This essay seeks to broaden and diversify discussions of the transpacific itineraries that weave throughout Oceania by exploring artistic transactions among Māori, Pasifika, Chinese peoples are routed through Aotearoa New Zealand. I consider how Zealand-based performance artists move beyond US-dominated categories priorities expose new relationships between islands continents, Indigenous, diasp...

Set in Britain during the years of Margaret Thatcher’s government, Stephen Frears and Hanif Kureishi’s My Beautiful Laundrette (1985) depicts complex formation Pakistani-British diasporic identities a time rising migration levels anti-immigrant sentiment. Thatcher her government famously celebrated Britain’s colonial past its legacies an attempt to produce fixed definitions what being British m...

This article discusses the identity dilemmas of Sephardic community settled first in Amsterdam, after Colonial Brazil during 17th century. It reviews classical historians dedicated to research on Diaspora Early Modern History, like Arnold Wiznitzer, Daniel Swetschinsky, Jonathan Israel, Mirian Bodian and, mainly Yosef Kaplan, who proposed concept new Jews designate New Christians returned their...

The concept of ‘online diaspora’ refers to the complex, dispersive and migratory behavior that some online communities may exhibit when moving from one virtual environment to another. This paper examines leading theoretical approaches to the notion of ‘diaspora’, and contrasts them with a set of cases of both ‘real life’ and ‘online diasporas’ taken from the author’s ethnographic experiences in...

This manuscript theoretically explores the application of a stretched expanded nigrescence theory (NT-E) by making notions of consciousness explicit, thereby building on the research involving first generation U.S.-born Africans (FGAs). In taking this approach, a theoretical framework of a diasporic consciousness emerged an alternative for exploring the identity development of Africana people. ...

Methodological pragmatism is more often than not employed in ethnographic enterprises, but not often discussed. Claiming that methodological discussions are most fruitful when referring to concrete research topics and the researcher's dilemmas in the field, the author discusses pragmatic uses of her own self in constructing the field. Referring primarily to the shared ethnicity as the "experime...