Cultural identity in contemporary diasporic communities is dynamic, multifaceted, and cyclical. In the age of reflexive modernity, it imperative to think about new ways conceptualizing experience individuals straddling multiple geographies. A model for such should not only explain plurality “being” but also fluidity “becoming.” this article, question shifting identities four main characters Jhu...

Diaspora (2006), by Eduardo González, I couldn’t help ponder on the specificities and trajectories of Cuban diasporic writing in the United States post-1959. González reflects on cultural production “in the time of diaspora,” specifically: diasporic writers, Guillermo Cabrera-Infante, who lived and died in London; Antonio Benítez-Rojo, who lived and passed recently in Amherst, Massachusetts; an...

The theorists vary in their conceptualizations of diaspora and cultural identity immigrants. Broadly speaking, the theorizations can be categorized into four different groups with focus on diverse aspects immigrants’ lives. first classical phase describes forced migration immigrants including victimhood Jewish, Africans Armenians. second conceptualization incorporates historical, social diversi...

This paper offers a set of nuanced narratives and a theoretically-informed report on what is the driving force and motivation behind the movement of Hindus and Sikhs from one continent to another (apart from their earlier movement out of the subcontinent to distant shores). What leads them to leave one diasporic location for another location? In this sense they are also ‘twice-migrants’. Here I...

This open access book examines how diasporic audiences consume, disseminate, and produce pop cultural imaginations of non-Western origin

This paper offers a set of nuanced narratives and a theoretically-informed report on what is the driving force and motivation behind the movement of Hindus and Sikhs from one continent to another (apart from their earlier movement out of the subcontinent to distant shores). What leads them to leave one diasporic location for another location? In this sense they are also ‘twice-migrants’. Here I...

Using a case study of The Post newspaper in Cameroon, this article examines an alternative model through which a media organization located within the ‘have not’ side of the digital divide is publishing online.A skills inadequacy in the newsroom and a relatively weak telecommunications infrastructure in the country have prompted the newspaper’s online version to not only target a diasporic audi...

Abstract Recently, ethnic humor (targeting ethnoreligious identities) is increasingly questioned in European and Western countries, sparking controversy on online traditional media platforms. Absent from the mediated academic debate are opinions targeted subjects of joke. This qualitative audience study aims to add critical scholarship by providing insight into how groups make sense disputes of...