“The song helps us to build and to live”: the role and functions of the ethnic song in Moscow Chuvash and Mari diasporic groups [PDF]
Этническая культура, 2023 The paper studies the role and functions of songs in an ethnic language in the life of representatives of the internal diaspora. The article is based on the results of sociolinguistic surveys conducted in Chuvash and Mari diasporas of the Moscow region ...
Marina V. Kutsaeva
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The Hijab as Gift: Mechanisms of Community Socialisation in the Muslim Diaspora [PDF]
Socialization - A Multidimensional Perspective, 2018 One of the most important features of the world-wide Islamic diaspora at the present time is how the socialization of individuals into Islamic belief and observance operates.
Anna-Mari Almila, D. Inglis
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Diasporas’ Multiple Roles in Peace and Conflict: A Review of Current Debates [PDF]
Migration Letters, 2020 Diasporas can play multiple roles in both the host country and the homeland, and their activities can varyingly contribute towards peace-building processes or perpetuate conflict back home. In this article, we wish to reflect upon the current discussions
M. Toivanen, Bahar Başer
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Noted: RSF cheekily climbing the barricades [PDF]
Pacific Journalism Review, 2016 Reviews of: Saving Independent Journalism: 30 Years Defending Media and Hostile Climate of Environmental Journalists. Paris, France: Reporters Without Borders.
David Robie, Philip Cass, Mari Dunlop
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Hisaye Yamamoto’s Silence-Voice Interplay in Japanese American Imprisonment Camps [PDF]
Gender Studies, 2023 Within times of war and U.S.-state-imposed guilt, Japanese American female characters in “The Legends of Miss Sasagawara” experience repeated status changes throughout World War II and the Japanese American imprisonment camps.
Petruş Raluca-Andreea
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Remembering the Past in Diasporic Spaces: Kurdish Reflections on Genocide Memorialization for Anfal [PDF]
Genocide Studies International, 2019 :Diasporas engage in a variety of practices and activities to commemorate past massacres and genocides that might have led to the formation of the diaspora in the first place.
M. Toivanen, Bahar Başer
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Politicized and depoliticized ethnicities, power relations and temporality: insights to outsider research from comparative and transnational fieldwork [PDF]
, 2018 The insider and outsider positions in migration studies have conventionally been approached in terms of ethnic or national belonging. Recently scholars have problematized the essentialist approaches to these roles by arguing for the inclusion of multiple
Bahar Başer, M. Toivanen
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The politics of genocide recognition: Kurdish nation-building and commemoration in the post-Saddam era [PDF]
, 2017 This article explores the genocide recognition politics (GRP) with a specific focus on Saddam Hussein’s Anfal campaign (1988) against the Kurdish population in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq (KRI).
Bahar Başer, M. Toivanen
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(In)visible spaces and tactics of transnational engagement: A multi-dimensional approach to the Kurdish diaspora [PDF]
, 2015 The Kurdish diaspora has been transnationally active and efficient in terms of raising awareness of the plight of the Kurds in Europe and elsewhere. However, there is a clear need to situate the current analysis of the diaspora in the context of rapidly ...
Bahar Başer +2 more
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The Brain Drain: Curse or Boon? [PDF]
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
Simon Commander +3 more
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