Search results for "Diaspora"

Judith Jesch, The Viking Diaspora

2017

The most recent addition to Routledge’s well-established series, The Medieval World, is a book about the Vikings by Judith Jesch, who is a widely known expert on the period commonly labeled as ‘the...

Engaging the diaspora for economic gain: what can Latvia expect?

2020

Following the global trend of countries engaging with their diaspora populations, Latvia has expressed its commitment to its diaspora with the recent passing of the Diaspora Law. One of the stated ...

Muslim Atmospheres as Neighbourhoods of Religious Diasporic Microspheres

2016

In many countries around the globe, Muslims not only form a statistical religious minority, but also are mainly regarded as a homogeneous group by the average citizen, the press and politicians. Concepts of Muslim diaspora seem to frequently reinforce this idea, implying that Muslims are building a global community endangering supposedly peaceful cohabitation within nation-states. In contrast, this article, based on a case study in Argentina, shows that diasporic communities can be fruitfully conceptualised as socio-cultural orders with a special ‘atmosphere’, which is formed by the emotional connections between group members and their surroundings, which transcend borders of nation-states.…

Editorial: Conceptualising ‘Muslim Diaspora’

2016

Rewriting Oromo History in the North: Diasporic Discourse about National Identity and Democracy in Ethiopia

2015

This article analyzes the way the Oromo intellectuals living in diaspora have reflected on and positioned themselves in the ethno-political conflict and related debate between the dominant Amharic- and Tigrinya-speaking “Abyssinian” groups and the descendants of the various Oromo groups, which were conquered by the former during the nineteenth century. Even though they are the largest ethnic group in Ethiopia, a large part of the Oromo perceive themselves as discriminated against and exploited by the groups holding political power, and many have fled the country. In the debate, the Oromo diaspora has had an important role. Theoretically, the article takes off from the concept of “orientati…

Islamic Shores Along the Black Atlantic

2016

Within the conceptual discussions of ‘Muslim diaspora’, the intersection between cultural blackness and Islam has received little attention. Yet its investigation is necessary to understand the increasing conversion to Islam among people who associate themselves with cultural blackness. In this context, Islam seems to offer new means for resistance and liberation, and contributes to transnational countercultures directed against racism and socio-economic marginalisation in post-colonial societies. Using Gilroy’s ideas of ‘the Black Atlantic’ and ‘diaspora’, we aim to develop an analytical framework to understand processes of black Muslim identity formation. The empirical foundation is provi…

Framing Migrant Memories: Lampedusa's Fragmented Archives

2022

The small island of Lampedusa, a key destination of the Central Mediterranean Route connecting Africa to Italy, offers a special observatory on the contemporary trans-Mediterranean odyssey of migrants, although often transformed into a “border spectacle.” Upon landing, migrants are stripped of their belongings, as these are impounded by the authorities. Such an act of dispossession is intended to deprive them of their histories, family ties and cultural identity. Photographer Mario Badagliacca has portrayed a selection of these lost and retrieved items in his work Fragments (2013). Each object reveals expectations, fears, desires, endurance, but cannot tell a full story. They are fragments …

Muñequitos rusos: la nostalgia y su contexto en la diáspora cubana

2015

Resumen: El presente articulo examina la importancia de la influencia sovietica en la Cuba revolucionaria como incentivo para la vinculacion afectiva transnacional entre emigrados cubanos, a traves del analisis de las entradas e interacciones del blog Munequitos Rusos, creado con el proposito de rescatar parte de la memoria colectiva de ese periodo reciente en la historia de la isla. Mi argumentacion se enfoca al consumo y produccion de “memorias mediaticas” en la diaspora, un espacio complejo que se caracteriza por la tension que ejercen el pais de origen y el de adopcion, en la vida cotidiana de los emigrados y en sus constantes intentos por definir sus lealtades e identidad. Parto de que…

Exilios fragmentados en Luisa Futoransky y Alicia Kozameh, dos autoras de la diáspora argentina / Fragmented Exiles in Luisa Futoransky and Alicia Ko…

2016

En este artículo se analiza el aspecto del exilio, forzoso o voluntario, en las obras “El Formosa” (2009) de Luisa Futoransky y “259 saltos” (2001/2013), de Alicia Kozameh, ambas escritoras argentinas exiliadas. Eterna viajera, que pasó años de su vida en Italia, Israel, Japón y China, la poeta, ensayista y novelista Luisa Futoransky (1939) vive en París desde 1981. Alicia Kozameh (1953), presa política de la Dictadura Militar, tuvo que exiliarse definitivamente en 1980, y vive en Los Ángeles desde 1988. Los textos analizados tienen en común el hecho de que son difíciles de clasificar según un esquema clásico de géneros literarios; juegan con elementos de la autoficción y del testimonio y s…

The Marvelous History of the Dominican Republic in Junot Diaz's The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

2013

Few things are as noticeable in Junot Diaz’s The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (2007) as its references to a wide variety of movies, TV series, comics, and most centrally to fantasy, the genre in which worlds are created that allow for the existence of magic, monsters, and other elements of the marvelous. Interweaving the story of the fictional Cabral family in the Dominican Republic and in the diaspora with the history of the dictatorship of Rafael Trujillo (1930–1961), the novel offers a sweeping reinterpretation of Caribbean history in a way that is completely intelligible only if one understands the relevance of its primary fantasy intertext, The Lord of the Rings (1954–55), both for…