Showing papers on "Diaspora published in 2016"

A continuum of admixture in the Western Hemisphere revealed by the African Diaspora genome

Abstract: The African Diaspora in the Western Hemisphere represents one of the largest forced migrations in history and had a profound impact on genetic diversity in modern populations. To date, the fine-scale population structure of descendants of the African Diaspora remains largely uncharacterized. Here we present genetic variation from deeply sequenced genomes of 642 individuals from North and South American, Caribbean and West African populations, substantially increasing the lexicon of human genomic variation and suggesting much variation remains to be discovered in African-admixed populations in the Americas. We summarize genetic variation in these populations, quantifying the postcolonial sex-biased European gene flow across multiple regions. Moreover, we refine estimates on the burden of deleterious variants carried across populations and how this varies with African ancestry. Our data are an important resource for empowering disease mapping studies in African-admixed individuals and will facilitate gene discovery for diseases disproportionately affecting individuals of African ancestry.

The Decolonizing Generation: (Race and) Theory in Anthropology since the Eighties

Abstract: In the wake of anthropology’s much storied crisis of representation; attempted corrections following movements of “Third World” peoples, women, and queer folks; the recent disavowal of 1980s and 1990s reflexivity and experimentation; and what George Marcus has recently termed a “crisis of reception,” this essay seeks to critically reassess and reanimate the formative interventions of anthropologists of the African diaspora (including Africa itself)—foregrounding work that lends new insights into anthropological theory, method, and pedagogy. The intention here is not to merely redeem the pioneering insights of African diaspora anthropologists as unsung forerunners of contemporary anthropological theories (though this is a worthwhile endeavor in itself) but rather to illuminate continued and prospective contributions of this mode of knowledge production.

Typology of diaspora entrepreneurship: Case studies in Uzbekistan

Abstract: The characteristics and importance of transnational diasporans as entrepreneurs for the economy and international business of emerging countries have remained underexplored. This paper addresses types of diaspora entrepreneurship (DE) theoretically and empirically in the context of Uzbekistan. Diaspora entrepreneurship is often seen as necessity-driven and less opportunity-driven. So far, emerging Central-Asian countries are considered countries of origin (COOs) of diasporans, but not yet as countries wherein diasporans want to invest and work, that is, countries of residence (CORs). Uzbekistan is also a post-Soviet economy with limited tradition on private entrepreneurship. Thus, the paper asks what makes people become entrepreneurs in emerging countries such as Uzbekistan when they have alternative opportunities in developed countries. It explores key drivers and socio-cultural reasons for the entry and establishment decision and introduces a typology of DE. This multiple case study presents implications and findings on culturally different entrepreneurs who have decided to enter Uzbek business elucidating their motivations and role in transition economies.

Transnational Repression, Diaspora Mobilization, and the Case of The Arab Spring

Abstract: Do authoritarian states deter dissent in the diaspora? Using data on Libyan and Syrian activism in the United States and Great Britain, this study demonstrates that they do through violence, exile, threats, surveillance, and by harming dissidents’ relatives at home. The analysis finds that the transnational repression of these diasporas deterred public anti-regime mobilization before the Arab Spring. I then identify the mechanisms by which Libyans and Syrians overcame these effects during the 2011 revolutions. Activists “came out” when (1) violence at home changed their relatives’ circumstances and upset repression’s relational effects; (2) the sacrifices of vanguard activists expanded their objects of obligation, leading them to embrace cost sharing; and (3) the regimes were perceived as incapable of making good on their threats. However, differences in the regimes’ perceived capacities to repress in 2011 produced significant variation in the pace of diaspora emergence over time and guarded advocacy. The study advances understanding of transnationalism by demonstrating how states exercise coercive power across borders and the conditions under which diasporas mobilize to publicly and collectively challenge home-country regimes.

Historical Archaeology in

Abstract: Relatively few historical archaeology projects have been carried out in Sub-Saharan Africa, yet the area presents a wide variety of research potentialities from both historical and theoretical viewpoints. Various definitions of historical archaeology and their application to Africa are examined, and the research undertaken thus far is reviewed. Previous work has largely focused on the larger fortified sites of 15th to 19th century European construction. On the East African Coast archaeolological fieldwork has also been carried out on Islamic sites where limited documentation is provided by Arabic writings. Directions for future research are dis cussed, including the possibility of examining the socio? cultural background of the African diaspora. Particular stress is placed on the necessity for intensified regional studies, cognizant of the contacts between well documented historical sites and the villages and resource areas with which they interacted.

A decolonial critique of diaspora identity theories and the notion of superdiversity

Abstract: Superdiversity is among the latest theories of diaspora cultural identities from the Global North inspired by the failures and limitations of multiculturalist social policies of the twentieth century. This paper addresses the question to what extent do theoretical suppositions of superdiversity constitute a genuine and radical departure from the logics of multiculturalism. The paper concludes that superdiversity suffers from the same limitations that prompted the rejection and ultimate demise of previous theories such as multiculturalism and cosmopolitanism. Like multiculturalism and other similar theories that have tried to grapple with questions of diaspora cultures and identities, superdiversity reinforces the same ideas that it purports to question and challenge – namely, the tendency to homogenize cultural and social groups, and the uncritical embrace of elitist neoliberal conceptualizations of culture and identity.

The Chinese diaspora: The current distribution of the overseas Chinese population:

Abstract: In the present paper we draw on the extensive data resources of the 'Overseas Chinese Affairs Council in Taiwan in an analysis of the overseas Chinese worldwide as of c. 2010. We raise and endeavor...

China’s Diaspora Policies as a New Mode of Transnational Governance

Abstract: Existing studies of Chinese diaspora policies have mostly focused on the evolution and content of these policies, which tend to be confined within the realm of domestic politics. Against the backdrop of China’s increasing integration into the global economy, as well as its expanding interests abroad, this article goes beyond the existing frameworks in the studies of both domestic Chinese politics and diaspora relations by analyzing China’s diaspora policies from the angle of transnational governance. Relying on policy documents, relevant data from institutions involved, and interviews and participatory observation at both central and provincial levels, the article argues that a state-centered approach in which the Chinese overseas are ‘coopted’ neglects how the engagement with transnational social actors, especially the new migrants, alters existing state structures and how the actions of Chinese overseas are driven by various motives and interests.

Institutional Reform and Diaspora Entrepreneurs: The In-Between Advantage

Abstract: Externally-promoted institutional reform, even when nominally accepted by developing country governments, often fails to deliver lasting change. Diasporans-immigrants who still feel a connection to their country of origin-may offer an In-Between Advantage for institutional reform, which links problem understanding with potential solutions, and encompasses vision, impact, operational, and psycho-social advantages. Individuals with entrepreneurial characteristics can catalyzing institutional reform. Diasporans may have particular advantages for entrepreneurship, as they live both psychologically and materially between the place of origin they left and the new destination they have embraced. Their entrepreneurial characteristics may be accidental, cultivated through the migration and diaspora experience, or innate to individuals' personalities. This book articulates the diaspora institutional entrepreneur In-Between Advantage, proposes a model for understanding the characteristics and motivational influences of entrepreneurs generally and how they apply to diaspora entrepreneurs in particular, and presents a staged model of institutional entrepreneur actions. I test these frameworks through case narratives of social institutional reform in Egypt, economic institutional reform in Ethiopia, and political institutional reform in Chad. In addition to identifying policy implications, this book makes important theoretical contributions in three areas. First, it builds on existing and emerging critiques of international development assistance that articulate prescriptions related to alternative theories of change. Second, it fills an important gap in the literature by focusing squarely on the role of agency in institutional reform processes while still accounting for organizational systems and socio-political contexts. In doing so, it integrates a more expansive view of entrepreneurism into extant understandings of institutional entrepreneurism, and it sheds light on what happens in the frequently-invoked black box of agency. Third, it demonstrates the fallacy of many theoretical frameworks that seek to order institutional change processes into neatly definable linear stages. Available in OSO:

Deathscapes in diaspora: contesting space and negotiating home in contexts of post-migration diversity

Abstract: The literature on deathscapes has thus far neglected the diversity of mortuary practices resulting from the inherently spatial phenomenon of migration and the increased capacity for transnational activities linking migrant communities with places of origin. Against this sedentarist bias, this article proposes that the end of life is a critical juncture in the settlement process for diasporic communities. On the one hand, practices such as posthumous repatriation may serve to reinforce shared perceptions of temporary presence in host countries. On the other hand, death may be the occasion to lay what are perhaps the deepest foundations for home-making in diaspora, through funeral rituals and memorialisation. However, these latter claims to space in adopted homelands may also be the object of legal and political contestation, as demonstrated through an analysis of disputes in the UK over open-air Hindu funeral pyres and planning permission for a Muslim cemetery. What is at stake is the legitimate symbolic r...

The Importance of Feeling English: American Literature and the British Diaspora, 1750-1850

Abstract: Acknowledgments ix CHAPTER ONE: Diaspora and Empire 1 CHAPTER TWO: Writing English in America 19 CHAPTER THREE: The Sentimental Libertine 43 CHAPTER FOUR: The Heart of Masculinity 73 CHAPTER FIVE: The Gothic in Diaspora 94 AFTERWORD: From Cosmopolitanism to Hegemony 118 Notes 129 Index 153

Homecoming or tourism? Diaspora tourism experience of second-generation immigrants

Abstract: Diaspora tourism is often considered a form of ‘homecoming,’ but for the children of immigrants who are born in the new country, the question remains as to whether they perceive their parents’ homeland as ‘home’ or destination. Moreover, advancements in transportation and communication technologies allow contemporary immigrants to maintain transnational ties to their homeland, which in turn may affect the nature of diaspora tourism. The purpose of this study is to understand the lived experience of second-generation immigrants when they travel to their ancestral homeland, and explore the extent to which second-generation transnationalism shapes their diaspora tourism experiences. Using a phenomenological approach, 26 second-generation Chinese-Americans who had the experience of traveling in China were interviewed. Four themes were identified from semi-structured interviews: language and appearance, search for authenticity, family history, and sense of ‘home.’ Proficiency in their parental language...

Stone Tools in Human Evolution: Behavioral Differences among Technological Primates

Abstract: In Stone Tools in Human Evolution, John J. Shea argues that over the last three million years hominins' technological strategies shifted from occasional tool use, much like that seen among living non-human primates, to a uniquely human pattern of obligatory tool use. Examining how the lithic archaeological record changed over the course of human evolution, he compares tool use by living humans and non-human primates and predicts how the archaeological stone tool evidence should have changed as distinctively human behaviors evolved. Those behaviors include using cutting tools, logistical mobility (carrying things), language and symbolic artifacts, geographic dispersal and diaspora, and residential sedentism (living in the same place for prolonged periods). Shea then tests those predictions by analyzing the archaeological lithic record from 6,500 years ago to 3.5 million years ago.

Complex conformities: Tibetan women's life writing and the en-gendering of national history in Exile

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Mobilising the Diaspora: How Refugees Challenge Authoritarianism

Abstract: Over half the world lives under authoritarian regimes. For these people, the opportunity to engage in politics moves outside the state's territory. Mobilising across borders, diasporas emerge to challenge such governments. This book offers an in-depth examination of the internal politics of transnational mobilisation. Studying Rwandan and Zimbabwean exiles, it exposes the power, interests, and unexpected agendas behind mobilisation, revealing the surprising and ambivalent role played by outsiders. Far from being passive victims waiting for humanitarian assistance, refugees engage actively in political struggle. From Rwandans resisting their repatriation, to Zimbabweans preventing arms shipments, political exiles have diverse aims and tactics. Conversely, the governments they face also deploy a range of transnational strategies, and those that purport to help them often do so with hidden agendas. This shifting political landscape reveals the centrality of transnationalism within global politics, the historical and political contingency of diasporas, and the precarious agency of refugees.

Writing Diaspora: South Asian Women, Culture and Ethnicity

Abstract: Issues of cultural hybridity, diaspora and identity are central to debates on ethnicity and race and, over the past decade, have framed many theoretical debates in sociology, cultural studies and literary studies. However, these ideas are all too often considered at a purely theoretical level. In this book Yasmin Hussain uses these ideas to explore cultural production by British South Asian women including Monica Ali, Meera Syal and Gurinder Chadha. Hussain provides a sociological analysis of the contexts and experiences of the British South Asian community, discussing key concerns that emerge within the work of this new generation of women writers and which express more widespread debates within the community. In particular these authors address issues of individual and group identity and the ways in which these are affected by ethnicity and gender. Hussain argues that in exploring the different dimensions of their cultural heritage, the authors she surveys have created changes within the meaning of the diasporic identity, articulating a challenge to the notion of 'Asianness' as a homogenous and simple category. In her examination of the process through which a hybridized diasporic culture has come into being, she offers an important contribution to some of the key questions in recent sociological and cultural theory.

Uyghur Nation: Reform and Revolution on the Russia-China Frontier

Abstract: The meeting of the Russian and Qing empires in the nineteenth century had dramatic consequences for Central Asia's Muslim communities. Along this frontier, a new political space emerged, shaped by competing imperial and spiritual loyalties, cross-border economic and social ties, and the revolutions that engulfed Russia and China in the early twentieth century. David Brophy explores how a community of Central Asian Muslims responded to these historic changes by reinventing themselves as the modern Uyghur nation. As exiles and emigres, traders and seasonal laborers, a diverse diaspora of Muslims from China's northwest province of Xinjiang spread to Russian territory, where they became enmeshed in political and intellectual currents among Russia's Muslims. From the many national and transnational discourses of identity that circulated in this mixed community, the rhetoric of Uyghur nationhood emerged as a rallying point in the tumult of the Bolshevik Revolution and Russian Civil War. Working both with and against Soviet policy, a shifting alliance of constituencies invoked the idea of a Uyghur nation to secure a place for itself in Soviet Central Asia and to spread the revolution to Xinjiang. Although its existence was contested in the fractious politics of the 1920s, in the 1930s the Uyghur nation achieved official recognition in the Soviet Union and China. Grounded in a wealth of little-known archives from across Eurasia, Uyghur Nation offers a bottom-up perspective on nation-building in the Soviet Union and China and provides crucial background to the ongoing contest for the history and identity of Xinjiang.

Visions of Community in the Post-Roman World: The West, Byzantium and the Islamic World, 300–1100

Abstract: Contents: Introduction: ethnicity, religion and empire, Walter Pohl Part 1 What Difference Does Ethnicity Make?: Tribe and State: Social Anthropological Approaches: Envisioning medieval communities in Asia: remarks on ethnicity, tribalism and faith, Andre Gingrich Tribal mobility and religious fixation: remarks on territorial transformation and identity in imperial and early post-imperial Tibet, Guntram Hazod Identity and Difference in the Roman World: Zur Neustiftung von Identitat unter imperialer Herrschaft: Die Provinzen des Romischen Reiches als ethnische Entitaten, Fritz Mitthof The Nabataeans - problems of identifying ethnicity in the ancient world, Jan Retso Political identity versus religious distinction? The case of Egypt in the later Roman empire, Bernhard Palme Ethnic Identities in the Early Medieval West: How many peoples are (in) a people?, Herwig Wolfram The providential past: visions of Frankish identity in the early medieval history of Gregory of Tours' Historiae (6th-9th cent), Helmut Reimitz Inventing Wales, Catherine McKenna Early Islamic Identities: Religious communities in the early Islamic world, Michael G Morony 7th-century identities: the case of North Africa, Walter E Kaegi Christian Identities in the Middle East: Ethnicity, ethnogenesis, and the identity of Syriac Orthodox Christians, Bas ter Haar Romeny Avoiding ethnicity: uses of the ancient past in late Sasanian northern Mesopotamia, Richard Payne Truth and lies, ceremonial and art: issues of nationality in medieval Armenia, Lynn Jones Roman identity in a border region: Evagrius and the defence of the Roman empire, Hartmut Leppin Holy land and sacred territory: a view from early Ethiopia, George Hatke Part 2 Political Identities and the Integration of Communities: Regional and Imperial Identities in the East: Anastasios und die 'Geschichte' der Isaurier, Mischa Meier Zur Stellung von ethnischen und religiosen Minderheiten in Byzanz: Armenier, Muslime und Paulikianer, Ralph-Johannes Lilie Regional identities and military power: Byzantium and Islam c600-750, John Haldon and Hugh Kennedy The Challenge of Difference: Early Medieval Christian Europe: 'Faithful believers': oaths of allegiance in post-Roman societies as evidence for Eastern and Western 'visions of community', Stefan Esders 'Einheit' versus 'Fraktionierung': Zur symbolischen und institutionellen Integration des Frankenreichs im 8/9 Jahrhundert, Steffen Patzold Diaspora Jewish communities in early medieval Europe: structural conditions for survival and expansion, Wolfram Drews New visions of community in 9th-century Rome: the impact of the Saracen threat on the papal world view, Clemens Gantner Part 3 Visions of Community, Perceptions of Difference: Islamic Views: Arab-Islamic historiographers on the emergence of Latin-Christian Europe, Daniel G Konig The Vikings in the South through Arab eyes, Ann Christys Identities of the Saqaliba and the Rusiyya in early Arabic sources, Przemyslaw Urbanczyk Byzantine Views: Gog, Magog und die Hunnen: Anmerkungen zur eschatologischen 'Ethnographie' der Volkerwanderungszeit, Wolfram Brandes Strategies of identification and distinction in the Byzantine discourse on the Seljuk Turks, Alexander Beihammer Western Views: 'A wild man whose hand will be against all': Saracens and Ishmaelites in Latin ethnographical traditions, from Jerome to Bede, John Victor Tolan Where the wild things are, Ian N Wood Conclusions: Conclusions, Leslie Brubaker Conclusions, Chris Wickham Index

The Shifting Meanings of Race in China: A Case Study of the African Diaspora Communities in Guangzhou

Abstract: Based on archival research and multi-sited fieldwork among Chinese and migrants from Africa in Guangzhou, Yiwu (China), and Lagos (Nigeria), this research explores the contradictions and unevenness in the racialization of black African identity in South China. I argue that racism against black Africans in Guangzhou needs to be contextualized within larger contexts such as the rise of China as a global economic power, its changing relations with Africa under the Mao and post-Mao regimes, the intersection of internal and international migration in global cities such as Guangzhou, and the persistent influence of Western racial ideology in popular media. [African Migrants; China; Blackness; Race; Racism]

Diaspora Poetics & (re)Constructions of Differentness:Conceiving Acts 6.1 – 8.40 as Diaspora

Abstract: Diaspora is a term applied varyingly in the Humanities and Social Sciences to individuals, communities, spaces and historical events. Jewish history and experience were formative in popularizing and expanding the nomenclature of diaspora between the late nineteenth and twenty-first centuries. Transliterated from the Greek noun διασπορά (diaspora), the term’s modern development relied heavily on paradigmatic projections of sameness. In Diaspora Studies, diaspora generally functions as a heuristic that highlights the maintenance and evolution of relationships, identities and memory that are subsequent to boundary crossings. Iterations in Africana and Black Atlantic Studies exemplify the term’s use as theoretical concept or presumed, transnational identity. New Testament Studies, however, principally uses diaspora as a binary framework to (re)construct the Jewish milieu of early Roman-era Judaism and Christianity, receiving little consideration as analytical theory. Diaspora, thus, in the study of early Christian literature primarily denotes non-Palestinian geography. These three disparate trajectories intersect in these prolegomena to a diaspora-oriented reading of Acts 6.1 – 8.40. Informed by Martinican Edouard Glissant’s Caribbean Discourses, this Black American engagement with Black Atlantic cultural criticism provides context for reevaluating the etymology and intellectual traditions of the diaspora-concept. Its resultant view approaches diaspora as a form of relatedness that privileges the multidimensionality of identity while negotiating particularity as relatedness-amidst-difference. Applying this (re)vision of diaspora to Black American discourse aids in the contextual construction of a poetics of diaspora that is characterized by figurative negotiations of i) ethno-cultural/geopolitical difference, ii) Empire, iii) intra-communal debate and iv) (re)narrations of the past. Modeled on Black American discourse, this diaspora poetics generates alternative readings of ancient texts across various imperial settings. When applied to Acts 6.1 – 8.40 and its ancient imperial context, diaspora poetics highlights Acts’ recurrent validation of geopolitical particularity and thematic focus on interactions between Palestinian and non-Palestinian Jews. Diaspora is integral in Luke’s negotiation of the diverse and tenuous world of early imperial Rome. Consequently, this (re)reading of diaspora calls for (re)interpreting Acts 6.1 – 8.40 amongst ancient Diaspora contexts by contextually (re)conceiving difference and (re)evaluating Black American poetics.

Exploring the Borderlands: Elementary School Teachers’ Navigation of Immigration Practices in a New Latino Diaspora Community

Abstract: Drawing primarily on interview data from a 5-year ethnography on the school experiences of Mexican immigrant children in a New Latino Diaspora community, we explore how their teachers understood and responded to increasing deportation-based immigration practices affecting children’s lives. We illustrate how teachers fell along a continuum regarding their desire and success in pushing beyond their comfort zones to create spaces in which they learned from, and built on, students’ immigration experiences. We argue for teacher education that prepares educators to become border crossers who engage with aspects of difference, such as immigration status, that are rarely discussed in schools.

The role of music in ethnic identity formation in diaspora : A research review

Abstract: In many countries, multicultural citizenship has run into difficulties. The relation between immigrant groups and the larger society has come to the fore, and different strategies have been propose ...

Exile, Memory, and Resistance in Dionne Brand's Fiction

Abstract: In Cuba to work on a film based on interviews with older Black women, Dionne Brand looks out to sea: "The Atlantic, yawning blue out of my window on the Playas del Este and beyond the bridge, pulls my eyes away from the oral histories and into its own memory I am a little girl growing beside the same ocean on the other island some years before" (Bread Out of Stone 21) A Black lesbian feminist from Trinidad, transplanted at the age of seventeen to Toronto, who returns to the Caribbean yet has lived for years in Canada, Brand embodies and reenacts in her fiction, poetry, and essays the experiences of the African diaspora, centered in the Atlantic "Listen," she writes, "I am a Black woman whose ancestors were brought to a new world laying [sic] tightly packed in ships Fifteen million of them survived the voyage, five million of them women; millions among them died, were killed, committed suicide in the Middle Passage" (Bread Out of Stone 21) Brand writes of the diaspora as displacement, loss, exile, yet she incorporates into her works the power of memory and the urgency of resistance, especially through the mapping of space to locate diaspora identifications In Brand's three works of fiction, Sans Souci and Other Stories (1989), In Another Place, Not Here (1996), and At the Full and Change of the Moon (1999), female characters are in continual transit across the ocean, seeking home-"the place she miss"1 These texts raise key questions of how to talk about nation, diaspora, region Can a work gesture towards all identifications, and at the same time recognize the rupture that marks and informs the Black Atlantic? Throughout Brand's fiction, the ocean both recalls the trauma of the Middle Passage and also provides a touchstone for characters who desire an escape from pain, a release from madness, a dissolution of the body, a contact with spirits and/or ancestors Struggling with the consequences of a colonized past in the Caribbean as well as with the contemporary realities of global economics, these women express a repeated need to leave the place they occupy-where their bodies may resemble occupied territory-and to find a space of empowerment Shifting between locales in the West Indies and North America, the short stories frequently present a "woman in

A grammar for black education beyond borders: exploring technologies of schooling in the African Diaspora

Abstract: Education has been a technology used to sustain black abjection across the African Diaspora. Employing Mills’ Racial Contract and Althusser’s theory of the Ideological State Apparatuses (ISA) through a racial lens, this article will discuss how white supremacist education has been used to promote the misrecognition of black subjects as sub-human. German colonizers’ recruitment of Booker T. Washington to develop cotton schools in Togo, West Africa will be explored to highlight this phenomenon. Beyond this, the article demonstrates how members of the Diaspora have resisted white supremacist education, through what I have termed as Educational Diasporic Practice. This concept will be explored through the work of Chinua Achebe and Carter G. Woodson. Ultimately, this article recommends a global language of blackness as context for educators and researchers concerned with schooling experiences of black students.

The 'othering' of Africa and its diasporas in Western museum practices

Abstract: This thesis examines how curatorial approaches to the display and interpretation of artworks and cultural objects from the African continent, as well as works by diasporan artists of African descent, have changed over time in Western museums and galleries – focusing on histories and geographies of acquisition, collection development, exhibition assemblage, narrative interpretation and other curatorial practices. With particular reference to the culture sectors in Britain and France it investigates how and why exhibits with African provenance have been ‘othered’ in both ethnographic and fine art contexts, drawing on fieldwork undertaken at four case study institutions: the British Museum, Tate, the Musee du Quai Branly – Jacques Chirac, and the Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris. Through the application of qualitative research methods – including walk-through reviews of permanent holdings on display, archive-based surveys of past exhibitions, visual analysis of selected exhibits, and semi-structured interviews with curators and other creative professionals – questions are addressed in relation to the nature and extent of othering, the impacts of Self/Other binarism, and amelioration strategies to improve museum and gallery experiences for more diverse audiences. As prior scholarship in this field has tended to concentrate on colonial-era constructions of selfhood and otherness, primarily articulated and exhibited via ethnographic collections, this discursive investigation also examines postcolonial manifestations and legacies of othering observed in 21st century, post-modern displays of fine art. The theoretical perspectives of selected black feminist scholars provide the framework for adopting a non-adjunctive position of resistance from which to read ‘against (as well as along) the grain’ of established Western canons of knowledge and prevailing curatorial orthodoxy. By tracing the historical palimpsests and contemporary networks that connect artists, curators, objects and audiences over time and space, the inherent tensions, instabilities paradoxes and limitations of Self/Other binarism are exposed – opening up opportunities to consider alternative, more conceptually nuanced, inclusive and internationally dialogical museum practices in the West informed by the dynamics of transnationalism, diaspora formation and globalisation.

Experiencing ‘moments of home’ through diaspora tourism and travel

Abstract: Whilst the relationship between diasporic communities and tourism has been explored in the tourism literature, it has generally been underpinned by a limited consideration of the notion of home. Based on ethnographic research with an Iranian diasporic community in the South Island of New Zealand, this paper explores the different ways in which this diaspora community engages with travel and tourism to (re)produce and taste ‘home’. It is argued that the notion of home should be viewed as incomplete, contingent and fleeting, rather than fixed and permanent, specifically within the tourism context. The concept of ‘moments of home’ is presented to illustrate how diasporic communities use travel and tourism to find, maintain or make home when away from their original homeland. Thus, ‘moments of home’ is proposed in order to allow a more complex and dynamic understanding of the relationship between diaspora tourism and home.

Brain circulation, diaspora and scientific progress: A study of the international migration of Chinese scientists, 1998–2006:

Abstract: The issue of brain drain has resurged to become an important policy concern of developing countries against the background of global talent competition. Based on a global survey covering Chinese sc...