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This article examines the precarious conditions faced by Vietnamese migrants and explores how these precarities are perpetuated throughout their migratory journey. The analytical data were collected through engaged observation in five migrant families and 78 in-depth semi-structured interviews conducted in various cities of the Czech Republic from summer 2019 to spring 2023. The article argues that...
This article examines the diplomatic strategies of South and North Korea in Africa during the Cold War, focusing on the ideological stances of African countries and economic diplomacy. The research analyses diplomatic ties and economic support to African countries using official documents from South Korean ministries and North Korean publications. In the early 1960s, the political orientations of...
The article discusses the Iraqi writer Najim Wālī’s Baghdād: sīrat madīna (Baghdad: Biography of a City) (2015), which combines some characteristics of the biography of a place and autobiography. It examines Wālī’s work as an exemplary model of nuṣūṣ al-makān al-dhātī (texts about subjective spaces), a relatively new genre on the Iraqi literary scene. According to the Iraqi scholar Nadā Nāṣir Sharhān,...