Foreign Places Research Articles

Gamification Approaches to Immigrants Experiences and Issues

Societies throughout today’s global village are increasingly aware of the social injustices that minorities face, and immigrants are no exception. Combined with the lack of adaptation resources and the prejudice of non-migrant residents, immigrants may feel powerless in foreign places as they try to find comfort and security in new and unfamiliar environments. It is increasingly urgent to address immigrant issues, considering the crucial role of enhancing diversity, combating prejudice, and raising awareness of minority experiences. This systematic literature review investigates the innovative use of gamification in exploring and addressing the experiences and issues immigrants face. The review follows the PRISMA statement guidelines and checklist. Scopus, CINAHL, and Medline databases were searched, resulting in 17 relevant articles that were carefully analyzed. This research highlights the diverse applications of gamification in studying immigrant experiences via role-playing, interactive storytelling, and empathy-building simulations. This work explores the potential of gamified interventions in addressing pressing issues immigrants face and assesses their effectiveness in fostering empathy and intercultural communication. It also identifies gaps in the existing information sciences literature and proposes directions for future research. In conclusion, this review sheds light on the emerging field of gamification in immigration studies and games studies in the information sciences, providing valuable insights for scholars, policymakers, and practitioners working with immigrant communities worldwide.

Interpretative Issues Arising from the Definitions of Permanent Establishments under the GloBE Model Rules

The GloBE Model Rules on Pillar Two contain certain specific definitions of permanent establishments, which apply depending on the features of the foreign place of business of a given enterprise. The definitions refer to treaty law, but the meaning and the effect of those references are not always entirely clear.

Cultural Alienation and Identity Crises in Anita Desai's "Bye-bye Black Bird"

The quest for identity and alienation are the central concerns of Anita Desai's works. She has tendency to look into every aspect of a person's life. In her book Bye Bye Blackbird, Anita Desai explores the lives of Indian immigrants in England before to 1964, the year in which England fundamentally altered its immigration laws. Particularly Indians flying to England are the Blackbirds. The world of three people who are limited by their identities is explored in Bye Bye Blackbird, along with how they must discover who they really are. Three characters -- Adit, Sarah, and Dev takes Centre stage in the story. Adit and Sarah have a greater attraction to India following their terrible events in England, and the narrative exposes their true crises as they struggle to create their own lives in a foreign place. Dev, who had first expressed some sort of hatred towards England, has since come to regard it as his home. This paper critically examines the loss of identity and cultural alienation with reference to the Novel “Bye- Bye Black Bird".

NICU Language, Everyday Ethics, and Giving Better News: Optimizing Discussions about Disability with Families.

The Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) has a language and culture that is its own. For professionals, it is a place of intense and constant attention to microdetails and cautious optimism. For parents, it is a foreign place with a new and unique language and culture. It is also the setting in which they are introduced to their child and parenthood for this child. This combination has been referred to as an emotional cauldron. The neonatal ethics literature mainly examines complex ethical dilemmas about withholding/drawing life sustaining interventions for fragile children. Rarely are everyday ethics or mundane ethics discussed. Microethics describe the mundane, discrete moments that occur between patients/families and clinicians. A key piece of these microethics is the language used to discuss patient care. Perception of prognoses, particularly around long-term neurodevelopmental outcome, is shaped with the language used. Despite this, clinicians in the NICU often have no specific training in the long-term neurodevelopment outcomes that they discuss. This paper focuses on the microethics of language used to discuss long-term neurodevelopmental outcomes, the developmental neuroscience behind language processing, and offers recommendations for more accurate and improved communication around long-term outcomes with families with critically ill neonates.

Nordic Travels

Nordic Travels

Eli and Susannah Wiggill: South African Saints

Eli and Susannah Wiggill: South African Saints

The Alien Tort Statute of 1789 is no longer available to foreigners toclaim for wrongdoings on foreign soil

The Alien Tort Statute (“ATS”) of 1789 was part of the first law to be enacted by the First Congress of the USA. Its original purpose was primarily to remedy harms suffered by aliens at the hands of US citizens. For two centuries it remained dormant. Then it became a vehicle to advance human rights. Sosa v Humberto Alvarez-Machain 542 US 692 (2004) was the first of four ATS cases decided by the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS). Kiobel v Royal Dutch Petroleum Co 569 US 108 (2013) followed and with it, the court limited the application of the ATS. It coined the term “touch and concern” whereby only those with a nexus with the US could pursue grievances. It also enforced the principle of extraterritoriality. Jesner v Arab Bank, PLC 584 US ___ (2018); 138 S Ct 1386 (2018) brought further clarity by imposing clear limits on which parties may be defendants in ATS cases. Nestlé USA, Inc v John Doe I; Cargill, Inc v John Doe I 593 US ___ (2021); 141 S Ct 1931 (2021) precluded future cases of human rights abuses against corporations when allegations can only be made that general corporate decision-making occurred in the US. In future, plaintiffs will have to establish a strong domestic nexus with the US for a claim under the ATS to be successful. Eventually the statute lost its attractiveness for foreign plaintiffs wanting to settle in US courts human rights scores committed in foreign places. Yet some aggrieved Namibians tried to pursue a case against Germany in an attempt to extricate monetary compensation from the former colonial power as restitutional compensation on the basis of the provisions in the ATS. Their attempts failed. Compensation for German atrocities committed during the colonial era in German South West Africa was pursued by the Namibian government outside of the courts. This article illustrates that, at the hand of decisions by the highest court in the US involving particular groups of foreigners, legal avenues using the ATS as a basis have now been closed.

Elsewhere from an American Perspective: Foreign Places in American Cinema

Elsewhere from an American Perspective: Foreign Places in American Cinema

Impermanent inhabitations: ‘The everyday’ as a catalyst for transcultural curation

What spaces do we inhabit? How do we become integrated within an unfamiliar community in an unfamiliar territory? Can we ever be fully immersed in a foreign place during art production and exhibition? As I think about the notion of transcultural curating, I start to interrogate questions of belonging and borders.

Review: Here, There, and Elsewhere: The Making of Immigrant Identities in a Globalized World, by Tahseen Shams

Review: <i>Here, There, and Elsewhere: The Making of Immigrant Identities in a Globalized World</i>, by Tahseen Shams

FEATURED ELEMENTS IN THE POET OF NEVZAT YALÇIN FROM HISAR POETS

Yeni Türk şiiri sahasında birçok edebiyat topluluğunun yer aldığı bilinmektedir. Bunlardan biri de Hisar adlı dergi etrafında toplanan ve daha çok Mehmet Çınarlı ile anılan edebiyat topluluğudur. Bu topluluğun içinde yer alan şairlerden biri de Nevzat Yalçın’dır. Kıbrıslı bir şair olan Nevzat Yalçın Ankara’da Türk Dili ve Edebiyatı bölümünde eğitim görmüş ve A’ Sokağı ile Güneş ve Adam adlı şiir kitapları bulunan bir Hisar şairidir. Bu Hisar şairinin şiirlerinin toplu okunması yapıldığında bazı ögelerin ön plana çıktığı görülmektedir. Bu ögeler ise bu çalışmada “Bazı Renklerin Ön Palana Çıkarılması”, “Yabancı Yerler ve Sevgiliye Hasret”, “Gelenek”, “Siyaset ve Eleştiri”, “Batıyı Kötüleme”, “Mitoloji”, “Halk Arasındaki Bazı Sözce Kullanımı”, “Dilbilgisi Hataları”, “El Uzvunun Belirginliği” şeklinde dokuz başlıkta incelenmiştir. Nevzat Yalçın şiirine bakıldığı zaman birçok konuda şairin şiirler yazdığı görülmektedir. Bu şiirlerin tahlilinin yapılabilmesi için ise okuyucuda belli bir bilgi birikiminin ve döneminin medyasından haberdar olması gerekmektedir. Şairin şiirinde özellikle mavi ve sarı belirgin renkler olup, yurtdışındaki sevgiliye özlem de dikkat çekmektedir. Geleneğin birçok şair tarafından eleştirildiği bir zamanda eskiyi yansıtan şiirlerinin olduğu da görülmektedir. Ayrıca şairin Türk siyasilerden bazılarına ve Batı’ya karşı eleştirel bir tavırla bazı şiirleri kaleme aldığı yer almaktadır. Şairin şiirinin bir başka teması ise mitolojidir. Nevzat Yalçın’ın halk arasında kullanılan ifadeleri de yadsımadığı bir başka husustur. Yalçın şiirinde belirgin bir unsur da dilbilgisel unsurlardır. El uzvunun işlenmesi ise şairin şiirlerinde dikkat çekmektedir.

Elizabeth Bishop and the Art of Losing

Elizabeth Bishop and the Art of Losing

Vehicle Tracking System using GPS and GSM Technology

Abstract - The vehicle tracking system is a device installed during a vehicle to enable the owner or a 3rd party to trace the vehicle's location vehicle tracking system that works using GPS and GSM technology, which might be the most costeffective source of auto tracking and it might work as anti- theft system. It is an embedded system which is employed for tracking and positioning of any vehicle. This design will continuously monitor a moving Vehicle and report its status as and when requested. A GSM modem is employed to send the position (Latitude and Longitude) of the vehicle from a foreign place. The GPS modem will continuously give the infoi.e., the latitude and longitude position of the vehicle. Thesame data is shipped to the mobile at the opposite end from where the position of the vehicle is demanded. When the user request is sent to the GSM modem, the system automatically sends a return reply thereto mobile indicating the position of the vehicle in terms of latitude and longitude in real time. Keywords: GPS, GSM, vehicle tracking, sensors

Communication and its vital role in human life

Having read about the different ways of communicating in detail, we find the need and importance it has in our daily lives. Communication in early days has also been of great importance and standard, where people had specific ways and languages to communicate to their people in society. This type of communication or vernacular language sometimes results in conflicts among people in the surrounding environment or vicinity. Without communication, no human can survive in this planet. We all inherit our ancestral language easily right from the time we were born, and still have the ability to adapt and learn new languages for communication when in a foreign place. This makes us unique from animals in the way of communication and knowledge.

The Foreignizing Crime Novel: Anatomy of a Publishing Phenomenon

AbstractOne of the most important trends in contemporary crime fiction is the proliferation and commercial success of crime novels written in English but set in foreign places and featuring foreign detectives—that is, the rise of the foreignizing crime novel. In spite of its prominence in the marketplace, the foreignizing crime novel has so far not been subjected to detailed analysis and has not been recognized as a distinctive crime fiction subgenre defined by its specific form of transnationalism. With the aim of addressing this knowledge gap, this essay offers a critical analysis of the foreignizing crime novel in four steps. Following a definitional discussion of the various contemporary forms of transnational crime fiction (1), it outlines the results of a mapping exercise that shows the distribution of “target” countries in primarily British and American foreignizing crime fiction; the purpose of this mapping is to provide an overview of the format and gain a preliminary understanding of its underlying logics (2). The next step is an analysis of textual characteristics (3). Despite being underappreciated and sometimes reviled by critics, the foreignizing crime novel is in fact, as this analysis shows, a complex narrative form that embodies some of the key questions of contemporary crime fiction research—questions about, for example, the role of place; the relationship between the local, the national, and the global; and the transnational horizon of contemporary crime writing. By way of conclusion, the essay argues that the foreignizing crime novel occupies a paradoxical position between two opposite valences: it is at the same time an instance of cultural appropriation and a genuine and distinctive form of world literature (4).

Reply to Critics

Reply to Critics

Memorials and the Mine Disaster in Monongah, West Virginia: From Trauma to an Italian Global Memoryscape

Memorials and the Mine Disaster in Monongah, West Virginia: From Trauma to an Italian Global Memoryscape

A Study of Interests in Foreign Place Names in Early Childhood

A Study of Interests in Foreign Place Names in Early Childhood

A Comparative Study of Womanland in "Journey to the West" and "Flowers in the Mirror"

Abstract: Journey to the West (Xiyou Ji西游记) and Flowers in the Mirror (Jinghua Yuan镜花缘) are two of the best-known stories of travel in ancient Chinese literature. Both works contain descriptions of outlandish sights and foreign customs, particularly the vivid descriptions of the fantastic and outlandish Womanland (Nv’er Guo 女儿国), which embodies traditional Chinese scholars’ understanding of the outside world. Comparativists tend to regard the portrayals of these exotic women and their talents, and the subverted roles of men and women, as the authors’ statements about the inferior status of women in feudal China and their denunciations of the oppression of women. Flowers in the Mirror is seen as more radical in its pursuit of women’s rights and gender equality. This article argues that androcentrism still prevails even in the positive depictions of the expression of women’s desires. Furthermore, the delineation of these exotic women and of supernatural spirits demonstrates the authors’ praise of China’s pre-eminence and its condescending views of foreign places.

The Historical Memory of the 1812 War in Lithuania in the 19th and Early 20th Centuries: A Complex Process

In historiography, significant attention to the memory culture of the Napoleonic Wars in Europe focuses on issues relating to the memory culture of the Franco-Russian War of 1812; however, the case of Lithuania is not commonly analysed separately, thus this article discusses how assessments of the 1812 war were maintained in the historical memory in Lithuania. The Russian government offered the population in the lands of the former GDL its official version of the historical memory of the 1812 war (of a heroic battle against an invader), which contradicted the version this population considered as ‘its own’, experienced as their support for Napoleon and the new political and social prospects they believed he would bring. The Russian government’s censorship of written literature suppressed the spread of the people’s ‘own’ local historical memory, yet it did not prove to be so effective due to the population’s very limited opportunities to use the printed word. Communicative memory dominated in the land in the first half of the 19th century, becoming the main source testifying to and passing on to subsequent generations the actual multifaceted experiences of the 1812 war, including the chance of liberation from the yoke of the Russian Empire. In the second half of the 19th century, representatives of local Russian imperial government structures and the local Russian intelligentsia, responding to the 1812 war as a Polish struggle for freedom and a symbol of political independence, explained in academic, educational and popular literature that the hopes of the Poles related to Napoleon were actually unfounded: the French emperor had no intentions of restoring the former Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth within its historical boundaries, but simply wanted to fill his army units with Polish forces. It was highlighted that this expression of Polish support for Napoleon stopped the Russian imperial government’s potential plans to restore the Poles’ former statehood. This so-called regional narrative which appeared in history textbooks and was used by exacting emotional and visual impact in order to influence the political and cultural provisions of the younger generation had a dual purpose. First, to justify the discriminatory policies against individuals of ‘Polish origins’. Second, to ‘block’ the path for using the 1812 war as a historical argument testifying not just to the common historical past and struggle of Poles and Lithuanians but also their possible political future, which was openly expressed in the Polish national discourse of the early 20th century. Over the course of a hundred years, despite the government’s actions, Poles managed to uphold ‘their own’ historical memory about the 1812 war; its meanings were spread in various forms of media such as fictional literature, museum exhibitions and history textbooks, and were used to shape the political and cultural position of the younger generation. In the Lithuanian national discourse on the other hand, the 1812 war, along with the 1830–1831 and 1863–1864 uprisings, was viewed as a matter concerning the Poles and the Polonised nobility, and it was thus a foreign place of historical memory. The 1812 war and assessments of its potential importance to Lithuanians in the Lithuanian national discourse of the early 20th century were one-off cases and fragmented, while their spread among broader layers of society was limited.