Participation of the diaspora in the Partnership The Joint Africa-EU Strategic Partnership1 offers a window of opportunity for the African diaspora in Europe to enrich the ongoing Africa-EU political dialogue. In this regard, the diaspora’s proactive participation is indispensable. The partnership also provides feasible entry points for diaspora organisations to participate actively in the oper...

We describe our experiences in designing new media technologies in cooperation with Liberia’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission. This work includes two major projects: a dynamic, interactive Web site for the Commission, and a mobile videosharing kiosk intended for use in-country where connectivity is limited. We place specific focus on our design exercises with members of the Liberian diaspor...

This paper examines the development of policies which seek to mobilise and maximise the potential of diaspora investment in their home countries. While a great deal of migrant entrepreneurship literature which focuses on impacts in the host country, less is known about the impacts of diasporans on home countries. The paper focuses on the three post-conflict Balkan economies of Bosnia and Herzeg...

Every year, around the arrival of Spring equinox, Iranians in Iran and diaspora will recognize a minstrel named Haji Firuz with his Nowruz jingle. The inclusion during festivities has been questioned challenged for decades; where some point out connections to anti-Blackness, others defend Firuz, arguing that face is only covered soot from fires also associated holiday. This article contextualiz...

Do cancer cells escape the confinement of their original habitat in the primary tumor or are they forced out by ecologic changes in their home niche? Describing metastasis in terms of a simple one-way migration of cells from the primary to the target organs is an insufficient concept to cover the nuances of cancer spread. A diaspora is the scattering of people away from an established homeland....

The Basque Diaspora in Western USA and Argentina represents two populations which have maintained strong Basque cultural and social roots in a completely different geographic context. Hence, they provide an exceptional opportunity to study the maternal genetic legacy from the ancestral Basque population and assess the degree of genetic introgression from the host populations in two of the large...

In this article we ethnographically investigate how diasporic Iranians in Aotearoa/New Zealand deployed a variety of foodways emphasizing varied identity constructs different contexts and to ...

Many countries today have “country-centric mobile apps” which are mobile apps that are primarily used by residents of a specific country. Many of these country-centric apps also include a locationbased service which takes advantage of the smartphone’s API access to the smartphone’s current GPS location. In this paper, we investigate how such country-centric apps with location-based services can...