Essays about: "exile"

Showing result 31 - 35 of 37 essays containing the word exile.

  1. 31. Calculating the price of exile

    University essay from Grafisk Design & Illustration

    Author : Nino Biniashvili; [2010]
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  3. 32. Psychological Impacts of Forced Migration in the Youth Community of West-Sahrawi Refugees

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Master of Science in Development Studies; Lunds universitet/Graduate School; Lunds universitet/Institutionen för psykologi

    Author : Laura Dolz Riera; [2010]
    Keywords : Western-Sahara; refugee; youth; phenomenology; Minerva software; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : The focus of this research is to examine the basic factors affecting the West Sahrawi young refugees’ lives and survival strategies in their situation of exile in the refugee camps of Tindouf, Algeria. The purpose is to answer the following questions: First, which are the main problems as perceived by the youth born in the refugee camps? Second, which are their coping strategies? And finally, which are the protective factors that help them to cope with their situation? The data has been collected through self reports and open interviews from 18 young Sahrawi refugees, age 12-30. READ MORE

  4. 33. "[T]he Free Play of Fantasy" The Interrelations between Ethnicity and Sexuality in Shyam Selvadurai´s Funny Boy

    University essay from Institutionen för humaniora

    Author : Åsa Svensson; [2008]
    Keywords : Ethnicity; Exile; Funny Boy; Identity; Masculinity; Selvadurai; Sexuality; Simultaneity of Discourse; and Racialised Space.;

    Abstract : The goal of this essay is to pursue a reading of ethnicity and sexuality in Shyam Selvadurai’s novel Funny Boy to show the importance of the interrelations between the two and how equally crucial both of these are in order to understand the protagonist Arjie’s journey and search for identity. To investigate the interrelation between ethnicity and sexuality, the analysis makes use of a method of simultaneous consideration that is similar to Mae Gwendolyn Henderson’s focus on “simultaneity of discourse” used by black women writers. READ MORE

  5. 34. Tibetan, but not from Tibet A Minor Field Study on Tibetan Diasporic Identity in India

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

    Author : Georgia Sandberg Moustogianni; [2007]
    Keywords : Tibetan youth; diaspora; hyperreality; postcolonialism; hybridity; Social sciences; Samhällsvetenskaper; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : This paper is the result of a minor field study (MFS) on Tibetan youth in India. The main research question is: How does the second generation of Tibetans in India express their identity, and what implications does this have on their belonging to a diasporic group? The aim of this paper is to present discourses within the Tibetan diaspora and how the second generation relates to these as well as creates its own. READ MORE

  6. 35. Gender in Exile - A Field Study on Gender Equality in Tibetan Society

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

    Author : Gustav Enquist; [2006]
    Keywords : Gender; Tibetan; Equality; Efficiency; Development; Social sciences; Samhällsvetenskaper; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : The thesis is based on a field study carried out in India, Nepal and Tibet during the period of June?August 2005. It examines gender structures in Tibetan society and seeks to explain the background and reasons to existing social and political structures. READ MORE