This thesis investigates asylum seekers/refugees’ orientations to belonging and identity. It is based on in-depth semi-structured interviews conducted among asylum seekers/refugees residing in Scotland between 2006 and 2008 and on a media monitoring of a number of UK newspapers. The interviews were analysed for interviewees’ orientations to feelings of belonging and identity with the UK, Scotland and homelands. They were also analysed for interviewees’ perceptions (beliefs and understandings) of newspapers’ reporting of asylum and importance to their sense of national belonging and national identity forming. The monitoring provided the context of newspapers’ reporting of asylum at the time of interviews. It enabled a small-scale examination of media content with reference to interviewees’ perceptions. The thesis explores two assumptions. Firstly, asylum seekers/refugees’ national belonging and national identity formations are complex and contingent upon their everyday ‘lived’ experiences. Secondly, asylum seekers/refugees’ belonging and identity formations, as social processes of citizenship, cannot be understood in isolation from the high visibility of the asylum issue in UK media. As an empirical study, therefore, its findings are deployed to critique policymaking, theoretical and media accounts of non-British citizens’ forms of belonging to, and identification with the British ‘nation’. It is suggested that, in addition to policymaking, there are other social circumstances that would facilitate ethnic minority migrants’ national belonging and national identity formations. These factors do not only account for the prioritising of Scottishness over Britishness, but also migrants’ ‘hyphenated’ identities. This thesis will therefore provide evidence suggesting that non-citizens (ethnic minorities), have their own meanings and agency of orientating to a feeling of national belonging and national identity that is nuanced and contingent on their experiences. The thesis does not aim to establish media causality. However, it highlights the fact that newspaper coverage can evoke responses from marginalised groups and provide the context from which identities are narrated and mobilised. The thesis will improve our understanding of the practices, meanings and contestations of belonging and identity that is grounded in the ‘lived’ experiences of noncitizens. This sociological dimension to ethnic minorities’ citizenship forming is not only poorly understood, but has been dominated by theoretical and policymaking accounts in the contemporary state.

It has often been claimed that contemporary societies are shaped by globalization; the rapid interconnections of societies, economies, markets, flows and information potentially linking all places in the world to each other. In search for experiences, variation, escape or comfort, individuals are travelling, circulating, and migrating between places, challenging the notions of ‘home’ and ‘away’, ‘everyday’ and ‘extraordinary’. This thesis addresses the ways lifestyle-led mobilities are produced and performed, by studying the mobility trajectories and experiences of Swedes dividing their time seasonally between Sweden and Malta. It explores how movers are faced with a structural framework that both facilitates and directs their choices concerning mobility, and how they interpret and respond to these structures. It also explores the imaginaries, meanings, and feelings for place, identity, and lifestyle that the movers negotiate through their mobility practices and through the links they create and sustain in places. Thus, this thesis is situated in an evolving field of research on lifestyle mobilities. Lifestyle mobilities are here defined as those mobility practices undertaken by individuals based on their freedom of choice, of a temporal or more permanent duration, with or without any significant ‘home base(s)’, that are primarily driven by aspirations to increase ‘quality of life’, and that are primarily related to the individuals’ lifestyle values. The thesis is based on four individual papers exploring different aspects lifestyle mobility. The aim is to understand how production and performance aspects of lifestyle mobilities are related, and how notions of identity and belonging are negotiated in relation to lifestyle mobility practices. The production aspect relates to those structures and frameworks that create, facilitate, or sometimes delimit opportunities for lifestyle mobility while the performance aspect focuses on individual agency and meaning of lifestyle mobility practices. The studies are based on in-depth interviews with Swedish movers in Malta, and focus on how structural frameworks and mediations influence the ways that movers manoeuvre, manipulate or adapt to structures and influences in order to arrange their life context to achieve ‘quality of life’. A second aim focuses on the ways that movers reflect upon their identities and belongings as they travel routinely between two (or more) significant places, and how this may influence mobility practices. It is concluded that structures and mediations are both facilitating and delimiting movers’ space of choice regarding mobility decisions. Through their agency, movers negotiate their space of choice by allocating resources and experience, accessing supportive networks and tailoring their access to entitlements. The production and performance aspects of lifestyle mobility practices are interlinked in complex ways.

Decoloniality has become a buzzword in the Canadian international development sector. The term intends to draw continuities between Canada's colonial past and present and draws attention to the way that the practice of international development perpetuates colonial power structures, specifically what Pailey (2020) has called the “White gaze of development.” When racialized actors in a white settler state like Canada are involved in international development initiatives in their countries of ethnic origin, they are often met with a binary, racist discourse among the broader Canadian community that either praises them as useful "tools" of Canadian foreign policy or denigrates their activities as a posing a potential "risk" to national interests. As a development actor on the world stage that sees itself as “cultural mosaic,” Canadians and the Canadian government should consider the potential for its diaspora to contribute to its foreign policies and strategies. Diasporic development can help with innovation in the development industry by expanding ideas about development and how it can be done. Reductionist understandings about diasporic transnationalism limit these possibilities, which underline the imperative to better understand diasporic identity and transnationalism. Using a Bourdieusian (1986) field analysis, Bhabha's notions of (1994) hybridity and liminality, as well as Yuval-Davis' (2006) conceptualization of belonging, this research explores the negotiations of belonging among the second-generation Tamil diaspora in Canada as they engage in development initiatives focused on communities in Sri Lanka. Through in-depth interviews with 34 participants, this research finds that the diaspora has day-to-day interactions in a number of sites or "micro-fields" which inform their engagement in international development initiatives that are focused on communities in Sri Lanka, and that their negotiations of belonging and otherness are salient in their development experiences. Members of the diaspora also interrogate coloniality through their hybridity and subsequent positioning in a liminal space. They reject colonial discourse by constructing belonging to the communities at the development sites and valuing localization. However, their interrogation of power structures across different fields as well as their multiple subject positions also contribute to their reflexivity about the treatment of Indigenous peoples in Turtle Island/Canada.

Made available in DSpace on 2014-06-11T19:32:23Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2009-03-02Bitstream added on 2014-06-13T19:02:58Z : No. of bitstreams: 1 dantas_sm_dr_fran.pdf: 4403584 bytes, checksum: 6bd1ce3a3fba5fffec4619921338836f (MD5) / O cerne dessa tese é compreender a constituição do urbano e seu corolário na cidade de Uberabinha, atual Uberlândia, em Minas Gerais, no final do século XIX e primeiras décadas do século XX, tendo como corpus documental as atas da Câmara Municipal e relatórios do Executivo, os periódicos locais, as produções de memorialistas e imagens fotográficas. A emancipação de povoados e arraiais do Triângulo Mineiro significou a possibilidade de autonomia política e a perspectiva de construção de cidades modernas, regidas pelos princípios da civilidade e do progresso. Em Uberabinha, os grupos sociais dominantes lideraram o processo de configuração do espaço urbano com a implementação de serviços e a modernização dos equipamentos e, à medida que a face da cidade se transformava, enunciavam um discurso de convencimento para validar as representações e as práticas que postulavam devessem ser cumpridas. Por meio de estratégias discursivas, políticas, sociais e imagéticas buscaram-se formar cidadãos que se pautassem pelos princípios de civilidade. Fruto de concepções liberais, o projeto de civilização executado construiu uma cidade marcada pelos conflitos entre os diversos grupos sociais que disputavam espaço para expressar suas representações, excluindo outras possibilidades e ocultando contradições que, vez ou outra, vinham à baila, manchando a imagem dominante. Em certa medida, a elite local logrou êxito ao criar um conjunto de práticas que visavam viabilizar seus interesses, presentes nos códigos de postura e regulamentos diversos, nos artigos dos periódicos, na defesa da educação como garantia de civilização. O trinômio modernidade, civilidade e progresso se sustentou de modo ambíguo, incorporando novos componentes e conservando elementos tradicionais para tornar Uberabinha/Uberlândia uma cidade de destaque em meio às demais da região / This study aims at understanding the constitution of the urban aspect and its corollary in the city of Uberabinha, currently called Uberlândia, located in the state of Minas Gerais, at the end of nineteenth century and first decades of twentieth century. The research instruments of this paper include a data corpus which contain the minutes of Uberlândia City Hall, as well as, the reports from the Executive, the local journals, the memorialist productions and the photographic images. The emancipation of villages and small towns of Triângulo Mineiro denoted the possibility of policy autonomy and the perspective of building modern cities based on the principles of civility and progress. Beside this, in Uberabinha, the dominant social groups lead the process of urban space configuration with the implementation of services and the modernization of equipments and, while the city was being changed, the speech that was enunciated illustrated the convincing strategies to validate the representations and the practices they postulated should be done. Considering this point of view, the citizens were formed through discursive, politicals, socials and imagetic strategies, guided by the civility principles. As a result of liberal conceptions, the civilization project executed built one city marked by conflicts among the various social groups that fought for opportunities to express their representations, excluding other possibilities and hiding contradictions that, sometimes, came to light, vilifying the image of dominant people. Somehow, the local elite got success when they created a set practices that aimed at reaching its interests, inserted in the posture codes and various regulations, in journals, in the defense of education as guarantee of civilization. Therefore, the three aspects, modernity, civility and progress supported themselves in an ambiguous way, incorporating new components and ... (Complete abstract click electronic access below)

Orientador: Márcia Regina Capelari Naxara / Banca: Susani Silveira Lemos França / Banca: Denise Aparecida Soares de Moura / Banca: Josianne Francia Cerasoli / Banca: Christina da Silva Roquette Lopreato / Resumo: O cerne dessa tese é compreender a constituição do urbano e seu corolário na cidade de Uberabinha, atual Uberlândia, em Minas Gerais, no final do século XIX e primeiras décadas do século XX, tendo como corpus documental as atas da Câmara Municipal e relatórios do Executivo, os periódicos locais, as produções de memorialistas e imagens fotográficas. A emancipação de povoados e arraiais do Triângulo Mineiro significou a possibilidade de autonomia política e a perspectiva de construção de cidades modernas, regidas pelos princípios da civilidade e do progresso. Em Uberabinha, os grupos sociais dominantes lideraram o processo de configuração do espaço urbano com a implementação de serviços e a modernização dos equipamentos e, à medida que a face da cidade se transformava, enunciavam um discurso de convencimento para validar as representações e as práticas que postulavam devessem ser cumpridas. Por meio de estratégias discursivas, políticas, sociais e imagéticas buscaram-se formar cidadãos que se pautassem pelos princípios de civilidade. Fruto de concepções liberais, o projeto de civilização executado construiu uma cidade marcada pelos conflitos entre os diversos grupos sociais que disputavam espaço para expressar suas representações, excluindo outras possibilidades e ocultando contradições que, vez ou outra, vinham à baila, manchando a imagem dominante. Em certa medida, a elite local logrou êxito ao criar um conjunto de práticas que visavam viabilizar seus interesses, presentes nos códigos de postura e regulamentos diversos, nos artigos dos periódicos, na defesa da educação como garantia de civilização. O trinômio modernidade, civilidade e progresso se sustentou de modo ambíguo, incorporando novos componentes e conservando elementos tradicionais para tornar Uberabinha/Uberlândia uma cidade de destaque em meio às demais da região / Abstract: This study aims at understanding the constitution of the urban aspect and its corollary in the city of Uberabinha, currently called Uberlândia, located in the state of Minas Gerais, at the end of nineteenth century and first decades of twentieth century. The research instruments of this paper include a data corpus which contain the minutes of Uberlândia City Hall, as well as, the reports from the Executive, the local journals, the memorialist productions and the photographic images. The emancipation of villages and small towns of Triângulo Mineiro denoted the possibility of policy autonomy and the perspective of building modern cities based on the principles of civility and progress. Beside this, in Uberabinha, the dominant social groups lead the process of urban space configuration with the implementation of services and the modernization of equipments and, while the city was being changed, the speech that was enunciated illustrated the convincing strategies to validate the representations and the practices they postulated should be done. Considering this point of view, the citizens were formed through discursive, politicals, socials and imagetic strategies, guided by the civility principles. As a result of liberal conceptions, the civilization project executed built one city marked by conflicts among the various social groups that fought for opportunities to express their representations, excluding other possibilities and hiding contradictions that, sometimes, came to light, vilifying the image of dominant people. Somehow, the local elite got success when they created a set practices that aimed at reaching its interests, inserted in the posture codes and various regulations, in journals, in the defense of education as guarantee of civilization. Therefore, the three aspects, modernity, civility and progress supported themselves in an ambiguous way, incorporating new components and ... (Complete abstract click electronic access below) / Doutor

People are emotional about places. I study the effect of regional identity (“at home”) on internal migration flows in Germany between 1995 and 2017. Regional identity is proxied by measuring how NUTS3 regions were historically affiliated in the former patchwork of Germany. When controlling for the influence of distance, culture (measured by dialects) and regional characteristics, I confirm that regional identity drives migration patterns additionally. Employing the separation effect by the German wall affirms that not only earlier migration or family bonds determine movements instead of regional identity.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-26T18:15:12Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Jorge Godoy de Oliveira.pdf: 16800648 bytes, checksum: f0a44c392337b42e3c5efe0ca1d2631a (MD5) Previous issue date: 2015-06-30 / Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico / Printed T-shirt is analyzed in this research as main garment of the subject s clothing composition. Among many brands in fashion market, the US online shop of printed Tshirts Threadless distinguishes itself by its online community, which promotes participation of graphic artists, communication field professionals and general users in several stages of its printed T-shirts production. This process starts by creation of new designs which are submitted to community s polls, goes on by election of designs that most identify with it and results in production and shopping availability of most voted designs. Approved artists are rewarded financially and symbolically by community. Approved designs carry most often pop and popular cultural themes. In Brazil, the online shop of printed T-shirts Chico Rei bets on an own creation team that also products printed T-shirts with the already shown themes, plus it invests on its Country s regional culture as differential mark of its creations. The research corpus is composed by these two shops and analyzed by the period of twelve months. This research s main objective is to inspect how a printed T-shirt becomes a garment that constitutes identities of personal/individual and/or of belonging groups, and how online interactions turned available by both shops intensify their relations with the user. It was verified that signification and meaning construction of a T-shirt design, whether elected by interaction of a potential user inside a community (Threadless) or by a set curatorship with sanction power (Chico Rei) potencialize this T-shirt to act as an actant in interaction with another actant (the one that wears it). There is then a subjectal interaction that unleashes a to feel both concerning the self as concerning the other, able to make the subject to rearrange himself to his everyday life, to put himself in the world with a visuality that holds identity possibilities of belonging to a group, of social prestige and of discoveries of the very subject. The theoretical framework used is discursive semiotics developed by A. J. Greimas and expanded on its narrative and discursive unfoldings by Eric Landowski, and on its plastic and sensible unfoldings by J.-M. Floch and A. C. de Oliveira. Through analysis regarding interaction regimes of the brands in their online shops and of their digital communication it was possible to realize how interaction inside a community builds and supports shared tastes among its members / A camiseta estampada é analisada nesta pesquisa como peça principal da composição vestimentária do sujeito. Entre tantas marcas no mercado da moda, a loja online de camisetas estampadas estadunidense Threadless se destaca por sua comunidade online que estimula a participação de artistas gráficos, profissionais da área da comunicação e usuários em geral em diversas etapas na produção de suas camisetas estampadas. Este processo se inicia pela criação de novas estampas que são submetidas à votação da comunidade, passa pela eleição das estampas que mais se identificam com ela e resulta na produção das estampas mais votadas e sua disponibilização para compra. Os artistas aprovados são premiados financeira e simbolicamente pela comunidade. As estampas aprovadas trazem na maioria dos casos a temática da cultura pop e da cultura popular. No Brasil, a loja online de camisetas estampadas Chico Rei aposta em uma equipe própria de criação que também produz estampas com as temáticas já apresentadas, e investe ainda na cultura regional de seu país como diferencial de suas criações. O corpus é composto por essas duas lojas e analisado pelo período de doze meses. O objetivo principal da pesquisa é investigar como uma camiseta estampada se torna peça vestimentária constitutiva de identidade pessoal/individual e/ou de grupos de pertencimento, e como as interações online disponibilizadas por ambas as marcas intensificam suas relações com o usuário. Constatou-se que a significação e construção de sentido de uma camiseta estampada elegida pela interação de seu potencial usuário em uma comunidade (Threadless) ou por uma curadoria sancionadora estabelecida (Chico Rei) potencializam esta camiseta a atuar como um actante em interação com o outro actante (o que a veste). Tem-se então uma interação subjetal que desencadeia um sentir tanto em relação a si mesmo como em relação ao outro, capaz de fazer o sujeito rearranjar-se para o seu dia a dia, pôr-se no mundo com uma visualidade que guarda possibilidades identitárias, de pertencimento a um grupo, de prestígio social e de descobertas do próprio sujeito. O arcabouço teórico utilizado é da semiótica discursiva desenvolvida por A. J. Greimas e expandida em seus desdobramentos narrativo e discursivo por Eric Landowski e plásticos e sensíveis por J.-M. Floch e A. C. de Oliveira. Pelas análises dos regimes de interação das marcas em suas lojas online e de sua comunicação digital foi possível perceber como a interação em uma comunidade constrói e sustenta gostos compartilhados entre seus membros