Since the implementation of the Guest Worker Program in the 1950s, Germany has struggled to accept that Turkish immigrants, along with subsequent generations, constitute a large part of its society. Thilo Sarrazin's book, Deutschland schafft sich ab, which has been at the center…
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The three papers in this dissertation suggest that Barack Obama's presidency has made a variety of racial and ethnocentric attitudes a more important factor in American politics. Or what this dissertation calls the spillover of racialization. The first paper, for example, argues…
This dissertation examines the construction of Arab American women's racialized ethnic subjectivities and the positioning of Arab Americans within the racialized ethnic terrain of the United States. The narratives of 40 Arab American women who resided in the Northeast region of …
In the liberal democratic tradition, dominant nationalist discourses articulate citizenship as the domain of the nation-state, functioning as a mechanism for dispensing rights and claims through political membership. However, in the wake of heightened globality, national paradig…
As the number of students studying in the United States (U.S.) has risen, scholars have increasingly paid attention to multiple aspects of the international student experience. Despite a proliferation of studies generally addressing the topic of international students, few studi…
In light of current anti-immigrant, anti-Muslim, anti-Iranian, and anti-Middle Eastern developments across the U.S. and Europe, processes of assimilation are gravely under-theorized and inadequately problematized in contemporary research on diasporic Iranians. With this disserta…
This study explored the lived experiences of international students, particularly Chinese students from mainland China, Taiwan, and Malaysia, who participated in the Summer Work Travel Program in a city in the United States. Drawing from the theoretical framework of postcolonial…
This phenomenological study draws from postmodern, and post-positivist theories to describe and explain Somali high school students’ perception and experience of racialization. It explains how the experience of racialization and its impact on embodied perception of self and othe…
Defying the expectations of scholarship predicting that religion will continue to decline, religion remains an influential force that shapes the lives of everyday people. Religious beliefs and communities provide people with cultural tools to understand the world around them, sh…
This dissertation links theories of classroom pedagogy, sociocultural learning and racial identity formation, and racial literacy to analyze how a history teacher engaged students with issues of race and racism, and how students constructed meaning about historical and contempor…
This dissertation examines the relationality of dispossession, racialization, and migration in Detroit, connecting the neoliberal rationality of (re)development to its foundations in Indigenous dispossession and racialized labor. "(Sī'tĭng) Detroit" understands Detroit as a bord…
This dissertation is animated by the question of how to understand the emergence and implications of ecosystems thinking in technological and economic development in the post–World War II United States. Situating its evolution within historical and contemporary struggles around …
Since the 1960s more police and security measures have been used to monitor youth. Today 42 percent of schools have a school resource officer (SRO) stationed inside their buildings; 26 states allow schools to expel students for “willful defiance”; and 91 percent use surveillance…
Chapter one contains the introduction to the research problem, delimitations of the study, research questions, definitions of key terms, procedural overview, and research assumptions. The chapter concludes with a survey of the state of research of perpetual, race-based slavery a…
This project investigates the carceral connections between two groups—Japanese Americans incarcerated in U.S. concentration camps during World War II and Vietnamese refugees following the end of the Vietnam War. By looking at the wartime logic of these U.S. racialized wars in As…
Between 2015 and 2016, Germany was the site of some of the most significant migration events in the 21st century, receiving hundreds of thousands of refugees from across Africa, the Middle East and Asia. Syrians made up a significant proportion of these refugees. Curiously, they…
This dissertation explores how Spanish Moroccans are negotiating their identities in post 3-11 Madrid. In doing so, I explore and capture the lived discourses that reveal the underlying processes that are shaping their identities at the micro, meso, and macro level. The data for…
This dissertation asks how conceptions of race have informed popular cultural expressions in post-independence Morocco. Further, how have these expressions helped shape Moroccan modernity? What does an analysis of the history of the Gnawa in Morocco tell us about changes in Moro…
This dissertation examines representations of Arab- and Muslim-Americans in the U.S. mainstream media after 9/11. Through an intertextual rhetorical analysis of primetime television programs, news reporting, and non-profit advertising, I argue that race has been reconfigured in …