This thesis sheds light on two of the most heavily contested concepts in social sciences and sociolinguistics: ‘community’, in its inter-relation with ‘language’. I draw on the example of Arabic in Manchester, UK, to develop a comprehensive ethnographic approach to studying ‘lan…
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Television and culture have an intricate relationship that is often depicted in transnational literature, yet one generally ignored by scholars. While one must acknowledge the saturation of media in this technological age, and that writing about human experience cannot realistic…
Este trabalho aborda uma proposta de utilização do filme etnográfico no processo de recuperar a voz e dar a conhecer a resistência política e cultural dos africanos no Portugal do Estado Novo. Esse exercício de revelação é, em certa medida, um esforço de contra narrativa, de des…
The purpose of this thesis was to examine if Palestinian Women in the Diaspora demonstrate political agency to preserve the Palestinian ethnic and nationalistic identities. Historical and modern-day accounts are analyzed in evaluating the motivations of Palestinian Women’s polit…
The Chilean diaspora in the UK has changed significantly since the 1970s. This research explores the knowledge gap that exists around the UK-based Chilean diaspora and its ongoing relationship to ‘home’ over a period which spans fifty years. From its exile origins to incorporati…
Balkan ülkeleri ile Türkiye’nin tarihsel süreçte yaşadığı siyasi, sosyal ve kültürel birliktelik ve Türkiye’de yaşayan Balkan kökenliler göz önünde bulundurulduğunda, mevcut ölçeklerin Türkiye’den Balkanlara turistik amaçlı gidenlerin motivasyonlarını ölçmede içerik olarak yeter…
Diaspora çalışmaları Avrupa ülkeleri ve gelişmiş ülkelerde oldukça eskiye dayanmakla birlikte Türkiye‟de 2000‟li yıllardan sonra ele alınmaya başlanmıştır. Son yıllarda ise özellikle siyasi retorikte sıklıkla kullanılmaya başlanan diaspora olgusu Türkiye‟de giderek daha ön plana…
This dissertation examines individual, constricted agency in a multilingual environment within the context of a language discussion group and the form of social capital possessed by their Mexican Indigenous diasporic community living on the California Central Coast. The research…
It is estimated that the number of Iranians in the United States has reached 1.5 to 2 million since mass departures following the 1979 revolution, making it the largest population of Iranians in one place outside of Iran itself, with the majority having settled in California. Th…
Within transnational and diaspora populations, there are subsets of groups that are stateless and have been displaced multiple times and have complex origins and migration histories. Existing frameworks of transnationalism and diaspora literatures assume national attachment and …
JOYFUL NOISE AND VIOLENT PRAYER: MUSIC AND CHARISMATIC WORSHIP PERFORMANCE IN NIGERIAN CATHOLIC COMMUNITIES IN ROME, ITALY. In the 1990s, Nigerian and Nigerian-dominated African Catholic communities began emerging in Italy. These communities have developed worship practices that…
Despite the increased African immigrant population in the United States in recent years, there is a dearth of literature on the identity struggles of the second-generation Africans, including the Igbo, whose primordial home is located in southeastern Nigeria. Grounded in the dat…
The ongoing war in Syria is reaching its fourth year, and over 1.5 million people have been forced to leave their homes into surrounding countries. This thesis looks at the Syrian refugees that have traveled to neighboring Jordan, and how religion has kept them stable in diaspor…
Due to the global nature of capital flows and advances in communication and transportation technologies, a growing number of immigrants live transnational lives. The ability to maintain a connection to the homeland informs how people construct institutions and identities in the …
Mosaics of Identity: Reading Muslim Women's Memoirs From Across the Diaspora addresses Muslim women's life writing in transit since 9/11. This project follows the memoir boom fueled by many Middle Eastern women writers publishing in the U.S., Australia and Europe. By studying co…
In contemporary debates concerning immigration, nationhood, and religion in Germany, immigrants from Turkey are frequently portrayed as the most problematic of immigrant groups in Germany, with their religious identities as Muslims often cited as a barrier to integration. In my …
This dissertation examines the literary and cinematic constructions of Dominican bodies in the context of different geographical locations: the Dominican Republic, the United States, Puerto Rico, and Haiti. I argue that the artistic representations of these bodies are marked by …
For my thesis, I explore how South Sudanese refugees in central Iowa imagine a utopic South Sudan amidst contemporary inter-ethnic tensions emanating from their recently independent country. In central Iowa and in particular Des Moines, South Sudanese refugees subtly reproduce t…
The course of the Eritrean 2% Diaspora Tax's development and implementation illustrates how the revenue apparatus reflects, and enables, the inadequate governance existing in present-day Eritrea. This thesis will reveal how the 2% Tax came to underwrite a parochial policy of abs…