Search results for "diaspora"

DATING SECRETLY The Role of the Internet in Shaping Transnational Couple Formation in the Kurdish Diaspora

2016

Drawing on twenty-one in-depth interviews, this article discusses the Internet’s role in the formation of transnational marriages among migrant Kurds who live in Finland. In contrast to what is presented in the European media, my findings suggest that transnational couple formation among migrants should be seen as highly diverse and more than just practices that maintain and preserve “traditional” marriage customs. Transnational online dating practices make visible how young adult Kurds actively engage in partner formation and spousal selection. Online dating enables individual autonomy by widening the circle of potential partners outside familial circles and offers a private social space i…

Expressed attachment to Russia and social integration: the case of young Russian speakers in Latvia, 2004–2010

2015

ABSTRACTThe aim of this article is to establish if expressed attachment to Russia, amongst surveyed Russian-speaking youths in 2004 and 2010 in Latvia, demonstrates any noteworthy correlations with factors promoting integration and feelings of belonging to Latvia. The correlation analysis shows that a sense of belonging to Russia and a sense of belonging to Latvia are not mutually exclusive. However, those Russian speakers in Latvia expressing a closer sense of belonging to Russia are also more likely to prefer an all-Russian environment, are skeptical of their rights and influence in Latvia, and are more likely to perceive discrimination in terms of citizenship status and ethnicity. These …

Latvian Emigrants in the United States: Different Waves, Different Identities?

2019

AbstractThis chapter studies the relationships and interaction among the Latvian emigrants from different migration waves in the United States. It specifically examines reasons for the inability of the existing and politically and culturally active Latvian diaspora community in the United States to integrate newcomers from Latvia. The diaspora community is formed mostly of migrants who left Latvia after World War II. The research is based on a mix of two sources of information and methods – qualitative analysis of in-depth interviews with the ‘new’ Latvian emigrants in the United States in 2014, who began arriving there in 1991 and quantitative data analysis of The Emigrant Communities of L…

PASSING IDENTITY AND ETHNIC CULTURE IN LATVIAN EMIGRANT FAMILIES

2021

The paper discusses the problem of preserving native Latvian language and the transfer of cultural identity in Latvian diaspora. One of the central tasks for Latvia’s diaspora policy is to support preservation of Latvian language and culture in diaspora with the aim of strengthening the Latvian identity and the sense of belonging to Latvia. Support is provided to diaspora schools for preserving Latvian language, culture and identity outside of Latvia. However, for children not to lose their Latvian language skills it is important that the language is used also in the family.This paper uses a combination of a quantitative survey and in-depth interviews with the parents of children in diaspor…

“Black Italia. Contemporary Migrant Writers from Africa”

2009

Through the centuries, historical and fictional characters of African descent have been an integral part of Italian culture at large – from Hannibal to Othello. Yet their presence, in history as much as in the arts, has often been marginalized, or considered episodic, if not entirely overlooked by Italy’s dominant discourse. The recent arrival of a plethora of migrants from the four corners of the world, many of whom from African countries, has urged Italians to recuperate their African past as an essential, and often problematic, component of their national identity. Yet historical sources appear fragmentary and often interpolated. How to re-compose the neglected African Italian heritage? …

"Perle per il mondo: origine ed evoluzione della diaspora postcoloniale"

2010

Tautas ataudze Latvijā un sabiedrības atjaunošanas izaicinājumi

2019

Monogrāfija izdota ar valsts pētījumu programmas EKOSOC­LV finansiālu atbalstu.

Sens et pratiques de l’héritage en contexte diasporique

2022

En partant de la notion de discontinuités pour éclairer les concepts d’héritage et de diaspora, cette étude éclaire le sens et les pratiques des jeunes générations d’origine vietnamienne. L’article se concentre sur les événements qui structurent une temporalité de l’héritage et de la transmission. Le décès et la naissance d’un côté et le retour au Vietnam de l’autre nourrissent un sens de la communauté transnationale, alimentée par des pratiques, parfois digitales, qui se révèlent alors toujours tournées vers les liens familiaux.

Canti della diaspora

2012

Articolo sull'edizione del 2012 del Lagos Black Heritage Festival, diretto da Wole Soyinka, dedicato al rapporto tra l'Italia e l'Africa. Include in anteprima alcune poesie degli autori italiani e nigeriani partecipanti.

Ķīna un ķīniešu migrācija ārzemēs

2019

Migrācija kā viena no globalizācijas procesa izpausmēm ir kļuvusi par nozīmīgu parādību divdesmitajā gadsimtā. Ta ietekmē dažādu pasaules valstu politisko, sociālekonomisko un demogrāfisko attīstību, starpvalstu mijiedarbības un integrācijas procesus starptautiskajā sabiedrībā. Tajā pašā laikā migrācijas pieaugums izraisa drošības un noziedzības problēmu pasliktināšanas nelegālās migrācijas, cilvēku tirdzniecības, ksenofobijas un terorisma veidā. Tas viss pievērš lielu uzmanību starptautiskajām organizācijām, valstu valdībām, zinātnieku aprindām un plašai sabiedrībai. Ķīnas migrācijai kā nozīmīgai demogrāfiskajai parādībai ir ietekme uz saņēmējvalstīm, ieviešot izmaiņas dzimumu un demogrāfi…