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Yoruba Histories of Marriage and Belonging: Gender, Power and Innovation in Eighteenth‐Century West Africa

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article argues that marriage was central to historical change in the Yoruba‐speaking region of West Africa during the eighteenth century. It draws on ìtàn, a distinct oral source, to show that conjugality shaped Yoruba processes of urbanisation and political centralisation, gendered divisions of labour and social innovation and creativity.
Insa Nolte
wiley   +1 more source

Towards the West. Conflict and Settlement in the Maniot Diaspora (17th‑18th Centuries)

Diasporas: Circulations, Migrations, Histoire
This article analyses the interaction between Mediterranean mobility and the internal colonisation policies promoted by European countries in the modern age through the events of the Greek‑Maniot migration flow that unfolded from the 1660s to the 1760s ...
Giampaolo Salice
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‘A Sort of Armed Argument’: Ireland's Civil War of Words

History, EarlyView.
Abstract This article sets out to contribute to the study of the languages of European civil wars through outlining and analysing the deployment of language as a weapon by the opposing sides of the Irish independence movement that split over the terms of the Anglo‐Irish Treaty of December 1921.
DONAL Ó DRISCEOIL
wiley   +1 more source

Harnessing Migration for Inclusive Growth and Development in Southern Africa [PDF]

, 2017
The primary goal of this study is to present the results of a comprehensive scope of key opportunities and challenges for harnessing migration for inclusive growth and development at the regional level in Southern Africa.
Crush, Jonathan, Dodson, Belinda, Tevara, Daniel, Williams, Vincent   +3 more
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Invisible Diaspora? English Ethnicity in the United States before 1920 [PDF]

, 2015
The article presents an examination into the English population of the United States during the 19th and early 20th centuries, examining their ethnic identity as a diaspora community.
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FINANCIALIZED VIOLENCE IN TORONTO’S RENTAL MARKET: Eviction Rates in Majority Black Renter Communities

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract While the geographical distribution of eviction filings has been explored in Toronto, the intersection of rental housing financialization, race and eviction remains underexplored. Financial actors and their intermediaries, who fuel the eviction crisis in economically disenfranchised Black renter communities, exert significant influence over ...
Nemoy Lewis, Dimitri Panou, Richard Maaranen   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Connections and Disconnections in the Armenian Transnation: the Case of Armenian Americans and Armenia

Revue LISA
The Armenian dispersion is often studied as a textbook diaspora, with a common origin, collective memory, shared interests, and a sense of co-responsibility. Among the different components of the Armenian “transnation,” Armenian Americans occupy a unique
Anouche Der Sarkissian
doaj   +1 more source

Sending States and Diaspora Positionality in International Relations [PDF]

International Political Sociology, 2018
Diaspora politics is of growing interest to International Relations (IR), yet theorizing about sending states’ engagement of diasporas in different global contexts has been minimal. Central to this article is the question: How do challenges to postconflict statehood shape a sending state’s diaspora engagement?
openaire   +1 more source

EXPERIENCING MORE‐THAN‐PANDEMIC WATERSCAPES: An Intra‐urban Comparison of Water Practices and Geographies in Nairobi

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract While many African cities, such as Nairobi, fared comparatively well during the pandemic years, urban residents still faced compounded uncertainties and an unequal distribution of burdens that were infrastructurally co‐mediated, for example, within and through place‐specific waterscapes and their socio‐technical infrastructures.
Moritz Kasper, Elizabeth Wamuchiru, Sophie Schramm   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Acceptance, Healing and Reflective Nostalgia in the Works of Elin Toona and Agate Nesaule

Interlitteraria
The Estonian and Latvian diaspora communities that formed in the United States after World War Two anchored their identity and cultural practices in hopes of survival and eventual freedom for their occupied homelands.
Martin Nõmm
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