In the century from 1580 to 1680 the government of the City of London consistently responded to difference as a threat. Responses to the presence of French and Dutch Protestants, Jewish immigrants and supplicants for relief from captivity in Muslim lands announced who was a Lond…
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While globalization is widely theorized in terms of apolitical trans-border flows, this paper argues that the so-called "War on Terror," the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and the so-called "War on Drugs" have legitimated the use of violence and aggression. This includes criminal…
Previous research studies regarding acculturation of Iranian immigrants include adaptations and revisions of scales and inventories designed for other ethnic populations. This study was designed to investigate the acculturation of first-generation Iranian-Americans residing in L…
Canada is home to people from various cultural groups who speak languages other than English or French. Iranians comprise an immigrant group that has a very different cultural background from that of the mainstream Canadian population and speaks a language other than English or …
The purpose of the current qualitative study is to capture the essence of the subjective experience of first generation Iranian immigrants in the United States. There appears to exist a limited amount of research about the acculturation of Iranian immigrants, most of which are q…
This dissertation investigates the use of ‘alien rhetoric’ in early Christian texts—that is, the language of foreignness, sojourning, resident-alien status, and citizenship as a means for communicating varying forms of Christian alterity. In contrast to previous scholarship that…
Using data from the Canada Census 2001, this study examined the socioeconomic attainment of 30-year old immigrant women in Canada in 2001 in comparison to the native born women. In addition, income attainment of 30-year old child immigrant women, teen immigrant women and second …
This phenomenological study, using the Husserlian philosophy, explored the perceptions of Nigerian-born immigrant women in the United States and their portrayal of depression. Through face-to-face, semi-structured, audiotaped interviews incorporating open-ended questions and pro…