The focus of this project was on the Iranian immigrant women residing in Los Angeles. This research project examined the relationship between self and culture and its effect on the individual's adaptation across cultures. The theoretical framework of this study came from three s…
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The political representation of immigrant associations is central for immigrants to become political actors in Germany. I offer a comparative analysis of five Turkish immigrant associations to point to the diverse approaches in terms of political representation, political resist…
The social coaching and interactional style of Iranian-immigrant mothers residing in Northern California were studied in a cultural psychology framework for their contribution to preschool children's peer competence. Iranian-immigrant mothers' cultural values regarding childrear…
The purpose of this study was to examine the acculturation experiences of young women who emigrated from Iran to Canada. The emphasis was on understanding the unique and complex processes of negotiating a changed sense of identity following immigration from Iran to Canada. In-de…
This dissertation examines the development of Germany's Turkish organizations from 1961 to 1998 and compares them to ex-Yugoslavian, Greek, Italian, and Spanish associations. It is based on 12 months of fieldwork, extensive elite interviews, and survey data. My chief empirical f…
This dissertation investigates and analyzes the process of subject formation among Turkish immigrants of the second and third generation in the southwestern German region of Swabia (Schwaben). The study shows how Turkish immigrants find salient ways to formulate their subjectivi…
This study investigated the process of language shift in the United States, focusing in particular on why it is that immigrant parents find it so difficult to maintain their heritage languages at home. The prevalence of this shift has been well established (e.g., Fishman, Nahirn…
This theoretical study investigated the application of Solution Focused Brief Therapy (SFBT) in working with mental health issues presented among Iranian-American immigrants. There is no prior research to demonstrate the effectiveness of any particular theoretical approach when …
Success or failure in the academic environment greatly determines the extent of a child's later success or failure in American society. A growing community of Muslim American immigrants faces unique challenges in adapting to American culture due to overt racial and ethnic charac…
Drawing on capabilities approach and the framework of family as a system of cooperative conflicts (Sen, 1990) the present study explores how interaction between Muslim immigrant mothers and their adolescent daughters about being Muslim in the U.S. shapes girls' agency in negotia…
This qualitative study was designed to explore and describe factors that relate to the lived experience of Muslim immigrant's diaspora in the United States. The study explores the essence of integration in the new culture and lived narrative stories as described by 12 participan…
This dissertation is a broad story of the selective "de-secularization" of politics within the Western state. Through a comparative longitudinal study of governmental policies in Britain, France, and the United States, I uncover and illuminate the different conditions under whic…
As the demographic landscape of the United States continues to change, counselors along with other helping professionals are going to be challenged to find ways to meet the varying personal, social, and academic needs of an increasingly multiracial, multi-religious, and multicul…
In the United States, children grow up spending much of their free time watching television. They grow up in what may be called the television culture. Stempel (1981) points out that virtually everybody born in the U.S. since 1940 is part of the TV generation; their childhood an…
The dissertation is a community-based ethnographic study of Pakistani immigrants in Houston. In the dissertation, I use an interdisciplinary approach to examine how belonging to a transnational Muslim ummah, ancestral affiliation with Pakistan and contemporary life situations as…
This qualitative clinical psychology dissertation examined the life journeys and immigration experiences of 9 resilient Muslim immigrant women. The primary purpose of this exploratory interview study was to obtain a greater understanding of the protective processes that foster r…
This research is an effort to understand how service providers meet the needs of battered South Asian immigrant women. The data, comprised of interviews with staff of organizations that work with battered immigrant women, were analyzed to assess if each of the organizations in t…
This project examines the impact of religiosity and religious organizations on the cultural and civic integration processes of Muslim immigrant women in non-Muslim host societies. Using a multi-method research design consisting of original survey data and qualitative interviews …
The purpose of this dissertation is to contextualize the practice of Female Circumcision and to conduct an extensive review of the literature pertaining to the mental health treatment of immigrant populations in the United States involved in Female Circumcision (FC). The paper's…