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...Jennifer D. Williams; Ifeoma Kiddoe Nwankwo Copyright © 2017 Smith College 2017 JENNIFER D. WILLIAMS AND lFEOMA KIDDOE NWANKWO Travelin'Women: BlackFeminist Migrations,Diasporas, and Cosmopolitanisms "Not only would I become a writer but a travelin' woman as well." -Paule Marshall...

...Jana Evans Braziel JANA EVANS BRAZIEL Daffodils, Rhizomes, Migrations NarrativeComingofAgein the DiasporiWc ritingsofEdwidgeDanticat andJamaicaKincaid Published in 1990, Jamaica Kincaid's novel Lucyis a diasporic coming-ofage narrative. 1 Edwidge Danticat's Breath,Eyes,Memory,published four years...

...Ifeoma Kiddoe Nwankwo Abstract Migration is a fundamental constitutive element of Caribbean life, culture, and identity, made so by colonialism, local and regional economic insecurity, and educational opportunities abroad. A plethora of scholars, filmmakers, poets, and novelists have indexed...

... of emotional health. While other scholars focus on the social forces on Oaxacan mental health, this essay draws a through line from Indigenous knowledge to emotional injury through their experiences of migration. In the context of strong Occidental influence on Oaxacan traditions, contemporary healing rituals...

... become obsolete upon migration, or that these gendered expectations are uniquely “ethnic Chinese.” On the contrary, the “old” values are reinvented and invoked by the Chinese immigrant working-class patriarchy to build and sustain its power in U.S. society. Therefore, this patriarchy also implicates...

... attachments of Indian female beauty's affects to experiences of citizenship and belonging can be understood as part of her feminist, cosmopolitical literary project: Lahiri mobilizes Indian feminine beauty's affects in order to illuminate and critique late-capitalist globalization, migration, and travel...

... to retrieve what remains dormant in critical feminist theorizations of violence against women. Using a cross-genre form, a secret collection of memories that includes elements of hauntology, this essay exposes some of the cracks and fissures in feminist theorizing on sexual violence, migration, and the figure...

...Vanessa Rosa Abstract Drawing on family photographs and documents, as well as archival research, the author reflects on her grandmother’s migration to New York City from Puerto Rico in the mid-1940s and examines her journey and new life in New York in relation to the broader sociopolitical context...

... their views and practices of mothering and migration. The analysis is inspired by feminist/antiracist methodologies and consists of eight in-depth interviews with young adult women, all of them daughters of political refugees who came to Sweden to escape persecution by the military dictatorships in Latin...

... maintained separate research agendas as colleagues in sociology at the University of Toronto and our coauthor, Laila, had recently joined our graduate program to begin master’s coursework. Although we studied gender, im/migration/ethnicity, family, and social policy in our own ways, we had not yet...

... and expectations involve a fluid and complex interplay of culture, environment, and communities. In Canada, ethnographic research of Afghan refugees found that Afghan women experience tremendous distress during migration and settlement (Dossa 2005 ; Stack and Iwasaki 2009 ; Kohistani 2012 ; Nourpanah...

... : University of Texas Press . Carillo Héctor . 2004 . “ Sexual Migration, Cross-Cultural Sexual Encounters, and Sexual Health .” Sexuality Research and Social Policy 1 , no. 3 : 58 – 70 . Collins Patricia . 2000 . Black Feminist Thought . New York : Routledge . Collins...

... of the Resistance: Intellectuals and the Origins of El Salvador’s Civil War . New York : Oxford University Press . Chomsky Aviva . 2021 . Central America’s Forgotten History: Revolution, Violence, and the Roots of Migration . Boston : Beacon Press . Dalton Roque . 2007 . “ Document 3-3...

...-configured as household, family, and nation-and forced or voluntary migration and exile from their lands or cultures of origin (Abdelhadi and Abdulhadi 2002; Anderson 1991; Mishra 1996). This essay focuses on how the interior migrations of Caribbean women are implicated within the transnational movement...

... them to examine "how Filipino men and women-as a simultaneously colonized national, immigrant, and racialized minority-are transformed through the experience of colonialism and migration and how they in turn transform and remake the social world around them" (2). HomeBoundstarts with the U.S...

... international or Dutch media attention toward the movement. Dutch women’s studies programs focused on Euro-American or Third World feminist studies of the Other, which did not emphasize BMR histories of colonialism or migration. This further informed the need for Flamboyant to create a BMR–run archive...

.... With this essay, I elaborate on the ways that migration, loss, and trauma are central themes that inform Alvarez's creative and personal process, exploring memory and recontextualizing history. My analysis reveals more than the dissonances experienced by children who migrate and are bicultural; specifically...

... reindeer and practice reindeer herding. In each country, there are approximately 200,000 reindeer and 2,500–3,000 reindeer owners. In some parts of Sápmi, reindeer herding districts continue the traditional practice of annual migration with their herds between winter and summer pastures. Typically...

... these contexts are connected historically through precolonial trans-Saharan and trans-Mediterranean slavery (Montana 2013 ; Oualdi 2020 ; Walz and Cuno 2011 ), through the French colonization of Tunisia, as well as through postcolonial migration from Tunisia to France that continues today. As a part...

... . . . and those that push the limits of workers’ humanity.” As more global consumption now migrates to online retailers during this pandemic, and more business happens via phone or text-based chat, more of us will come to depend on the transnational support provided by over half a million Filipino BPO workers...