From “in-betweenness” to “positioned belongings”: second-generation Palestinian-Americans negotiate the tensions of assimilation and transnationalism

In this article, I argue that second-generation migrants experience multiple tensions and exclusions as a result of the interaction of transnationalism, assimilation, diaspora and racialization in their lives. Yet, I suggest that they are reflexive actors who respond by crafting their own “positioned belongings”. The paper draws on ethnographic research conducted with Palestinian-American second-generation interlocutors conducted in New Jersey and the West Bank in the wake of Donald Trump’s election as President. It presents data regarding this understudied yet significant secondgeneration group and their relationship to their diaspora community, hostland and homeland. I argue that a feeling of exclusion and “inbetweenness” is navigated by the second-generation through discursive and material practices that centre the second-generation “self”. In doing so, I give new insight into how assimilation and transnationalism interact in dynamic and plural fields and what is lost and gained amongst the children of migrants in the process

Geometric reduction in optimal control theory with symmetries

A general study of symmetries in optimal control theory is given, starting from the presymplectic description of this kind of system. Then, Noether's theorem, as well as the corresponding reduction procedure (based on the application of the Marsden-Weinstein theorem adapted to the presymplectic case) are stated both in the regular and singular cases, which are previously described.Comment: 24 pages. LaTeX file. The paper has been reorganized. Additional comments have been included in Section 3. The example in Section 5.2 has been revisited. Some references have been adde

Some open problems in matrix theory arising in linear systems and control

Control theory has long provided a rich source of motivation for developments in matrix theory. Accordingly, we discuss some open problems in matrix theory arising from theoretical and practical issues in linear systems theory and feedback control. The problems discussed include robust stability, matrix exponentials, induced norms, stabilizability and pole assignability, and nonstandard matrix equations. A substantial number of references are included to acquaint matrix theorists with problems and trends in this application area.Peer Reviewedhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/30236/1/0000630.pd

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Between East Coast and West Bank: An ethnographic study of second-generation Palestinian-Americans’ relationship to Palestine and Palestinianness

Drawing on nine months of ethnographic research in New Jersey and two months in the occupied Palestinian territories conducted from 2015-2017, this thesis examines the relationships between second-generation Palestinian-Americans in New Jersey and Palestine and Palestinianness. It argues that the second-generation inherit, produce and negotiate strong ways of transnational ‘being’ and ‘belonging’ in relation to Palestine. This enduring commitment to Palestine emerges from a context of statelessness and occupation, strong relationships with family and diaspora community, and socialisation and politicisation in dense diasporic and transnational networks connecting New Jersey and the West Bank. Whilst the connections they forge are often expressed through essentialised notions of Palestinianness, they emerge from the second-generation’s cultural, temporal and spatial distance from Palestine and their socio-cultural assimilation in the United States. This positioning leads to struggles over authenticity vis-à-vis the first-generation and Palestinians in the homeland and a sense of in-betweenness. This is deepened by their racialisation as ‘other’ in American society, even as they articulate belonging in and identification with the US and Americanness in generally less explicit but still meaningful ways. However, this thesis highlights the creative potential of this in-betweenness, suggesting it engenders responses that, although not characterised by unbridled hybridity, weave together the ‘here’ and ‘there’ to create new socio-cultural, political and transnational practices. It analyses such collective practices whilst also exploring differences and tensions within the second-generation sample. This thesis contributes new insight into the motivation, extent and form of second-generation diasporic transnationalism and an examination of a stateless second-generation group that has received little attention in diaspora and migration studies. It suggests the value of a process-oriented, dual-sited ethnographic approach that interrogates the complex negotiation between ‘roots’ and ‘routes’ that plays out in the hostland and homeland

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