In Jordan, top-down calls for education reform increasingly intersect with national and transnational discourses and debates on enhancing economic growth, national unity, gender equality, and civic participation in Jordan and the broader Middle East. Such initiatives have increa…
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This study explores the impact of racism on the identity construction of Black Nigerian youth in Montréal. Several themes, related to socialization, family, education, integration, employment, racism, marginalization and social exclusion emerged from phenomenological interviews …
In this dissertation, I examine the effect of forms of historical narratives on citizenship policies, paying special attention to the degree and the terms of inclusion of ethnic minorities. I focus on two post-imperial core countries, Turkey and Austria. I develop a framework of…
Performance has received much attention in accounting studies. Accounting academics are interested in explaining and predicting performance at the industry, organization, and individual levels. This three-paper dissertation attempts to explain three aspects of accountants’ job p…
This thesis argues that Anwar al Awlaki created Inspire magazine in an effort to promote and justify violent jihad. Based on a thorough review of ten issues of the magazine, research provides evidence that Awlaki and Samir Khan sought to shape the identity of young male Muslims …
The basic principle of this project is that the young adults are absent from churches today, especially in the Syriac Orthodox Church (SOC). The church is made of people of every age, and without the young adults the church cannot be whole. This project provides a young adult mi…
The oracles of Isa. 30:1--5, Jer. 2:14--19, 13:20--22, and Ezek. 17:1--10 evoke an identity construction process in response to perceived socio-political and cultural changes of their periods. Previous studies have analyzed contending social groups through the use of social move…
This dissertation uses a dialogic sociolinguistic theory (Johnson, 2004) interwoven with the author's personal perspective to explore the relationship between language and ethnic identity in an advanced university Hebrew language classroom in Canada. The study examines three key…
This dissertation investigates identity, art, and architecture in twentieth-century Iran. Through case studies of two museums and a mosque in the capital city, Tehran, the project aims to elucidate the interdisciplinarity of identity formation and its relationship to nation buil…
Over the past five years, mounting concerns about German firms' global competitiveness and the welfare state's continuing viability have prompted the German government to reconsider the country's citizenship and immigration policy. One result has been a series of legal revisions…
The United States is becoming more diverse; numerous immigrants and refugees enter every year. Among the newer groups are those practicing the Muslim religion. This qualitative research focused on the identity formation process of six adolescent female Muslim refugees from Afgha…
This dissertation examines how the representation of technology has been (re)producing, and/or (re)produced by, racial, ethnic, and national identities by drawing on "Japanese" as one concrete example. This examination entails three specific questions (1) how is "Japanese" repre…
This dissertation explores the Rastafari movement and the Nation of Islam as institutions that provide a group-identity for their adherents. The study seeks to determine the characteristics of the identity that is institutionalized by each movement, and the nature of the institu…