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Diaspora.fi is a resource page for scholars interested in religions in the globalising world. It provides information on available studies, journals, projects and researchers in the field. The diaspora mailing list is an information channel for new publications, funding, positions, conferences and other events. Areas of interest include religion in diaspora, religion and international migration, globalisation and transnationalism, and the study of religion in local settings. Hence, an interest for religious mapping projects is central, as they reval the many forms that traditions take once situated in a new context.
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Both in Armenia and the Diaspora, until a few years ago there were no systematic processes to count the aggregate flow of assistance to Armenia. It is only in recent years that the government of Armenia (starting in 1996) and the Diaspora organizations have started to keep detailed count of their activities and donations. Most “in kind” (goods, supplies and equipment acquired without paying for them) assistance provided at the beginning of the decade are either not recorded or segregated or do not have estimates of value. This is the case especially with non-Armenian sources of funds or supplies. Thus, the amount in this report does not reflect the total or “real” amount of assistance sent by Diaspora organizations to Armenia since 1989.
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In nearly every part of the Diaspora the Jews lived clustered together in the cities. They doubtless possessed farms and orchards in the suburbs; but agriculture was no longer, as in Judea, their almost exclusive occupation. In Alexandria they were engaged in commerce and navigation (compare a Jewish horse-dealer, Danooul, mentioned in one of the Grenfell papyri from Fayum), and especially in the mechanical trades (Philo, "In Flaccum," passim). At the gatherings in the synagogue it was by their respective handicrafts that the faithful were grouped. In Rome the Jewish population, mostly of slavish origin and living in wretched quarters, followed the humblest callings, which drew upon them the sarcasm of the satiric poets. These overdrawn pictures... should not lead to the belief that all the Jews of Italy and Greece were mendicants (Martial, xii.
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Diaspora, written by Hugo Award and John W. Campbell Memorial Award winner Greg Egan, transcends millennia and universes in the tradition of Poul Anderson's Tau Zero, Bruce Sterling's Schismatrix Plus, Camille Flammarion's Omega, and Olaf Stapledon's Last and First Men. Diaspora is packed with mind-bending ideas extrapolated from cutting-edge cosmology, physics, and consciousness theory to create an astonishing hard-SF novel inhabited by very strange yet always believable characters. Diaspora is why people read SF. --Cynthia Ward --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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Diaspora is committed to advocating for the rights and entitlements of refugees and asylum seekers and other immigrants coming to or living in the United Kingdom. Diaspora empowers individuals and groups to proactively and positively participate in the processes of integration and community cohesion.
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Somali Canadian Diaspora Alliance’s vision is to strive for a sovereign and peaceful Somalia that is politically, socially and economically independent and just. A Somalia that is united and free from institutionalized tribalism.
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