Several scholars have written on the relationship between local and national approaches to integration in the Netherlands. These authors have concluded that while the Dutch national government has become more assimilationist in its approach to migrant groups, local governments h…
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My dissertation focuses on the intellectual migrant subject and its relationship to the American nation. In the dialectic of belonging and unbelonging the migrant subject engages in multiple acts of crossing borders—cultural, ethnic and linguistic borders. My dissertation extrap…
This study's purpose is to investigate the experience of motherhood for Israeli mothers who have been raising their children in the United States. Its aim is to answer the question: How does the experience of becoming a parent in the United States impact Israeli immigrant mother…
This thesis examines the desire and efforts to 'do something' about what is variously called 'modern slavery' or 'human trafficking'. Neoabolitionist efforts to fight such phenomena are typically wedded to a simplistic and essentialist ontology, unaware of or rejecting their own…
Contemporary European integration has given rise to an ongoing process of redefinition of cultural and political identity. Part of this is a resurgence of interest in the Christian roots of European civilization and a focus on what is represented as the "threat" of the illegal m…
This dissertation traces a history of twentieth-century modernism and explores problems in modernism theory from the perspective of the life and work of the German-Jewish émigré composer Stefan Wolpe. Many of the practices of aesthetic modernism have been the work of displaced p…
The HIV/AIDS pandemic in sub-Saharan Africa is the largest in the world, based on both the cumulative number of AIDS cases and the current number of HIV infections, but there is enormous variation in its spread. Differences in sexual behavior patterns is one possible explanation…
This dissertation studies the development of an ethnic division of labor in In-House Services in favor of Gagauz Moldovan migrant women from the mid-1990s to the early 2000s in Turkey. The development of this ethnic division of labor has intensified with significant parallel dev…
This dissertation examines the growing landscape of Turkish-language television and radio broadcasting in Berlin. Challenging the contention that these forms of migrant cultural production can be understood as a strictly local phenomenon, the research presented here explores the…
Clandestine migration from North Africa across the Mediterranean has been explored widely as a topic in the fields of social science in the past decade, but representations of undocumented migration in literature have not been subject to significant attention and analysis. Moreo…
This research study explored the meanings attributed by migrant Arab Muslim women to their experiences of childbirth in the UK. The objectives of the study were: • To explore migrant Arab Muslim women's experiences of maternity services in the UK. • To examine the traditional ch…
This dissertation is about the project(s) of migrant youth culture undertaken and staged by (and for) migrant youths in the public spaces of Berlin, Germany. It specifically focuses on the projects of Turkish migrant youth, their responses to social change, and their reactions t…
During the United States Civil War, a Mexican national, Pedro Garcia, and hundreds ofothers like him came to Brownsville, Texas, looking for ways to strengthen their positions byjoining the Union army. Eventually, the Mexican/Tejano recruits deserted in droves while theUnion for…