Essays about: "diasporic identity"

Showing result 16 - 20 of 24 essays containing the words diasporic identity.

  1. 16. Do I belong here? Conditions and micro-diffussions in the South African milieu which proliferate the emigration of potential leaders.

    University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för organisation och entreprenörskap (OE)

    Author : Thato Mmatli; [2017]
    Keywords : talent emigration; brain drain; belongingness; guilt-consciousness; identity;

    Abstract : A plethora of interdisciplinary research has highlighted the increase of global mobility and diasporic communities. While talent emigration has shown to have a multiplicity of benefits, particularly as gaining diversified sets of skills is essential in the face of globalization. READ MORE

  3. 17. Crossing borders, creating boundaries : Identity making of the Angolan diaspora residing in the border town of Rundu, northern Namibia

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Institutionen för naturgeografi

    Author : Emelie Danielsson; [2016]
    Keywords : Border; boundary; identity; Namibia; Angola; diaspora; migration; colonialism; independence struggle; civil war; proxy war;

    Abstract : This Bachelor’s thesis explores the relationship between borders, boundaries and migration, and their effect on identity making from a diasporic perspective. The study focuses on notions of national, regional, cultural, tribal and ethnic identity, and set in relation to the influence borders and boundarieshave on these processes. READ MORE

  4. 18. Diaspora Roles and Integration in a Host Country : A Study of the Swedish-Assyrian Community in Stockholm

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Socialantropologiska institutionen

    Author : Silvia Ulloa; [2016]
    Keywords : diaspora; diaspora politics; Assyrians; migration; Södertälje; Assyrier;

    Abstract : Assyrians are members of a stateless nation with roots in the Middle East, although due to conflict, persecution and instability a majority of Assyrians now live in diaspora in many different countries. The Assyrian community in Sweden now numbers approximately 100.000 individuals, of which approximately 18.000 to 25. READ MORE

  5. 19. Across Borders: Migrancy, Bilingualism, and the Reconfiguration of Postcolonialism in Junot Díaz’s Fiction

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Masterprogram: Litteratur - Kultur – Media; Lunds universitet/Litteraturvetenskap

    Author : Laura Fennell; [2015]
    Keywords : migrancy; migration; bilingualism; postcolonialism; Junot Díaz; other; Languages and Literatures;

    Abstract : Equipped with Junot Díaz’s novel The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (2007) and his collections of short stories Drown (1996) and This Is How You Lose Her (2012), this thesis interprets the fundamentals of migrant literature, studies Díaz’s tools of migrant depiction, and examines contemporary postcolonial and migrant discourse. This is performed in three integral segments of study. READ MORE

  6. 20. Out of Africa - New Media, Back Writing and the African Diaspora

    University essay from Malmö högskola/Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS)

    Author : Barbara Hauer-Nussbaumer; [2014]
    Keywords : New Media; Blogging; Postcolonialism; Identity; Diaspora; Africa; Narratives;

    Abstract : The aim of this study is to explore the relation of New Media, in particular blogging, at the intersection of the African Diaspora, identity construction and postcolonial thought. Postcolonialism is a theory and practice that seeks to encounter the dominant Western discourse and its affects on both the individual as well as society as a whole. READ MORE