Muslim high school students often face bi-cultural issues, which can be a source of additional stress while making the transition from childhood to adulthood. I explored the extent of acculturation issues experienced by Muslim students by using the Muslim Youth Acculturation Rat…
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This phenomenological research study explored the leadership experiences of immigrant women in the United States. A combination of criterion and snowball techniques was used to select 22 immigrant Nigerian women living in Texas. Data was gathered from three sources—one-on-one in…
This is a narrative inquiry into the identity development, cultural and professional transformation of five visible minority teachers before and after immigrating to Canada. The teacher participants, Dave, Beneth, Lily, Ann and I migrated to Canada during the 1990s from Africa, …
As the nation's education crisis deepens, especially in terms of the achievement gap, school choice has emerged as a growing education reform movement, proponents of which argue may help improve educational attainment among underserved populations. Using a mixed methods approach…
My dissertation project, "College Knowledge: The Experiences of Mexican Mothers and Educational Success in the Midwest", is grounded in the idea that Mexican parents (regardless of citizenship status) take part in a critical role in U.S. schooling today. While Mexican parents ho…
The subject of my dissertation is cinematic constructions of African immigrant and French identities. I analyze Vivre au Paradis (Bourlem Guerdjou), Soleil Ô (Med Hondo), La Noire de… (Ousmane Sembene), and Mémoires d'immigrés (Yamina Benguigui) from cultural, aesthetic, and pol…
The study was a secondary analysis of 56 qualitative interview transcripts of 7 African immigrant families from Ethiopia, Nigeria and Congo with the purpose of exploring their childcare experiences. Using data from the Minnesota Child Care Partnership Research Project, a natural…
My doctoral dissertation is a study in exploring ways of making LINC (Language Instruction for Newcomers to Canada) curriculum more responsive to the needs of South Asian immigrant women in Canada. As a former LINC teacher, I had found the LINC curriculum deficient because I fel…
The study examined international immigration to the United States. It focused on the psychological effects of immigrants' experience during the immigration process. The investigation searched into ethnic identification among fifteen first generation adult immigrants who all resi…
Academics have extensively studied the life trajectories of second-generation immigrants. Various research studies have explored their identity-negotiation processes by looking at their degree of assimilation and acculturation into their host countries and their transnational co…
Given recent global trends indicating breast cancer as the leading cause of cancer deaths among women in both developing and developed countries, the drastic increase in African immigration rate in the United States, and the current confounding categorization of African-born wom…
This qualitative study examined the lived experiences of first-generation Ethiopian immigrant mothers to the United States (N = 9) as to female genital cutting (FGC) in its cultural context. The participants, with diverse demographic details, were acquired through snowball sampl…
Providing culturally sensitive health care to diverse populations would be enhanced by better understanding their experiences with the health care system and their perceptions of health and illness. Nigerians compose an immigrant group that has dramatically increased in the Unit…
In the Arab world, individual stories of intimate partner violence are often hidden and cultural narratives frame intimate partner violence as a personal problem to be solved by the family, an extremely private and protective unit. As second-generation immigrants, Arab American …
Before 1870, the Protestant church determined the moral vision of the United States, viewing its values as essential to the success of American democracy at home and its expansion abroad. But after the 1870s domestic labor unrest forced Protestant leaders to launch a crusade to …
Religion plays a major role that defines and preserves ethnic life and character in the United States. In the case of first-generation Korean immigrants, as an ethnic organization, the Korean immigrant church functions as a center of resistance to cultural assimilation. On the o…
The dissertation is an ethnographic study of the experiences of Chaldean immigrant women, with an emphasis on gender and family, in metropolitan Detroit. Research was conducted between 1993 and 1997. Data collection consisted of in-depth interviews, ethnographic field work and p…
Immigrant women are a growing population in Canada. In order to capitalize on their skills and education, it is important to facilitate settlement and integration. Facilitation requires an in-depth understanding of their needs and the challenges preventing full participation. Th…