The purpose of this qualitative phenomenological research was to explore Israel's use of racial profiling techniques towards addressing aviation-based terrorism. Aviation terrorism has existed for over 7 decades, of which, the United States civil aviation industry has been the p…
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This dissertation is based on fieldwork in West Yorkshire, archival research in India and the United Kingdom, and human rights work in Kashmir. It examines the emergence of the Kashmiri diaspora between the nineteenth and twenty-first centuries within moments of Kashmiri struggl…
This dissertation investigated how constructions of a group’s history affect members’ attitudes toward and relationships with outgroup members. Incorporating Halbwach’s (1950) concept of collective memory—defined as a shared sense of history—to Social Identity Theory (Tajfel & T…
The Jewish Displaced Persons, although only a small number of the total refugees in post-war Europe, played a disproportionately large role on the international stage. While most literature on the subject is in agreement that the She'erit Hapletah demonstrated an abundant Zionis…
This work examines the role of nostalgia in texts by Judeo-Maghrebian women writers who write retrospectively about their lives in North Africa. I study authors from Algeria (Rachel Kahn, Myriam Ben, Hélène Cixous and Annie Cohen), Tunisia (Annie Goldmann and Nine Moati), and Mo…
In 1989, more than 300,000 Turks fled the assimilation campaign launched by the communist government in Bulgaria and immigrated to Turkey. The arrival of these immigrants was officially hailed as the homecoming of "ethnic kin" (soydas), who, having ensured the survival of Turkis…
This dissertation describes an attempt to understand the complex process of how Indonesian Muslims in New York City negotiate their cultural identities. This dissertation gravitates around the concept of transnationalism, which perceives that contemporary immigrants form and mai…
This work traces the transformation of a small Turkic-Muslim group in Eastern Europe, the Crimean Tatars, from a tribal-religious ethnie into a politicized secular nation. Taking as a starting point the Mongol conquest of the Crimea, the process of ethno-genesis of the Crimean T…
Young American Jews are increasingly diverging from the American Jewish consensus on Zionism, while theoretical arguments for Jewish diasporism have been developed over the past several decades. I argue in this thesis that over the past half-decade, Jewish diasporism has develop…
The traditional geopolitical discourse of Turkey is based on the belief that Turkey is located in a unique geography in the world and therefore Turkish homeland, 'vatan, ' is besieged by internal and external enemies. Vatan has acquired an ahistorical and ontological status, con…