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The Duty to Translate: Language, Law and Pedagogy in the Morisco Diaspora

Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT By the early 1620s, Morisco intellectuals in Tunisia were producing a notable corpus of religious texts in Spanish. For Moriscos who no longer understood Arabic, Spanish religious instruction was both a pedagogical necessity and a contested practice.
Susan Shoshan Abraham
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State of Oregon report of criminal offenses and arrests

, 1983
Covers OCLC #1022875783, OCLC #1019821938Issues for 2008- called abbreviated (but are longer than previous issues)Mode of access: Internet from the Oregon Government Publications Collection.Formed by the union of: Analysis of crime in Oregon, and: Oregon

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A Sephardic Quevedo? Abraham Gómez Silveira, Between Controversy and Poetry

Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT A book published in 2000, El barroco sefardí Abraham Gómez Silveira (The Sephardic Baroque Abraham Gómez Silveira), introduced us to this hitherto unknown author, baptised in Castile in 1651, who was educated at the school of the sacred congregation of the Sephardic Jews in Amsterdam.
Mercedes Blanco
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Chosen by God: Providential Suffering and Divine Writing in the Morisco Diaspora

Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This essay reconsiders the anonymous sonnet ‘Y Dios, que a los suyos padeciendo mira’ preserved in the Prologue of MS 11/9394 S‐2 (Biblioteca de la Real Academia de la Historia), a Morisco codex produced near Tunis between 1630 and 1650. As a key yet subtle rhetorical hinge in the text's Prologue, the sonnet establishes MS 11/9394 S‐2 within ...
Andrea Pauw
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The Converso Diaspora and Iberian Empires

Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Whereas there is no consensus among contemporary scholars in defining the Converso diaspora and its criteria of belonging, most of them highlighted its geographical, economic, cultural and political dependence on early modern Iberian empires.
Claude B. Stuczynski
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The Right to Exist as the Foundation of Equal Citizenship: An Ontological Inquiry of State‐Citizen Relations in Türkiye

Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Despite enduring decades of advocacy, Alevi communities in Türkiye find themselves in a constant state of anticipation for acknowledgment from the Turkish state. Previous studies have long documented the marginalized status of Alevis within Turkish society and their ongoing struggle for recognition; however, they have overwhelmingly framed the
Aslı Gücin
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Contested Refugeeness in the Lavrio Kurdish Camp After the 2015 Reception Crisis in Greece

Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article explores the meanings of refugeeness among Kurdish residents of the self‐managed Lavrio refugee camp in Greece in the aftermath of the 2015 reception crisis. Focusing on how Kurdish camp residents make sense of their political identities and on how they distinguish themselves from those they call ‘non‐political refugees’, the ...
Filyra Vlastou‐Dimopoulou
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Critical approaches to International Criminal Law

, 2014
Drawing on the critical legal tradition, the collection of international scholars gathered in this volume analyse the complicities and limitations of International Criminal Law. This area of law has recently experienced a significant surge in scholarship

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Navigating Traditional‐Modernity: Women's Evolving Role in Qatar's National Identity

Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article critically examines the evolving role of women in Qatar's nation‐building project through a combination of intersectional and post‐colonial perspectives. By analysing women's socio‐political positioning in the national context, it unveils the complex interplay between conceptualisations of ‘tradition’ and ‘modernity’ in shaping ...
Zarqa Parvez
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The Intersectional Dynamics of Skill Underutilization: A Case Study of College‐Educated Iranian Migrant Women in California

Sociological Forum, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT There are paradoxical and sociological questions surrounding migrants of certain ethno‐national backgrounds—particularly women—whose high levels of education do not consistently translate into employment commensurate with their skills, resulting in what is commonly termed “brain waste.” This study critically examines the role of employer ...
Homa Sadri
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