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Abbas, Hussein Ali; Mani, Manimangai; Yahya, Wan Roselezam Wan; Singh, Hardev Kaur Jujar – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2017
Establishing a sense of affiliation to ethnicity is one of the most controversial issues for people who are displaced in countries that are far away from their motherland. The colonisation of the British over Asia and Africa in the nineteenth century resulted in the mass movement of Indian workers from India to Africa. These workers were brought…
Descriptors: Ethnicity, Ethnic Groups, Immigrants, Land Settlement
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Ghoreishi, Seyedeh Zahra; Bordbari, Zahra – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2016
This paper delves into Jhumpa Lahiri's 2013 novel, "The Lowland", to analyze the diasporic experience of the Indianborn characters. Homi Bhabha's postcolonial approach is utilized to demonstrate the ways in which the characters perceive the immigration experience, and to unravel the causes of their despair, the disintegration of their…
Descriptors: Novels, Indians, Immigration, Immigrants
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Ma, Yuanyi; Wang, Bo – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2015
Within these years, there has been a significant increase in the number of Chinese Mainland sojourners studying in Hong Kong. Due to the huge differences in various aspects like language, culture, cultural value, it would be considerably difficult for the Chinese Mainland students to adapt to the Hong Kong environment. This article investigates…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Cultural Differences, Acculturation, Questionnaires