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Palestinian Transnational Social Field and Diaspora Entrepreneurs

Diaspora Entrepreneurs and Contested States
This chapter and the following Chapter 7 are interconnected as they both discuss Palestinian diaspora mobilizations. This chapter focuses on the transnational social field and the four types of diaspora entrepreneurs connected not simply to the West Bank
M. Koinova
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Save Mary Jane Veloso: Solidarity and Global Migrant Activism in the Filipino Labor Diaspora

Perspectives on Global Development and Technology, 2018
Abstract On April 29, 2015, Mary Jane Veloso, a Filipina migrant worker who was sentenced to death in Indonesia for trafficking heroin into the country, was granted a stay of execution by Indonesian President Joko Widodo. In this article, I argue that transnational networks activated by this case exemplify the power of systematic migrant worker ...
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The Impact of Host-states and Places Within Them on Diaspora Mobilizations

Diaspora Entrepreneurs and Contested States
Closer focused on host-states in which diaspora entrepreneurs live, Chapter 10 presents a comparative discussion. The empirical chapters (4–9) have demonstrated that analysts cannot make clear-cut comparisons of host-states, unless considering a ...
M. Koinova
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Roughing It in Bermuda: Mary Prince, Susanna Strickland Moodie, Dionne Brand, and the Black Diaspora

2020
Canadian Literature, No 220 (2014): Tracking ...
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The Brain Drain: Curse or Boon?

Social Science Research Network, 2003
The migration of skilled individuals from developing countries has typically been considered to be costly for the sending country, due to lost investments in education, high fiscal costs and labour market distortions. Economic theory, however, raises the
S. Commander, M. Kangasniemi, L. Winters
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States and Their Diasporas

Diaspora Studies
In assessing the emerging role of diasporas in contemporary international relations, several states have established state structures to engage with their diasporas and develop special policies related to them.
Hratsin Vardanyan, Mariam М. Hakobyan
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Women and Irish Diaspora Identities: theories, concepts and new perspectivesD. A. J. MacPHERSON & MARY J. HICKMAN (Eds)

Women's History Review, 2015
Every Irish person my age (55) or older must have had the intriguing childhood experience of entertaining relations ‘home from England’.
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Mari language and culture preservation and popularization: Rural libraries serving long-standing Mari diaspora communities

Rodnoy Yazyk. Linguistic journal
This article is based on the findings of several research expeditions to Bashkortostan, Tatarstan, and the Sverdlovsk region of Russia. It provides information on the work of rural libraries serving the Mari populace in places where there is a high percentage of ethnic Maris, as well as on the functioning of the Mari language in media and literature ...
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A Queen in Diaspora: The Sorrowful Exile of Queen Marie-Louise Christophe (1778, Ouanaminth, Haiti–March 11, 1851, Pisa, Italy)

Journal of Haitian Studies, 2014
On March 11, 1851, having made her last confession and received Extreme Unction and Viaticum, la principessa nera della Russia passed from this life. There was a requiem Mass followed by interment at a side altar of the Capuchin chapel of San Donnino, beside her daughters, Amethyste [d. 1831] and Athenaire [d. 1839] Christophe.
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Between Diaspora and Conquest: Norman Assimilation in Petrus Alfonsi’s Disciplina Clericalis and Marie de France’s Fables

2008
This chapter examines Norman identity and diaspora comparatively, through texts composed in Sicily and England.
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