Laurent Bonnefoy, Salafism in Yemen: Transnationalism and Religious Identity

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Latino Religious Affiliation and Ethnic Identity

Despite the pervasiveness of Catholicism among Latinos, studies reveal an increasing shift toward Protestantism. Examining the relationship between religion and ethnicity, we explore homeland language use as a core ethnic marker using a survey from the Pew Hispanic Center. Results reveal that Catholic Latinos are significantly more likely to use Spanish at home, even after controlling for other...

the crisis of identity in jhumpa lahiris fiction: interpreter of maladies and the namesake

شکل گیری هویت(identity) مقوله مهمی در ادبیات پراکنده مردم(diasporan literature) می باشد. آثار جومپا لاهیری(jhumpa lahiri) ، نویسنده هندی آمریکایی، در سالهای اخیر تحسین منتقدین را به خود معطوف کرده است. وی در این آثار زندگی مهاجران و تلاش آنان برای پیدا کردن جایگاهشان در یک فرهنگ بیگانه را به تصویر کشیده است. این تجربه همواره با احساساتی نظیر دلتنگی برای گذشته، بیگانگی و دوری همراه است. با این ح...

Transnationalism in Question

This article seeks to critically engage the new literature on immigrant transnationalism. Connectivity between source and destination points is an inherent aspect of migrations, but migration networks generate a multiplicity of “imagined communities,” organized along different, often conflicting principles. Consequently, what immigration scholars describe as transnationalism is usually its oppo...

Transnationalism and Gendered Identity: The Case of the “One and a Half Generation” Taiwanese Migrants

After a decade of contention and debate, transnationalism has finally gained credence as a valid and significant perspective for rethinking international mobility and migration (Glick-Schiller et al., 1995; Portes, 1997; 2001; 2003; Portes et al., 1999; Foner, 1997; Kivisto, 2001; Waldinger and Fitzgerald, 2004). There is now a general acceptance that while the phenomenon of transnationalism is...