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Retirement Migration and Social Services: an analysis of mutual understanding
Understanding how cultural identity and inherited values shape career trajectories is a key issue in diaspora studies. This study focuses on the case of the Lebanese diaspora in the Americas, its identity markers, and its narratives of identity pride. For that purpose, an online survey was conducted in 2021 with 507 individuals of Lebanese descent living in the Americas, mainly in México, followed by Argentina, Ecuador, Colombia, and other countries. Analysis of results shows predominant self-identification as Lebanese, as well as a very common dual pattern of pride combining their Lebanese heritage with the American country of birth or residence. Lebanese language proficiency is limited, and feelings of disconnection from their Lebanese local community is most common among those who do not understand the language. Regarding narratives of identity pride, the most frequent values highlighted are roots, culture, and family on one side, but also relational and prosocial values, which often could be associated with jobs chosen by the interviewees in professions related to business and commerce.
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Innovative departures : anthropology and the Indian diaspora
This volume brings together analytical insights from modern social and cultural anthropology to unravel processes of globalization in the 21st century through diasporic migrations. Developments in anthropological theory and method are traced from the heritage of Enlightenment to the present times, with special reference to India. While firmly anchored in the local experience, the narrative of diasporic migrations presented in this book ranges widely to cover comparisons across the world and is informed by an interdisciplinary focus. The author deals with the issues of ethnicity, identity and modernity in a transnational and geopolitical context. The innovative and multi-dimensional thrust encompasses major themes and research methodology. The work includes important case studies and a detailed empirical exploration of the multicultural societies of Malaysia and South Africa. Authoritative and accessible, this book will be essential reading in contemporary anthropology, especially for scholars and researchers of sociology, social and cultural anthropology, diaspora and migration studies, ethnic studies and cultural studies as also international relations, foreign affairs, public policy, think-tanks and government bodies.
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The modern Israeli and Palestinian diasporas : a comparative approach
A comparative study of contemporary Israeli and Palestinian diasporas.Exilic and diasporic experience have become ubiquitous in recent decades.Jews, lacking a homeland, spread to various parts of the world, making the Jewish diaspora paradigmatic.
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The Javanese Diaspora in New Caledonia reflected in Ama Bastien’s Le Rêve Accompli de Bandung à Noumea and Marc Bouan’s L’Echarpe et le Kriss
New Caledonia is a French Overseas Territorywhose lit erary works do not take the “center stage” in Francophone literature. In particular, the Javanese diasporic community in this archipelago has received relatively little attention from researchers, with past studies largely focusing on Javanese indentured laborers in Suriname, instead. This research examined the autobiographical novels of two New Caledonian writers, Le rêve accompli de Bandung à Nouméa by Ama Bastien and L’écharpe et le kriss by Marc Bouan. These writers belong to the second generation of Javanese immigrants, whose parents came to New Caledonia at the beginning of the 20th century under the indentured laborer scheme. The analysis employed diasporic and cultural identity as its theoretical framework, along with Steven Tötösy de Zepetnek’s comparative cultural studies method. The results explicate the way in which these novels embody the establishment of identity in the Javanese diaspora in New Caledonia. They also demonstrate how the contestation of identity and memory is inextricably linked to the problems of the Javanese diasporic communities. These findings should contribute to and encourage the further study of diasporic communities related to Southeast Asian indentured labor.
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KOROBI-AN EMBODIMENT OF DIASPORIC DISPERSAL IN CHITRA BANERJEE DIVAKARUNI’S OLEANDER GIRL
Chitra Banerjee presents the voyage of women who, right from their birth to matrimony, progress ahead to cross numerous borders. Chitra Banerjee has precisely examined the shortcomings in the Indian society that are troublesome for women. She thus, moves a step ahead of other contemporaries in the literature of Indian diaspora. She distinguishes herself from others by revealing how Indian women continue to be stereotyped, marginalized and relegated to a colonial subjective position by their own oppressive tradition. Yet the women equip themselves to desist and defile the principles and beliefs of their own culture. Each person’s journey is unique, and it changes that person in an exceptional manner.Divakaruni’s woman protagonists aspire for power and autonomy to tussle against the domination of patriarchal ideology and humanity. Chitra Banerjee through her character Anu propounds how exile is, as prevailing as Diaspora which gives migrants an opportunity to excel in their career. This paper investigates the depiction of diasporic identity in Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni’s Oleander Girl through the lens of contemporary critical approaches to diaspora
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Beyond the Land
This dynamic understanding of both an Israeli and a Jewish diaspora works to envision a non-hegemonic Jewish nationalism that can negotiate both political imagination and reality.
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