Ethnic Diversity

Studies on the representation of 'local' populations, in and through tourism, have tended to focus on 'traditional' peoples in 'developing' countries. In this study of the representation of ethno-cultural diversity in the discourse of Official Tourism Organisations (OTOs), by co…

This thesis is an attempt to explore the Jordanian community of today with its multi-ethnic fusion and its social practices that often appear rooted in the past. It is an examination of what possible series of symbols could be formed from a collective view of the diverse ethnici…

This dissertation consists of four essays. The topics broadly speaking cover industrial organization (essay one), corporate finance/law and economics (essay two) and political economy (essays three and four). The first essay is "Consolidation, Volume and Outcomes in Leukemia Tre…

The archaeological site of Kültepe (ancient Kanesh), located in south-central Anatolia, in the present-day Republic of Turkey, was the capital city of a native Anatolian kingdom during the early Middle Bronze Age (20th - late 18th c. BC). Uninterrupted archaeological excavations…

This dissertation contains three essays on the relationship between the spatial distribution of economic activity and different types of public goods. In the first essay, I study how changes in transport infrastructure affect the location decisions of firms by examining how manu…

This dissertation investigates the relationship between ethnic diversity and different forms of political instability in sub-Saharan Africa. The first essay, written with Kimuli Kasara, is a cross-national statistical study of the effect of the sizes of ethnic groups and their c…

This dissertation aims to quantify the effect of the burden of a disease on economic performance in a cross-section of countries and its main goal is to obtain estimates of the effect of HIV prevalence on the growth rate of real GDP per capita between 1990 and 2004 that are not …

Based on a careful ethnographic study of a racially and ethnically diverse immigrant mosque in a mid-sized Midwestern city, I examine the divergent perspectives developed by a group of immigrant Muslims about the American reality and their Muslim entity. The core question is tha…

John Dewey believed that the foundation of education is built on social responsibility and democracy, and specifically proposed social change and thought of teachers essentially as social workers as a conduit to that change. In this qualitative case study, different cultures wer…