Traditionally, nostalgia has been conceptualized as a medical disease and a psychiatric disorder. Instead, we argue that nostalgia is a predominantly positive, self-relevant, and social emotion serving key psychological functions. Nostalgic narratives reflect more positive than negative affect, feature the self as the protagonist, and are embedded in a social context. Nostalgia is triggered by ...

This article discusses how nostalgia functions as a successful tool of resistance in The Map Salt and Stars (2018). examines the representation displaced character called Nour emphasizing weather place shape her homesickness. It also investigates copes with nostalgic experience an attempt to construct shattered personality. We contend that there is link between nostalgia, memories, weather, usi...

In the scope of higher education internationalisation, Portuguese universities have been receiving an increasing number students from Portuguese-Speaking countries, namely African at level PhD studies. As highlighted in research, pursuing a overseas context entails critical challenges for students, supervisors and institutions. Against this background, paper reports on faced by international at...

It was extremely difficult for the deported peoples to adapt new natural conditions, and a ethnic environment, humiliating situation. K.D. Ushinsky wrote that influence of conditions on people is so powerful destruction these (and in this case separation) torments person with painful homesickness. A number government regulations established cruel special regime. Settlers scattered small groups ...