Established in 1516 on an abandoned manufacturing site, the Ghetto of Venice was an experiment in containment as a means of maintaining coexistence between the early modern Republic’s Christian and Jewish populations. The walls that surrounded the Venetian Ghetto served both Chr…
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The present work examines the linguistic and thematic legacy of three Angolan prose works from the 1950s and 1960s: Quinaxixe by Arnaldo Santos and A cidade e a infância and Luuanda by Luandino Vieira. The twenty-two stories contained in the collections portray Angola as an ethn…
Situated within critical race theory and Latinx critical theory (LatCrit), the result of this research was a 2-part presentation of a critical co-constructed autoethnography and a qualitative case study. The case study identified factors that promoted intercultural collaboration…
Increased immigration finds children in a quandary to develop an identity consolidating their multiple locales and cultures. Additionally, the internet is highly integrated into children's lives and plays a consequential role in their identity formation processes. "Local culture…
In this thesis, I explore the perceived character of Islamophobia in American society, and how Islamophobia is embedded in the everyday lived experiences and identity negotiations of a sample of Middle Eastern immigrants, ten years post-9/11. Data consist of 13 qualitative inter…
United States and Mexico population statistics show clear evidence of return migration. This study uses qualitative data collected in a municipality in the State of Mexico during the summer of 2010 from families comprised of Mexican nationals and United States-born children post…
This dissertation investigates the assimilation challenges of Somali refugees and immigrants in the Kansas City area. The process of immigrant assimilation has both economic and socio-cultural dimensions, and the purpose of this project was to understand those aspects of immigra…
My dissertation, entitled Imagining Independence Park, uses literary texts, photographs, and art installations to explore the strategies and practices that gay Israelis adopt in order to assimilate into mainstream society and to distinguish themselves from it. I analyze diverse …
Historians used to suspect that the decline of city-states in the last centuries of Roman rule coincided with a resurgence of the countryside; subject peoples threw off the yoke of their Roman masters. In recent years, scholars have recoiled from such nationalist or class interp…
This is a multi-method research which consists of four studies. The first examined the influence of cultural values and ethnic identity on collective self-esteem, acculturative stress and attitudes toward seeking psychological help among 117 Saudi students living and studying in…
This thesis embodies a comprehensive analysis of the assimilation of Southern and Eastern European immigrant groups in the United States. Despite being considered racially distinct upon arrival en masse in the period 1880-1920, assimilation theorists posited that these white eth…
This study used the assimilation model to elaborate the continuing bonds model of mourning. According to the continuing bonds model of mourning, immigrants dealing with the loss of their native culture incorporate elements of this culture (i.e. their families, friends, identity,…
Introduction . A case study research design was employed to examine various dynamics of the cultural reproduction, segmented assimilation and religious schooling experiences of immigrant Muslim 1 parents and students at an Islamic day school. Three core research questions guided…
This dissertation examines the cultural experiences of Arab American entrepreneurs who have settled in South Texas. Arab Americans comprise one of the most thriving and successful minority ethnic groups in the United States who began arriving in the United States at the end of t…
Administrators at Sherman Institute, an off-reservation Indian boarding school in Riverside California, used Indian children as marketing pawns in order to bolster the school's credibility when it opened in 1902. Enlarging the school's credibility was meant to garner political s…
This dissertation is a hermeneutic phenomenological study of synagogue-school teachers of Jewish sacred text. The phenomenological question that orients this study asks, What is the lived experience of teaching sacred text in a Conservative synagogue-school? This study takes pla…
This thesis explores the experience of the German-speaking people who have immigrated to the United States of America. It relates the history of German immigration including the first trickles of immigrants, the first settlements, mass immigration to America, and immigration in …
In my dissertation, I analyze how changing international norms influenced the adjustment strategies employed by non-Western former empires after defeat. Although international relations theorists have explored the post-war grand strategies of the victorious, they have given litt…
Recent political disputes in liberal democratic states involve the concerns of immigrants and concerns about immigration. These developments include protests across Europe related to the depiction of the prophet Mohammed; the 2005 London underground bombing; debates in Europe ab…