As discussions about the hijab circulate in twenty-first century Western Europe, it seems as though few lawmakers are looking to the narratives and experiences of Muslim and South Asian women to give voice to the practice. This thesis looks at the poets Kamala Das, Imtiaz Dharke…
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This study was designed to explore the use of comprehension strategies on the reading comprehension of culturally familiar and culturally unfamiliar texts when they are presented to children from Pakistan who are engaged in English as a second language programs in the New York C…
My doctoral dissertation is a study in exploring ways of making LINC (Language Instruction for Newcomers to Canada) curriculum more responsive to the needs of South Asian immigrant women in Canada. As a former LINC teacher, I had found the LINC curriculum deficient because I fel…
Past research has demonstrated that a variety of positive and negative communication behaviors are able to distinguish between distressed and nondistressed couples (e.g., Weiss & Heyman, 1997). Additionally, distressed couples engage in significantly higher levels of certain com…
The solo tabla (drum) music of Pakistani Panjab offers a rich area of study that heretofore has remained virtually unrecognized in the field of South Asian ethnomusicology. Unlike the highly developed, modern context of art music in the Republic of India, musical life in the Isl…
This study aimed to investigate the relationship between reading habits (in English, in L1 and overall) and English reading performance among Sindhi and Urdu students at the University of Sindh, Jamshoro, Pakistan, and also to explore the factors that might have influenced these…
My research explores the tension between being and becoming modern and moral for British-born Muslim Pakistani women in Sheffield through an investigation into the judgements that surround beauty, beautification, and beauty work. Through ethnography I unpack the raced and classe…
This research seeks to address the issue of media consumption and the formation of diaspora identity within second and third generation British-born residents of Pakistani origin. In recent years there has been much debate centred on this group within the context of domestic and…
Background: Substantial variation exists between ethnicities in both birth weight and the prevalence of obesity-related non-communicable diseases (OR-NCDs). South Asians, who display a reduced birth weight and increased risk of developing these OR-NCDS, have been the focus of mu…
Immigration is a multi-faceted and dynamic phenomenon. Few descriptions are available about the experiences of immigrants from South Asia. Pakistanis are among the fastest growing immigrant populations in the US. The purposes of this cross-sectional, retrospective, qualitative, …
As women who experience Gestational Diabetes Mellitus (GDM) are at considerably greater risk of developing type 2 diabetes in life, prevention of GDM is particularly important. The objectives of this research were to identify lifestyle predictors associated with GDM in a develop…
While South Asians are among the fastest growing immigrant groups in the country, there is a dearth of empirically based research on their identity and intergroup relations. This dissertation examines racial, ethnic, and religious identity, intergroup attitudes and relations, an…
Are there alternatives to using violence between groups that have a history of collective mass violence between them? This is the underlying concern motivating the study: This concern is guided by my personal experience as a third generation Indian, growing up on stories of the …
The last decade has witnessed an increasing number of middle- and upper-class urban Pakistani women actively turning towards Islam via Al-Huda, an Islamic school for women created by Dr. Farhat Hashmi in Islamabad in 1994, that aims to transform the women who engage with its dis…
The study tests the hypothesis that migrants offer insurance against illness. The analysis uses panel data on about 732 households spanning 44 villages over 3 provinces in rural Pakistan over three years with a 20-year series of district level rainfall data. The probability of s…
Muslims comprise a significant percentage of the world's population (Lippmann, 1994). Muslims form a growing percentage of the population in the United States, and each year more and more Muslim students enter America's public schools (Siddiqui, 1998). Many of these Muslim stude…
This hermeneutical phenomenological research study, using two rounds of semi-structured open ended interviews and focus group data, described the lived experience of Muslim Pakistani and Indian students in their New York school system experience. The purpose of this study was to…
The purpose of this study was to unveil the meaning of hope in the experiences of first generation Pakistani immigrants living in Edmonton, Canada. A qualitative descriptive interpretive approach and a purposeful sampling technique were used due to the exploratory nature of the …
The dissertation is a community-based ethnographic study of Pakistani immigrants in Houston. In the dissertation, I use an interdisciplinary approach to examine how belonging to a transnational Muslim ummah, ancestral affiliation with Pakistan and contemporary life situations as…