Titlebook: Kurdish Diaspora Online; From Imagined Commun Jowan Mahmod Book 2016 The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2016 political communi

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Introduction of how the use of new media is challenging the imagined community. Drawing from online ethnographic research and in-depth interviews with Kurdish diaspora in Sweden and Britain, as well as with Kurdish repatriates in Kurdistan (Iraq), the argument offered is that diaspora Kurds are critically aware

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Nations, Diaspora, Identity, and Alternative Explorationsst studies. It begins with a discussion on nations, the imagined community, which shows how nations are imagined as people who have never met and who think they belong together, as opposed to ethnic “others.” Such ideas have also penetrated the debates on multiculturalism, and the aim here is to unp

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State Struggles in the Middle East and the Kurdish Diaspora community that lack a nation-state while also being divided between four nations. This chapter surveys these conflicts that inform of a highly complex terrain of political, religious, cultural, and social struggles, where Kurds have been subject to systematic oppression and assimilationist policies

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“Is it OK?”–Challenging Gender Roleswithin the frame of, for instance, “honour-killing.” Furthermore, the participants have frequently been involved in discussions about gender roles, sexuality, and marital obligation, which have been highly contested online. In particular, Kurds in Sweden have displayed a need to challenge old norms,

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“Am I a Real Kurd?”: Deconstructing Kurdish Identityssimilationist policies, which have continued to some extent in their settlement countries, with, for instance, the closedown of the Kurdish channel Med TV, ordered by Turkey. But the overwhelming part of the chapter is devoted to the mechanism of “internal othering.” In different layers, Kurds make

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