- Caribbean and African Literature and Culture
- Caribbean history, culture, and politics
- Cuban History and Society
- Asian American and Pacific Histories
- Colonialism, slavery, and trade
- Economic Zones and Regional Development
- Folklore, Mythology, and Literature Studies
- Acute Ischemic Stroke Management
- Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life
- Race, History, and American Society
- Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy
- Philippine History and Culture
- Diaspora, migration, transnational identity
- Retinal Diseases and Treatments
Fred Hollows Foundation
2022
The University of Melbourne
2019
Cornell University
2016
University of Virginia
2016
City University of New York
2015
Borough of Manhattan Community College
2014-2015
Abstract This article examines local conversations and practice of using the senses—sight, smell, taste, touch hearing—to detect difference establish belonging non‐belonging on streets private spaces in Dominican Republic. The physiological capacity for Dominicans to sense is culturally politically filled by national, regional, often under researched understandings practices that attempt define “ambiguous notions of” national identity whiteness. Drawing 10 years ethnographic data personal...
There are 161 million people living with vision impairment, due to uncorrected refractive errors. A further 510 near-vision impairment. is a need for clearly defined indicators that capture the quality of error service outputs and outcomes provide insights shape, change stimulate action. This study aims evaluate care (Q.REC) in Cambodia, Malaysia Pakistan, by using unannounced standardised patients (USPs) identify proportion prescribed dispensed spectacles appropriate people's needs...
In the 1950s, Dominican government, under Rafael Trujillo, offered free land to Japanese immigrants settle along Dominico-Haitian border. The colonias, or agricultural colonies, were part of nation-building projects in Republic (DR) and Japan, which positioned colonias as solution both ‘the Haitian problem’ overpopulation, respectively. However, over time failed, leaving many migrants disappointed need navigating national identity between two states. This article examines ways navigate...
Este artículo examina los desarrollos políticos que llevaron a la decisión de corte constitucional el 23 septiembre del 2013, en República Dominicana, cambió política ciudadanía país y aplicó retroactivamente al 1929, citando cláusula “en tránsito” su constitución 1929. Examino esta controversial acción internacional redefinir como un espectáculo rehace varias experiencias vividas meras representaciones una visión elitista Dominicanidad, por lo tanto poderoso vehículo para aislar consolidar...
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Introduction:Locating Feminism in Asian Diasporas Lili Shi1 (bio) and Yadira Perez Hazel2 Let us begin by telling the story behind our cover art, how we think diasporic life is captured a ghost position that orients special issue, repositioning of artwork acts metaphorically as feminist agentive move to invite specific ways reading looking. Why diasporas? ghosts? How does ghostliness diaspora play into interrogate nation transnationalism, critique imperialism empire, reimagine past, present,...