The former West Germany recruited Turkish Gastarbeiter (guestworkers) from 1961-1973 without intending for them to stay. Additional African, Eastern European, and Middle Eastern migrants and asylum-seekers further changed the social landscape of the nation-state. Due in part to …
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This study investigates the transnational behaviors of Senegalese and Gambian (Senegambian) immigrants in Spain in relation to their employment and immigration status, or economic integration. Contrary to suggestions that transnationalism is a response to the downward mobility t…
The last few years have seen a flood of courses on the Internet in higher education. This increase has seen institutional stakeholders wrestle with decisions about committing funds, faculty, staff, and other resources to this new educational forum, in the midst of uncertainties …
This dissertation examines contemporary changes in relations and forms of urban governance by focusing on neighborhood associations in Tucson and analyzing their practices and experiences in the midst of an emerging trend that values collective action and direct democracy. This …
The purpose of this study was to determine the degree to which nontraditional student characteristics related to academic and social integration of community college students. Additionally, another purpose of this study was to determine the degree to which nontraditional student…
This study focuses on the impact of attending an ethnoreligious school on different dimensions of social integration. Data are measures of students of fourth and fifth secondary registered in French speaking ethnoreligious schools in the province of Quebec. This study is also se…
This study covers theological (mind), spiritual (strength), physical (health), sociological (dignity), and economical (support) dimensions of empowerment of holistically transformed individuals within the Christian community who are able to transform the community with the gospe…
Over the last several decades there has been much conversation, dialogue, and research around the topic of African American persistence, and more specifically African American male persistence within the higher education sector. Studies have shown that there is a major achieveme…
When Igbo men from Nigeria gathered in a scrap yard in an industrial estate in the Ruhr city of Essen to dissemble cars, refrigerators, and other technical waste, surrounded by the sounds of unfamiliar music and the wafts of exotic foods, they met with incomprehension and mistru…
There is a struggle facing Muslims, "a way of avoiding the damaging split that often occurs between the secular intellectual development and Islamic spiritual development" (Halstead, 2002). Muslims live two conceptual systems in the United States: a new world and a traditional o…