...Dear friends, I am a faculty member of University of Nebraska at Omaha. I am doing a research project concerning the impact of ethnic media on Diaspora in the United States. This interview is designed to help me understand your use of ethnic media and the impact of such media upon your identification needs. All information you provide will be kept confidential. Please answer the questions according to your opinion and experience. Your DETAILED answers would be highly appreciated – THANK YOU! University of Nebraska at Omaha Chin-Chung Chao Ph.D. Email: chinchuchao@unomaha.edu |Date: |Interview Qs |Answers | |Interviewee Name: |1 What is your gender? | | | |Male θ | | |------------------ |Female θ ...
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...Men in Double Marginality--Chinese Diaspora “at home” . . . ! ! ! Ping Lin ! ! ! ! ! ! ! (2007 *! Men in Double Marginality--- Chinese Diaspora “at home” Ping Lin Abstract This paper uses data gathered from research project partially sponsored by Oriel College in Oxford and Academia Sinica in Taiwan to explore the adaptation of Mainlander Taiwanese in China. They moved from China to Taiwan in 1949 and back “home” with their descendents in 1990s. By examine the life of seventeen respondents in Dongguan/Shanghai in 2004-2005, we argue that they were in sense of double marginality despite the diversity of the sample. Whilst foreigners regarded China as a new territory to explore more economic benefits, these returnees were more likely to regarded China as a place with sense of belonging, not sense of colonising. However, they found that the real China was different from what they expected before return. They felt being excluded from Taiwan, but they also felt unwilling to participate in China due to this home disillusion. Further discussion on the adaptation of other type Taiwanese in China will be displayed in separated papers. Keyword: return migration, Taiwan, China! 1. Introduction Whilst most migration research focuses on why people move from poorer countries to richer countries and how they overcome the widely cultural gap in migration, there is little research stressing on migration either on the opposite direction or between countries with cultural proximity...
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...“Bye-Bye, Babar” is a world-renowned essay written by Taiya Selasi, which tackles a term coined by the author herself: “Afropolitan.” Afropolitans are, according to its instigator, are Africans influenced by the different countries they’ve come from or went to –which also applies to Taiye Selasi. Being someone of both Nigerian and Ghanaian descent, it would be expected that she would be born on African soil. However, like other transnational Africans, her parents migrated “in pursuit of higher education and happiness abroad.” The result of this widespread immigration is that the following generation became exposed to a diverse range of cultures, races, and nations; while in Selasi’s case, hers leans more toward the European culture due to...
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...Entangled Identities: Ritual Performance of Alevis in an Urban Area Over the past two decades, there has been considerable debate on the identity of Alevi and representations of their ritual performances in their worship places located in urban areas. All debates illustrate that they have been relinquishing their strong and traditional identities like other traditional cultures would seem around the world. Their traditional culture has been getting lost due to economic and life challenges emerged not only individually or collectively but also globally. It is important to highlight that the change of the traditional cultures of Alevis first appeared when they migrated from rural to urban areas. Most of the Alevis couldn`t carry on their identity and culture when they migrated from their hometown to the areas where they live. Most have lost their belonging to traditional identity and culture. At his juncture, I must explain Alevism is a religious community that is practiced in Turkey, Balkans and Syria among the ethnic groups of Turks, Kurds and Arabs. In the Balkan area their name is generally known as Bektashis. Some sources indicate that Alevi tradition is inspired by Sufi traditions and they are heterodox groups within Islam. There have been considerable debates about their identity, history and especially the performances that quite different from Sunni Islam. The place where the Alevis perform their rituals is called a cemevi, a word which means gathering house. Cem is...
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...Diaspora communities always inevitably experience a sense of loss, an absence, which is crucial to the development of a consciousness of identity and ethnicity. Thus the narratives produced by the authors of the diaspora community highlights this trauma, struggle and the sense of loss of experienced by these communities and the cultural negotiations they have to indulge. These experiences of the struggle to assimilate and integrate into the host nation’s socio-political environment result in the formation of hybrid identities. The exiled communities dwell in a space, juxtaposed with fragments of memories, imagination and a real geopolitical space, which is regarded by Bhabha as “hybrid space” and by Edward Soja as the “third space”. Hosseini’s creative imagination is fuelled by his memories of his childhood and...
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...NOTRE DAME UNIVERSITY – LOUAIZE PALMA JOURNAL A MULTIDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH PUBLICATION Volume 11 Issue 1 2009 Contents Editorial New century, old story! Race, religion, bureaucrats, and the Australian Lebanese story Anne Monsour The Transnational Imagination: XXth century networks and institutions of the Mashreqi migration to Mexico Camila Pastor de Maria y Campos Balad Niswen – Hukum Niswen: The Perception of Gender Inversions Between Lebanon and Australia Nelia Hyndman-Rizik Diaspora and e-Commerce: The Globalization of Lebanese Baklava Guita Hourani Lebanese-Americans’ Identity, Citizenship and Political Behavior Rita Stephan Pathways to Social Mobility Lebanese Immigrants in Detroit and Small Business Enterprise Sawsan Abdulrahim 3 7 31 73 105 139 163 Pal. Jour., 2009, 11,3:5 Copyright © 2009 by Palma Journal, All Rights Reserved Editorial Palma Journal’s special issue on migration aims at contributing to this area of study in a unique manner. By providing a forum for non-veteran scholars in the field to share their current research findings with a broader public, Palma has joined hands with the Lebanese Emigration Research Center in celebrating LERC’s sixth anniversary serving international and interdisciplinary scholarly discourse between Lebanon and the rest of the world. The migration special issue owes its inception to a conversation between Beirut und Buenos Aires, in which Eugene Sensenig-Dabbous, an AustrianAmerican...
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...and forensic anthropologist working for a UN-affiliated human rights organization. Haunted by a strong sense of personal and cultural dislocation, Anil takes up an assignment in Sri Lanka, where she teams up with a local archeologist, Sarath Diyasena, to uncover evidence of the Sri Lankan government’s violations of human rights during the country’s period of acute civil war. Yet, by the end of the novel, Anil has lost the evidence that could have indicted the government and is forced to leave the country, carrying with her a feeling of guilt for her unwitting complicity in Sarath’s death. On one hand, Anil certainly embodies an ethical (albeit rather schematic) critique of the failure of global justice. On the other, her character stages diaspora, in Vijay Mishra terms, as the “normative” and “ exemplary … condition of late modernity” (“Diasporic” 441) — a condition usually associated with the figure of the nomad rather than the diasporic subject — and thus raises questions about the novel’s regulatory politics of diasporic identity. In contrast, Anita Rau Badani’s The Hero’s Walk represents the formation of diasporic identities as an empowering process shaped by multiple changes on the local level rather than by transnational mobility. Set in a fictive seaside town in...
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...August Wilson’s Ten-Play Cycle August Wilson’s ten-play cycle is a series of plays created that follow the lives and experiences of African American’s throughout the twentieth century. As the plays were created, the collection as a whole then became the Pittsburgh Cycle. All but one of these plays took place in the City Hill’s district, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania where the writer, August Wilson grew up himself. These plays were some of the finest of all time within the category of contemporary drama. As he tells the stories of how African American lives was perceived in these plays, there is a significance to be identified through each playwright. He sheds a great deal of insight on history, struggles, triumphs, relationships, and conflict between man and himself. In the series of these plays there is a valuable significance but there are a few plays in particular that depict clear images of what Wilson wanted to portray to his audiences. In an interview with Bill Myers, Wilson discusses his past and how he became a writer and developed even in his childhood ages. He credits his mother for bringing his inner poet out of him. She was very adamant in making sure he knew how to read. This trait instilled in him was carried out through his fantastic work as a writer. Although he did not finish high school, his success was much greater than those four walls. He went on years later to receive a Pulitzer prize award in 1987. During this time people in Wilson’s community started to...
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...Ethnic Groups and Discrimination Kimberly Larimer ETH/125 09/11/2011 ARLETHA NDOUME Ethnic Groups and Discrimination I belong and identify with the ethnic group known as the Irish American. The Irish have a story that includes famine, discrimination, immigration, religious discrimination, and finally triumph in the face of adversity. The Irish ancestry is almost impossible to trace due to the tragic circumstances in which millions of Irish immigrants were forced to escape to the United States. I have personal experience trying to trace my ancestry back to Ireland and every investigation has ended the same there were no records kept back that far back due to how most of the residents from Ireland not only got to the United States, but also because of the condition of most Irish immigrants once they landed in the United States. In 1800 the Union of Ireland Act united The Kingdom of Great Britain with the Kingdom of Ireland, in a short few years the Irish became impoverished and along with the religious prejudice of Protestant Masters to the Catholic Irish many had no choice to immigrate to the United States. In 1845, the great potato rot touched off a mass migration. The disaster eliminated the sole subsistence of millions of peasants, thrusting them over the edge of starvation. For five weary years, the crops remained undependable, and famine swept through the land. Untold thousands perished, and the survivors, destitute of hope, wished only to get away (Handlin, 1972)...
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...began with a blight of the potato crop that left acre upon acre of Irish farmland covered with black rot. As harvests across Europe failed, the price of food soared. Subsistence-level Irish farmers found their food stores rotting in their cellars, the crops they relied on to pay the rent to their British and Protestant landlords destroyed. Peasants who ate the rotten produce sickened and entire villages were consumed with cholera and typhus. Parish priests desperate to provide for their congregations were forced to forsake buying coffins in order to feed starving families, with the dead going unburied or buried only in the clothes they wore when they died. Landlords evicted hundreds of thousands of peasants, who then crowded into disease-infested workhouses. Other landlords paid for their tenants to emigrate, sending hundreds of thousands of Irish to America and other English-speaking countries. But even emigration was no panacea -- shipowners often crowded hundreds of desperate Irish onto rickety vessels labeled "coffin ships." In many cases, these ships reached port only after losing a third of their passengers to disease, hunger and other causes. While Britian provided much relief for Ireland's starving populace, many Irish criticized Britain's delayed response -- and further blamed centuries of British political oppression on the underlying causes of the famine. The Irish Famine of 1846-50 took as many as one million lives from hunger and disease, and changed...
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...The Fighting Irish: From Beginning to End-Fighting for Fun, Life, With a Big Heart Tanya Drummond Maryville University Abstract The purpose of this paper is to provide information relating to Irish immigrants and Irish-American culture. Religious beliefs remain of importance to many Irish families, as well as traditional celebrations including St. Patrick’s Day. Linking alcohol and celebrations, Irish people are high risk for alcoholism. Furthermore, studies show that heart disease is the number one cause of death within this group of people, causing further alarm of the rampant use of alcohol. Healthcare providers have a duty to prevent further destruction of this jovial society by intervening when welcomed by family and those afflicted by alcohol. The Fighting Irish: From Beginning to End-Fighting for Fun, Life, With a Big Heart Today’s Irish population may not be quite as rowdy as once depicted. However, if provoked in the slightest, most likely the person doing the aggravating will soon find out why Irishmen have rightfully earned the nickname, “The Fighting Irish”. As an Irish descendant with the surname, McCollum, I can honestly attest to this part of the Irish temperament. Furthermore, Irishmen do not exclude their own family from violence either. A holiday with my family wouldn’t be normal without a few fist fights as the celebrations continue into the evening hours. When the fights are over, ill feelings released, and more Guinness is flowing we become...
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...ARMENIAN DIASPORA The Armenian Diaspora is the Armenian communities who live in the outside of Republic of Armenia and de-facto independent Nagorno-Karabach Republic. Those people who live in abroad of their origin land mostly immigrated from Eastern part of Turkey after Ottoman Parliament passed the temporary ‘Tehcir Law’. This law authorized Ottoman Empire to the deportation of Armenian population located in the east part of Anatolia. The resettlement campaign resulted in the deaths of nearly 600.000- 1.500.000 civilians. According to Ottoman archives, the deportation started at March 2, 1915. On September 13, 1915; Ottoman Parliament also passed the law to capture all lands, homes, livestocks owned by Armenians to local authorities. While some historians claim that this was the first genocide of the 20th century, others claim that Ottoman Empire deported the Armenians for their safety, when the empire was so close to collapse. There consequent situtations led many Armenian people to immigrate to the different parts of world. The biggest Armenian population except Republic of Armenia is located in Russia as around 2,2 million. After Russia, United States is the second most populated Armenian diaspora, estimated around 1,4 million. Turkey, France and Georgia are also other countries that host many Armenian people. Moreover, Armenians spread whole over the world but in the case of diasporas; Russia, USA, France and Turkey’s Armenian diasporas are well known and very active...
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...SIGNATURE- Jocelia Alexander DATE- 7th June, 2013 “I'm a slave from a land so far I was caught and I was brought here from Africa Well it was licks like fire From de white slave master Every day I dong on knees Weeks and weeks before we cross de seas to reach in de West Indies” ----- Slinger Francisco aka The Mighty Sparrow I must begin by saying how heartbroken I was on reading the suffering and mistreatment my people ordained back in the days of Slavery. Coming from a family that is mostly comprised of African descent individuals; it makes me sad and in utter repugnance. It's funny how life back then still influences the way my people think and approach their education, family, and general lifestyle. Slavery has definitely placed a scar on the mentality of not just the black community but of all races that have been a part of this. To me the black man went through the most because he was taken away from his land by fellow men or by the white man without having any say. The differences between the Africans and the Indians are that the Indians were brought here voluntarily; on the other hand the black man was violently brought here to be slaves. The “Black” man therefore was stripped of his family, pride, love ones and home. When one hears about slavery; the mind automatically thinks of the white man abusing the black man. There is so much more to slavery than just the inhumane acts that the African man was victim of. It was stages of torture that has...
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...Song of Freedom Knowing that this film Song of Freedom was made in 1936, I was very surprised to see how the film was formed. When watching this film, I based it upon what I grew up learning about segregation between whites and blacks and how difficult and long it took for the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to pass. Not knowing much about European countries, I was confused to see that black and whites were working together and better yet sharing hobbies with one another such as singing. While watching this musical film, I realized that it strongly relates to what we are learning in this Pan African Studies course. What I saw that really caught my attention was Paul Robeson playing John Zinga’s character. In this film, John was a great example of twoness. John was an African American man that grew up in London and was unsure about where he came from exactly. He never had a true understanding of what type of person he was which was why he strived to reach his goal of returning to Africa. John was caught between what he grew up learning which was westernized and the African traditions he was born with. Although this film was not allowed to be aired in the United States, I feel that it sent out a really strong message to people which is a sense of respect and friendship between blacks and whites. I also strongly believe that it changed many people’s views about racial segregation and got people to be more accepting about the changes that were made in society. In addition, even though...
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...Schedule – Subject to Announced Changes. Please note the assignment schedule will be adjusted if and when necessary. Note – due to the different editions of the novel, the first set of numbers are for the hardback edition that I use; the second set of numbers are for the paperback edition from the Belmont bookstore. Note – during the reading and discussion of the novel, I will bring to share with the class dvds, music, and other information related to the reading. We will also have in-class assignments related to the reading. As well, there will be reading quizzes periodically. Week One 1/7 Introductions and Discuss Syllabus Overview of Ireland; writing prompt Week Two 1/14 Discuss Ireland -- pages 1 – 114 (hardback) (1 – 133) Compare and discuss the heritage site Newgrange (http://newgrange.com/) with the Delaney’s story in the novel. In class -- Watch DVD: Patrick Week Three 1/21 Discuss Ireland – pages 115 – 204 (134 – 237) In Class – listen to poetry. Discuss Short Assignment – Narrative In Class -- Watch Excerpts – Book of Kells Week Four 1/28 Discuss Ireland – pages 205 – 277 (238 – 322) Watch DVD – Ancient Ireland Week Five 2/4 Discuss Ireland – pages 278 – 339 (323 – 394) Before class, search information regarding the Penal Laws. Note several examples. Due – Short Assignment – Narrative Quiz Week Six 2/11 Discuss Ireland – pages 340 – 400 (395 –...
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