The purpose of this study was to explore the relationship between perceived discrimination and subsequent academic motivation of adolescent refugee girls who have been resettled in the United States. In the study, I addressed the following questions: (a) Do adolescent refugee gi…
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Due to the disruption of refugee women's lives before, during, and after flight, they take on new roles and responsibilities that raise the need for refugee women to acquire new skills and tools with which to handle their new life. The conventional approach is to look at a refug…
Refugees arriving in the United States are met with a multitude of challenges, especially in accessing health care. San Antonio, Texas, annually resettles about 700 refugees through a single refugee resettlement agency. One of the greatest needs the agency has identified is its …
For my thesis, I explore how South Sudanese refugees in central Iowa imagine a utopic South Sudan amidst contemporary inter-ethnic tensions emanating from their recently independent country. In central Iowa and in particular Des Moines, South Sudanese refugees subtly reproduce t…
This thesis reveals how eleven years at war and thirteen years of economic sanctions followed by invasion and occupation led to the degeneration of Iraq's health infrastructure and the health of a nation. It further argues that waves of internal and external displacement, omnipr…
This paper will conduct a comprehensive case study of Iraq’s displaced Christians in Jordan. It will analyze the living standards of this vulnerable population in the context of Jordanian policies. It will also highlight the differences between Iraq’s displaced Christians and it…
This study examined the schooling experiences and perceptions of resettled sub-Saharan African middle school refugee students in a metropolitan area of the United States Southwest. The research questions underpinning this study included: What are the schooling experiences and pe…
This study explores the process of Iraqis' incorporation into the United States. The geopolitical context of the Iraq War and subsequent unrest has led to the creation of a new group of 'contemporary' refugees. Through in-depth qualitative interviews and participant observation …
South Sudanese refugees are strongly motivated to effect change in South Sudan. After resettlement to the US, this motivation has resulted in much transnational political activism on their part. In Australia, Sudanese refugees have concentrated primarily on domestic political an…
In this ethnographic study, I sought to understand the diasporic lives of Afghan Hindus by studying how they discursively constructed their migration and settlement in Germany. By directing attention to their ways of speaking about migration I understood the importance of commun…
This thesis is an examination of Palestinian women's roles and agency in creating and reinforcing Palestinian national identity. This is done by interviewing approximately 30 women, as well as observing and participating in daily life amongst Palestinian refugees. Women are an i…
This dissertation is an ethnomusicological study of the Palestinian dabke, a music and dance tradition that developed as an integral part of the Palestinian refugee experience. The focus is on Hanouneh, a dabke group in the majority Palestinian population of Amman, Jordan, where…
This is a study of refugees as a social category of people who have fled their country of citizenship in search of safety. The study examines the generations of refugees who sought asylum in Kenya between 1902 and 2002. The study examines the genealogies and experiences of Jewis…
This study examined the traumatic experiences and psychological symptoms of 60 refugees who were recently resettled in the United States. Subjects were from Cuba, Iraq, Haiti, Sudan, and Bosnia. Data was collected for each subject on traumatic experiences occurring prior to thei…
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…
This thesis examines the lifeworlds of Somali returnees in Ethiopia. Their experience of flight and return is distinctive, shaped by the history and culture of the Somali people and the political and economic conditions of this part of Africa. In emphasizing this distinctiveness…
Global estimates suggest 20 million children from hundreds of different countries and cultures are currently displaced from their homes as refugees or internally displaced persons (USCR, 2000). Each year hundreds of thousands of children are resettled in second or third countrie…
The purpose of this study was to more fully understand the language and literacy goals and values of a linguistically diverse Southern Sudanese refugee population residing in the Upper Midwest portion of the United States. The linguistic and cultural demographics of the area's m…
Recent refugees arriving in the United States have escaped political and social oppression in countries such as Bosnia, Sierra Leone, Iraqi Kurdistan, Laos, Somalia, Sudan, Rwanda, and Liberia. Drastic changes occur in the lives of individuals who flee their homes to a new count…