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Tavia Scott-Dyke

Candidate, M.A. in Migration and Diaspora Studies (entry 2025)

Academic and Research Interests: Collective Memory, Identity Formation, Memory and Historical Consciousness, African Diaspora, Memory and Territory, Carribbean focus.

Select Publications: Influence of Japan’s Soft Power (Okayama University, 2022).

Volunteer, Practicum, and Work Experience: Research Assistant at Immigrant Women Services Ottawa (2025).

Description of Research: My research focuses on examining blackness and Indigeneity in Jamaica, and exploring the ways in which Afro-Jamaicans who identify and indigenous express what their memories/history can reveal about their understanding of authenticity, legitimacy, and belonging in the national community.