Cultural festivals have grown in diversity, scale and popularity many migrant-receiving societies recent years schools increasingly become involved supporting these for intercultural exchange celebration. While prior research has found that cultural play a significant role maintaining enhancing traditions, much less focused on the as sites of conviviality, cross-cultural encounters solidarity –...

This paper begins with an overview of the theorization diasporic media by various scholars from Canada and UK, gestures to how typology charted Eugenia Siapera in her chapter ‘Minority Diasporic Media’ elides account alternative arts (independent film video) produced intersectional plural identities subjects/artists whose work unsettle relations heteronormative, raced gendered constructions nat...

This essay addresses contemporary migrations of Chamorus tied to the history US military presence in Micronesia and ways Indigenous culture identity are negotiated through Chamorro Cultural Festival (CCF) that has been held annually San Diego, California since 2009. The analysis explores how diasporic maintain close transpacific connections Mariana Islands while also establishing Chamoru commun...

This study discusses Arab diasporic women living in the ethnic communities Western societies Hanan Al-Shaykh’s The Occasional Virgins (2015). novel shows how different and multiple types of oppression affect women's life respond to such situations. It also traces resistance patriarchy their native culture challenges adaptation new country. Furthermore, comes across significant role homeland–mem...