According to the Pew Research Center (2021) Asian Americans were the fastest growing racial or ethnic group between 2000–2019. More specifically there are 4.2. million Filipinos in the U.S. as of 2019 and are the 3rd largest Asian population within the U.S. (Pew Research Center,…
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Traditional South Asian values have collectivist implications where the welfare and happiness of the family are held in a higher regard than the individual’s personal desires. While the requirement for parental and community approval is conventional for South Asian culture, this…
Despite the increased African immigrant population in the United States in recent years, there is a dearth of literature on the identity struggles of the second-generation Africans, including the Igbo, whose primordial home is located in southeastern Nigeria. Grounded in the dat…
United States and Mexico population statistics show clear evidence of return migration. This study uses qualitative data collected in a municipality in the State of Mexico during the summer of 2010 from families comprised of Mexican nationals and United States-born children post…
Generational conflict has been a significant and persistent theme in various immigration studies and scholarship. Yet, few qualitative works have been conducted throughout the literature of Iranian scholars in the United States to assess the quality and complexity of the subject…
Currently, very little research and few publications regarding Arabs as immigrants, their children, as second generation born Americans, and their collective experiences exists (Faragallah, Schumm & Webb, 1997). Arab scholars agree that the number of stereotypes which the Arabs …
This dissertation focuses on the implications and significance of the emergence and evolution, throughout the 80s and the 90s, of what has been termed "beur literature." This literature consists of about thirty texts written by authors born of immigrants from the former French c…
Employing a non-random sample survey and in-depth interview, I explore the relationship between ethnic and religious identity retention among Arab-origin students from five Cegeps in Montreal. Being non-random, this sample is not representative of the whole population of Arab-or…
This study examines the ethnic identity development process of second-generation Indian Americans, the first sizeable cohort of Indian Americans to come of age in the United States, and identifies major factors involved, exploring the salience of each across the lifespan. The in…
This thesis explores the working lives of British Born South Asian Ethnic Minorities (BB SAEMs), critiquing the homogenous identities ascribed to them in previous research. Its methodology is life-story interviews analysed using Nvivo. This identified four hybrid categories emer…
This dissertation is an ethnography of Arab American artists and arts organizers working in New York from 2003-2006. During this time period, a vibrant art scene emerged in New York aimed at increasing the exposure of Arab American artists to the general arts and entertainment i…
In the Netherlands, anxieties about immigrants, Islam, and the preservation of Dutch values have amplified fears of Muslim youth despite the public discourse of tolerance. While the burgeoning second-generation of Dutch-born Muslim youth faces discrimination in the public sphere…
This dissertation examines the educational experiences of Afghan women in graduate education whose parents are Afghan immigrants. Afghan immigrants are from one of the smallest ethnic groups in the United States and have only started arriving here after the 1980s. Their particip…
This dissertation argues that we are better able to evaluate immigrant identification by looking at the host context and the ways in which the legal environment and the existing perception of the immigrant group define, constrain and create an immigrant identity. The way boundar…
This dissertation is about the educational experiences of 30 second-generation Iranian undergraduate students. These students were selected among a variety of Massachusetts and New York colleges and universities. The students participated in open-ended, in-depth interviews and r…
This dissertation explores the transnational experiences of Ethiopian immigrants in the Washington metropolitan area across generational units. Much of the recent research on transnationalism has focused on the ties immigrants maintain in the sending country. This dissertation a…
As a result of the 1979 Iranian Revolution, Iranian-Americans have found themselves migrating to the United States in search of a new beginning. Though there is more research on first-generation Iranian-American mental health, there is little information on Depression within sec…
This dissertation examines the impact of race on the life experiences and social outcomes among second generation adults of Nigerian descent in the U.S. and the U.K. Using data from 150 semi-structured in-depth interviews, (75 in each country) the following questions are address…
This qualitative single case study examined the factors that contributed to the successful transition of Mondial Printing Services (MPS)—a family business in Nigeria—to the second-generation. Secondly, this study investigated to what extent, if any, did formal succession plannin…