), in this research we seek to understand the meanings which have been put into circulation through research narratives on Environmental Education (EE) concluded in Latin America, regarding Afro‐Amerindian knowledges ...
Danilo Seithi Kato   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

(Trans)forming fitness: Intersectionality as a framework for resistance and collective action

open access: yesFrontiers in Sports and Active Living, 2023
Fitness is a lifelong pursuit, yet many LGBTQ2S+ 1 individuals are averse to group fitness or experiences in big box gyms. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, virtual fitness programs offered the potential to facilitate opportunities for the greater inclusion ...
Deniece Bell, Saidur Rahman, R. Rochon
doaj   +1 more source

Explaining the rise of diaspora institutions

open access: yesThe 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   +2 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Diaspora Remittances and Financial Inclusion in Kenya

open access: yes, 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
semanticscholar   +1 more source

No. 26: Social Media, The Internet and Diasporas for Development [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
The recent focus on diasporas by policy-makers researchers has highlighted the rich potential of migrants as a force for shaping development activities in their countries of origin.
Caesar, Mary   +5 more
core   +1 more source

Lower Dose‐Normalized Tacrolimus Exposure in CYP3A5*6 vs. *3 Loss‐of‐Function Allele Carriers: A Longitudinal Retrospective Real‐World Study in Kidney Transplant Recipients

open access: yesClinical Pharmacology &Therapeutics, EarlyView.
Pharmacogenomic research has historically focused on individuals of European ancestry, leading to the underrepresentation of genetic variants common in non‐European populations. This bias is exemplified by CYP3A5*6, a functionally consequential variant common in individuals of African ancestry (MAF: 11–19%) but virtually absent in Europeans (MAF: 0.15%)
Amar D. Levens   +10 more
wiley   +1 more source

Healthy Aging Reports

open access: yesSAGE Open, 2013
Two separate reports from the Dutch Health Council of Netherlands and Social and Cultural Planning Bureau draw our attention to the tension between certain factors specifically related to healthy aging, namely, vulnerability and independency/functioning ...
Francis C. Agu
doaj   +1 more source

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