This thesis sheds light on two of the most heavily contested concepts in social sciences and sociolinguistics: ‘community’, in its inter-relation with ‘language’. I draw on the example of Arabic in Manchester, UK, to develop a comprehensive ethnographic approach to studying ‘lan…
"131" Result
Sort By:
At the end of the 1948 Arab-Israeli War some 70,000 Palestinian refugees fleeing the conflict entered Jordan. Among them included 4,000 refugee, who, in 1951, would settle in a 0.24 kilometer (0.15 mile) area in Irbid. Irbid, a small town which had mainly consisted of a trade an…
Evidence from NGOs and the charitable sector suggests that people who are refused asylum in the UK lead highly marginalised lives, experiencing levels of deprivation that flout UK and international human rights legislation. However, the number of studies engaging with this large…
This dissertation delineates a political economy of refugee return migration to South Sudan by examining refugees' shifting practices of production, social reproduction and exchange, their spatialization and their intersection with various axes of difference. My work builds on t…
The following documentary is a journalistic broadcast piece that presents human stories from the ongoing war in Syria. For about a year, the Northern part of the country has been under the control of the armed opposition. The proxy war in Syria gave rise to the most tragic human…
Little is known about resilience among Somali refugees. This study employed a participatory, sequential, mixed-method research design to: a) culturally adapt and validate the Resilience Research Center- Adult Resilience Measure (RRC-ARM) for use with Somali people; and b) Explor…
This ethnographic case study uses life history and qualitative methodologies to offer biographical profiles that highlight perspectives on writing of eight Black African-born male youth with limited and disrupted formal education enrolled at a secondary school in northeastern Un…
The lives of Somali born high school students are complicated by intersections with both race and religion. They often carry refugee histories of trauma and displacement that are further exacerbated during the resettlement process. Schools are struggling to make the kinds of acc…
The ongoing war in Syria is reaching its fourth year, and over 1.5 million people have been forced to leave their homes into surrounding countries. This thesis looks at the Syrian refugees that have traveled to neighboring Jordan, and how religion has kept them stable in diaspor…
As the US completes its military withdrawal from Iraq, the Obama Administration's stated policy goals are to promote security, stability and prosperity in Iraq, help it emerge as a force for stability and moderation in the region, transition responsibility for security to the Ir…
The purpose of this dissertation was to explore the role that information plays in the decision-making process of people leaving their native countries in distress and seeking refuge in a camp in a foreign country, in this case, Tanzania. The rise in the number of refugees globa…
This qualitative study explored the verbal and art making responses of Greek-Cypriot survivors who experienced the war event in Cyprus during 1974 and forced migration to the United States. Four Greek-Cypriot refugees were asked to recall traumatic memories during the war by cre…
This dissertation was aimed to gather information on the acculturation process and the acculturation experiences of individuals from the Southern Sudanese refugee community in San Diego, California. This study was divided into two distinct phases to obtain in-depth narratives th…
My study examines the experiences and perceptions of Ethiopian immigrants in Chicago particularly as they relate to their involvement in their children's schooling. Through narrative interviews I was able to hear stories of migration, education, and life changes within families …
This study examines the effects of conflict and international humanitarian responses on forced migration in Sub-Saharan Africa between 1980 and 2007. In facing violent conflicts, not all people leave their homes. Some people decide to stay. Some people seek a refuge outside thei…
The purpose of this study was to assess how Bosnian refugees are adjusting to life in the United States after a decade or more upon resettlement from Bosnia to the U.S. Study participants (N = 166) completed a demographic questionnaire and instruments related to depression (Cent…
Based on seventeen months of ethnographic fieldwork over three years in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and Mombasa, Kenya, this dissertation examines the significance of everyday practice and shared narratives in response to mass crisis. Elaborating on established elements of trauma re…
Klaus and Erika Mann held a unique position among the exiles in America. Of the small number of German emigre writers who attempted to cross cultural boundaries, the Manns were the most prominent. Klaus and Erika, the oldest children of the German novelist Thomas Mann, settled i…
This dissertation attempts to displace contemporary approaches to the anthropological study of Islam and in so doing offers a historically more grounded conceptual alternative to the existing literature on Islam and women. This is achieved by focusing on the discourses and pract…