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The Insistence of Blackness and the Persistence of Antiblackness in Ireland

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper positions Ireland as a critical site for examining the insistence of blackness and an antiblackness created and sustained through Irish ethnonationalist imaginaries and exclusionary processes. Drawing on connected sociologies and Irish Black Studies, this enquiry argues that antiblackness in Ireland operates as a generational force,
Philomena Mullen
wiley   +1 more source

History of Pandemics in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Century

open access: yesSineza, 2021
This work is the historical analysis of pandemics in the Twentieth and Twenty-first century. It shows that the influenza virus has been responsible for major pandemic outbreaks in the two centuries.
Adewunmi Falode   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

At the deep end: COVID-19 experiences of Zimbabwean health and care workers in the United Kingdom

open access: yesJournal of Migration and Health, 2020
Background and objectives: Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic groups (BAME) in the UK were disproportionately affected by the first phase of COVID-19 in terms of exposure, negative health and socio-economic impacts and consequences including recorded ...
Beacon Mbiba   +5 more
doaj  

Spiritual and religious information experiences: An Annual Review of Information Science and Technology (ARIST) paper

open access: yesJournal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, EarlyView.
Abstract This chapter examines the contours of the religious and spiritual information experiences subfield through a review and content analysis of selected contributions from the past two decades in both information science and related fields. The research question that guides this review is: How have spirituality and religion been conceptualized in ...
Nadia Caidi   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Exploring indirect impacts of COVID-19 on local health systems from the perspectives of health workers and higher education stakeholders in the Philippines using a phenomenological approach

open access: yesThe Lancet Regional Health. Western Pacific, 2023
Summary: Background: Our study aimed to explore the experiences of stakeholders from local government units, health facilities and higher education institutions on the delivery of non-COVID-19 health services after the initial wave of the pandemic ...
Joemer Maravilla   +9 more
doaj  

Diaspora and Development [PDF]

open access: yesThe World Economy, 2006
Jagdish Bhagwati's proposal for a ‘brains tax’ to be levied on the incomes of the diaspora from developing countries residing in the developed countries and the proceeds to be remitted to the countries of origin of the diaspora is well known. In recent years the voluntary contributions or remittances from the diaspora to their countries of origin have ...
Wei, Yingqi, Balasubramanyam, V.N.
openaire   +3 more sources

“What I Believe Can Rescue That Nation”: Diaspora Working to Transform Education in Fragility and Conflict

open access: yesComparative Education Review, 2019
This study examines diaspora’s engagement in education development work in their fragile and conflict-affected countries of origin. Through analysis of 28 in-depth interviews with diaspora from four countries, we discuss diasporas’ motivations to engage,
Sarah Dryden-Peterson, Celia Reddick
semanticscholar   +1 more source

I am becoming my mother: (post)diaspora, local entanglements and entangled locals

open access: yesAfrican and Black Diaspora: An International Journal, 2020
Drawing on the sensory, self-shifting approach of Lorna Goodison’s 1986 poem ‘I am becoming my mother’, and on quantum theory for brief insights into entanglement, this article gazes into the still visualities of family photographs of my own Birmingham ...
Patricia Noxolo
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Evolving stories of self: Informational transitions and tattoos

open access: yesJournal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, EarlyView.
Abstract Throughout history, tattoos have served as a means of expressing identity, culture, and preserving information. Beyond their visual appeal, tattoos continue to be used in the modern world as a way for individuals to showcase their identity, honor and remember others, and mark significant events. In this paper, we explore the connection between
Maja Krtalić   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Care During Pandemic Times: Digital Ethnography with Mental Health Professionals in Equatorial Guinea

open access: yesAnthropology and Humanism, Volume 47, Issue 2, Page 329-345, December 2022., 2022
SUMMARY This article discusses how the COVID‐19 pandemic impacted my anthropological research inquiry of care among mental health professionals at a community shelter and a psychiatric hospital in Equatorial Guinea. The rapidly evolving changes required the methods of digital anthropology, which allowed an understanding of embodiments of care.
Carolina Nvé Díaz San Francisco
wiley   +1 more source

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