Assimilation

This thesis aims to clarify opinion on the concept of Colonial alienation and its impacts in post-colonial sub-Saharan Africa in the literary works of Léonora Miano and Ahmadou Kourouma. From its Latin origin in the French dictionary, aliénation, alienare, means making foreigner…

How do Western immigrants make lives for themselves in Japan—where many do not feel they can ever fully belong? And how do they navigate that society to create the lives that they want while being so obviously, unavoidably, and permanently marked as outsiders? Through an explora…

Every year, thousands of individuals from every country and every walk of life arrive in the United States in hopes of better lives for themselves and their families. A significant portion of immigrants arrives from Central Asia countries, namely Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikist…

Postkolonyal Uluslararası İlişkiler teorisi kolonyalizmi siyasi, askeri ekonomik, kültürel, kimliksel ve zihinsel bir baskı süreci olarak kabul eder. Postkolonyal Uluslararası İlişkiler teorisi her ne kadar 1980'li yıllarda ortaya çıkmış ve 1990'lı yıllarda gelişmeye başlamış gi…

International graduate and undergraduate students with the F1 visa have the option to prepare themselves professionally in the U.S. by engaging in practical training after they complete their degree program. According to the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the number o…

In Iran, women have been limited from pursuing the arts, specifically dance. Dance is outlawed and dancers are treated as sex workers selling their bodies. The body is considered a dirty thing which is the barrier to attainment of enlightenment. We are forced to cover ourselves …

In 1697 Massachusetts settler Hannah Duston was taken captive by a group of Abenaki Indians. Duston and her companions escaped captivity by using a tomahawk to kill ten of her captors. Within her captivity narrative, Duston inhabits the role of captor rather than captive, provid…

This study focuses on a religious group in America and how it has managed to engage the third and fourth generations who have assimilated into the American cultural milieu while maintaining allegiance to the Church of Lebanon-the Maronite Catholic church. Understanding the histo…

The growth of the refugee population and other Displaced People has risen at an unprecedented level over the past decade. Migration patterns have changed to include women and children, who were historically underrepresented in migration studies. This study sought to encourage co…

The histories of African Americans, Native Americans, and colonial populations during the United States’ national consolidation and imperial expansion after the Civil War have frequently been treated as distinct and separate experiences, a historiographic practice that minimizes…

People in the twenty-first century search for authentic relationships and a place to belong. While the surrounding culture and social media provide options that seem to offer solutions to these challenges, often people find them ultimately lacking. However, the Church not only p…

The project director trained the assimilation team of LaFayette First Baptist Church in LaFayette, Georgia to design an assimilation plan. Upon review of existing church membership practices, the project director sought to address the lack of a clear system to aid attendees, new…

This qualitative study explores pastors use of social media technology. Unit of analysis was non-denominational Protestant pastors. The theoretical framework was Peplau’s Interpersonal Relations Theory. Three research questions guided the study: How do pastors describe their use…

This project sought to help First Baptist Church Talladega effectively assimilate new church members as a significant step in the process of its revitalization as a local church. As opposed to the previous method of a New Member Orientation after an individual had joined as a me…

As a social construct, education fulfills the necessary elements, ideologies, and rituals required to construct social norms for society. What a society deems as a norm determines the sentiments and direction that a nation will take. These normative tendencies lead to national i…

In this dissertation I explore acculturation in a mixed-ethnic, mixed-nativity, Muslim American community located in a suburb of Chicago, addressing the question, "Muslim American acculturation to what?" Building on previous scholarship and my empirical findings, I put a spotlig…

In Orientalism , Edward Said identified how the Westerner "spoke for" and represented the silent Orient. Today with the burgeoning call-center business with India, it seems that the West now wants the Orient to speak for it. But is the voice that Western business requires in Ind…

This is a multi-method research which consists of four studies. The first examined the influence of cultural values and ethnic identity on collective self-esteem, acculturative stress and attitudes toward seeking psychological help among 117 Saudi students living and studying in…

This thesis embodies a comprehensive analysis of the assimilation of Southern and Eastern European immigrant groups in the United States. Despite being considered racially distinct upon arrival en masse in the period 1880-1920, assimilation theorists posited that these white eth…