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…
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This study was designed to explore the use of comprehension strategies on the reading comprehension of culturally familiar and culturally unfamiliar texts when they are presented to children from Pakistan who are engaged in English as a second language programs in the New York C…
The purpose of this study was to explore the musical experiences of immigrant students in an American high school choral classroom. This study revealed some of the central issues and tensions that immigrant students face as they are acculturated into secondary school music progr…
The current displacement crisis in the German context has focused scholarly attention on refugee student access to higher education. However, much less research has attended to supports at higher education institutions (HEIs) for enrolled migrant and refugee students. In fact, e…
The number of immigrants from different countries has increased in the United States in the past few years. Fargo/ Moorhead area was enriched with individuals and families from various post-war and undeveloped countries. Immigrants face challenges that are far more significant t…
More than half of the children in early childhood education settings (ECES) in Toronto come from immigrant families with diverse languages, cultures and racial backgrounds. Yet, little is known about their experiences in their homes and in their ECES. The major purpose of this s…
Menopause is a biocultural phenomenon that is imbued with cultural, social and personal meaning. This work poses the question: what is the impact of immigration on women's experience of menopause? Women who migrate to another country often undergo changes in socioeconomic status…
This dissertation explores the manner in which the academic and social aspirations of recent immigrant Bangladeshi youth from a working class community, were reconfigured subsequent to family reunification with fathers already living in New York. The impetus for this research wa…
Past research has demonstrated that a variety of positive and negative communication behaviors are able to distinguish between distressed and nondistressed couples (e.g., Weiss & Heyman, 1997). Additionally, distressed couples engage in significantly higher levels of certain com…
The present study is a qualitative exploration of career development of 12 professionally established and successful immigrant women. The participants' chosen fields included medicine; psychology; health administration; computer software engineering; social work; and academic po…
The Ethics of Evaluation: the Immigrant, the Cosmopolitan, and the “Jew” in American Literary Realism, 1880–1925, argues that vacillations between philo-Semitic and anti-Semitic literary Jewishness are symptomatic of upheavals in the ethico-religious, economic and aesthetic land…
This research focuses on African immigrant students in higher education, and the nature of their academic and social preparation for higher education in the United States. A 50-question survey was administered to 98 African immigrant students in institutions of higher learning a…
This presentation is based upon anthropological research on immigrants in Israel conducted over a period of many years. Its various chapters may appear to be heterogeneous from the point of view of the aspects chosen for analysis and the approaches adopted. However, they are all…
Although there is a growing body of research that describes factors affecting the cultural adaptations and academic engagement of a variety of immigrant groups such as Latinos, Asians and Caribbean immigrants, there is little research on African immigrant students' experiences i…
This dissertation is a social and military history of the army in Egypt under the Ptolemies (323–30 BC), the Greek rulers who succeeded Alexander the Great in Egypt. Building on approaches developed in state-formation theory, notably Mann's concept of social power (1986) that th…
From a contemporary standpoint, the journey experiences of exile and return in the Hebrew Bible present some interesting connections and parallels with other forms of social movement such as international migration and border-crossings. In terms of my specific positioning as a H…
The purpose of this study was to identify the most salient factors in facilitating the high school graduation of a group of immigrants of Serbian descent who came to the United States at secondary school age. The participants of the study were 10 recent graduates from a Midweste…
During the last three and a half decades of the twentieth century, there was a mass emigration of Iraqis to many of their neighboring countries, as well as the United States and other Western countries. The direct cause of this influx of emigration of Iraqis was because of their…
This phenomenological study examined perceptions about parenting among Pentecostal Nigerian Yoruba parents who arrived in the United States within the past 20 years. The study explored the extent to which American values and the environments have affected participants' parenting…