Pub Date : 2020-04-14DOI: 10.1080/09739572.2020.1752968
Ekaterina Gorbunova
ABSTRACT This paper aims to analyse the perception of Koreans overseas in South Korean mass media. Nowadays, due to globalization processes, the economic, political and cultural contacts between South Korean society and Korean diaspora has intensified. As a result, the perception of Korean immigrants in South Korea is becoming more positive. The analyses of media materials show that South Korean media highly estimate the contribution made by Korean immigrants to the development of South Korea, both historically and in the modern period. In addition, media also praise the positive qualities of Korean immigrants, such as being hardworking, and their active participation in the political and economic life of the host country. Another common narrative is the positive role of Korean diaspora in bilateral relations between the host country and South Korea. The comparison of recent media materials with those of the beginning of the XXI century shows that the positive representation of Korean diaspora is a recent tendency. The article also underlines that the way South Korean media develop a narrative about South Korean diaspora is on many occasions close to the narrative of South Korean officials.
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Pub Date : 2020-01-02DOI: 10.1080/09739572.2020.1690209
Mithlesh Jayas Mukherji
{"title":"Diaspora as cultures of cooperation, global and local perspective","authors":"Mithlesh Jayas Mukherji","doi":"10.1080/09739572.2020.1690209","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09739572.2020.1690209","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42341,"journal":{"name":"Diaspora Studies","volume":"13 1","pages":"109 - 112"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2020-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/09739572.2020.1690209","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47525693","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}
Pub Date : 2020-01-02DOI: 10.1080/09739572.2020.1689694
N. D. H. Nguyen
ABSTRACT Despite the lingering conflict between the government of Vietnam and the Vietnamese diaspora in the United States, issues of remittance and relationship relaxation between the refugees and Vietnamese government happened both in the 1990s. Recent years have seen the attitude-change of the returning diaspora and their shifting strategies of working in Vietnam. This paper describes the first step toward rapprochement between Vietnam and its diaspora in the United States, by analysing the attempts of Vietnam to approach its diaspora in the United States and the reactions of the diasporic community members. On the other hand, it also describes the efforts of Vietnamese Americans to empower Vietnamese people through philanthropic and civic engagement activities. The rapprochement via media and civic engagement reveals a shift from hard, intense ideological conflict to soft tactics in the transnational relation between Vietnam and the Vietnamese diaspora in the United States. This paper concludes that the process to rapprochement is still challenged by the significant differences in political views between the two sides. It suggests that the process of negotiation and conflict resolution be conducted with openness, honesty and acceptance of differences.
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Pub Date : 2020-01-02DOI: 10.1080/09739572.2019.1685815
Omri Asscher, Ofer Shiff
ABSTRACT This paper suggests that images and stances associated with the diaspora in the homeland culture offer a unique prism through which internal tensions in homeland collective identity may be dissected and understood. We believe it is worthwhile to broaden the spectrum of inquiry of recent research on quantifiable diaspora economic and political involvement in homeland nation-states to the inherently fluid, abstract realm of cultural representation. The paper implements this research orientation by offering a preliminary discussion of homeland-construed representations and stances of the diaspora, based on the case study of Israel. Israel is a particularly useful case for our purposes because of the degree to which the diaspora serves as a ‘significant other’ for the homeland national culture. Our claim is that two main prisms, or frames of reference, which we label as ‘minority stance’ and ‘authenticity,’ designate Israeli views of its diaspora that prove fundamental to Israeli national self-definition. The degree of authenticity ascribed in Israeli culture to representations and practices associated with the diaspora is contingent on the positive or negative value attributed to them as embodying a ‘minority stance,’ that is, to the diaspora giving central importance to its environing host society in its own identity and self-understanding. Using Greek culture as a comparative point of reference, we suggest that these prisms may be but two examples of various homeland ‘filters’ on the diaspora experience – filters which pertain to the homeland society’s ongoing internal negotiations of identity and symbolic boundary-work.
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Pub Date : 2020-01-02DOI: 10.1080/09739572.2019.1688934
Patricia Gubitosi, Judy de Oliveira
ABSTRACT Linguistic identity of migrant communities is highly related to cultural practices. Given that social and individual identity emerges through social interaction and discursive practices where the role of linguistic processes is fundamental, this paper analyses how Portuguese migrants and their descendants negotiate and contest their cultural and linguistic identity while struggling to maintain their language and traditions in Eastern Massachusetts.
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Pub Date : 2020-01-02DOI: 10.1080/09739572.2019.1637116
S. Gupta
ABSTRACT This paper focuses on four popular UK based, desi food blogs by Anjali Pathak, Hari Ghotra, Mallika Basu, and Chintal Kakaya, who are ambassadors of the global justice charity Find Your Feet's (FYF) ‘Curry for Change’ (CFC) campaign. Reconfiguring and challenging geographical parameters and national boundaries, the bloggers team up with FYF to help fight hunger in African and Asian rural communities. Using the Internet as a platform to create awareness about the charity, the blogs share recipes and meal plans for dinner parties hosted in honour of the charity and invite the public to fundraising events. Concerned with human rights, these bloggers affect social change by empowering individuals and communities to participate in civic engagement, and occasionally to even challenge unfair government policies/practices. The blogs’ efficacy can also be measured through the funds raised, the public attention they receive from channels such as Indian food network and London Live, local/regional newspapers such as the London Evening Standard, and magazines like India's Complete Wellbeing Magazine. Food blogs that actively contribute to global justice movements cannot be seen as domestic reflections or exercises in nostalgia anymore. Referring to Habermas's notion of the public sphere and Nancy Fraser's concept of the transnational public sphere, I examine these food blogs as transnational public spheres. Based on textual analysis of blog entries related specifically to the CFC campaign and an examination of FYF's annual reviews, this paper examines how these food blogs have expanded in form and function by engaging in cyberactivism.
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Pub Date : 2020-01-02DOI: 10.1080/09739572.2019.1635841
Tigran Torosyan, A. Vardanyan
ABSTRACT The article proposes the methodology of studying the changes in diasporas evolved from the former post-Soviet space after the collapse of the Soviet Union, as well as the results of the research based on this methodology. The article draws upon the case of the Armenian Diaspora, which is considered as classical or historical diaspora. It is argued that during the evolution of diasporas, the changes in the prerequisite for their replenishment affect their nature and characteristics. Even significant differences may arise between the communities forming the same diaspora. Thus, there is a need to make a comparative analysis of the communities forming the same diaspora. The article presents a four-stage model of periodization of the Armenian Diaspora. It proposes to supplement the classification of diasporas suggested by Cohen with the transforming type of diaspora. This will allow for more accurate description of the developments taking place in diasporas for almost three decades, resulting from the post-Soviet transformation, as well as the collapse of the old world order and formation of a new one.
{"title":"Peculiarities of transforming diasporas: the case of the Armenian Diaspora","authors":"Tigran Torosyan, A. Vardanyan","doi":"10.1080/09739572.2019.1635841","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09739572.2019.1635841","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The article proposes the methodology of studying the changes in diasporas evolved from the former post-Soviet space after the collapse of the Soviet Union, as well as the results of the research based on this methodology. The article draws upon the case of the Armenian Diaspora, which is considered as classical or historical diaspora. It is argued that during the evolution of diasporas, the changes in the prerequisite for their replenishment affect their nature and characteristics. Even significant differences may arise between the communities forming the same diaspora. Thus, there is a need to make a comparative analysis of the communities forming the same diaspora. The article presents a four-stage model of periodization of the Armenian Diaspora. It proposes to supplement the classification of diasporas suggested by Cohen with the transforming type of diaspora. This will allow for more accurate description of the developments taking place in diasporas for almost three decades, resulting from the post-Soviet transformation, as well as the collapse of the old world order and formation of a new one.","PeriodicalId":42341,"journal":{"name":"Diaspora Studies","volume":"13 1","pages":"59 - 71"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2020-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/09739572.2019.1635841","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48541795","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}
Pub Date : 2020-01-02DOI: 10.1080/09739572.2019.1635840
Andrea Pelliccia, Rigas Raftopoulos
ABSTRACT In light of the poor and fragmented literature on contemporary Greek diaspora in Italy, not yet adequately covered by the historical and social disciplines, this article attempts to fill that void, thus providing an essential contribution to the studies on the Greek diaspora. Using the results of a field research, we analyze the two main push and pull factors of Greek migration to Italy in the second half of the twentieth century, namely the student migration and the migration related to the Second World War. Through the narrative reconstruction by the second generation members, we retrace the most important phases that have characterized the migratory experience of Greek migrants in Italy within a wider historical framework of analysis, also by using unpublished documents collected in Greek, Italian and American historical archives. We use an analysis method that combines the narratives of second generation members with the statistical analysis of the variables, by reconstructing the family history through the use of data derived from both questionnaires and life stories.
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Pub Date : 2020-01-01DOI: 10.22735/JODS.2020.14.2.161
J. Bae, Kim Jaigi
{"title":"Online Community Activities among Mixed-Race Koreans in the U.S.: Focusing on the “HalfKorean.com” Facebook Group","authors":"J. Bae, Kim Jaigi","doi":"10.22735/JODS.2020.14.2.161","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22735/JODS.2020.14.2.161","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42341,"journal":{"name":"Diaspora Studies","volume":"14 1","pages":"161-202"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68340791","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}
Pub Date : 2020-01-01DOI: 10.22735/JODS.2020.14.2.47
Sang-Bong Lee
{"title":"Theoretical and Practical Research on Local Suffrage for Foreign Residents: A Case Study of Korean residents in Japan","authors":"Sang-Bong Lee","doi":"10.22735/JODS.2020.14.2.47","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22735/JODS.2020.14.2.47","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42341,"journal":{"name":"Diaspora Studies","volume":"14 1","pages":"47-88"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68340834","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}
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