Browsing Quarantined Across Borders Collection by Title
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(Media Rise Publications; Texas A & M University. Libraries, )After I realized the toll the COVID-19 pandemic was taking on my community, I knew I needed to do anything I could to help; so, I began a 10-day fundraiser for the Trenton Area Soup Kitchen.
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(Media Rise Publications; Texas A & M University. Libraries, )How I discovered writing inspiration in my familiar neighborhood during a pandemic
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(Media Rise Publications; Texas A & M University. Libraries, )When social distancing is a byword, apartment balconies serve as windows to the world.
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(2020-06-08)Staying busy practicing gratitude, mindful breathing, meditation, prayer, reading, writing and other activities you like are ways to be unconditionally happy and stress-free in life.
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(Media Rise Publications; Texas A & M University. Libraries, )COVID-19's spread has made my racially marked body the symbol of the disease.
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(2020-06-05)I reflect on the shifting nature of how refugees are rhetorically constituted in the disjunctive world of the contagion, intertwined with my own musings on my doctoral journey as a British-Syrian immigrant. I argue that ...
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(Media Rise Publications; Texas A & M University. Libraries, )This op-ed introduces how people, who stayed in Japan on short-term visa ended up living in one of the Tokyo international airports, as their flights back to Russia were cancelled and the help they received from local ...
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(Media Rise Publications; Texas A & M University. Libraries, )The quarantine silences our collective musical voice, but a bright world awaits us.
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(2020-06-08)The essay describes a media collective effort that is providing Spanish-language and bilingual information about COVID-19 to Latinx communities, especially regarding health and safety.
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(Media Rise Publications; Texas A & M University. Libraries, )How effective communication, care, compassion, and a system in place had transformed one small Indian state's fight against COVID-19.
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(2020-06-06)Connecting through Physical Distance are personal reflections of how the lockdown proved to be an enforced time-out to grapple with some troubling emotions and leading me on a path of reconnection with the self and others.
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(2020-06-05)I compare my situation during lockdown with that of a young Afghan named Morteza, who has been living in a refugee camp in northern Greece since 2016.
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(2020-06-08)Our collective ignorance of the underlying structure of liberal democracy endangers democracy itself; the actions of many democratic governments around the world in the age of the Coronavirus exacerbate this threat.
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(2020-06-08)The author documents his life from December through May through a series of diary entries from China, India, and the United States.
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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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(Media Rise Publications; Texas A & M University. Libraries, )How faith in God can help you make the best of a difficult situation
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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)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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(2020-06-08)This essay describes a transfer of survival and coping strategies developed under one type of crisis (a demise of a political system) to the situation of the pandemic and shelter-in-place orders.
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(2020-06-06)This is a reflection on home cooking, and how it intersects with gender, class, education.