Post 9/11, Sikh Americans became particularly susceptible to discrimination due to often being misidentified as Arab American or Muslim, and subsequently assumed by some to be associated with terrorism. Research has demonstrated that discrimination experienced by people of color…
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Existing theories and research have indicated that ethnic identity is crucial for ethnic minority young adults because ethnicity is an important component of their personal identity that is likely to influence various aspects of their development. Given the centrality of this co…
With the majority of immigrants having left Iran for the United States following the 1979 Islamic Revolution, the population of Iranians currently living in the United States includes immigrants and second-generation Iranian Americans. Iranian American individuals may present wi…
Christians engaged in mission and worship have been dealing with the issues of culture and contextualization since long before the word 'culture' was even used to describe what it does today in the the social sciences. Christian discussions about the importance of context for mi…
The purpose of this current study was to determine the role of acculturation, ethnic identity, and religious fatalism regarding attitudes towards seeking psychological help among Coptic (Egyptian Christian) Americans. In addition, differences between groups of gender and generat…
To understand how the school setting shapes the experiences of girls from the Mbororo minority group in the North West Region of Cameroon, I carried out a qualitative case study at an Islamic High School that stands at the crossroads of identity, culture, religion, language and …
The rapid increase of rhetorical and thematic elements in Coptic literature emphasizing the land and people of Egypt during the centuries following the Council of Chalcedon (451 CE) was interpreted by many scholars in the early twentieth-century as a sign of Egyptian nationalism…
African immigrants are a growing part of the American population. The social adjustment of youth from these families has not been systematically examined by psychologists. More detailed consideration of outcomes of youth in these families can expand research on children of immig…
Pashtuns have been politically dominant in Afghanistan for over 300 years, and this has led non-Pashtun ethnic groups to develop grievances and share a common identity, non-Pashtun. The present study analyzes the relationship between ethnic identity and nationalism in Pashtun an…
Early adulthood is a time when young adults struggle with accepting or rejecting their ancestral roots as they attempt to develop a positive sense of self. Nigerian-American adults, in particular, struggle with the integration of immensely different elements of Eastern and Weste…
The inquiry explores: "How does the confluence of sacred stories of Our Lady of Guadalupe/Coatlalopeuh/Tonantzin live in the embodied narratives of mixed-culture (Mestiza, Chicana, Mexican American, Hispanic, Mexican and Latina) women, who embrace a borderland consciousness? Nar…
The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of perceived discrimination, ethnic identity, and social support as predictors of academic efficacy and general self-efficacy in Arab American adolescents. The sample consisted of 85 adolescents who participate in services…
In an attempt to approach national state formation from a geographically, economically, and politically peripheral location of modern Indonesia, this dissertation examines the ways in which the Sungkung people of West Kalimantan, who live on the Indonesian-Malaysian border where…
This research examines theoretical concepts of ethnic identity using survey data from probability samples of about 13,000 youth from 11 countries of the former Soviet Union (Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Kazakstan, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Moldova, Tajikistan, Russia, and Uk…
This study examines the ethnic identity development process of second-generation Indian Americans, the first sizeable cohort of Indian Americans to come of age in the United States, and identifies major factors involved, exploring the salience of each across the lifespan. The in…
This thesis addresses general questions about the relationship between the making of gender, the politics of national and ethnic identities, local-global articulations and the process of cultural transformation amongst Muslim Tausug and Sama communities in Sulu, the Southern Phi…
Currently, very little research and few publications regarding Arabs as immigrants, their children, as second generation born Americans, and their collective experiences exists (Faragallah, Schumm & Webb, 1997). Arab scholars agree that the number of stereotypes which the Arabs …
Employing a non-random sample survey and in-depth interview, I explore the relationship between ethnic and religious identity retention among Arab-origin students from five Cegeps in Montreal. Being non-random, this sample is not representative of the whole population of Arab-or…
This dissertation studies the textual dialogue between Argentines of European descent and Arab immigrants to Argentina from the rnid-1800's to mid-1900's. It elucidates the reciprocal nature of processes of representation and identity formation between national and immigrant gro…
The Left in Cyprus is characterized by a peculiar combination of seemingly heterogeneous elements: the party which expresses the broader subculture of the “peoples movement” is ideologically communist, but its practice and that of the mass organizations of the Left seem closer t…