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Diaspora effects in international migration: Key questions and methodological issues [PDF]

Swiss Journal of Economics and Statistics, 2010
Summary This paper reviews the existing literature on the impact of migrants networks on the patterns of international migration. It covers the theoretical channels at stake in the global effect of the networks. It identifies the key issues, namely the impact on size, selection and concentration of the migration flows.
Beine, Michel, Docquier, Frederic, Ozden, Caglar   +2 more
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Terracotta Pipes with Triangular Engravings [PDF]

, 2014
The discovery of two smoking pipes from seventeenth-century contexts in Buenos Aires, Argentina, is used to suggest the presence in colonial times of a new set of stylistic norms derived from African traditions that are expressed at a regional scale not ...
Schavelzon Chavin, Daniel Gaston, Zorzi, Flavia   +1 more
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The Gender of Fossil Fuels: Oil and Domestic Perils in Mandate Palestine

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article explores the gender dynamics behind the rise of kerosene – an oil derivative – as the main domestic fuel in Mandate Palestine. It argues that these dynamics were constitutive in determining who began to use oil, where and for what purposes, in turn demonstrating that women in Palestine were the promoters and targets of a campaign ...
Shira Pinhas
wiley   +1 more source

I am/am I an African? A relational reading of Diaspora and Identity in South African Fiction by J.U. Jacobs

Literator, 2017
The publication of Diaspora and Identity in South African Fiction (2016) by J.U. Jacobs is a timely intervention, in that it is the first comprehensive study of South African fiction to sustain the argument that South African writing is always already ...
Miki Flockemann
doaj   +1 more source

Diaspora the comparative advantage for Armenia [PDF]

, 2004
Tatoul ...
Manaseryan, Tatoul
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Haunting the Historiography of Slaves in South Asia from the nineteenth century to the present

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Using both English and Urdu‐language records, this article traces the career of a few African and Afro‐Asian women slaves in the household‐state of Awadh during the first half of the nineteenth century. Focusing on the same records, this article compares a master‐poet's recognition of the motherhood of the African and Afro‐Asian slaves to the ...
Indrani Chatterjee
wiley   +1 more source

Forever Displaced?: Identity, Migration, and the Concept of Home in the Works of Manzu Islam, Neamat Imam, and Tahmima Anam

Anglica. An International Journal of English Studies, 2019
This paper explores the meaning of identity and nation, home and belonging, through the study of internal and international migration in three novels.
Tahmina Mariyam
doaj   +1 more source

South Asian Bodies at British Borders in the 1970s: From the Ugandan Asian ‘Stateless Husbands’ to ‘Virginity Testing’

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article looks at two critical moments in British immigration – the case of the ‘stateless’ Ugandan Asian husbands, whose wives successfully argued for their entry in Britain in 1973 and the ‘virginity test’ performed on Mrs K at Heathrow Airport in 1979.
Antara Datta, Jinal Parekh
wiley   +1 more source

Barefoot Wandering: Hanshan’s Spiritual Hybridity and the Hehe Pluralism

Religions
This paper explores the concept of diasporic hybridity through Hanshan’s (Cold Mountain) life and poetry during the Tang dynasty (618–907). Departing from traditional diaspora models of forced migration, Hanshan’s voluntary exile from the Confucian ...
Yanfei Qu, John Zhao
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Institutionalising diasporic Islam: multiculturalism, secularism and the integration of Muslim immigrants in Britain

Indonesian Journal of Islam and Muslim Societies, 2013
The integration of Muslim immigrants in Western countries especially Britain has attracted wider attention both from academia, policymakers and public in gen- eral. Their different religion (i.e.
Amika Wardana
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