1. Chinese religions and the Cuban revolution : a case study of the Guan Yu cultMaja Maria Kosec, 2022, original scientific article Abstract: The issue of religious practices within the Chinese diaspora in Cuba is increasingly debated within Chinese studies in latin america. as the Chinese and African diasporas in Cuba have intermingled ethnically, their religious practices have historically also intermingled. While the rise of Afro-Cuban religions in recent decades is primarily understood as a response to centuries of Spanish colonialism and perceived as a resistance to Eurocentric hegemonic power, this article aims to examine the efforts of the Chinese diaspora to re-evaluate their religions from the same decolonial perspective. This article aims to determine the tendencies of interactions between Chinese religious beliefs and Cuba’s religions before and after the Cuban revolution, including after the fall of the socialist bloc. Specifically, it examines whether post-revolution state atheism had an impact on the religious beliefs and ethnic heritage of members of the Chinese diaspora. In the 1990s there was a revival of the Guan Yu (关羽) cult which has been often interpreted as a consequence of the economic interests of the Chinese and Afro-Chinese diaspora or as a consequence of the interests of the Cuban government. However, we must also be aware of the broader historical, social and political context at play here.
Keywords: minorities, Chinese diaspora, Chinese religion, African diaspora, Cuban revolution, Cuba
Published in DiRROS: 28.02.2023; Views: 380; Downloads: 163
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2. The Construction of Turkey’s Circassians as a docile minorityUlaş Sunata, 2021, original scientific article Abstract: The 2014 Sochi Olympic Winter Games revived memories related to the Cir-cassians’ forced migration from their Caucasus homeland into the Ottoman Em-pire after 150 years. In that year, I conducted a considerable oral history project to understand the collective memories of Circassians in Turkey. The main focus of this study is, however, the social construction of the Circassian minority in Turkey. I examine their oral historical narratives related to their immigration, reception and resettlement, and instrumentalization. It is as important to place emphasis on the protected, multiplied and renewed sociocultural values of Circassians as it is to confront the history. I will examine the relationship between their diasporic identity and minority identity as well as their preferences in identity reproduction.
Keywords: Circassians, Adyghe, minority, diaspora, ethnicity, collective memory, social construction
Published in DiRROS: 22.03.2022; Views: 476; Downloads: 282
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3. Caught between the notions of ethnicity, citizenship and diaspora : ǂthe ǂcase of the Bosniaks in TurkeyMelih Çoban, 2021, original scientific article Abstract: Along with many others, Bosniaks are an ethnic group within the contempora-ry Turkish nation with immigrant roots dating back to the last quarter of the 19th century. Constituting a significant ethno-demographic part of the Ottoman legacy within the modern Turkish nation, Bosniaks in Turkey have long refrained from identifying themselves with a separate ethnic or cultural identity when confronted with the assimilationist cultural policies of the new nation state. But, while adapting themselves to Turkish culture and identity, Bosniaks have also preserved a collective identity of Bosniakness, mostly owing to the fact that their population in Turkey has been fed by continuous migration waves in different periods. The aim of this study is to analyze the problematic development of a Bosniak identity in Turkey with regards to the cultural assimilation processes and continuous migration waves and other factors on both foreign and domestic scales. Based on the findings of the study, it can be concluded that Bosniaks in Turkey do not yet constitute a Bosniak diaspora, but rather they can be regarded as a diaspora in the making.
Keywords: Bosniaks, Turkey, identity, diaspora, citizenship, ethnicity
Published in DiRROS: 22.03.2022; Views: 473; Downloads: 275
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