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SUBTLE, FASCINATING BOLIVIAN novel plays with layers of meta narrative to tell two stories: one of a teenage tragedy, and one of a writer decades later trying to make sense of that incident, and of his adolescence. Stunning! A MINUS

https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-invisible-years-rodrigo-hasbun/1146882816?ean=9781646054152

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James Baldwin's "Giovanni's Room" impressed me both for its exploration of love, sex, and sexual identity and for the skill with which the author has the narrative unfold; I was gripped from beginning to end.

Although the protagonist is white, I know that some critics believe that the theme of race is obliquely present by virtue of the salience of various kinds of minority identity throughout the novel.

Quite aside from it being a "good read", I would recommend it to anybody interested in the literary treatment of bisexuality.

Expatriation also figures as an important theme. These words hit home with this migrant:

>> You don't have a home until you leave it and then, when you have left it, you never can go back. <<

"Home", of course, can be more than a geographical location.

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"#Russia's 'anti-#woke #visa' woos #Western #expatriates

#Moscow's "Shared Values Visa" welcomes #conservative migrants who are against #LGBTQ+ rights or globalism in general. Russia, meanwhile, uses the newcomers for #propaganda"

We can have a lot of different reactions to this

Mine is very simple:

Go

Bon voyage

Have a nice trip assholes. Enjoy the sinking ship under #Putin's #ethnofascist #imperialist government

Bye, Felicia

https://www.dw.com/en/russias-anti-woke-visa-woos-western-expatriates/a-73214511

Our latest open-access e-book had now been published! It is bi-lingual and called "Sprache und Interkulturalität in der digitalen Welt / Language and Interculturality in the Digital World".

It can be downloaded for free from here: https://peterlang.com/document/1334725

Check it out!

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My family can relate to this article.

( #Diaspora #guilt refers to a #culpability that #expatriates feel when living away from their country. When their nation trudges through periods of #crisis and #instability , expatriates witnessing their nation suffer, unable to help, suffer in solidarity with their countrymen; while some feel helpless, others are empowered to cause change.)

https://thevarsity.ca/2023/03/19/after-seeking-sanctuary

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Regarding Japan's longstanding ban on dual #citizenship, an Asahi Shimbun editorial https://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/14846327 is fine as far as it goes, but it focuses on the type of #Japanese #expatriates in #Europe who are suspected of changing #nationality to evade taxes. To us #immigrants in #Japan, it is more important that our half-Japanese "haafu" kids and others should not feel forced to choose one cultural allegiance simply because #biculturalism is not recognized or understood here. See "Dual Nationality in Japan: Learning to Love Ambiguity" at https://www.academia.edu/38566597 or https://shingetsunewsagency.com/2019/03/17/dual-nationality-in-japan-learning-to-love-ambiguity
The law is not enforced in Japan, so it can be like a joke that vaccination makes three passports. Our happy-go-lucky sons have no conception of what it would be like to be an outsider or to agonize over their cultural #identity.
Once I tried to explain "What it Means to Be Bicultural" - at https://www.academia.edu/36008217 or https://www.childresearch.net/papers/language/2010_02_01.html
How about this issue in your country or region?
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