Browsing Quarantined Across Borders Collection by Issue Date
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COVID-19 Lockdown, Border Quarantine and Traditional Burial Rites in Igbo of South-Eastern Nigeria (2020-05-30)This essay demonstrates how cultural practices in some areas run in conflict with government policies on the control of the spread of COVID-19.
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(2020-05-30)We reflect on our experiences with (not)wearing masks within different cultures and how these experiences have shifted across borders and time.
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(2020-05-30)Reflections on the self, spirituality, migrant workers, and confinement during the pandemic.
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(2020-05-30)This essay narrates the fear and anxiety faced by the Indian-Americans (NRI’s) about their parents and the elderly living in India as they navigate the ramifications of the lockdown in both India and the U.S.
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(2020-05-30)I look at the origin of the word "quarantine" and its significance and note that the idea of quarantine is not new for women who hail the Tamil Brahmin community in South India.
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(2020-05-30)The Long Walk Home: The Covid-19 Triggered Migration of India’s Migrant Workers From The Cities To Their Homes
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(2020-05-30)Pandemic enlightens with lessons of cooperation, solidarity and humanity.
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(2020-05-30)A poem about the use of social media during the quarantine and how we can find hope in the matter.
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(2020-05-30)My story of quarantining across borders has opened a can of worms and has helped me to reflect deeply, to face my old fears and sorrows, clearing the way to change my hamster-wheel daily life and cross various borders in ...
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(2020-05-30)I negotiate the complex intersections between making (eating) food while quarantined at home and sharing those pictures on social media, especially as they help us be more resilient in a world that has all-too-suddenly ...
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(2020-05-30)This blog post explores the motives, meaning, and role of food and the sharing of food and food pictures during this pandemic.
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You have one-minute remaining:” What my parents have taught me about distance, loss, and uncertainty (2020-05-30)In this piece, I reflect on how the novel coronavirus has resurfaced conversations around trauma and response to disaster in my family. As the child of refugees, this moment has made clearer how my parents have responded ...
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(2020-05-30)This blog post explores the motives, meaning, and role of food and the sharing of food and food pictures during this pandemic.
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(2020-05-30)It is not only the current pandemic that contributes to re-establishing borders after some of them seemed to have been dissolved.
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(2020-05-30)Essay about emotions you might feel if you are single and have to shelter in a place where you live, but do not consider to be home.
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(2020-05-30)In this essay, I discuss the various fronteras (borders) caused by the COVID-19 pandemic and discuss how it has affected my hometown of El Paso, Texas.
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(2020-05-30)As a middle aged mother of three, I constantly worry about my mother and my children. It is the only constant in my life.
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(2020-05-30)A family, split in two, has oscillated between two continents for years now and does not find the quarantine debilitating.
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(2020-06-02)This essay addresses contributions faculty members could make in reducing students' experience of loneliness as well as actions students should take to be under faculty members' radar.
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(2020-06-02)Students at a large university in the United States find many obstacles to continuing their learning as they move from the university to home.