This paper investigates the relationship between national and religious identities within the context of the Christian Orthodox community of New Orleans in the second half of the nineteenth century...Show moreThis paper investigates the relationship between national and religious identities within the context of the Christian Orthodox community of New Orleans in the second half of the nineteenth century. Against past conceptions relegating the importance of religious identity, it is argued that "religio-national symbiosis" or a harmonious, equal co-existence between national and religious identities was possible. This new concept allows us to regard this relationship with new eyes, away from modernist assumptions of the past.Show less
Why should the term 'foreign fighter' be applicable to women serving non-violently in transnational insurgencies both past and present? Using case studies of women migrating from western countries...Show moreWhy should the term 'foreign fighter' be applicable to women serving non-violently in transnational insurgencies both past and present? Using case studies of women migrating from western countries to serve in Spain during the Spanish Civil War as well as studying the more recent migration of western women to join ISIS in Iraq and Syria, this thesis explores how female volunteers fit into existing frameworks of the foreign fighter despite often being unrecognised as such.Show less
This thesis explores the roots of Canadian multiculturalism and places itself in the camp of Mackay who cites a racialized hierarchy within the policy and subsequent ideology of multiculturalism....Show moreThis thesis explores the roots of Canadian multiculturalism and places itself in the camp of Mackay who cites a racialized hierarchy within the policy and subsequent ideology of multiculturalism. It will assess whether the government is projecting the multicultural myth and if so whether the public is regurgitating this myth in 2017.Show less
