Sökning: "Diaspora"
Visar resultat 11 - 15 av 68 avhandlingar innehållade ordet Diaspora.
11. from [al'manja] with love : Trans_ feministische Positionierungen zu Rassismus und Migratismus
Sammanfattning : from [al'manja} with love revisits Critical Migration Studies with the insights of postcolonial and decolonial approaches and carves out a perspectlve on power relations that brlngs together transnational feminism and 'trans(gender) polltics'.I dlscuss what racism and migratlsm mean in a German and European context, and work out how they shape hegemonlc understandings of 'Germany' and 'Europe'. LÄS MER
12. Between Majority Power and Minority Resistance : Kurdish Linguistic Rights in Turkey
Sammanfattning : As the most figurative asset of membership in a majority or minority and the most symbolic aspect of national authority, language is a major site of struggle for majority power and minority resistance. For the purposes of this study, which focuses on the question of Kurdish linguistic rights in Turkey, the sites of struggle for majority power and minority resistance are as follows: the documents of international and European organisations on the linguistic rights of minorities, the impact of the modernisation and nation-state building process in Turkey on the Kurdish-speaking community and the resistance engendered by the Kurdish intelligentsia in the European diaspora and in Turkey against the majority power delimiting the Kurdish linguistic rights. LÄS MER
13. Multiple Affiliations : Memory and Place in Autobiographical Narratives of Displacement by (Im)migrant US Women
Sammanfattning : Multiple Affiliations explores the autobiographical negotiations of memory and multilocality articulated by five (im)migrant women writers writing from, and being read (primarily) within, the US. Texts as diverse as Korean-American Theresa Hak Kyung Cha's Dictée (1982), Polish (Jewish)-American Eva Hoffman's Lost in Translation: Life in a New Language (1989), Chinese-American Maxine Hong Kingston's The Woman Warrior Memoirs of a Girlhood among Ghosts (1976) and China Men (1980), Caribbean/African-American Audre Lorde's Zami: A New Spelling of My Name (1982), and Pakistani-American Sara Suleri's Meatless Days (1989) highlight how various (cross-race and transnational) experiences of location, dislocation, and relocation resonate with each other and "immigrant America. LÄS MER
14. Promised Soils : Senses of Place Among Yezidis in Dalarna and Sheikhan
Sammanfattning : This is an ethnographic study that focuses on Zahmanê Êzîdîa Li Dalarna, the Yezidi cemetery, in Borlänge. The Swedish town of Borlänge has one of the largest Yezidi diaspora communities in Western Europe; a majority emigrated from the Northern Iraqi region of Sheikhan during the 1990s and early 2000s. LÄS MER
15. Diaspora global politics : Kurdish transnational networks and accommodation of nationalism
Sammanfattning : This thesis is concerned with diasporas as increasingly significant transnational actors in emerging global politics, representing changes in the nature and form of political organisation beyond nation states. Diasporas have witnessed the increased interest of scholars from several disciplines. LÄS MER
