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Migrations and Diasporas: Struggling Between Inclusion and Exclusion

Edited by

William Arrocha

Middlebury Institute of International Studies, USA

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Elena Xeni

University of Nicosia & CARDET, Cyprus

United Kingdom – North America – Japan – India – Malaysia – China

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About the Editors

Dr William Arrocha is an Associate Professor at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies. His research focuses on international migration and human rights. His latest publication, ‘Expanding the geographies of “sanctuary” and the deepening and contentious nature of immigration federalism: the case of California's SB 54’ published in Globalizations examines the concept and practice of sanctuary jurisdictions in the United States, including its secularisation through its codification in state and local laws. Among a long list of publications focusing on the need to ensure the fundamental rights of migrants, he co-edited with Steven W. Bender Compassionate Migration and Regional Policy in the Americas published by Palgrave Macmillan. Dr Arrocha has chaired the Migrations project in the Cultures and Societies knowledge hub at Progressive Connexions. He has consulted with the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, the Association of Caribbean States and has been an advisor to the governments of Mexico and Canada.

Elena Xeni is a Lecturer at the Department of Education at the University of Nicosia (UNIC) and a Senior Researcher/Project Manager at the Education Unit of Centre for the Advancement of Research and Development in Educational Technology (CARDET). Elena acts as a scientific collaborator at the Centre for Educational Research and Evaluation (CERA) in Cyprus and as an Advisory board member in a number of local educational initiatives. She also acts as a critical friend, upon invitation, in school-based actions (and beyond) in the areas she specialises: language and literature teaching and learning, new literacies studies, childhood studies and children's literature process research (ChLPR).

About the Contributors

Hazel T. Biana is a Professor of Philosophy at De La Salle University, Manila, Philippines. She is also a research fellow at the Southeast Asia Research Center and Hub, and the Social Development Research Center. She is interested in feminist philosophy and the philosophy of place.

Louise Cainkar is a Professor of Sociology and Social Welfare and Justice at Marquette University, and directs the Peace Studies program and Arab and Muslim American Studies minor. She has published three scholarly books and over 40 peer-reviewed scholarly articles and book chapters, generating more than 30,000 downloads across 139 countries. Recent books, published by Syracuse University Press, include the co-edited Sajjilu Arab American: A Reader in SWANA Studies (2023, with Pauline Homsi Vinson and Amira Jarmakani) and Arab American Women: Representation and Refusal (2022, with Michael Suleiman and Suad Joseph), which received two national awards. Her 2009 book, Homeland Insecurity: The Arab American and Muslim American Experience after 9/11 (Russell Sage Foundation) also received multiple national awards. She has been recognised for outstanding contributions to the city of Chicago, as a Carnegie Corporation Scholar and Fulbright Scholar, as a community-engaged teacher, and is active in professional associations and community-based work.

Biplab Debnath is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science, Tripura University, Agartala, India. He is a graduate from Delhi university and has completed his MA, M. Phil and PhD from the School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India. His area of specialisation is international relations and his specific research interest includes theories of international relations, India's foreign policy and international politics in the Asia-Pacific. Besides regular teaching, supervision and research works, he is also associated with government and non-government institutes such as Ministry of External Affairs, Ministry of Parliamentary Affairs and Indian Council of World Affairs in numerous academic activities. Currently he is an executive committee member of the Indian Association for Asian and Pacific studies that promotes research and understanding of political, economic, social and cultural aspects in the Asia-Pacific.

Dr Ingrid Fromm is a research associate and Lecturer in international agriculture at the Bern University of Applied Sciences, School of Agricultural, Forest and Food Sciences, in Zollikofen, Switzerland, where she teaches in the Bachelor’s and Master's programs. She holds a PhD in Development Economics from Leipzig University in Germany and a BSc in Agriculture from Zamorano University in Honduras. Her work focuses on food systems and global value chains and their impact on economic, environmental and social development. For the past 18 years, Dr Fromm has focused on value chain research in multi-country trade commodities such as cocoa, coffee, banana and palm oil as well as fresh vegetables and pulses. She has conducted research and consultancies in numerous developing countries in Latin America, West Africa and Asia.

Kacper Grass is a second-generation Polish-American scholar of comparative politics and international relations. He is currently pursuing a PhD in Political Science at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, where he teaches and conducts research. He also holds a Master's Degree in Political Science from the Autonomous University of Barcelona and a Bachelor's Degree in Political Science and Hispanic Studies from the University of Tennessee. This chapter is the result of a research project initiated during his studies in Barcelona and presented at the 3rd Global Interdisciplinary Conference on Migrations hosted by Progressive Connexions in Prague.

Ana Jovanović, PhD, is an Associate Professor at the Department of Iberian Studies at Faculty of Philology, University of Belgrade (Serbia). Her primary research interests lay in the field of applied linguistics and, more specifically, psycholinguistics of a foreign/second/heritage language learner, educational linguistics and intercultural education. She teaches courses at bachelor, master and doctorate level and coordinates teacher practicum for future teachers of the Spanish language. She is dedicated to individual and professional empowerment of foreign language teachers, mainly through the activities of professional associations, service-learning programs, national and international projects and teacher education activities. She authored and coauthored a number of papers that reflect her inter- and transdisciplinary research approach, authored two monographs and co-edited several thematic volumes.

Ana Kojadinović obtained her Bachelor's degree and Master's degree in Serbian Language and Literature from the University of Belgrade. She is a PhD candidate at the Humboldt University of Berlin, Department of Slavic Studies. Her dissertation topic reflects her research interest in Serbian diaspora in Berlin, Serbian as a heritage language, family language policy, etc. Her major field of academic activities is related to the field of heritage language linguistics, sociolinguistics and contact linguistics.

Originally from Rwanda, Claudine Kuradusenge-McLeod is a scholar specialising in genocide studies, and in the intersection of Diaspora consciousness and social mobilisation. She is the author of Narratives of Victimhood and Perpetration: The Struggle of Bosnian and Rwandan Diaspora Communities in the United States as well as articles published in Genocide Studies and Prevention: An International Journal, the International Journal of Transitional Justice and the International Studies Review. Dr Kuradusenge-McLeod received her MS and PhD in Conflict Analysis and Resolution from George Mason University.

Mariya Lesiv is an Associate Professor of Folklore at Memorial University, Canada. Her research interests include folklore and politics; ethnicity and national identity; belief and religious folklife; and diaspora studies. Lesiv's first book The Return of Ancestral Gods: Modern Ukrainian Paganism as an Alternative Vision for a Nation was published by McGill-Queen's University Press in 2013. She also contributed articles to edited volumes and academic journals including Anthropologica, Journal of American Folklore, Ethnologies, Folklorica and Western Folklore. She is a recipient of a 2017–2019 Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Insight Development grant focusing on the study of immigrants from post-Socialist Europe and Asia to Newfoundland. Lesiv served as President of the Folklore Studies Association of Canada/l'Association canadienne d'ethnologie et de folklore in 2021–2022, and is currently President of the Slavic, East European and Eurasian Folklore Association.

Ekaterina Midgette, St John's University, New York, USA. Ekaterina Midgette earned a PhD in Literacy Education from the University of Delaware where she specialised in researching planning and revision strategies for adolescent writers. She completed her graduate degree at Moscow State Linguistic University where she majored in Linguistics and Intercultural Communication. As a former English and a New Language teacher, Dr Midgette enjoys working with the adult and preschool – twelfth grade refugee population. Her other research interests include the revision processes in argumentative writing, and the use of humour in writing and the selection and use of culturally responsive literature for diverse populations.

Sona Nersisyan, Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography of National Academy of Sciences of Republic of Armenia. She received her BA and MA in Sociology in the Armenian State Pedagogical University after Kh. Abovyan. In 2019, she received PhD degree in history (ethnologist) at the Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography NAS RA. Now she is a senior researcher at the same institute. She has published over 25 papers and collective monographs. She has managed and participated in the international and state research projects, conducted research fieldwork and analytical work, policymaking and promotion processes, etc. Her scientific interests include diaspora studies, migration, repatriation studies, social network analysis and investment studies.

Katerina Palova is a Manager of the Research & Programme Development Department (RPD) at The Immigrant Education Society (TIES). She has been working in the immigrant-serving sector since 2013 in a variety of roles. Through these roles, she gained substantial expertise in Canadian immigration, with a focus on the mental health and emotional well-being of newly arrived immigrants and refugees.

Alexandra Patton recently graduated from the Middlebury Institute of International Studies in Monterey, California, with a Master of Arts in International Policy and Development and a specialisation in Migration and Global Governance and is currently working as a Community Economic Development Volunteer with the Peace Corps in Colombia. She has interned for the United States federal court system, the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) and the United Nations Office for Disarmament Affairs (UNODA). She has conducted extensive research in the field of migration policy.

Alexandra Portmann is an Assistant Professor in Theatre Studies at the University of Bern, Switzerland. Her dissertation ‘The time is out of joint – Shakespeare's Hamlet in the Region of the Former Yugoslavia’ (2015) deals with the interrelation of memory culture and theatre and was awarded twice (Faculty Prize by the University of Bern and the German Shakespeare Society). She worked as a Lecturer at the University of Cologne (Germany) and on a mobility fellowship at Queen Mary University of London (UK) and Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich (Germany). Her current research project ‘Festivals and Institutional Changes: Perspectives on Transnational Theatre Production’ (funded by Swiss National Science Foundation) investigates professional networks in the performing arts.

Wyatt Hirschfeld Shibley is a graduate student in the Department of Folklore at Memorial University, Canada. He is currently completing his MA thesis devoted to the Lebanese diaspora on the island of Newfoundland under Mariya Lesiv's supervision.

Dr Laura Snyder is a Paris-based lawyer and advocate for US taxpayer rights. She is a co-founder of Stop Extraterritorial American Taxation (SEAT) and a member of the board of directors of the Association of Americans Resident Overseas (AARO). She is a former international member of the Taxpayer Advocacy Panel (TAP), which is a federal advisory committee to the United States Internal Revenue Service (IRS). She is the author of ‘The Myths and Truths of Extraterritorial Taxation’ (forthcoming, Cornell Journal of Law and Public Policy), ‘Can Extraterritorial Taxation Be Rationalised?’ (The Tax Lawyer) and ‘The Unacknowledged Realities of Extraterritorial Taxation’ (Southern Illinois University Law Journal). Dr Snyder holds a PhD from the University of Westminster Law School (2018). She is a graduate of TRIUM Executive MBA (2006), University of Paris 1–Panthéon-Sorbonne (DEA droit privé, 1996), and the University of Illinois College of Law (JD, 1994).

Christopher Sommer is a research associate at the Institute of Material Culture at the Carl von Ossietzky University Oldenburg, Germany. His research interests are the representation of immigration in museums, currently with a focus on the New Zealand context, and the transnational representation of military history in museums. From 2018 to 2020 he co-ordinated the digitisation projects ‘Qualität Plus – Digital Literacy am Standort Materielle Kultur’ and ‘Uni Action’, both funded by the Ministry for Science and Culture of Lower Saxony, implementing blended learning concepts and e-learning solutions as well as developing a digital treasure-hunt on the digitisation of knowledge production. His current research project ‘Taming War – The representation and perception of war in military history museums’, funded by the German Research Foundation, explores visitor perceptions of war and violence in Germany, England and New Zealand.

Dr Cesar Suva, PhD, The late Dr Cesar Suva pursued a life of academia and ever-expanding social circles internationally. He was born in Manila, Philippines, grew up in Edmonton, Canada, and completed his Undergraduate degree in Montreal, Master's degree in Manila and PhD in Canberra, Australia. He joined The Immigrant Education Society shortly after his return to Canada and ultimately became the Vice President of the Research and Programme Development Department. Cesar had a great love for history and helping others, dedicating his life's work to conducting research in the immigrant sector to help benefit the Canadian immigrant community.

Lusine Tanajyan, Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography of National Academy of Sciences of Republic of Armenia. She received her BA and MA in Sociology from the Armenian State Pedagogical University after Kh. Abovyan. She received her PhD degree in history (ethnologist) at the Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography NAS RA in 2020. She works as a senior researcher in the same institute. She has participated and managed the international and state research projects. She has also conducted fieldwork and analytical work on comparative studies among Armenians in Diaspora, Syrian-Armenians in Armenia, etc. The range of her scientific interests includes diaspora studies, migration, repatriation, social changes in the diaspora and diaspora investment studies. She has over 25 papers and collective monographs.

Dr Catherine Rita Volpe is a researcher in the area of children and young people's geographies and is a Lecturer in social science education at the University of New England, Australia. She completed her PhD at the University of the Sunshine Coast where she investigated the diasporic practices and identity performativities of young migrants in private, public and online spaces. Her current research focuses on identity performativities across different spaces for children and young people, with a special interest in online spaces. Further, she continues her research with a focus on the use of digital methods in research with children and young people.