This paper examines The History of Mary Prince as a pedagogical tool for exploring complexities within the Black Diaspora. As Paul Gilroy’s articulations Atlantic inform my approach, Prince’s circuitous journey through West Indies and England situates her process becoming one mired in longing loss. Encouraging students to consider wandering soul search not only freedom, but also solid familiar ...

The vision for the Counter-Memorias Digital Testimonio Project is to create an online non-custodial archive of video-recorded testimonios and pedagogical resources centered on memories experiences women from Latin American Caribbean diasporas living in Southern California. project centers those with social identities traditionally excluded homogenous conceptualizations latinidad, including, but...

This paper studies how members of Subtle Asian Traits (SAT), a massive Facebook group over 1.8 million members, congregate and commiserate online their growth pains experiences as (diasporic) East Asians. Founded in September 2018 by Asian-Australian teenagers ‘as joke’, SAT share ‘Asian positive’ stories, resources, memes through an average 1,200 new posts daily. Alongside global milestone eve...

This paper addresses challenges system designers may face when building a community information system for a Latino community. Particularly it examines: How can social network analysis, Latino studies and computer supported cooperative work help in understanding the community's information needs? How can the design of an interface enhance access to its networked resources? What are the challeng...

How can we understand the persistence of archaic or conservative socio-cultural practices in hybrid communities in the diaspora? How does the experience of exile and immigration manifest itself in ideological, cultural, and linguistic terms? In this project, we will examine the practices of a unique settlement in Patagonia, Argentina, which presents an exceptional situation of cultural and ling...

This article offers new insights into nostalgia and nationalism in the Syrian/Lebanese diaspora through literary, artistic, philanthropic work of Eveline Bustros (1878–1971). It relies on her underexplored published works as well a rare collection Bustros’ personal correspondence, journals, photographs, speeches compiled by family. After World War I, French partitioned Bilad al-Sham multiple po...

Purpose: This study focuses on the themes of displacement, space, and identity depicted in post-colonial novels Jhumpa Lahiri, Rohinton Mistry, Manju Kapur. Post-colonial writings, particularly novels, deal with two major issues concerning ‘modern people’ - displacement search for identity. tries to analyze treatment these selected authors study. Design/Methodology/Approach: For study, many res...

This article provides a comparative analysis of the sociolinguistic situation in three Asian countries, India, Japan, and South Korea, which are relatively less known as countries where Russian language is used. The aim study to assess significance these Russian-speaking diasporas, business sphere, education, well define characteristics its teaching cultural contexts under discussion. In all do...

The 1951 Refugee Convention recognizes two groups of refugees: one outside the country of his/her nationality and another group without nationality outside of the place of their habitual residence. However, because stateless displaced groups do not fall into the global nation-state paradigm, they are often overlooked within studies on refugees. As such, this thesis takes up the question of refu...