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O presente trabalho analisa a relação entre as empresas transnacionais e o trabalho infantil, de forma a delimitar quais são os parâmetros internacionais que podem jogar luz à temática da responsabilização das empresas pelos Direitos Humanos no âmbito da proteção infantil. Atual…

In this dissertation, I explore how crossing national borders has made me aware of the many identity borders that I have crossed as a transnational Chinese, and how I am caught up in identity politics between the “Chinese,” who do not necessarily always identify as “Chinese” in …

My dissertation offers a novel understanding of democratic subjectivity. It ultimately argues that the digitalization of everyday practices and the public sphere reveals the constitution of collective subjectivity. Rather than analyzing the actions and words of elites, I focus o…

In the past decade, Iranian architects have mobilized professional institutions—such as magazines, awards, professional bodies, and workshops—to transform their profession and to extend their exposure beyond Iran's tightly controlled borders. To do so, they established connectio…

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 …

Contemporary studies of transnationalism are challenging scholarship on the political advocacy of ethnic groups by examining a broader range of connections that shape immigrant identity and engagement with the political systems of host countries. One of these connections is the …

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 …

This dissertation examines a vital catalyst in the globalization of education: international assessments—that involve testing and rankings—of student achievement in academic subjects. Nearly all high-income countries participate in international assessments such as Trends in Int…

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 …

The dissertation examines the post-World War II campaign to relocate Armenians from the Near East, Europe, and North America to the Armenian Soviet Socialist Republic [ASSR]. Beginning with an investigation into the formation of transnational ties between the Soviet Armenian sta…

With the increasing prominence of transnationalism, often viewed as a byproduct of the loosely defined concept of globalization, de-territorialization and ‘diasporic identity’ are projected as the paradigmatic future of the global socio-spatial system. Such theories, not unlike …

The ethnic category of “peripheral” Chinese Americans encompasses ethnic Chinese who do not come from mainland China but come from other parts of Asia and Southeast Asia such as Hong Kong, Taiwan, Indonesia, Malaysia, and Singapore. In the struggle with their hybrid and diaspori…

Since the late 1960s, Eritreans in the United States have been active participants in ongoing efforts to define the Eritrean nation. They have also contributed extensively to the political-economic viability of the emergent state. During the nationalist revolution war of indepen…

This study examines the textual production and narration of “multiple identities” in third world and US third world feminist writings of the last three decades. These feminist writers suggest a tactical articulation of their identities between, across, and through a transnationa…

Tensions exist in the way that the European Union is conceptualised. How do we reconcile the persistence of a Europe of fragmented nation-states and the European integration project based on the principle of free movement? This duality is indicative of different geographical vis…

This research investigates the experience of Afghan refugees in Iran from 1980 to 2001. It considers how their displacement influenced their strategies of adaptation and survival, and altered their concepts of home and space, identity and sense of belonging, as well as their exp…

Technological, political and economical developments have fostered the spread of transnational media since the latter part of the 20 th century. Despite that, most studies of media effects are still nationally bound. This dissertation discusses some of the effects that both nati…

This dissertation argues that we are better able to evaluate immigrant identification by looking at the host context and the ways in which the legal environment and the existing perception of the immigrant group define, constrain and create an immigrant identity. The way boundar…

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 thesis examines the effect of the Indian nationalist movement on the Egyptian nationalist movement. The central argument of this work is that the Egyptian nationalist movement was consciously inter-nationalist, in that the nationalist activists were not only seeking an end …