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A Fragmented and Polarized Diaspora: The Making of an Iranian Pluralist Consciousness in Malaysia 支离破碎和两极化的侨民:伊朗多元主义意识在马来西亚的形成
Pub Date : 2021-06-24 DOI: 10.3138/diaspora.21.2.2021.05.14.1
Navid Fozi
This article explores the diasporic subjectivities of Iranians in Malaysia, specifi cally how homeland and host country’s national domestic policies and bilateral state relations, in addition to international politics, mold Iranians’ diasporic discourses, organizations, and economics. Positioned within the broader scholarship, my ethnography in Kuala Lumpur identifi es the specifi city and diversity of Iranian diasporic subjects that embed three accompanying processes of (1) fragmentation along the overlapping socioeconomic, political, ethnic, and gender lines; (2) polarization denoting open opposition of political ideologies and allegiances, religious interpretations, as well as ethnic and gender identities; (3) and pluralization as consciousness accommodating free and equal interaction and communication among diverse groups. Exploring these processes, I argue that the Iranians who observed, discussed, and imagined their own fragmentation and polarization, also developed a pluralist consciousness informed by the host country’s diverse backdrop.
本文探讨马来西亚伊朗侨民的主体性,特别是祖国和东道国的国内政策和双边国家关系,以及国际政治,如何塑造伊朗侨民的话语、组织和经济。在更广泛的学术范围内,我在吉隆坡的民族志研究确定了伊朗流散主体的特定城市和多样性,其中包含了三个伴随的过程:(1)沿着重叠的社会经济、政治、种族和性别线分裂;(2)两极分化,即政治意识形态和忠诚、宗教解释以及种族和性别认同的公开对立;(3)多元化是一种包容不同群体之间自由、平等互动和交流的意识。在探讨这些过程时,我认为,观察、讨论和想象自己的分裂和两极分化的伊朗人,也因东道国的多样化背景而形成了一种多元意识。
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Reworking Race, Nation, and Diaspora on the Margins 重新审视边缘的种族、民族和散居
Pub Date : 2021-06-14 DOI: 10.3138/diaspora.21.2.2021.05.04
J. Gow
Abstract:At the turn of the twentieth century, terms like globalization, transnationalism, and diaspora heralded the increasing interconnectedness of cultures, nations, and politics. While such global networks continue to grow at a rapid rate, nationalist rhetoric and politics have also become more salient as some decry diversity, the threat of "open" borders, and the impacts of capitalist expansion under globalization. At a time when globalization has become a buzzword for the twenty-first century, how can there be both the proliferation of global cultures and increasing rhetoric of protectionist nationalism? I explore how and why diaspora has become salient particularly in an age where nations have been challenged and transformed under globalized capitalism. First, I trace the rise of hegemonic nationalism, its use in legitimizing racial and gendered differences under colonialism, and how its consequent displacements and marginalization led, for some, to claims of diaspora. I then suggest that the racialized Black migrant diaspora may serve as an example of how race and nationalism inform the creation of diaspora and how resistance can emerge across shared experiences of exclusion on this basis. I argue that diaspora has reemerged as one response to the politics of hypernationalism which has again sought to consolidate capital and wealth in an era of global capitalism. I conclude that Black diaspora may become a means for challenging nationalism through the dismantlement of its racial origins.
摘要:在二十世纪之交,全球化、跨国主义和散居等术语预示着文化、国家和政治之间的相互联系日益紧密。当这样的全球网络继续以快速的速度增长时,民族主义的言论和政治也变得更加突出,一些人谴责多样性,“开放”边界的威胁,以及全球化下资本主义扩张的影响。在全球化已成为21世纪流行语的时候,全球文化的扩散和保护主义民族主义的言论怎么可能同时存在?我探讨了在一个国家受到全球化资本主义挑战和转型的时代,侨民是如何以及为什么变得突出的。首先,我追溯了霸权民族主义的兴起,它在殖民主义下使种族和性别差异合法化的作用,以及随之而来的流离失所和边缘化如何导致一些人声称散居。然后,我提出,种族化的黑人移民散居可以作为一个例子,说明种族和民族主义如何影响散居的产生,以及在此基础上,在共同的排斥经历中如何出现抵抗。我认为,在全球资本主义时代,流散作为对超级民族主义政治的一种回应而重新出现,这种政治再次寻求巩固资本和财富。我的结论是,黑人散居可能会成为一种挑战民族主义的手段,通过拆除其种族起源。
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Diasporas' Queer Archives: Honing the Mundane, the Personal, and the Sensorial Toward Unruly Methodological Visions 散居者的酷儿档案:从世俗、个人和感官的角度向难以驾驭的方法论视角进行磨练
Pub Date : 2021-03-10 DOI: 10.3138/DIASPORA.21.1.2020-07-03
Tamar Shirinian
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A Network of Inconsistencies in Iran's Nationalism 伊朗民族主义的矛盾网络
Pub Date : 2021-03-01 DOI: 10.3138/DIASPORA.21.1.2020-10-13
Talinn Grigor
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Diaspora as Spokesperson and Watchdog: Laxmi Berwa, VISION, and Anti-Caste Activism by Dalits in the United States 作为发言人和看门狗的散居:Laxmi Berwa、VISION和美国达利特人的反种姓行动
Pub Date : 2021-03-01 DOI: 10.3138/DIASPORA.21.1.2020-11-06
Purvi Mehta
Abstract:In 1978, Dalit immigrants in New York and New Jersey came together to form the first anti-caste organization in the United States: Volunteers in the Service of India's Oppressed and Neglected (VISION). A transnational activist organization with a specifically diasporic focus, VISION was created to advocate for India's Dalits. This article analyzes the activism—protest, advocacy, and consciousness-raising—of VISION and one of its chief architects, Dr. Laxmi Berwa. Throughout the 1980s and afterwards, Berwa and members of VISION staged protests at venues large and small, appealed to international human rights organizations, and built cross-racial and ethnic alliances with other minoritized groups, especially African Americans. Their activism was instrumental in increasing the global visibility and awareness of the problem of caste and to building a transnational network of support for India's Dalits. Anti-caste activism also shaped the formation of identity and community abroad; it exposed significant caste-based fissures in the Indian diaspora and revealed alternative ways of being, imagining, and utilizing a diasporic identity from what is often assumed in studies of Indian Americans. This article argues that transnational activism by Berwa and VISION helped constitute a new community in the United States, a community of overseas anti-caste activists, in short, a Dalit diaspora.
摘要:1978年,纽约和新泽西的达利特移民共同成立了美国第一个反种姓组织:印度被压迫和被忽视的志愿者服务组织(Volunteers In the Service of India’s oppression and Neglected,简称VISION)。VISION是一个特别关注流散人群的跨国活动组织,旨在为印度的达利特人争取权益。本文分析了VISION及其首席设计师之一Laxmi Berwa博士的行动主义——抗议、倡导和意识提升。在整个20世纪80年代及之后,Berwa和VISION成员在大大小小的场所举行抗议活动,向国际人权组织呼吁,并与其他少数群体,特别是非洲裔美国人建立跨种族和族裔联盟。他们的行动有助于提高全球对种姓问题的关注和认识,并建立了一个支持印度达利特人的跨国网络。反种姓运动也影响了国外身份和社区的形成;它揭示了印度侨民中基于种姓的重大裂缝,揭示了存在、想象和利用印度裔美国人研究中经常假设的移民身份的另一种方式。本文认为,Berwa和VISION的跨国行动帮助在美国建立了一个新的社区,一个海外反种姓活动家的社区,简而言之,一个流亡的达利特。
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Where Is the Love? Race, Self-Exile, and a Kind of Reconciliation 爱在哪里?种族、自我放逐与一种和解
Pub Date : 2020-12-15 DOI: 10.3138/DIASPORA.21.1.2020-06-18
A. Commissiong
Cultivating solidarity or love for community for those systematically abused by the state and its civic community is a longstanding challenge. While the latter should primarily shoulder responsibility for (re)building trust, this article focuses on the abused self-exile’s agency and possible reasons for return. To understand possible motivations for (re)engagement, this article explores the African American expatriate experience rendered in fi ction and criticism. It focuses specifi cally on William Gardner Smith’s The Stone Face and its portrait of the potentialities of Black love as a vehicle of social resurrection and the exercise of political power.
为那些被国家和公民社区系统地虐待的人培养团结和对社区的爱是一项长期的挑战。而后者应该主要承担建立信任的责任,本文主要关注被虐待的自我放逐的代理和可能的回归原因。为了理解(重新)接触的可能动机,本文探讨了小说和批评中呈现的非裔美国人的侨民经历。它特别关注威廉·加德纳·史密斯(William Gardner Smith)的《石头脸》(The Stone Face)及其对黑人爱情作为社会复兴和政治权力行使工具的潜力的描绘。
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Homeland and Heartland: Conceptualizing the “Muslim” “Diaspora” 祖国与中心地带:“穆斯林”“散居”的概念化
Pub Date : 2020-12-15 DOI: 10.3138/DIASPORA.21.1.2020-11-03
Tahseen Shams
Arguing for more conceptual specifi city regarding the term “Muslim diaspora,” this article identifi es two confl ation problems in the scholarship on Muslim immigrants. First, the immigrants’ “Muslimness,” which refers to the signifi ers, thought-processes, discourses, and actions that others perceive to be associated with Islam, is often confl ated with the immigrants being “Muslims”—i.e., members of a discrete, bounded group supposedly diff erent from non-Muslims. Second, Muslims’ transnational engagements—meaning, their cross-border ties between exclusively the sending and receiving countries—are often confl ated as being diasporic—connections targeted towards other Muslims abroad motivated by a sense of religious solidarity. Consequently, researchers have been largely unable to distinguish Muslims’ religious performance from an ethnic one and have taken Muslims’ immigrant transnationalism as evidence of an emerging “Muslim” “diasporic” consciousness. This article parses existing scholarship on Muslim immigrants in the West and off ers a new way of conceptualizing “Muslim diaspora” to move past these ambiguities. It off ers the concept of “heartland”—distinct from immigrants’ “homeland”—to better distinguish Muslims’ religion-based diasporic expressions from their ethnicity based transnational ones
为了对“穆斯林侨民”一词有更明确的概念,本文指出了穆斯林移民学术研究中存在的两个混淆问题。首先,移民的“穆斯林性”,指的是其他人认为与伊斯兰有关的符号、思想过程、话语和行为,经常与移民的“穆斯林”相冲突。他们是一个被认为不同于非穆斯林的离散的、有界限的群体的成员。其次,穆斯林的跨国交往——也就是说,他们在输出国和接受国之间的跨国界联系——经常被认为是一种流散的联系,这种联系是由一种宗教团结感所激发的,针对海外的其他穆斯林。因此,研究人员在很大程度上无法将穆斯林的宗教表现与种族表现区分开来,并将穆斯林的移民跨国主义作为新兴的“穆斯林”“散居”意识的证据。本文分析了西方关于穆斯林移民的现有学术研究,并提出了一种概念化“穆斯林侨民”的新方法,以消除这些歧义。它提出了“中心地带”的概念——不同于移民的“家园”——以便更好地区分穆斯林基于宗教的散居表达和基于种族的跨国表达
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“Like a Wolf Who Fell upon Sheep”: Arab Diaspora and Religion in America, 1880–1930 “像一只扑向羊群的狼”:1880-1930年阿拉伯人在美国的流散和宗教
Pub Date : 2020-12-15 DOI: 10.3138/DIASPORA.21.1.2020-06-15
A. Khater
Historians of migration have extensively studied the economic, social, and political impact of migration and the secular changes amongst diasporic communities, but changes in religious faith, practice and institutions remain opaque. Yet, they form part of the most intimate aspect of the lives transformed in movement and were, in fact, the most active fault line in diasporic communities and at home. However, in relation to religion in the Middle East, historians have hardly paid any attention to movement of people and ideas across and beyond the geographical boundaries of the region. This makes our understanding at best incomplete and, in some instances, incorrect in identifying the sources, dynamics and reasons for change in religious institutions and faith. This article attempts to fi ll these lacunae by looking at an example of how migration infl ected religious institutions and how faith and religion shaped the migratory experience.
移民历史学家广泛研究了移民的经济、社会和政治影响,以及散居社区的世俗变化,但宗教信仰、习俗和制度的变化仍然不透明。然而,它们构成了在运动中改变生活的最亲密方面的一部分,事实上,它们是流散社区和家庭中最活跃的断层线。然而,关于中东的宗教,历史学家几乎没有注意到人们和思想跨越和超越该地区的地理边界的流动。这使我们的理解充其量是不完整的,在某些情况下,在确定宗教机构和信仰变化的来源、动力和原因方面是不正确的。本文试图通过观察移民如何影响宗教制度以及信仰和宗教如何塑造移民经历的例子来填补这些空白。
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Iraqi Jews and Heritage under Threat: Negotiating and Managing an Identity from Afar 威胁下的伊拉克犹太人和遗产:谈判和管理来自远方的身份
Pub Date : 2020-02-01 DOI: 10.3138/diaspora.20.3.004
Sam Andrews
Abstract:This article looks at the case of Ezekiel's shrine in Kifl, Iraq. The shrine houses the grave of the Jewish prophet Ezekiel and originally consisted of a synagogue and associated buildings. Shi‛a Muslims claim it is a holy site for Muslims. Since Iraq's Jews largely left Iraq after 1950 as a result of government repression, it is now controlled by the Iraqi Shi‛a Waqf. It has been largely changed into a mosque, with many Jewish elements having been removed. Too few Jews are left in Iraq to challenge this. This article asks how changes to this site play into notions of belonging and identity for Iraqi Jews today, as well as how the effects of pressure from dominant Jewish identities and a general ignorance of Arab Jewish identity interacts with this important site of memory. An analysis of the relationship between the site and Iraqi Jewish identity is conducted via on-site work and thirteen interviews with Iraqi Jews from around the world. It argues for the importance of the site and that heritage sites such as Ezekiel's shrine are powerful sites for anchoring diasporic identities mnemonically. In the case where those identities are under strain, these sites serve a role to further strengthen and provide historical weight to claims of belonging. However, this relationship changes through generations because of internal and external identity and political pressures. Unchallengeable pressures increase the likelihood that memories are not passed on. The article argues for a dynamic understanding between site, politics, and identity.
摘要:本文以以西结在伊拉克基弗尔的圣地为例。圣殿供奉着犹太先知以西结的坟墓,最初由犹太教堂和相关建筑组成。什叶派穆斯林声称这是穆斯林的圣地。1950年后,由于伊拉克政府的镇压,大部分犹太人离开了伊拉克,现在伊拉克由伊拉克什叶派Waqf控制。它已经很大程度上变成了一座清真寺,许多犹太元素被移除了。留在伊拉克的犹太人太少,无法挑战这一点。这篇文章探讨了这个遗址的变化是如何影响今天伊拉克犹太人的归属感和身份观念的,以及来自占主导地位的犹太人身份的压力和对阿拉伯犹太人身份的普遍无知是如何影响这个重要的记忆遗址的。通过现场工作和对来自世界各地的13位伊拉克犹太人的采访,对该遗址与伊拉克犹太人身份之间的关系进行了分析。它论证了遗址的重要性,并认为像以西结的神殿这样的遗产遗址是在记忆上锚定流散身份的有力场所。在这些身份受到压力的情况下,这些遗址起到了进一步加强和提供归属感主张的历史重要性的作用。然而,由于内部和外部的认同以及政治压力,这种关系在几代人之间发生了变化。不可挑战的压力增加了记忆无法传递的可能性。文章主张对地点、政治和身份之间的动态理解。
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The Iranian Diaspora: Its Formation and Transformation 伊朗侨民:它的形成和转变
Pub Date : 2020-02-01 DOI: 10.3138/diaspora.20.3.006
Elhum Haghighat
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