Who belongs to the swiss body politique—A diaspora perspective

Who belongs inside the carotid arteries?

Creation of training and credentialing standards for cervicocerebral angiography, angioplasty, and stenting, published in this issue of Neurology,1 acknowledges an important reality: the cardiologists are coming. A force of over 4,500 interventional cardiologists,2 having already moved from the heart to the renal and peripheral arteries, having stood up to cardiothoracic surgeons and won, is ra...

Tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today.

The ‘diaspora’ diaspora

As the use of ‘diaspora’ has proliferated in the last decade, its meaning has been stretched in various directions. This article traces the dispersion of the term in semantic, conceptual and disciplinary space; analyses three core elements that continue to be understood as constitutive of diaspora; assesses claims made by theorists of diaspora about a radical shift in perspective and a fundamen...

Hospitality and the Lebanese Diaspora : A critical perspective

Diasporas are rarely analysed from a hospitality perspective. The paper reviews and expands on existent literature regarding the Lebanese Diaspora and focuses on the Lebanese Diaspora in London. The paper discusses the conditional and absolute notions of hospitality in relation to western and non-western cultural norms. Hospitality is thus examined from a cultural perspective in order to unders...

The diaspora of borders: Hindu-Sikh transnationals in the diaspora

This paper offers a set of nuanced narratives and a theoretically-informed report on what is the driving force and motivation behind the movement of Hindus and Sikhs from one continent to another (apart from their earlier movement out of the subcontinent to distant shores). What leads them to leave one diasporic location for another location? In this sense they are also ‘twice-migrants’. Here I...