In The News
This is a sampling of recently published news articles related to diaspora.
"The climate refugee crisis is landing on Europe’s shores — and we are far from ready," Politico, 2/2023
"Thousands of Syrian refugees in Turkey rush to border crossings to return home," The New York Times, 2/2023
"Irish Ayes 'Out In The World: Ireland's LGBTQ+ Diaspora," The Bay Area Reporter, 5/2022
"I’m a Russian in the diaspora. None of us can be complacent," wbur, 2/2023
"Eritrea’s ‘diaspora tax’ is funding violence and oppression," Aljazeera, 2/2023
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Being Iranian In LA.
"Young Iranian-Americans in Los Angeles face two stereotypes: the wealthy snob or the “scary terrorist.” But they're way cooler than that." (AJ+)
Climate Refugees
"Climate Refugees is the first feature film to explore in-depth the global human impact of climate change and its serious destabilizing effect on international politics. The film turns the distant concept of global warming into a concrete human problem with enormous worldwide consequences." (Kanopy)
The Donut King
"An immigrant story with a (glazed) twist, The Donut King follows the journey of Cambodian refugee Ted Ngoy, who arrived in California in the 1970s and, through a mixture of diligence and luck, built a multi-million dollar donut empire up and down the West Coast." (Kanopy)
Half a Life
"After a traumatic encounter, a young, gay Egyptian joins the LGBT rights movement. When his safety is jeopardized, he must choose whether to stay in the country he loves or seek asylum elsewhere as a refugee. Half a Life is a timely story of activism and hope, set in the increasingly dangerous, oppressive, and unstable social climate of Egypt today." (Kanopy)
The Inheritance
"[This] feature-length debut, The Inheritance, is a vibrant, engaging ensemble work that takes place almost entirely within the walls of a West Philadelphia house where a community of young people have come together to form a collective of Black artists and activists." (Kanopy)
Neither Here Nor There: Indo Caribbean Diaspora
"Through the stories of three community activists in the Indo-Caribbean community of Queens, this episode explores a group identity that began with indentured servitude in the Caribbean and now finds its way through new generations."
Refugees Share Culture And Cuisine Through Montana Kitchen
"In Missoula, Montana, one of the city’s most popular places to eat is run almost entirely by refugees. It is a part of a relocation program that supports both immigrants and refugees to establish their place within the community while introducing their cuisines from around the world." (NBC News)
Related Books
Online Resources
E-Diasporas Atlas contains archived 8,000 migrant websites. We prefer the term ‘e–diaspora’ to that of ‘digital diaspora’ because the latter may lend to confusion given the increasingly frequent use of the notions of ‘digital native’ and ‘digital immigrant’, in a ‘generational’ sense (distinguishing those born before from those born during/after the digital era). The object of the e–Diasporas Atlas is not this ‘digital migrant’, however, but the connected migrant.
Connecting Diaspora for Development (CD4D)
UN International Office of Migration (IOM) program to connect diaspora to countries of origin, offer programmes to facilitate diaspora engagement through knowledge transfer and entrepreneurship. The objective is to use the development potential of migration for the benefit of host and receiving societies. All programmes are focused to contribute to sustainable development and poverty reduction.
With roots around the world, diasporans are uniquely positioned to amplify and sustain global growth. Today, more than 62 million Americans – one-fifth of the country – are first or second generation diasporans, making the United States home to more global diaspora members than any other country. As these populations grow, so does their potential for impact as they transfer resources, knowledge, and ideas back to their home countries. USAID builds partnerships with diasporic communities thought a series of partnerships and programs.
U.S. Department of State Diaspora Voices
Originally launched by the Office of Global Partnerships in 2016, Diaspora Voices is an interactive virtual event series that gives diaspora organizations the ability to engage with top diplomats about the challenges directly affecting their communities and opens the dialogue for opportunities to work with the U.S. Department of State to address them. As part of the State Department’s emphasis on developing Foreign Policy for the Middle Class, Diaspora Voices works to incorporate underrepresented perspectives in the work of diplomacy and international development. The renewed Diaspora Voices series will focus on specific policy issues and priorities, beginning with the topic of climate change, to directly engage the communities facing these challenges head on.
Africa-Europe Diaspora Development Platform (ADEPT)
ADEPT is the Africa-Europe Diaspora Development Platform, a pan-European network established in 2017 and based in Brussels. Our mission is to amplify the influence and impact of African diaspora individuals and development organisations in Africa and Europe. We have a network of over 200 African diaspora organisations and individuals based in Europe. Bridging the gap between the two continents, ADEPT members are active in EU and AU member states, as well as in Norway, Switzerland, and the UK. Our vision is a world where Africa, its people, and its diaspora are empowered and transformed.
African Union Diaspora Division
The Diaspora Division serves as the focal point and hub for implementing the African Union decision to invite and encourage the African Diaspora to participate in the building and development of the African continent. Its main task therefore, is to serve as a catalyst for rebuilding the global African family in the service of the development and integration agenda of the continent.
If you are unfamiliar with the concept of diaspora, this video gives a brief introduction. It explores: the origins of the term; how definitions differ and have evolved over time; and how governments try to engage their diasporas.
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Son of Elsewhere by ISBN: 9780593496855Date: 2022-05-17A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR * A "funny and frank" (The New York Times) collection of essays on Blackness, faith, pop culture, and the challenges--and rewards--of finding one's way in the world, from a BuzzFeed editor and podcast host. "A memoir that is immense in its desire to give . . . a rich offering of image, of music, of place."--Hanif Abdurraqib, author of A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance At twelve years old, Elamin Abdelmahmoud emigrates with his family from his native Sudan to Kingston, Ontario, arguably one of the most homogenous cities in North America. At the airport, he's handed his Blackness like a passport, and realizes that he needs to learn what this identity means in a new country. Like all teens, Abdelmahmoud spent his adolescence trying to figure out who he was, but he had to do it while learning to balance a new racial identity and all the false assumptions that came with it. Abdelmahmoud learned to fit in, and eventually became "every liberal white dad's favorite person in the room." But after many years spent trying on different personalities, he now must face the parts of himself he's kept suppressed all this time. He asks, "What happens when those identities stage a jailbreak?" In his debut collection of essays, Abdelmahmoud gives full voice to each and every one of these conflicting selves. Whether reflecting on how The O.C. taught him about falling in love, why watching wrestling allowed him to reinvent himself, or what it was like being a Muslim teen in the aftermath of 9/11, Abdelmahmoud explores how our experiences and our environments help us in the continuing task of defining who we truly are. With the perfect balance of relatable humor and intellectual ferocity, Son of Elsewhere confronts what we know about ourselves, and most important, what we're still learning.
Making Home in Diasporic Communities by ISBN: 9781472455208Date: 2016-11-28Making Home in Diasporic Communities demonstrates the global scope of the Filipino diaspora, engaging wider scholarship on globalisation and the ways in which the dynamics of nation-state institutions, labour migration and social relationships intersect for transnational communities. Based on original ethnographic work conducted in Ireland and the Philippines, the book examines how Filipina diasporans socially and symbolically create a sense of 'home'. On one hand, Filipinas can be seen as mobile, as they have crossed geographical borders and are physically located in the destination country. Yet, on the other hand, they are constrained by immigration policies, linguistic and cultural barriers and other social and cultural institutions. Through modalities of language, rituals and religion and food, the author examines the ways in which Filipinas orient their perceptions, expectations, practices and social spaces to 'the homeland', thus providing insight into larger questions of inclusion and exclusion for diasporic communities. By focusing on a range of Filipina experiences, including that of nurses, international students, religious workers and personal assistants, Making Home in Diasporic Communities explores the intersectionality of gender, race, class and belonging. As such, it will appeal to scholars of sociology and anthropology as well as those with interests in gender, identity, migration, ethnic studies, and the construction of home.
Digital Diasporas by ISBN: 9780521517843Date: 2009-03-02In the first full-length scholarly study of the increasingly important phenomenon of digital diasporas, Jennifer M. Brinkerhoff examines how immigrants who still feel a connection to their country of origin use the internet. She argues that digital diasporas can ease security concerns in both the homeland and the host society, improve diaspora members' quality of life in the host society, and contribute to socio-economic development in the homeland. Drawing on case studies of nine digital diaspora organizations, Brinkerhoff's research supplies new empirical material regarding digital diasporas and their potential security and development impacts. She also explores their impact on identity negotiation, arguing that digital diasporas create communities and organizations that represent hybrid identities and encourage solidarity, identity, and material benefits among their members. The book also explores these communities' implications for policy and practice.
Institutional Reform and Diaspora Entrepreneurs by ISBN: 9780190278229Date: 2016-09-05Externally-promoted institutional reform, even when nominally accepted by developing country governments, often fails to deliver lasting change. Diasporans - immigrants who still feel a connection to their country of origin - may offer an In-Between Advantage for institutional reform, whichlinks problem understanding with potential solutions, and encompasses vision, impact, operational, and psycho-social advantages.Individuals with entrepreneurial characteristics can catalyzing institutional reform. Diasporans may have particular advantages for entrepreneurship, as they live both psychologically and materially between the place of origin they left and the new destination they have embraced. Theirentrepreneurial characteristics may be accidental, cultivated through the migration and diaspora experience, or innate to individuals' personalities.This book articulates the diaspora institutional entrepreneur In-Between Advantage, proposes a model for understanding the characteristics and motivational influences of entrepreneurs generally and how they apply to diaspora entrepreneurs in particular, and presents a staged model of institutionalentrepreneur actions. I test these frameworks through case narratives of social institutional reform in Egypt, economic institutional reform in Ethiopia, and political institutional reform in Chad.In addition to identifying policy implications, this book makes important theoretical contributions in three areas. First, it builds on existing and emerging critiques of international development assistance that articulate prescriptions related to alternative theories of change. Second, it fills animportant gap in the literature by focusing squarely on the role of agency in institutional reform processes while still accounting for organizational systems and socio-political contexts. In doing so, it integrates a more expansive view of entrepreneurism into extant understandings of institutionalentrepreneurism, and it sheds light on what happens in the frequently-invoked black box of agency. Third, it demonstrates the fallacy of many theoretical frameworks that seek to order institutional change processes into neatly definable linear stages.
Diasporas and Development by ISBN: 9781588266033Date: 2008-09-30For some time in diaspora studies, attention to remittances has overshadowed the growing impact of emigrant groups both within the social and political arenas in their homelands and with regard to fundamental economic development. The authors of ""Diasporas and Development"" redress this imbalance, focusing on three core issues: the responses of diasporas to homeland conflicts, strategies for mobilizing effective homeland investment, and the positive role of direct diaspora participation in development efforts.The book combines detailed case studies with theoretical frameworks to provide a valuable foundation for further research.It explores the growing impact of emigrant groups both in the social and political arenas in their homelands and with regard to fundamental economic development.
Fruteros by ISBN: 9780520319844Date: 2020-05-19This book examines the social worlds of young Latino street vendors as they navigate the complexities of local and federal laws prohibiting both their presence and their work on street corners. Known as fruteros, they sell fruit salads out of pushcarts throughout Los Angeles and are part of the urban landscape. Drawing on six years of fieldwork, Rocío Rosales offers a compelling portrait of their day-to-day struggles. In the process, she examines how their paisano (hometown compatriot) social networks both help and exploit them. Much of the work on newly arrived Latino immigrants focuses on the ways in which their social networks allow them to survive. Rosales argues that this understanding of ethnic community simplifies the complicated ways in which social networks and social capital work. Fruteros sheds light on those complexities and offers the concept of the "ethnic cage" to explain both the promise and pain of community.
Memories of a Future Home by ISBN: 0804753024Date: 2005-10-28While the history of Asian migration to Latin America is well documented, we know little about the contemporary experience of diasporic Asians in this part of the world. Memories of a Future Home offers an intimate look at how diasporic Chinese in Panama construct a home and create a sense of belonging as they inhabit the interstices of several cultural-national formations--Panama, their nation of residence; China/Taiwan, their ethnic homeland; and the United States, the colonial force. Juxtaposing the concepts of diaspora and citizenship, this book offers an innovative framework to help us understand how diasporic subjects engage the politics of cultural and political belonging in a transnational context. It does so by examining the interaction between continually shifting geopolitical dynamics, as well as the maneuvers undertaken by diasporic people to negotiate and transform those conditions. In essence, this book explores the contingent citizenship experienced by diasporic Chinese and their efforts to imagine and construct "home" in diaspora.
Immigration and Crime by ISBN: 0814757049Date: 2006-07-01An essential collection that argues fears of immigrant crime are largely unfounded The original essays in this much-needed collection broadly assess the contemporary patterns of crime as related to immigration, race, and ethnicity. Immigration and Crime covers both a variety of immigrant groups--mainly from Asia, the Caribbean, and Latin America--and a variety of topics including: victimization, racial conflict, juvenile delinquency, exposure to violence, homicide, drugs, gangs, and border violence. The volume provides important insights about past understandings of immigration and crime, many based on theories that have proven to be untrue or racially biased, as well as offering new scholarship on salient topics. Overall, the contributors argue that fears of immigrant crime are largely unfounded, as immigrants are themselves often more likely to be the victims of discrimination, stigmatization, and crime rather than the perpetrators. Contributors: Avraham Astor, Carl L. Bankston III, Robert J. Bursik, Jr., Roberto G. Gonzales, Sang Hea Kil, Golnaz Komaie, Jennifer Lee, Matthew T. Lee, Ramiro Martínez, Jr., Cecilia Menjívar, Jeffrey D. Morenoff, Charlie V. Morgan, Amie L. Nielsen, Rubén G. Rumbaut, Rosaura Tafoya-Estrada, Abel Valenzuela, Jr., Min Zhou.
Nearly the New World by ISBN: 9781789203332Date: 2019-09-13"In this rich and resonant study, Joanna Newman recounts the little-known story of this Jewish exodus to the British West Indies..."--Times Higher Education In the years leading up to the Second World War, increasingly desperate European Jews looked to far-flung destinations such as Barbados, Trinidad, and Jamaica in search of refuge from the horrors of Hitler's Europe. Nearly the New World tells the extraordinary story of Jewish refugees who overcame persecution and sought safety in the West Indies from the 1930s through the end of the war. At the same time, it gives an unsparing account of the xenophobia and bureaucratic infighting that nearly prevented their rescue--and that helped to seal the fate of countless other European Jews for whom escape was never an option. From the introduction: This book is called Nearly the New World because for most refugees who found sanctuary, it was nearly, but not quite, the New World that they had hoped for. The British West Indies were a way station, a temporary destination that allowed them entry when the United States, much of South and Central America, the United Kingdom and Palestine had all become closed. For a small number, it became their home. This is the first comprehensive study of modern Jewish emigration to the British West Indies. It reveals how the histories of the Caribbean, of refugees, and of the Holocaust connect through the potential and actual involvement of the British West Indies as a refuge during the 1930s and the Second World War.
Archipelago of Resettlement by ISBN: 9780520379657Date: 2022-04-26A free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more atwww.luminosoa.org. What happens when refugees encounter Indigenous sovereignty struggles in the countries of their resettlement? From April to November 1975, the US military processed over 112,000 Vietnamese refugees on the unincorporated territory of Guam; from 1977 to 1979, the State of Israel granted asylum and citizenship to 366 non-Jewish Vietnamese refugees. Evyn Lê Espiritu Gandhi analyzes these two cases to theorize what she calls the refugee settler condition: the fraught positionality of refugee subjects whose resettlement in a settler colonial state is predicated on the unjust dispossession of an Indigenous population. This groundbreaking book explores two forms of critical geography: first, archipelagos of empire, examining how the Vietnam War is linked to the US military buildup in Guam and unwavering support of Israel, and second, corresponding archipelagos of trans-Indigenous resistance, tracing how Chamorro decolonization efforts and Palestinian liberation struggles are connected through the Vietnamese refugee figure. Considering distinct yet overlapping modalities of refugee and Indigenous displacement, Gandhi offers tools for imagining emergent forms of decolonial solidarity between refugee settlers and Indigenous peoples.
The Healer's Wound by ISBN: 9781737687214Date: 2022-02-18The Healer's Wound : A Queer Theirstory of Polynesia' is an artist's book, a poet's collage, based on more than several years of archival research by Sāmoan fa'afafine artist and poet Dan Taulapapa McMullin. The wound in the title refers to the conflict between colonialism and indigenous queer cultures of Polynesia, through texts and images from and of the peoples of the archipelagoes of the South Pacific Islands, extending from the northwest in Hawai'i to the southeast in Aotearoa, including Sāmoa, Manu'a, Tonga, Viti, Tahiti, Rarotonga, Rapanui and others. Archival trauma is a theme of this work, but only in relation to the artist's search for connection to ancestral queer cultures of healing, the arts and the sciences, and political and communal relationships among genders, elites, commons, generations, all beings and the environment. Recovered images are connected in the book collage with indigenous oral texts and colonial texts in a mixture of languages from their first issues. The work is influenced by Sāmoan suifefiloi, the weaving of many garlands into one, of many threads into one story, and it reflects on contemporary philosophies of contingency, speculative realism, and indigenous futurism
Queer and Trans Migrations by ISBN: 9780252043314Date: 2020-10-26More than a quarter of a million LGBTQ-identified migrants in the United States lack documentation and constantly risk detention and deportation. LGBTQ migrants around the world endure similarly precarious situations. Eithne Luibhéid's and Karma R. Chávez's edited collection provides a first-of-its-kind look at LGBTQ migrants and communities. The academics, activists, and artists in the volume center illegalization, detention, and deportation in national and transnational contexts, and examine how migrants and allies negotiate, resist, refuse, and critique these processes. The works contribute to the fields of gender and sexuality studies, critical race and ethnic studies, borders and migration studies, and decolonial studies. Bridging voices and works from inside and outside of the academy, and international in scope, Queer and Trans Migrations illuminates new perspectives in the field of queer and trans migration studies. Contributors: Andrew J. Brown, Julio Capó, Jr., Anna Carastathis, Jack Cáraves, Karma R. Chávez, Ryan Conrad, Elif, Katherine Fobear, Monisha Das Gupta, Jamila Hammami, Edward Ou Jin Lee, Leece Lee-Oliver, Eithne Luibhéid, Hana Masri, Yasmin Nair, Bamby Salcedo, Fadi Saleh, Rafael Ramirez Solórzano, José Guadalupe Herrera Soto, Myrto Tsilimpounidi, Suyapa Portillo Villeda, Sasha Wijeyeratne, Ruben Zecena
U. S. Central Americans by ISBN: 9780816534067Date: 2017-03-14In summer 2014, a surge of unaccompanied child migrants from Central America to the United States gained mainstream visibility--yet migration from Central America has been happening for decades. U.S. Central Americans explores the shared yet distinctive experiences, histories, and cultures of 1.5-and second-generation Central Americans in the United States. While much has been written about U.S. and Central American military, economic, and political relations, this is the first book to articulate the rich and dynamic cultures, stories, and historical memories of Central American communities in the United States. Contributors to this anthology--often writing from their own experiences as members of this community--articulate U.S. Central Americans' unique identities as they also explore the contradictions found within this multivocal group. Working from within Guatemalan, Salvadoran, and Maya communities, contributors to this critical study engage histories and transnational memories of Central Americans in public and intimate spaces through ethnographic, in-depth, semistructured, qualitative interviews, as well as literary and cultural analysis. The volume's generational, spatial, urban, indigenous, women's, migrant, and public and cultural memory foci contribute to the development of U.S. Central American thought, theory, and methods. Woven throughout the analysis, migrants' own oral histories offer witness to the struggles of displacement, travel, navigation, and settlement of new terrain. This timely work addresses demographic changes both at universities and in cities throughout the United States. U.S. Central Americans draws connections to fields of study such as history, political science, anthropology, ethnic studies, sociology, cultural studies, and literature, as well as diaspora and border studies. The volume is also accessible in size, scope, and language to educators and community and service workers wanting to know about their U.S. Central American families, neighbors, friends, students, employees, and clients. Contributors: Leisy Abrego Karina O. Alvarado Maritza E. Cárdenas Alicia Ivonne Estrada Ester E. Hernández Floridalma Boj Lopez Steven Osuna Yajaira Padilla Ana Patricia Rodríguez
Diaspora, Food and Identity by ISBN: 2807602118Date: 2017-03-29This book examines the connection between food and identity in the Nigerian diaspora community in Belgium. Encounters between people from different cultures do not lead to a simple adaptation of the diet, but usually give rise to some kind of fusion of new and indigenous food habits. The author questions the relationship between what Nigerian migrants in the diaspora eat, their self-perception and how they engage with outsiders. Starting with a historical introduction about the country, this study examines what aspects of the Nigerian food culture is retained and what has changed. This is reflected by the dynamics in the Nigerian homes, especially the gender roles. The new generation of Nigerians, who see Belgium as home, also hang on to a Nigerian diet that remains not only an important part of who they are, but is also used in the creation of cultural boundaries and group identities. However, the influence of the new environment is very present because each diaspora community, wherever and whenever, must adapt. Skills such as language and social norms are indeed necessary to survive in the new environment. Yet, food plays a prominent role: on the one hand, it contributes to the affirmation of Nigerian feelings, and on the other hand, food serves as a means of communication with the host country.
Vietnamese in Orange County by ISBN: 9781439650288Date: 2015-03-09Vietnamese Americans have transformed the social, cultural, economic, and political life of Orange County, California. Previously, there were Vietnamese international students, international or war brides, or military personnel living in the United States, but the majority arrived as refugees and immigrants after the end of the Vietnam War in 1975. Although they are lumped together as "refugees," Vietnamese Americans are diverse in terms of their class, ethnic, regional, religious, linguistic, and ideological backgrounds. Their migration path varied, and they often struggled with resettling in a new homeland and rebuilding their lives. They are dispersed throughout the country, but many are concentrated in central Orange County, where three cities--Westminster, Garden Grove, and Santa Ana--have "Welcome to Little Saigon" signs. They constitute the largest population of Vietnamese outside of Vietnam and have created flourishing residential neighborhoods and bustling commercial centers and contribute to the political and cultural life of the region. This book captures snapshots of Vietnamese life in Orange County over the span of 40 years and shows a dynamic, vibrant community that is revitalizing the region.
A Nail the Evening Hangs On by ISBN: 9781556595608Date: 2020-02-25In her debut collection, Monica Sok uses poetry to reshape a family's memory about the Khmer Rouge regime--memory that is both real and imagined--according to a child of refugees. Driven by myth-making and fables, the poems examine the inheritance of the genocide and the profound struggles of searing grief and PTSD. Though the landscape of Cambodia is always present, it is the liminal space, the in-betweenness of diaspora, in which younger generations must reconcile their history and create new rituals. A Nail the Evening Hangs On seeks to reclaim the Cambodian narrative with tenderness and an imagination that moves towards wholeness and possibility.
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Writer Elamin Abdelmahmoud candidly shares his experience as an immigrant growing up in Canada in his acclaimed memoir.
"Actors in the country of origin can't achieve the political outcomes that they're seeking in the country. And so they might reach out to their diasporas abroad, who then have influence abroad that comes back to the country", says Jennifer Brinckerhoff, Professor at the Elliott School of International Affairs.
Who are Asian Americans? Where did they come from? Why are they here? Professor Siu will take you through the histories of migration, the diversities among Asian Americans, and their various challenges and struggles. This session provides an excellent foundational introduction to the ethnic studies framework and how it illuminates the social and political histories of Asians who have made the U.S. their home.
This is a conversation with Sophia Armen, an Armenian-American writer, scholar and organizer, about the legacy of the Armenian Genocide today.
Rocío Rosales is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Irvine. She presents on her book Fruteros: Street Vending, Illegality, and Ethnic Community in Los Angeles.
Almost 90% of doughnut shops in California are owned by Cambodian refugees, says artist Phung Huynh. She draws the portraits of first-generation and second-generation Cambodian Americans on pink doughnut boxes — a ubiquitous symbol of the sweet treat in California. Her artwork pays homage to the trials and triumphs of immigrants making a new life in a foreign country.
We speak with subject matter expert Evyn Espiritu, Ph.D., about the migration of thousands of refugees through Guam’s shores during "Operation New Life.”
"The Doors of the Sea" by Dan Taulapapa McMullin
A discussion on current challenges and data needs to support the rights of LGBTQI+ refugees at the intersection of race and SOGI
The Vietnamese Podcast with host, Kenneth Nguyen interviews Dr. Thuy Vo Dang.
“Waiting for the Snow” is a photographic project presenting the curious phenomenon of Polish migration to the South American countries during the partitions (19th century) and the interwar period. We focus on the Brazilian and Argentinean directions of migration, as these countries were the most popular destinations of migrants, and the number of people of Polish origin living there is currently the highest on that continent (Brazil 1.53 million, Argentina 120-450 thousand). Both these countries were also at that time perceived by migrants as unknown and exotic. We want to shed some light on this little-known (and rather untypical) aspect of European presence in that remote part of the world. On the one hand, we gather stories based on the collective memory of the Polish community about the country of origin and the beginnings of settlement in the new homeland. On the other hand, we focus on the creolization and mixing of cultures and observe how the Slavic background has interlaced with the South American context, creating a concept of identity based on reconstruction, fiction, and fantasy.
The UCLA Community Archives Lab was founded by Professor Michelle Caswell in 2016 to explore the ways that independent, identity-based memory organizations document, shape, and provide access to the histories of minoritized communities, with a particular emphasis on understanding their affective, political, and artistic impact. In 2021, Professors Thuy Vo Dang and Tonia Sutherland joined the Lab as Co-Directors. The Lab’s research has been published in The American Archivist, Archival Science, Archivaria, Journal of Critical Library and Information Studies, American Historical Review, Journal of Contemporary Archival Studies, Interactions: UCLA Journal of Education and Information Studies, The Public Historian, Archives and Manuscripts, and Library Quarterly, as well as in several edited volumes
PROJECT: Learning from our Asian American Pacific Islander Leaders
The “Learning from our Asian American and Pacific Islander Leaders” project was created by students, staff, and faculty based at the University of California, Irvine. Inspired by the 150th anniversary of the City of Santa Ana in 2019, we began an archival research, digital mapping, and oral history project in winter 2020 to bring more visibility to Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) communities in Orange County.
Welcome to Visualizing Our Identities and Cultures for Empowerment (VOICE)!
VOICE is a project that aims to present the impact of COVID-19 pandemic on the Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) communities in Orange County – home to the third largest AAPI community in the United States. As a result of the pandemic, AAPI communities have experienced a disproportionate amount of hostility. We want to showcase how the community is impacted on a multitude of levels, given the already challenging pandemic, personal circumstances, and language barriers by incorporating a technique known as Photovoice. Our team of student researchers captures thought-provoking pictures to document the story of how COVID-19 impacted the AAPI community. Explore our selection of images, categorized neatly under each theme.
Viet Stories: Vietnamese American Oral History Project
Viet Stories: Vietnamese American Oral History Project at the University of California, Irvine actively assembles, preserves, and disseminates the life stories of Vietnamese Americans in Southern California. The project contributes to expanding archives on Vietnamese Americans with the primary goal of capturing first-generation stories for students, researchers, and the community. Launched in 2011, VAOHP is housed in the Department of Asian American Studies in the School of Humanities and collaborates with the UCI Libraries Southeast Asian Archive. Visit https://sites.uci.edu/vaohp/about/ for more information about this project.
Our mission is to advocate for our [Southwest Asian & North Afrikan - SWANA] communities on both a local and global scale. We are a group committed to promoting progressive, conscious, political, and cultural ideals through educational events, action-oriented campaigns, and healing spaces. We are in solidarity with all oppressed peoples. Our collective is geared towards those of SWANA background.
We are a non-profit organization founded in 2014 in Brussels Belgium. Our work highlights the often neglected potentials of food cultures in building bridges between people and across communities; as a viable development tool with economic, social and nutritional values. Access to sustainable agriculture and aquaculture is a necessity for a dynamic food culture, so we engage in actions that highlight the challenges of food security and hunger. However, we operate from the point of view that people should have sovereignty over their food system.
SANKAA is a democratic and pluralistic socio-cultural association. We are an umbrella organization for associations connected with the African communities. All our associations have Africa as the largest common denominator and are active in Flanders and Brussels. They work on strengthening disadvantaged groups, living together in diversity, global citizenship & solidarity.
Organization for Refugee, Asylum and Migration (ORAM)
ORAM protects and empowers LGBTIQ asylum seekers and refugees globally, creating sustainability and systemic change.
COOLITUDE: Poetics of the Indian Labor Diaspora
This project takes a look at the cultural productions of writers, artists, musicians, and filmmakers who descend from indentured laborers from Guyana, Trinidad, Suriname, Mauritius, South Africa, Fiji, and those in second diaspora in England, the United States, and Canada.
Faces of Regent Park (2015)
Faces of Regent Park is a series by Dan Bergeron of original studio-based work that was scanned to create a laminated glass panel as part of a 2015 permanent public art installation Faces of Regent Park. The series of twelve portraits, including Mustafa, was installed in Toronto’s Regent Park as part of the neighborhood’s massive twenty-year revitalization. Each of the mixed-media portraits depict a resident from the newly revitalized neighborhood, which has been transformed from one that formerly housed only social housing residents, to a neighbourhood that has a 50/50 split of social housing and market-rate units. Aesthetically the work combines the familiarity of the human face with the distressed surfaces of aged architecture and infrastructure found in the urban environment. The graffiti tags have been meticulously rendered from actual markings found in the neighbourhood and act as representational signifiers of human presence on our streets, while the patterned effects symbolize the energy of human movement that give our cities their kinetic life. The vibrant and contrasting colours found within the backgrounds create a juxtaposition that helps to frame the black and white portraits, while simultaneously presenting the notion that we all stem from the same colorful tree. For more of the artists work please also check out his Instagram.