{"title":"Fluid identities and navigating integration: The politics of solidarity in contemporary Germany","authors":"Chloe Smolarski","doi":"10.1386/CJMC.9.1.45_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/CJMC.9.1.45_1","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":135037,"journal":{"name":"Crossings: Journal of Migration and Culture","volume":"16 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124428602","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"New media, diasporic identity and social exclusion: A study of everyday practices of identity negotiation among second-generation Ghanaian women in Hamburg","authors":"Ann Mabel Sanyu","doi":"10.1386/CJMC.9.1.29_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/CJMC.9.1.29_1","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":135037,"journal":{"name":"Crossings: Journal of Migration and Culture","volume":"436 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115271903","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Diasporas and the role of social media on militant/political activities: The Basque diaspora in Argentina in the spotlight","authors":"R. Garcia","doi":"10.1386/CJMC.9.1.77_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/CJMC.9.1.77_1","url":null,"abstract":"www.intellectbooks.com 77 ABSTRACT The role of politically motivated and engaged diasporas go beyond the mere reinforcement of state nationalism or states itself, but also promotes and supports subnational/sub-state ethnic groups’ agendas, both reinforcing and weakening states’ nationalist agendas. Sub-national/sub-state political groups, such as of Kurds, Uyghur, Tamil minorities, among others, tend, in many cases, to find support over its diaspora to advance a specific political agenda (such as greater autonomy, independence, etc). Also, such groups and related diasporas appropriate the Internet as a tool for political engagement, communication, financing, lobby and even moral support. In this article, I seek to understand and conceptualize such appropriation(s) having the Basque case (focusing on its diaspora in Argentina) as the main object of analysis.","PeriodicalId":135037,"journal":{"name":"Crossings: Journal of Migration and Culture","volume":"110 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132606738","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Media, conflict and diaspora audiences","authors":"Idil Osman","doi":"10.1386/CJMC.9.1.61_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/CJMC.9.1.61_1","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":135037,"journal":{"name":"Crossings: Journal of Migration and Culture","volume":"248 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115589194","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Mediating identity: the West African diaspora, conflict and communication.","authors":"J. Silverman","doi":"10.1386/CJMC.9.1.91_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/CJMC.9.1.91_1","url":null,"abstract":"Migration raises many existential problems, not least, questions of identity. Over time, migrants settle and form a diaspora in a new land but does dislocation from their geographical ‘home’ inevitably subvert their sense of self? Can representation through the diasporic media mitigate this loss? The African Union considers the diaspora the sixth region of Africa and the news media helps foster amongst exiles an ‘imagined diaspora’ (Anderson), connecting them to their country of origin. In the social media age, this ‘diaspora of the Internet’ (Tettey) can be seen at work, often acting as a mirror for division and disharmony in the country of origin. Taking a case study approach of three countries in West Africa and interpreting conflict in its broadest senses, this article seeks to examine the ways in which the news-related media of the West African diaspora has influenced understandings of identity.","PeriodicalId":135037,"journal":{"name":"Crossings: Journal of Migration and Culture","volume":"14 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126430275","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Alan Kurdî, deaths in the desert and failed migrants’ processing of dystopic images on social media","authors":"A. Ojebode","doi":"10.1386/CJMC.8.2.115_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/CJMC.8.2.115_1","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":135037,"journal":{"name":"Crossings: Journal of Migration and Culture","volume":"49 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121559162","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Let’s talk about peace over dinner: A cultural experience on memory, dislocation and the politics of belonging in Cyprus.","authors":"Maria Photiou","doi":"10.1386/cjmc.8.2.175_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/cjmc.8.2.175_1","url":null,"abstract":"On Saturday 9 April 2011, Greek Cypriot artist Lia Lapithi invited a group of eighteen guests to join her for her own version of the Last Supper, a four-course dinner that took place in the warehouse of an old furniture factory in Nicosia, Cyprus. The dinner was the first project of a series of orchestrated meals that Lapithi hosted and participated, where the theme was hospitality and politics in Cyprus. Significant to Lapithi’s work are autobiographical experiences and the geo-political division of Cyprus. Born in 1963 in Cyprus, Lapithi experienced at a young age the traumatic 1974 division of Cyprus and the on-going occupation of half of the island by Turkey.","PeriodicalId":135037,"journal":{"name":"Crossings: Journal of Migration and Culture","volume":"91 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131606680","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Babel: The abject cosmopolitan and the border","authors":"R. Urtiaga","doi":"10.1386/CJMC.8.2.191_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/CJMC.8.2.191_1","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":135037,"journal":{"name":"Crossings: Journal of Migration and Culture","volume":"22 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122505638","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Waiting zones and black holes: An analysis of the airport setting in Sérgio Tréfaut’s Journey to Portugal","authors":"A. Prata","doi":"10.1386/CJMC.8.2.163_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/CJMC.8.2.163_1","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":135037,"journal":{"name":"Crossings: Journal of Migration and Culture","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130424071","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A travel in the narrative turn of the consciousness of a diaspora ghost in The Hounding of David Oluwale","authors":"O. Ojoniyi","doi":"10.1386/CJMC.8.2.205_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/CJMC.8.2.205_1","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":135037,"journal":{"name":"Crossings: Journal of Migration and Culture","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131305432","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}