This study focuses on the way'men from Kabul, Afghanistan form trusting friendships. Based on participant observation, group and personal interviews, and a questionnaire, the researcher develops a descriptive theory of Kabuli Afghan friendships. Examined from an anthropological …
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This research investigates the experience of Afghan refugees in Iran from 1980 to 2001. It considers how their displacement influenced their strategies of adaptation and survival, and altered their concepts of home and space, identity and sense of belonging, as well as their exp…
Conducted over a three-year period, this multiple-case study examined the previous professional backgrounds, transitional issues, and intellectual transformation of four Afghan university teachers during their graduate study in language education at a large Midwestern research u…
More than fifty civil wars occurred at any given time during the last two decades of the twentieth century. At least half of the recent wars, whether from civil strife or invasions, had more than 100,000 refugees each with the majority being female. During this time, Afghanistan…
The war in Afghanistan and subsequent migration had a significant impact on the parenting abilities of Afghan families. The present study focuses on providing a deeper understanding of this impact on parenting with Afghan families living in the United States. The following theme…
This exploratory study examined Afghan Diasporic writers and their fictional literary works, in order to provide sociopolitical, sociocultural, historical, and economic insights into the Afghan experience. Afghan Diasporic writers serve as proxies for Afghan writers who lived in…
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…
The Soviet Union occupied her southern neighbor Afghanistan on Thursday, December 27, 1979. Soon after the occupation, significant impacts were felt on agriculture and other sectors of the economy. Agriculture was affected in many ways from the integrity of irrigation systems to…
The problem. The Afghan language is a transmitter of the Afghan culture. Therefore, the loss Of the Afghan language equals the loss of the Afghan culture. During my voluntary service in a mosque with Afghan children, I learned that the children were thinking in English and even …
This autoethnographic study explored my academic experiences as a first-generation Afghan woman within the American education system. A finite lens was used to review detailed narratives from sixth grade through the present day. The guiding question for this study was: How have …
Children are rarely asked about their experiences in the aftermath of war. Each child if given an opportunity has a unique and precious story to share. It is most likely that embedded within their experiential stories are essences of resilience. The purpose of this study was (1)…