Bosnian women war refugees are not only trauma survivors, but are actively engaged in economic and social practices that shape their American sites of relocation. These economic activities---wage labor, and unremunerated volunteer and kin labor---are embedded in a moral framewor…
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Each year tens of thousands of refugee children from all over the world come to U.S. schools with their unique life histories and academic and psychological strengths and needs. Learner identities provide information about refugee students' behaviors, motivations, emotions, and …
The global refugee crisis, propelled by wars and natural disasters, is producing a massive demographic shift around the world. Counseling professionals are challenged to expand their understanding and knowledge of clients of diverse cultures who are new to the United States (U.S…
There are many strands of meaning to the refugee concept: refugee as legal term, as produced in the public imaginary, as object of knowledge, and as narrated by refugees who have passed through resettlement processing. These and other meanings of the refugee concept are dynamica…
Little research was found available in the literature concerning the numerous challenges that refugee children and adolescents face in exile. Since access to educational opportunities is perhaps one of the most fundamental of these challenges, it was considered one worthy of fur…
This dissertation is an exploratory study of the relationship between the Vietnamese refugees' escape experience from their home country and their experience of conversion to and within Christianity. This study focuses on sixteen Vietnamese refugees who escaped Vietnam by boats,…
Between the years 1992-2002, approximately 150,000 Bosnian Muslim refugees were resettled in the United States following the civil war in Bosnia that lasted from 1992-1996. Three million people were displaced and there were nearly 250,000 deaths. This study used quantitative met…
Using Bourdieu's theory of social capital and cultural reproduction as a conceptual framework and narrative inquiry as a methodology, this study explores the role of schooling in the cultural identity development of adolescent females from Bosnian Muslim communities who entered …
This dissertation is a study of youth programs as structures of refuge for Somalis in San Diego, CA. Somali youth stand at the nexus of the notions of, on the one hand, "refugees" as traumatized and deserving of humanitarian aid, and on the other hand as "Somalis" feared to be v…