Prospectus, August 4, 2010

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State Violence and the Cuban Diaspora Since 1959

ABSTRACT The story of mass migration, violence, and human rights violations in Cuba since 1959 is not a simple one. It is an extremely complex web of local and international politics, economics, psychology, sociology, culture, and history. Studies of the Cuban diaspora have been dominated by failures and cyclical crises in the economy, Castro’s adherence to an Eastern European based communist ideologies and policies, and international politics and migration policies. However, Castro’s calculated use of instilling an endemic fear of the State’s use of violence and cruelty to enforce laws, ideologies, and policies is much less studied as a critical migration push among Cubans. Published interviews, government documents, memoirs, radio transmission transcripts, news articles, video documentaries, and other primary and secondary sources all provide trace evidence that fear of State violence and cruel punishment at the hands of the Cuban State has become ingrained in all structural aspects of daily life in Cuba including politics, creative expressions of art and culture, leisure activities, education, and economics. As such, fear serves as a primary or keystone push in the decisions of individual Cubans to seek both legal as well as illegal means of leaving their homeland

Children's Screen Content in an Era of Forced Migration: Copenhagen Workshop Briefing

Iraqi, Syrian and other refugees and migrants who undertake dangerous journeys to Europe are often viewed as a set of statistics. In thinking about how we reach young children with stories about migration, it is worth remembering that Europe has its own long history of forced migration, through invasion, persecution and deportation. This report summarises discussions at the second in a series of three workshops taking place as part of a one-year project funded by the Arts & Humanities Research Council (AHRC) under the title ‘Collaborative Development of Children’s Screen Content in an Era of Forced Migration Flows: Facilitating Arab-European Dialogue’. Based on input from documentary film-makers, especially from Denmark and the Netherlands, as well as television executives, audience researchers, child’s rights advocates and Arab media practitioners, the Copenhagen Workshop Briefing summarises participants’ responses to films, news items, web series and advocacy videos dealing with children’s escape to Europe and their next steps. It looks in detail at the challenges of funding and distributing such material, the ethical risks in making it, and examples of content that shares cultural and political knowledge. Other briefings in the series are based on workshops in Manchester (December 2017) and Munich (May 2018). The project ends with a symposium in London in September 2018

Effectively Engaging Diasporas Under the New Canadian Department of Foreign Affairs, Trade and Development

With the amalgamation of the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) and the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (DFAIT) into a new Department of Foreign Affairs, Trade and Development (DFATD), new opportunities will emerge for a coherent approach to diaspora engagement initiatives that combine the existing policy directions under a single umbrella. DFATD should work with diasporas in Canada to facilitate and improve engagement with the sending regions. This engagement can occur through current programs, as well as the creation of a new pilot project requiring cooperation between the different policy approaches. Engagement should vary according to the different levels of formal government diasporic engagement of the sending countries, as countries with weak government engagement will require policy approaches distinct from countries with strong government engagement

Multi-platform media: how newspapers are adapting to the digital era

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Unauthorized Migration and Border “Control”: Three Regional Views

This is a revised transcript of a talk given at the Latin American and Iberian Institute at the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico, on February 29, 2008

The demands of users and the publishing world: printed or online, free or paid for?

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