School districts across the country are responsible for providing a fair and equitable education to all students who enter its doors. The current flows of immigration have created a challenge for educational agencies to meet the needs of newcomer immigrant adolescent students. A…
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Immigrant youth living in new immigration countries such as Spain stand at the intersection of competing discourses and policies, their unexpected presence in schools and society opening up dilemmas and debates related to questions of difference, belonging, and identity. This di…
Due to the language barrier, culture clash, and the nature of the migration of the elderly Iranian immigrants to the United States from a culture with history, traditions and values drastically contrasting the countries of the Western world, this generation of older adults is vu…
Adolescence can be a difficult time for youth, and several additional factors intensify the stress and risk associated with adolescence for refugee youth. Refugee adolescents, for example, often have to learn and speak different languages in different contexts, establish new pee…
Islamic norms and Islamophobia present unique challenges for Muslim adolescents attending public high schools in United States. Yet, Muslim youth see Islam not just as religion but also as a guiding force and a way of life. Additionally, they negotiate multiple social identities…
This two-year qualitative study examined parental involvement, advocacy in particular, of four Arabic-speaking Muslim couples who fled Iraq to the United States as refugees. Through interviews and ethnographic observations at their homes, children's schools, religious and social…
This thesis examines suicide in Boston's Ethiopian Community. The act of suicide and individual cases are explored through participant narratives. Narratives from family members and acquaintances of those who died by suicide are examined. I rely on in-depth (N=8) and follow-up i…
Academics have extensively studied the life trajectories of second-generation immigrants. Various research studies have explored their identity-negotiation processes by looking at their degree of assimilation and acculturation into their host countries and their transnational co…
This research focuses on African immigrant students in higher education, and the nature of their academic and social preparation for higher education in the United States. A 50-question survey was administered to 98 African immigrant students in institutions of higher learning a…
Immigrant women are a growing population in Canada. In order to capitalize on their skills and education, it is important to facilitate settlement and integration. Facilitation requires an in-depth understanding of their needs and the challenges preventing full participation. Th…
The Ethics of Evaluation: the Immigrant, the Cosmopolitan, and the “Jew” in American Literary Realism, 1880–1925, argues that vacillations between philo-Semitic and anti-Semitic literary Jewishness are symptomatic of upheavals in the ethico-religious, economic and aesthetic land…
The dissertation is an ethnographic study of the experiences of Chaldean immigrant women, with an emphasis on gender and family, in metropolitan Detroit. Research was conducted between 1993 and 1997. Data collection consisted of in-depth interviews, ethnographic field work and p…
This dissertation studies the textual dialogue between Argentines of European descent and Arab immigrants to Argentina from the rnid-1800's to mid-1900's. It elucidates the reciprocal nature of processes of representation and identity formation between national and immigrant gro…
The subject of my dissertation is cinematic constructions of African immigrant and French identities. I analyze Vivre au Paradis (Bourlem Guerdjou), Soleil Ô (Med Hondo), La Noire de… (Ousmane Sembene), and Mémoires d'immigrés (Yamina Benguigui) from cultural, aesthetic, and pol…
The study was a secondary analysis of 56 qualitative interview transcripts of 7 African immigrant families from Ethiopia, Nigeria and Congo with the purpose of exploring their childcare experiences. Using data from the Minnesota Child Care Partnership Research Project, a natural…
Relationships between immigrant entrepreneurs and customers typically gain attention after negative encounters that at times end tragically. These events are framed along racial lines, positing the immigrant store owner (e.g., Korean, Chinese, Arab, or Chaldean) and African Amer…
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…
The purpose of this study was to explore the musical experiences of immigrant students in an American high school choral classroom. This study revealed some of the central issues and tensions that immigrant students face as they are acculturated into secondary school music progr…
The study examined international immigration to the United States. It focused on the psychological effects of immigrants' experience during the immigration process. The investigation searched into ethnic identification among fifteen first generation adult immigrants who all resi…