This thesis concerns the international contacts of the Centrumdemocraten and how Hans Janmaat, leader of the radical right party influenced the international contacts.
This paper deals with the correlation between transnationalism and Korean identity in the films of Bong Joon Ho. The aim of this research is to highlight the presence of transnationalism and Korean...Show moreThis paper deals with the correlation between transnationalism and Korean identity in the films of Bong Joon Ho. The aim of this research is to highlight the presence of transnationalism and Korean identity in Bong Joon Ho’s films, by examining specific segments of the films that illustrate this. The research demonstrates the interrelationship or conjunction of both transnationalism, with its influences from other film industries, and the reformulation or re-appropriation of the Korean identity in Bong Joon Ho’s films. The research question reads as follows: “How did Bong Joon Ho develop a transnational style of filmmaking that is successful globally, while still retaining a distinct South Korean identity?” In order to answer this question, the research presents all that has been written previously by scholars on the topic of Bong Joon Ho’s style of filmmaking and the concept of transnationalism in relation to East Asian film. In addition, this paper analyses four of Bong Joon Ho’s films, The Host, Snowpiercer, Okja, and Parasite. This research posits that Bong’s distinctive style of transnational filmmaking has been a worldwide success, due to his ability to accommodate to global audiences by transforming and improving Hollywood genre conventions, while addressing global issues. Furthermore, Bong’s incorporation and expression of Korean identity in his films are perhaps what makes Bong Joon Ho even more successful, due to the renewed interest in globally familiar topics from different cultural perspectives.Show less
This investigation will analyze the Venezuelan migration crisis in Colombia starting from 2014 until 2019. The roles of states of both Venezuela as the emigrant state and Colombia as the receiving...Show moreThis investigation will analyze the Venezuelan migration crisis in Colombia starting from 2014 until 2019. The roles of states of both Venezuela as the emigrant state and Colombia as the receiving state will be analyzed by viewing the policies put in place by both states. Concepts such as transnationalism, border cities and labor markets will be used to explain the migration networks that are created in between Colombia and Venezuela and assess how Venezuelans who are forced out of their country are received in a neighboring country such as Colombia. This investigation will also show how the policies and initiatives set forth by Colombia have eased the arrival of Venezuelans, but also point out how job integration into the formal sector has not been possible with the deepening of the crisis. This investigation's findings will be supported by the fieldwork carried out in the city of Bucaramanga, Colombia through the gathering of information through personal interviews, government archives and non-governmental data.Show less
The phenomenon of transnationalism is seen in history for multiple decades. The magazine Azeema focusses on women of colour who have a bilateral background and are most of the time from the Middle...Show moreThe phenomenon of transnationalism is seen in history for multiple decades. The magazine Azeema focusses on women of colour who have a bilateral background and are most of the time from the Middle Eastern North Africa region (MENA-region). Azeema and a couple of other initiatives are precursors in the sense that they focus on a group of people who formerly did not see representation of themselves in the media landscape. Via interviews and online content a context description is set up which explains how the editors of the magazine found Azeema. Due to the lack of representation and the desire to present a more nuanced picture of women from the region chief editor Jameela Elfaki started the magazine.Based in London the five-headed team started writing articles and accepting guest writers for the magazine. By means of a qualitative content analysis underlying themes and patterns of data are drafted. Five returning categories are founded when analyzing the data of Azeema’s publications. Besides these categories Azeema’s visual material is also considered during this analysation. The researched showed how the five categories were all adding to a ‘new’ wave of transnationalism that come about by bottom-up organizations.Show less
In deze scriptie wordt het uiteenvallen van de Sociaal-Democratische Bond (SDB) geanalyseerd door gebruik te maken van een transnationaal perspectief. Onderzocht wordt hoe contacten met en...Show moreIn deze scriptie wordt het uiteenvallen van de Sociaal-Democratische Bond (SDB) geanalyseerd door gebruik te maken van een transnationaal perspectief. Onderzocht wordt hoe contacten met en beeldvorming over socialisme in Frankrijk en Duitsland van invloed zijn geweest op de ontwikkeling die de SDB tussen 1883 en 1894 doormaakte. De studie gaat ook in op de nationalisering van arbeidersbewegingen en sluit daarmee aan bij eerdere literatuur over dit onderwerp.Show less
This research analyzes the experiences of transnational identity formation by Cuban-American migrant generations, cohorts and waves living in Miami, as well their cultural behaviours in Miami. The...Show moreThis research analyzes the experiences of transnational identity formation by Cuban-American migrant generations, cohorts and waves living in Miami, as well their cultural behaviours in Miami. The research is framed with reference to historical and contemporary contexts of the bilateral relations between Cuba and the United States.Show less
People’s physical appearances and beauty ‘from the outside’ have been part of a variety of cultural discourses for a long time in history. Though, in more recent times, human bodies have...Show morePeople’s physical appearances and beauty ‘from the outside’ have been part of a variety of cultural discourses for a long time in history. Though, in more recent times, human bodies have increasingly fell subject to the democratization of social norms and values, and as a result the body has become a reflection of symbolic meanings (Baghel et al., 2014). In culturally-diverse India, the image of beauty has been changing continuously but it is argued that one perspective on Indian physical beauty has remained quite stable (or at least appears to exist in contemporary India): the aspiration of having lighter skin colors (Kumar, 2002; Glenn, 2008). Even though many researchers recognized that racial categorizations based on skin colors have been reduced in different parts of the world, there still appears to be a correlation between beauty, skin color and social identity among some people in the Indian society today (Glenn, 2008). In examining to what extent skin lightening practices and aspirations have shifted from India to the Netherlands in a transnational context, the goal is to find out the perceived sense of racial consciousness of first-generation Indian migrants living in diaspora in the Netherlands. Grounded in the theories of Social Constructivism by Berger and Luckmann and Racial Identity theory by Helms, this thesis concludes that 1. Migration to the Netherlands has not changed the racial awareness of first-generation Indian migrants consciously 2. Skin color does play a role - though marginal - in migrant’s Indian intracultural environment in terms of marriages, but it is not significant in their Dutch intercultural environment. 3. Most of the first-generation Indian migrants living in the Netherlands do not use fairness creams, and if they do, it is for medical reasons rather than to match cultural and aspirational expectations.Show less
This thesis takes part in the discussion of citizenship in an age of migration and transnational identification. It argues that traditional conceptions of citizenship, that view legal and national...Show moreThis thesis takes part in the discussion of citizenship in an age of migration and transnational identification. It argues that traditional conceptions of citizenship, that view legal and national membership as singular, are becoming increasingly inadequate to reflect the the reality of our globalised world. Through transnational and migration theory, it is now understood that migrants, or transmigrants, are able to foster multiple identities and connections with the countries to which they travel, whilst maintaining ties with their countries of origin. The case of 1.5 generation Salvadoran deportees, who migrated to the U.S. as young children, provides a significant example of a group whose complex social and national identity did not correspond with their exclusive legal status as Salvadoran citizens. This group came to identify strongly with the U.S., having been socialised their from a young age, only to be later removed on the grounds of their lack of legal affiliation with the country. The contradictions inherent in the rationale behind their removal were later revealed through the groups continued identification with the U.S., and also their social alienation on return to El Salvador. Therefore, as opposed to conventional belief, this group shows that citizenship and national identity are not inextricably intwined, and can often conflict when the former is restricted to the jurisdiction of a single nation-state.Show less
This paper focusses on the construction of the political identity of Venezuela’s middle and upper class based on their critique of the Hugo Chávez regime. Hereby, I argue that liberal democracy and...Show moreThis paper focusses on the construction of the political identity of Venezuela’s middle and upper class based on their critique of the Hugo Chávez regime. Hereby, I argue that liberal democracy and neoliberalism, two systems that promote global integration on the economic and political level, have found support particularly among the middle and upper class. Simultaneously, Venezuela’s previous experiences with neoliberalism in the twentieth century evoked growing animosity against globalization among the lower classes, evoking a change in the political system towards socialism, the election of Hugo Chávez, and the radicalization towards socialism. While the impact of globalization has divided the nation along its class lines, Chávez’s regime has aggravated this polarization of the population on a political level. I claim that the identity of Chávez’s opposition has become politicized based on two major aspects of criticism: First, the political critique rejects the regime’s radicalization, democratic antagonism, and centralization of power. Second, the economic critique denounced Chávez protectionism, the nationalization of the oil industry and unjust management of the state budget that favoured the popular masses.Show less
Research master thesis | History: Societies and Institutions (research) (MA)
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German migrants have a reputation of creating a blooming associational life in their places of settlement. Therefore, a better understanding of German migrant life might be acquired if we better...Show moreGerman migrants have a reputation of creating a blooming associational life in their places of settlement. Therefore, a better understanding of German migrant life might be acquired if we better understand the associational life of these migrants. This thesis tries to provide a functionalist account of German associational life abroad based on case studies of the sailors homes and German schools in the German colonies of Antwerp and Rotterdam in the early twentieth century. Though it is often assumed that nationalist considerations and pressures from sending states are decisive in shaping the functionality of migrant organizations, I argue that the economic, moral and class related interests of the local environment provide a more elucidating picture of the functioning of the researched migrant organizations.Show less
