Diasporas

This dissertation explores exilic human rights literature as the literary genre encompassing under its aegis thematic and textual concerns and characteristics contiguous with dissident literature, resistance literature, postcolonial literature, and feminist literature. Departing…

This thesis is a historical study of a commercial partnership between two families of Sephardic Jews, the Ergas and the Silvera, which was based in Livorno (Tuscany) and Aleppo (Syria) and operated during the first half of the eighteenth century, when Livorno was the most import…

This manuscript explored the movement and creation of Diasporas. The long historical engagement of language, religion, and material cultures between Africa and the Americas fostered the emergence of groups of Afrolatinos that identify with many coasts along the African Diaspora.…

This dissertation is about the cultural and socioeconomic experience and assimilation of Turkish immigrants and their descendants in three countries: Canada, the United States, and Germany. In these countries, the Turks form diaspora communities. Describing Turkish immigrant com…