This dissertation investigates the assimilation challenges of Somali refugees and immigrants in the Kansas City area. The process of immigrant assimilation has both economic and socio-cultural dimensions, and the purpose of this project was to understand those aspects of immigra…
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My dissertation, entitled Imagining Independence Park, uses literary texts, photographs, and art installations to explore the strategies and practices that gay Israelis adopt in order to assimilate into mainstream society and to distinguish themselves from it. I analyze diverse …
The numerous images of violence perpetrated by radicalized followers of Islam, has highlighted the complexities surrounding assimilation and integration of Muslims in Western society. Since the guest worker recruitment from French African colonies initiated after World War II, F…
Recent political disputes in liberal democratic states involve the concerns of immigrants and concerns about immigration. These developments include protests across Europe related to the depiction of the prophet Mohammed; the 2005 London underground bombing; debates in Europe ab…
This study offers a new approach to understanding the role of nostalgic performances carried out by second-generation Indo-Guyanese Americans through ethnic institutions as a route into the American mainstream. The Indo-Guyanese are an Indian Diaspora group who arrived in the Ca…
Historians used to suspect that the decline of city-states in the last centuries of Roman rule coincided with a resurgence of the countryside; subject peoples threw off the yoke of their Roman masters. In recent years, scholars have recoiled from such nationalist or class interp…
Immigrants from Caribbean Common Market countries (CARICOM) struggle to achieve socio-economic assimilation once they migrate to the United States. CARICOM immigrants are considered racial/ethnic minorities in the United States. The research goal of this study was to gain a deep…
In the final years of the Second World War (WWII), President Franklin Roosevelt agreed to allow nearly 1,000 refugees of various national and religious backgrounds into the United States. Safe at the Fort Ontario Emergency Refugee Shelter in Oswego, New York, private organizatio…
Introduction . A case study research design was employed to examine various dynamics of the cultural reproduction, segmented assimilation and religious schooling experiences of immigrant Muslim 1 parents and students at an Islamic day school. Three core research questions guided…
This study used the assimilation model to elaborate the continuing bonds model of mourning. According to the continuing bonds model of mourning, immigrants dealing with the loss of their native culture incorporate elements of this culture (i.e. their families, friends, identity,…
In my dissertation, I analyze how changing international norms influenced the adjustment strategies employed by non-Western former empires after defeat. Although international relations theorists have explored the post-war grand strategies of the victorious, they have given litt…
Since the Turkish Republic was established in 1923, the government has attempted to assimilate subordinate ethnic groups, including the Kurds, into one nation through restrictive policies. Although there have been efforts to widen cultural freedoms to Kurds and improve socio-eco…
This study is a multidisciplinary work that draws on fields of history, sociology, literature, politics, anthropology and cultural studies to explore the origination, development, and continuation of racist ideas in Iran. It analyzes the relationships among European racist ideas…
What is the current status of the integration of minorities of Muslim and/or Arab origin in France? In this paper I attempt to answer this question by evaluating the assimilation of these minorities into French society through an examination of the current conception of "Frenchn…
West Bank Palestinian immigrants to the United States transitioned from economic immigrants to exiles in the aftermath of the Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip in 1967. A portion of these exiles established a community across parts of New York and New Jersey. De…
This project investigates the different outcomes of assimilation among four different immigrant groups in the U.S. and Great Britain. The process of integration in the cultural, structural and political realms is compared and contrasted among these four groups in order to arrive…
For decades, the voicing system of Polish has been at the center of a heated theoretical debate concerning laryngeal phonology as it features a number of phenomena, such as Final Obstruent Devoicing, Regressive Voice Assimilation, Progressive Voice Assimilation, dialectally dist…
"For decades, the voicing system of Polish has been at the center of a heated theoretical debate concerning laryngeal phonology as it features a number of phenomena, such as Final Obstruent Devoicing, Regressive Voice Assimilation, Progressive Voice Assimilation, dialectally dis…
Explores how the Vietnamese people who were displaced by war endeavored to retain their cultural identity while striving to assimilate American democracy and live the American Dream. Depicts the struggles of Vietnamese-American communities to define themselves against the "refug…