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De, La Torre Maria Eugenia. "Race and ethnicity in the Mexican migration experience /." Connect to title online (ProQuest), 2009. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1883581501&sid=4&Fmt=2&clientId=11238&RQT=309&VName=PQD.
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Bergin, Paul. "Maori migration and cultural identity : the Australian experience." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1998. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.244154.
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Martinez, Daniel E. "The Crossing Experience: Unauthorized Migration along the Arizona-Sonora Border." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/293415.
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The present study utilizes survey data (n = 415) collected in the Migrant Border Crossing Study from repatriated Mexican migrants to examine three important questions regarding unauthorized migration attempts through southern Arizona. First, what factors explicate migrants' modes of crossing? Second, do coyote fees vary among people who rely on smuggling services to cross the border? If so, what accounts for this variation? Third, what factors shape encounters with bajadores while traversing the desert? The present analyses expand on previous studies examining the unauthorized crossing in multiple ways. For instance, I empirically test the role of a "culture of migration" in explaining modes of crossing, coyote fees, and bajador encounters. I also differentiate between two main types of coyotes: "border business" and "interior." I then examine whether crossing with a coyote mediates the risk of encountering bajadores during the journey. Overall, there are important differences in crossing modes and coyote fees. Women are more likely to travel with both coyote types, while the opposite is true for more experienced migrants. Older migrants and people who cross during summer months are less likely to travel with an "interior" coyote. The strongest predictor of higher smuggling fees is the region of a person's U.S. destination. Higher coyote fees are also associated with immigrants' higher educational attainment, being married, being the sole economic provider for one's household, and higher household income. More experienced migrants, and those crossing in larger groups or during the summer also pay higher fees, however fees do not vary by gender, age, or social capital. These findings are somewhat consistent with the extant literature on human capital and risk tolerance/aversion, but run counter to the vast migration literature emphasizing the importance of social capital in the migration process. Finally, the risk of encountering bajadores is not higher for males, young adults, the less educated, and the more impoverished, which contradicts extant findings in the victimology literature. With the exception of crossing corridor and time spent in the desert, no other factors increase the risk of encountering bandits more than traveling with a coyote. Implications and possible future research are discussed.
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Siracusa, Ettore, and ettore siracusa@deakin edu au. "The Cliched gaze of the migrant on the Australian screen." Deakin University. School of Visual, Performing, and Media Arts, 1993. http://tux.lib.deakin.edu.au./adt-VDU/public/adt-VDU20070329.140940.
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The thesis takes up the question of the representation of the migrant on the Australian screen in terms of a specific set of concerns around the notions of stereotype and self-reflexivity. The stereotype is read as a self-referential image: hence, as a question of film spectatorship and identity; in short as an unconscious reflex or self image.
The text of the thesis is in two parts: part one, comprises the production of the film Italians at home. It is the major component of research and text which, for this purpose, has been copied and submitted hereto on VHS video cassette. Part two, includes an analysis and discussion of the television documentary The migrant experience, and an exegesis, of the production, narrative and reception of the film Italians at home.
The migrant experience is read and discussed as an exemplary text of dominant, stereotyped discourse of cultural difference; while Italians at home is proposed as a parallel text and a self-reflexive reading and criticism of such a text.
Both the television documentary and the film, deal with the representation and problematic of homogenised representations of ethnicity. In the case of The migrant experience, it is argued, that the figure of the migrant as other and self-image, functions as an object of Australian culture and discourse of national identity within a logic of representation of binary structures; while the film Italians at home, the question of self-referentiality is seen in terms of the viewing subject and a problematic of film representation; thus, the film attempts to make such signifying structures, visual codes and agreed assumptions of otherness visible, while, at the same time, attempting to displace them or pose them as a problem of representation or reading for the viewer.
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Spitzer, Denise Lee. "Migration and menopause, women's experience of maturation in three immigrant communities." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1998. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk3/ftp04/nq29112.pdf.
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Carter, M. "Indian labour migration to Mauritius and the indenture experience 1834-1874." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1987. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.234302.
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Partridge, Andrew. "Rural-urban migration and subjective well-being the South African experience." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/5716.
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This paper gives a detailed account of rural-urban migration in South Africa. Using data from the recent National Income and Dynamics Study (NIDS) it defines the determinants and nature of rural-urban migration in South Africa before providing a thorough analysis of changes in a range of economic and social factors that individuals experience when they leave their rural homes and relocate to the country’s urban areas. These factors include income, housing standards, access to utilities, relative deprivation, interpersonal trust, crime and safety, physical health and depression. In particular the paper looks at subjective well-being, defined in terms of individuals self-reported satisfaction with life.
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Doh, Nah-Ree. "EXPERIENCE OF LIVING IN A FOREIGN COUNTRY: MIGRATION AND MEANING MAKING." Miami University / OhioLINK, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1289626379.
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Robertson, Shanthi, and shanthi robertson@rmit edu au. "Negotiated Transnationality: Memberships, Mobilities and the Student-Turned-Migrant Experience." RMIT University. Design and Social Context, 2008. http://adt.lib.rmit.edu.au/adt/public/adt-VIT20090119.143830.
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This thesis is an exploratory study of the lives and experiences of international students who apply for and gain permanent residency (PR) after completing tertiary study in Australia. The thesis uses sociological theories and methods to focus on the ways that students-turned-migrants maintain transnational connections, and negotiate their memberships and sense of belonging across Australia and other countries. This research is important because there is negligible extant literature that connects the international study experience and the skilled migration experience as two steps in the same process. Furthermore, research that does address this phenomenon tends to look at students-turned-migrants as a 'policy problem', usually focusing on their labour market integration. In contrast, this thesis foregrounds this distinctive group of contemporary migrants' subjective experience of the migration process and their ongoing transnational connections. The research used cultural probes (packages of mixed media materials such as diaries, maps and disposable cameras, which participants used to document aspects of their lives) and in-depth interviews to provide a rich understanding of the multiplicity and breadth of participants' individual experiences, with various reflective representations of the individuals' narratives at the core of the study. The analysis covers two aspects of the student-turned-migrant experience: the acquisition of memberships, such as PR and citizenship, and the maintenance of mobilities, including virtual mobility through media and communications technology, and corporeal mobility through forms of travel such as return visits. The analysis reveals that students-turned-migrants undergo a distinct migration experience, characterised by three sequential gates of membership: their entrance as transient students, their acquisition of residency and their decisions about citizenship. Transnational consciousness diffuses their decision-making at each stage of this process, as they negotiate the memberships available to them as a means to balance their desires and obligations across home and host countries. The analysis reveals that student-turned-migrant choices and experiences are often affected by macro-political forces. Choices about citizenship are heavily influenced by global regimes of mobility and the media, and their acqu isition of residency is negotiated through the institutions and regulations of the immigration regime. The analysis also reveals that students-turned-migrants engage with a diverse range of transnational practices, many of which are closely grounded in the use of technology to maintain transnational connections. The findings reframe students-turned-migrants as more than just a policy problem, but rather as a unique group of contemporary migrants, with several key features that set them apart from previous waves of Australian migrants. While they are less integrated into established local ethnic communities, they maintain very strong connections overseas. They maintain regular contact through virtual mobilities and display a high propensity for return travel. They value mobility highly and display an acute awareness of both the advantages and challenges of sustaining mobile lives. The study of their experiences not only reveals a great deal about the nature of transnationality and mobility in an increasingly globalised world, but also suggests that if this type of migration continues in the future, it may have implications for Australia's patterns of cultural diversity and international integration.
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Bareikytė, Miglė. "Migration as Becoming: the Experience of Immaterial Laborers from Lithuania in Berlin." Master's thesis, Lithuanian Academic Libraries Network (LABT), 2012. http://vddb.laba.lt/obj/LT-eLABa-0001:E.02~2012~D_20120607_134117-21294.
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International migration is a significant issue in many contemporary societies. It is often analysed through the frame of different representational models. This thesis argues the need for a conceptualization of the migrant through the Deleuzian philosophy of immanence, and immaterial labor practice.
The first part of the thesis discloses the problematic aspect of representation and places the figure of the migrant in the Deleuzian philosophy of immanence. The second part of the thesis is devoted to the analysis of the dominant mode of economy in contemporary capitalist societies – post-Fordism. Deleuzian angle of the migrant, which is based on desire, change, deterritorialization, and affect is deeply connected with post-Fordist economy and one of its practises – immaterial labor. With immaterial labor, which is based on the intellectual capabilities of human beings build a relation through communication and affect, being the dominant work practise nowadays, this practise as well as the figure of migrant is placed in the field of immanence. This field is based on the refusal of any kind of representation. It places the being in the material world, which finds itself in continuous process of becoming through the creation of relations. Thus, the figure of the migrant, whose life is based on the intensified creation of relations is the paradigmatic form of all subjectivity under post-Fordist logic and conditions, which is based on intensified creation of relations for the... [to full text]Šiuolaikinėse visuomenėse tarptautinė migracija tampa vis aktualesniu reiškiniu. Akademinėje literatūroje migracija dažniausiai nagrinėjama pasitelkiant įvairius reprezentacinius modelius. Šis magistro darbas skirtas migracijos konceptualizavimui per imanentiškos Gilles Deleuzo filosofijos prizmę bei nemateriaulaus darbo praktiką. Pirma darbo dalis pristato bei analizuoja reprezentacijos, kaip reiškinio, problematiką ir diskutuoja migranto figūros priklausomybę imanentinei Deliozo filosofijos terpei. Antroji darbo dalis skirta dominuojančios šiuolaikinio kapitalizmo ekonomikos rūšies – post-Fordizmo – analizei. Migranto konceptas, aptariamas per Deliozo imamentiškos filosofijos prizmę yra pagrįstas šiai filosofijai priklausančiais konceptais: troškimu, pokyčiu, deteritorializacija, afektu, kurie yra tampriai susiję su post-Fordizmo ekonomika bei viena iš jos praktikų – nematerialiu darbu. Kadangi tiek nematerialaus darbo logika, tiek migranto būtis remiasi žmogiškuoju gebėjimais mąstyti, užmegzti ryšį per komunikacijos aktą bei sukelti afektą, abu konceptai yra patalpinami į imanentišką lauką. Imanencija paremta bet kokios reprezentacijos, kuria remiamas transcendcijos kūrimas, atmetimu bei būties patalpinimu į materialų pasaulį, kuriamą iš intensyvumų mainais paremtų ryšių. Tokiu būdu migrantas, kurio būtis paremta intensyviu ryšių kūrimu bei perkūrimu, tampa paradigmatišku viso post-Fordizmo ekonomikos, kuriai būdingas intensyvus ryšių kūrimas siekiant sukurti vis... [toliau žr. visą tekstą]
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Uttech, Melanie Renee. "Education and migration in rural Mexico: An ethnographic view of local experience." Diss., The University of Arizona, 1999. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/284077.
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This interdisciplinary study examines the education and migration experiences of children, and their families, in a migrant-sending community in Mexico. It seeks to inform U.S. policy-makers campaigning for anti-immigrant legislation who have failed to examine the historical consequences of the contradictions existing between policy and practice. Additionally, it argues against U.S. educational practice that begins with intervention models based on deficiencies for immigrant and migrant students, rather than build on rich linguistic and cultural resources these children bring to the classroom. Data were collected for this ethnographic study over a period of 3½ years to examine historical and sociocultural backgrounds, dialect variations in patterns of communication, attitudes toward education, and causal roots of the migratory work experience. The researcher lived as a participatory member of a rural community in Guanajuato, Mexico, and conducted 81 formal interviews with parents, children, teachers, administrators and elders. The results of this research are deeply rooted in history. The U.S. political economy played a key role in establishing patterns of migration northward. The first members of the community began working in the United States in 1942, because of the Bracero Program, a contract between the United States and Mexico whereby low-cost seasonal workers were sent to U.S. growers to fulfill the demand for field labor. Because families lived from subsitence farming practices, the appeal was great to head North, work temporarily, and return home. Though the Bracero Program officially ended, and many workers were denied legal access to the United States, the demand for cheap labor has not subsided. Agribusiness continues to seek Mexican workers, encouraging undocumented passage by guaranteeing work opportunities. Children have been socialized into this work pattern, and today most believe they eventually will have to work en El Norte, though they would prefer to stay home. Women assume familial responsibilities and traditional roles are transformed, and females become heads of household. Children who travel with their fathers or parents are penalized within the U.S. school system when viewed as empty slates, yet these children have much to offer U.S. multuicultural classrooms in the way of diverse perspectives and experiences.
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Ramos, Karina. "Latino Immigrant Students: Exploring the Relationship between Migration Experience and Education Outcomes." Thesis, University of Oregon, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/1794/19218.
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The purpose of this study was to contribute to the literature on the educational outcomes and protective factors (i.e., support systems) in the lives of Latino immigrant youth, with a special emphasis on how these experiences relate to and are impacted by their migration experiences. Using the cultural-ecological theoretical framework and the Stages of Migration framework, this study utilized an existing data set to explore the relationships between migration stress, psychological distress, experiences of discrimination, and awareness of discrimination in relation to educational outcomes in a sample of 281 Latino immigrant youth. These relationships were then examined to see if they differed as a function of perceived support, gender, and school type (i.e., middle school versus high school). Structural equation modeling was utilized to test the hypothesized model that included migration stress, psychological distress, and education outcomes. The structural model showed very good fit. Results suggest that migration stress has a significant direct effect on psychological distress and on educational outcomes among Latino immigrant youth. Participants reporting high migration stress reported greater psychological distress and had poorer educational outcomes with respect to academic grades, educational aspirations, and educational expectations. Moderation testing indicated the structural model did not vary as a function of perceived support, gender, or school. Implications for research and practice are discussed.
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Cwerner, Saulo Brilmann. "The times of migration : a study of the temporalities of the immigrant experience." Thesis, Lancaster University, 1999. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.310371.
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Ignatowicz, Agnieszka. "Migration and mobility of new Polish migrants in England : narratives of lived experience." Thesis, Aston University, 2012. http://publications.aston.ac.uk/17474/.
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This thesis sets out to understand the act of migrating in a period of growing movement of people. It captures the subjective experience of individual migrants, as narrated in the migration stories of 32 “new” Polish migrants in the West Midlands region of England. Since the enlargement of the European Union in 2004, over half a million Poles have arrived and registered to work in the UK, constituting one of the largest migration movements in contemporary Britain and Europe. This influx of predominantly young migrants opened up public and academic debates regarding the social relations between the Polish migrants and the host society, their duration of stay, and the impact on the economy and social services. While a substantial amount of research has now been undertaken on this migration, this thesis highlights some of the significant features of migration to Britain and Europe today, namely its dynamic, fluid, complex and varied character. Through four themes of lived experience of migration, migration and mobility, gender, and return migration, this thesis uncovers and explores the phenomenon of post-2004 EU migration from the perspective of migrants themselves. Migrant stories in this thesis are linked with experiences and meanings of migration, but also migrants’ emotions, perceptions, views and opinions. By exploring individual journeys of migration and deliberating over the determinants and consequences of migration, this thesis asks how the processes of migration and mobility come into play in the everyday lives of migrant people, and how this impacts on questions of identity, home, belonging, gender, as well as return.
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Rishbeth, Clare. "Landscape experience and migration : superdiversity and the significance of urban public open space." Thesis, University of Sheffield, 2016. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/13580/.
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This thesis examines how first generation migrants experience urban outdoor places, detailing significant findings and methodological development relating to two research projects. The research is located in Sheffield, England. The first research project (Viewfinder) focuses on young refugees and asylum seekers exploring citywide greenspaces and parks. The second project (Walking Voices) addresses a neighbourhood scale of interest, working with first generation migrant residents to communicate their own stories and experiences of their local area. Creative and participatory research methods were developed for on-site work, using photography and independent audio recording. The research found that spending time outside is an important means by which first generation migrants feel a sense of agency and belonging in a neighbourhood context. Though the research supports use of urban greenspace as beneficial to individual and collective wellbeing, it underlines the critical importance of understanding cultural dimensions – motivations and barriers - to visiting parks and other types of greenspace. Evaluation of a local environment is often shaped by migrants’ experiences of past places, and previous expectations of life in the UK. Place attachment is strengthened by participation and familiarity in a local located community, and often by recognising transcultural connections. The overlapping use of public space by people from different ethnic communities offers opportunities for gradual informal contact and gives a visual shared recognition to the diversity of a neighbourhood. However, the ability to make choices about when to engage with one’s own ethnic group, and when to retreat from the expectations of this ‘public gaze’ was also valued. The thesis examines the implications of these findings for landscape architecture practice, and emphasises that the profession needs to become more culturally literate in responding to the superdiversity of urban contexts, and to difference in social and cultural values with regard to recreation, socialising, and natural places.
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Casiano, Victor Alejandro Rosa. "Case for a closer look at migration : analysis of the puerto rican experience." Master's thesis, Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/10400.5/20824.
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Mestrado em Actuarial ScienceNeste trabalho é feito o estudo da migração em Porto-Rico, tanto no curto como no longo, usando a análise de séries temporais e o processo estocástico de Ornstein Uhlenbeck. Os resultados mostram que, de acordo com a literatura, a migração é uma variável muito difícil de modelar. Apesar dessa dificuldade, mostra-se que a migração é uma variável que tem um impacto de longo prazo na economia, na demografia e na actividade seguradora de Porto-Rico. No final é dado um exemplo numérico com aplicações na actividade seguradora. São também apresentadas conclusões e perspectivas futuras para o estudo da migração em Porto-Rico.
Migration in Puerto Rico is modeled, both in the short-term and long-term, using time series analysis and the Ornstein Uhlenbeck Stochastic Process. Results show that, in agreement with previous works, migration continues to be a very difficult and volatile variable to model. However, it is shown that contrary to most of the literature, migration is a variable that does have a long-term impact on Puerto Rico?s economy, demography, and actuarial industry.
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Kalaw, Karel Joyce Daba. "Home for good: The experience of return among Overseas Male Filipino Workers (OMFW)." Miami University / OhioLINK, 2015. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1437671347.
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Kozlowska, Olga. "The lived experience of economic migration in the narratives of migrants from post-communist Poland to Britain." Thesis, University of Wolverhampton, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/2436/122520.
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This thesis examines the lived experience of economic migration of young and degree level educated migrants from Poland to Britain. The main aim is to explore how the participants of economic migration within the borders of the European Union experience migrating. The special feature of this migration is the fact that they leave a postcommunist country and come to a country with a well established capitalist economy and long-standing democracy. The particular questions are: how these migrants construct their experience of migrating, are they faced with any problems while doing it, and if so - how do they resolve them? The data comes from twenty-two semi-structured interviews with migrants educated to degree level who were residents and worked in one of the regions of England at a professional level or below their qualifications (manual or simple clerical work). The research utilises the critical discourse analysis perspective; the data is approached with analysis focused on linguistic choices (lexical and grammatical) evident in the respondents’ statements. This kind of analysis enables observation and in-depth interpretation of the way experiences of migrating are constructed. The migrants’ narratives were full of discursive struggle while constructing their experience of migrating. Firstly, the interviewees made an effort to present their migration as rational. Secondly, they were trying to rationalise their financial needs to refute accusations of greed for money. Thirdly, the underemployed migrants justified their employment choices by distancing themselves from work below that which they were qualified for. Fourthly, the interviewees were making an attempt to withdraw from a multicultural community by constructing the negative Other. Exploring lived experience of living and working abroad reveals competitive discourses and ways of coping with ambivalence. Understanding these discursive practices requires knowledge of their beliefs and values that underpin the discourses available in the Polish postcommunist society. Overall, the narratives overflowed with dilemmas that showed this migration as more complicated on an individual level than the official discourse of free movement of people in the EU suggests. This thesis captures the migrants’ lived experience within one year after the EU enlargement; it reflects on the narratives being shaped when migrants were given the opportunity to introduce the new discourses on migration or re-think the old ones as a result of new macro-processes in the European Union. This research complements other studies exploring migrants’ voices in search of insight into what their experiences were and how they made sense out of them. However, with the methodology used, it focuses more on uncovering the struggle over arguments available to build their stories. It offers explanation to their discursive practices by analysing them against the discourses as being products of postcommunism. The study’s results may shed more light on recent processes within this group of migrants and also inform institutional policy and practice about problems affecting members of this group, reported in this thesis.
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Yalcin, Cemal. "Ethnic identities in action : the experience of Turkish young people in London." Thesis, University of Surrey, 2000. http://epubs.surrey.ac.uk/820/.
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Willems, Roos. "Embedding the refugee experience forced migration and social networks in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania /." [Gainesville, Fla.] : University of Florida, 2003. http://purl.fcla.edu/fcla/etd/UFE0002281.
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Nkem, Nzeafack Giovani. "How do Black multiracial Swedes experience racial identity formation in Sweden? : Biracial and Multiracial identity formation." Thesis, Malmö universitet, Malmö högskola, Institutionen för globala politiska studier (GPS), 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-39793.
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This thesis examines how biracial and multiracial individuals experience racial identity formation in Sweden. An investigation was conducted into their childhood and upbringing to explore how these experiences shape the way that their identity is formed. To arrive at the results of this dissertation, six individuals who self-identify themselves as Black biracial Swedes where recruited to participate in the data collection process. This mean that this research has used primary tools such as semi-structured interviews to collect data from the participants. This study has used two contemporary positive theories of biracial and multiracial identity formation which are Poston’s Biracial identity model and Roots resolution for resolving otherness. Within these two theoretical frameworks, the research question and aim will be answered through analysis of the respondents. Themes that were used to analyse the interviewees responses where alienation from racial identity, picking a side, language as identity and, familiar support and negative experiences. The results finding shows that most interviewees experience a challenge in the process of identifying themselves with a specific racial group leading to a development of a gap in the process of self- identification.
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Paul, Heike. "Mapping migration : women's writing and the American immigrant experience from the 1950s to the 1990s /." Heidelberg : C. Winter, 1999. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb388749431.
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Benson, Marshall Melanie. "The role of information in the migration experience of young Polish women in the UK." Thesis, University of Sheffield, 2018. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/20957/.
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Since the expansion of the European Union in 2004 to include Poland as a member, there has been a substantial increase in the number of migrants moving from Poland to the UK, and there are now almost one million Poles living in the UK. These migrants are generally young and highly educated, and are moving to the UK for reasons of economic improvement and self-fulfilment. Furthermore, many are women migrating independently, which is an emerging trend in migration in general. While the information behaviour of migrants has been studied, this work has tended to focus on certain populations, such as refugees. Less research has been done to examine the information behaviour of economic migrants, particularly within an EU context, which becomes more timely with the UK’s decision to leave the EU. This thesis therefore investigates the role of information in the migration experience of young Polish women in the UK. This study takes an interpretivist, constructionist perspective, with a broadly ethnographic approach to data collection and analysis. An exploratory study was undertaken to contextualise the research and refine the methodology, involving expert interviews, pilot interviews with Polish women, and analysis of a previous study of recent Polish migration to the UK. In the main study, twenty-one participants were interviewed using a semi-structured interview technique and mental mapping. Data was analysed thematically. The study provides insights into the information behaviour and experience of young Polish women migrating to the UK. It contextualises these findings against previous research within migration in the field of information science, and presents a conceptual model of the underlying factors shaping the relationship between migration and information behaviour. It also contributes to the use of visual methods in information behaviour research, and delivers practical recommendations for migrational individuals and those working with them.
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Lehane, Paul. "Encountering Cornwall : understanding the construction of place and identity, with particular reference to the experience of recent migrants to the Camborne-Redruth area." Thesis, Oxford Brookes University, 1999. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.325473.
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Barda, Rachel Marlene. "The Migration Experience of the Jews of Egypt to Australia, 1948-1967: A model of acculturation." University of Sydney, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/1145.
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Doctor of PhilosophyThis thesis has tried to construct a comprehensive analysis of a clearly defined community of Egyptian Jews in Australia and France, based on the oral history of Egyptian born migrants. Built around the conceptual framework of forced emigration, integration and acculturation, it looks at the successful experience of this particular migrant group within both Australian and French societies. Like the other Jewish communities of Arab lands, the Egyptian Jewish community no longer exists, as it was either expelled or forced into exile in the aftermath of the three Arab-Israeli wars (1948, 1956, 1967). This thesis argues that the rise of an exclusively Arab-Islamic type of nationalism, the growth of Islamic fundamentalism and the escalating Arab-Israeli conflict constituted the fundamental causes for the demise of Egyptian Jewry. As a consequence, almost half of the Jewish population of Egypt went to Israel. The rest dispersed throughout the Western world, mainly in France, North and South America. In Australia, a small group of around 2,000 found a new home. Apart from those who migrated to Israel, the majority of Egyptian Jews experienced a waiting period in Europe before they were accepted by any of the countries of immigration, a period facilitated by international and local Jewish welfare agencies. My interviewees chose Australia mostly to be reunited with family members. They first had to overcome the racial discrimination of the ‘White Australia’ Immigration policy towards Jews of Middle Eastern origin, a hurdle surmounted thanks to the tireless efforts of some leaders of the Australian Jewish community. With their multiple language skills, multi-layered identity and innate ability to interact with a variety of ethnic groups, they succeeded in establishing themselves in an unfamiliar country that initially welcomed them reluctantly. As such, they can be said to have successfully acculturated and integrated into Australian society, whilst retaining their own cultural diversity. The more numerous Egyptian Jews living in France also successfully acculturated. As a larger group, they were better equipped to assert themselves within the older Jewish/French community and retain their distinctive Sephardi culture. Studies such as the present one provide insight into the process of integration and identity reconstruction, as well as the diverse strategies used to ensure a successful acculturation, and the value of a multi-layered identity.
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Phillips, Ágnes Adél. "“The right thing to do” : COVID-19 emergency work as a migration experience for the international health care students of Hungary." Thesis, Malmö universitet, Institutionen för globala politiska studier (GPS), 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-43527.
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The case study of this thesis is the analysis of international health care students joined the emergency call of local authorities and performed emergency work during COVID-19 to help the Hungarian health care teams and facilities manage the pandemic. Through this case, the thesis puts an existing student interaction typology (Rose-Redwood and Rose-Redwood, 2013) to the test, and sets out to answer how the COVID-19-induced changes in their typology affected the students’ experience of being a migrant in Hungary. With semi-structured interviews and an inductive approach, the thesis identifies three recurring feelings – isolation, gratitude and responsibility – and the core argument of the thesis is that the feelings and migration experiences that the student shared were connected to the disruption of the student interaction typology. This study informs our understanding of student mobility and helps further research account for atypical situations in student mobility research.
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Sinclair, Marion Ryan. "The experience of exclusion : strategies of adaptation among immigrants in post-apartheid urban South Africa /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/10833.
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Kanengoni, Mistancia. "“It is what it is”: an ethnography of women's experience of drought in Madziva, Zimbabwe." Master's thesis, Faculty of Humanities, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/32227.
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Bad weather conditions such as drought have had detrimental effects on the agrarian life of the people in Madziva rural area, Zimbabwe. Due to the unfavorable weather conditions in this area, poverty and unemployment, most men migrated and continue to migrate to the urban areas in search of greener pastures. This research focuses on how these more frequent extreme weather conditions in Madziva, resulting in less predictable seasons, have increased incidences of precarity. This is important as it portrays how the climate has changed, its effect and the anxiety and expectations around it. Furthermore, providing perception of the nature of climate change in the village is important in order to assess the evidence of nature and level of climate change (manifesting through drought). As a result of the uncertainty caused by drought, the migration of men had been rampant in Madziva, and thus the village is characterized by a significant number of female-led households. To understand the social, political and economic dynamics of what it means to survive in a time of drought for ‘fragmented' families, an ethnographic research was conducted in Madziva over two months (14 June 2017 to 15 July 2017) and (10 December 2017 to 11 January 2018) during one of the worst droughts in Zimbabwe. This research follows the everyday lives of eight women and the interactions with 15 more women through focus group interviews in order to understand the strategies used to achieve survival. In this thesis, the results of an ethnography of women's experience of drought particularly in Madziva rural area in Zimbabwe between June 2017 and mid-January to mid-February 2018 are presented. It further explores, the locals' understandings of extreme weather conditions particularly in Madziva rural area and how practices, particularly those linked to gender, are shaped or reinforced. This research found out that the people of Madziva rural area, particularly women are severely affected by drought as compared to men. This is because of the expectations of managing the household and caring for children which requires them to be heavily reliant on natural resources. The reliance on natural resources has been due to the very poor and non-performing Zimbabwean economy, however, these are the resources which become scarce in a time of drought, which exacerbates precarity. Additionally, women in rural areas such as Madziva have less access to critical information on shifts in cropping patterns and weather alerts, and this can be linked to the gendered structure of the village, where men are seen as the principle holders of knowledge of the land. Furthermore, women also have very little power in decision making and access to resources because of the land ownership titles often given to the men of the household. However, with iv the high migration to urban centers, there is a gap that the women of Madziva must navigate and this thesis aims to explore how this occurs. For instance, during the fieldwork, it became evident that irrespective of all these challenges that are caused by drought, women are always expected to make a plan to provide for their families although there is a stiff competition for the remaining natural resources. Women in Madziva negotiated relationships of marginality, responsibility, togetherness and belonging through the ways they experienced the challenges ushered by drought.
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Pamenang, Imawan Rafif. "Is the International migration fostering social capital? : A field study on the effects of international migration experience on social capital in Javanese society in Bantul, Indonesia." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Statsvetenskapliga institutionen, 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-304499.
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Mumtaz, Mehr. "Resettled: How Refugees Experience Employment and Unemployment in the U.S." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2020. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1707322/.
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Research on immigration in the United States has commonly studied the employment experiences of refugees. Few studies on refugees have focused on both, refugees' employment and unemployment experiences in the United States. This article draws on twenty in-depth interviews with refugees, along with ethnographic observation at a local refugee resettlement agency, to investigate how refugees make sense of their employment and unemployment experiences in the United States. I find that refugee men and women experience different employment trajectories in the United States, which are shaped by gender inequality in the public and domestic spheres. I further find that refugees' navigation with work in the United Stated influences their unemployment experiences and work in the informal sector. My study extends previous literature on refugee incorporation by conceptualizing refugees' employment as a gendered process, which includes periods of formal paid work, informal paid work, and unemployment in the United States.
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Guo, Man. "Migration experience of floating population in China a case study of women migrant domestic workers in Beijing /." Click to view the E-thesis via HKUTO, 2006. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/B35318387.
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Chrostowsky, MaryBeth. "THE EFFECTS OF MIGRATION ON GENDER NORMS AND RELATIONS: THE POST-REPATRIATION EXPERIENCE IN BOR, SOUTH SUDAN." UKnowledge, 2013. http://uknowledge.uky.edu/anthro_etds/5.
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My dissertation research was a 14-month ethnographic study of the post-repatriation experience of forced migrants in South Sudan. It was designed to determine if alterations to gender norms and relations that refugees experienced during asylum differed as a function of the asylum environments and if these modifications remained intact upon the refugees’ return. The forced migrants in my sample, the Dinka of Bor from South Sudan, encountered two different asylum environments and experiences: Kakuma refugee camp in northern Kenya and Khartoum, in northern Sudan. After 10-15 years in asylum, these forced Dinka Bor migrants returned to South Sudan. I compared the pre-flight and post-repatriation behavior of these two groups of returnees to determine to what extent gendered behaviors could be attributed to each asylum location. I found that various global forces encountered during asylum were instrumental in forging new ways of life by changing gendered livelihood practices and gendered access to status, power, and resources after return. In addition, the resettlement context played an equally critical role in the gendered behaviors after return.
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Guo, Man, and 郭漫. "Migration experience of floating population in China: a case study of women migrant domestic workers in Beijing." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2006. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B35318387.
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Hazley, Barry. "The Irish in Post-war England : experience, memory and belonging in personal narratives of migration, 1945-69." Thesis, University of Manchester, 2013. https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/the-irish-in-postwar-england-experience-memory-and-belonging-in-personal-narratives-of-migration-194569(09efb90f-c2d9-4695-835b-3c9887470890).html.
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Scholars of Irish migration in twentieth-century Britain have tended to present migrants' experiences through two opposing stories about 'assimilation' and the struggle to preserve an 'Irish ethnic identity' in the face of official attempts at repression. Based on in-depth analysis of oral history interviews conducted by the author between 2009 and 2011, with eight Irish migrants who settled in England between 1945-69, this thesis suggests that individual migrant experiences resist simple incorporation within this dichotomy. It does so through exploration of the diverse ways the psychic and the social intersect in the production of migrant subjectivities within specific contexts. The thesis argues that such subjectivities were not coherently constituted or unified through a single discourse on 'identity', but that there were always multiple, often contradictory, possibilities available for self-construction within the different spaces migrants inhabited, in both the past and present. Through investigation of the distinct ways different respondents constructed themselves in relation to four sites of memory, namely leaving Ireland, pre-marriage years in the post-war British city, the construction industry, and 'The Troubles', the thesis shows how migrants negotiated and drew upon a diverse range of subject-positions in order to constitute themselves within their personal accounts of settlement. This inter-subjective process was conditioned by the possibilities and constraints of the various local, communal, and institutional discourses which mediated the lived realities of migration to Britain and which were available in the present for self-construction. But it was affected too by the active if usually unconscious workings of memory. How migrants interacted with available discourses was never predetermined but was shaped by on-going dialogues between public and private, past and present, there and here. Within each narrative these dialogues formed parts of individually specific strategies of 'composure' through which subjects, with varying degrees of success, sought to render their experiences into a coherent, integrated whole. The thesis argues that Irish migrant 'identity' in post-1945 England was never the finished product of a linear process of 'assimilation' or simple determinants like national origin, class, or religion. It is more usefully approached as a variable set of dialogic processes, as part of which migrants made investments in a diverse range of discourses in a bid to formulate self-affirming understandings of the migration experience.
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Xiang, Xiaoping, and 向小平. "The changing life experience of migration, intimacy and power among married female migrant workers in China: therise of dagongsao." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2011. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B47147155.
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Zani, Mateus Amoedo 1984. "Entre idas e vi(n)das = transformações e continuidades em um bairro rural no Sul de Minas Gerais a partir das experiências de mobilidade." [s.n.], 2012. http://repositorio.unicamp.br/jspui/handle/REPOSIP/281916.
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Orientador: Emília Pietrafesa de GodoiDissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas
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Resumo: O presente texto tem por objetivo abordar um processo de reconfiguração de um bairro rural em Poços de Caldas, Minas Gerais, a partir das trajetórias de migração internacional de alguns de seus habitantes. Estes migraram para a Itália, com o intuito de conseguirem a cidadania italiana. Após oito meses da primeira viagem para a Itália, já com o passaporte italiano em mãos, partiram para os Estados Unidos. A meta, desde o início era a possibilidade de garantia de uma economia que lhes desse condições para a reprodução de suas pequenas propriedades cafeeiras. Para alcançar o objetivo desta pesquisa, considero como fontes principais as narrativas das experiências destas famílias através da etnografia de suas trajetórias, das experiências dos maridos no exterior e de suas esposas no Brasil. Desta forma, apresento as trajetórias relativas ao período de quatro anos em que estiveram envolvidas no processo migratório traçando, assim, a trajetória de homens e mulheres, no limiar entre a transformação e a reprodução de suas vidas no decorrer desse processo
Abstract: This paper aims to approach a process of restructuring a rural district in Poços de Caldas, Minas Gerais, from the trajectories of international migration of some of its inhabitants. They migrated to Italy, with the aim of achieving Italian citizenship. Eight months after his first trip to Italy, since the Italian passport in hand, went to the United States. The goal from the beginning was the possibility of ensuring an economy that would give them conditions for the reproduction of their small coffee farms. To achieve the goal of this research, I consider as main sources the narratives of the experiences of these families through ethnography of their trajectories, the experiences of foreign husbands and their wives in Brazil. Thus, I present the trajectories for the four years that they were involved in the migration process, thus, tracing the trajectory of men and women on the threshold between the processing and reproduction of their lives during and after this process
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Struan, Andrew David. "'Judgement and Experience'? : British politics, Atlantic connexions and the American Revolution." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 2010. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/1845/.
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In one of his publications, the politician and merchant Anthony Bacon asked if ‘some honest Persons, of plain Understanding, and of tolerable Judgement and Experience, could be engaged, at the Government’s Expence, to make the general Tour of North America’. This person, he thought, would be able to forge a connexion between the metropolitan centre and the far-flung reaches of America and improve the relationship between mother country and colony by increasing the level of understanding of the other on both sides of the Atlantic. Bacon appreciated that this lack of knowledge of their American brethren meant that British politics and politicians were often working with limited, or biased, information when formulating imperial policy. This thesis analyses the ways six MPs with significant American connexions operated throughout the imperial crises of the 1760s and 1770s. It establishes that these men operated at the highest levels of British politics at this time and sought to create themselves as the predominant experts on the American colonies. In the debates on the nature of the British Empire throughout the 1760s and 1770s, these men were at the forefront of the political mind and, at least until the hardening of opinions in the 1770s, had an impact on the way in which the colonies were governed. More than that, however, this work has shown that – contrary to much earlier belief – the House of Commons in the later eighteenth century was not working in ignorance of the situation in the Americas: rather, there were a small but significant number of men with real and personal connexions to, and knowledge about, the colonies. As the imperial grounds shifted through the 1770s, however, even the most well-versed of these ‘American MPs’ began to appear to have suffered some disconnection from the colonial viewpoint. This thesis takes into account the Atlantic and imperial networks under which these MPs worked and formed their political theories and opinions. In addition, it seeks in some way to bring the politics of the American Revolution into the fold of Atlantic History and to assess the ways in which those with the greatest experience of working in the peripheries of empire sought to reshape and reorganise its structure from the metropole after the close of the Seven Years War.
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Hermansson, Elin, and Johanna Riikonen. "Sjuksköterskors erfarenheter av att vårda flyktingar, asylsökande och papperslösa : En litteraturöversikt." Thesis, Ersta Sköndal högskola, Institutionen för vårdvetenskap, 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:esh:diva-5251.
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Bakgrund: Generellt betraktas flyktingar, asylsökande och papperslösa ingå i en sårbar population. Med hänsyn till det ökande antalet asylsökande i Sverige det senaste decenniet, kommer de flesta som arbetar inom hälso- och sjukvård troligen att möta patienter som har en flyktingbakgrund. Många yrkesgrupper i vården saknar däremot kunskaper om migrationens påverkan och vilka rättigheter patienten har. Sjuksköterskor måste ha förmågan att tillgodose patientens såväl fysiska, psykiska, sociala, andliga som kulturella behov, och göra detta på ett kulturellt känsligt sätt. Syfte: Syftet var att belysa sjuksköterskors erfarenheter av att vårda flyktingar, asylsökande och papperslösa. Metod: En litteraturöversikt enligt Fribergs metod genomfördes. Arbetet baseras på tolv vetenskapliga artiklar av både kvalitativ och kvantitativ metod från databaserna CINAHL och PubMed. Efter analys av materialet utkristalliserades teman och subteman. Resultat: Resultatet redogörs i form av två huvudteman med tillhörande subteman. Det första huvudtemat Erfarenheter av hinder i vårdmötet behandlar de olika hindrande faktorer för sjuksköterskan i mötet med patienter som är flyktingar, asylsökande och papperslösa. Det andra huvudtemat Sjuksköterskors känslomässiga reaktioner behandlar de subjektiva känslorna som väckts hos sjuksköterskorna i arbetet med denna patientgrupp. Diskussion: Resultatet tyder på att sjuksköterskorna erfor svårigheter i kommunikationen, samt svårigheter i att vårda på grund av olika syn på hälsa. Stereotypbilder och föreställningar om patienter kunde även förekomma, vilket påverkade vårdandet negativt. Dessa betydande fynd diskuteras i relation till Leiningers teori om transkulturell omvårdnad.Background: In general, refugees, asylum seekers and undocumented migrants are considered to be a vulnerable population. With regards to the increasing number of asylum applicants during the last decade in Sweden, health care staff is likely to encounter individuals with a refugee background. Although, many working in health care have limited knowledge about the effects of migration and legal rights. Nurses are required to have the ability to meet patients’ physical, psychological, social, spiritual as well as cultural needs, and to deliver the care in a culturally sensible way. Aim: The aim of this bachelor’s thesis was to illustrate nurses’ experiences of caring for refugees, asylum seekers and undocumented migrants. Method: A literature review according to Friberg’s method was conducted. Twelve scientific articles of both qualitative and quantitative design are the foundation of this paper. Data was collected from the databases CINAHL and PubMed. Themes and subthemes were then formed after analyses of the material. Results: The results are presented in two main themes along with their subthemes. The first main theme Experiences of obstacles in caring describes various difficulties the nurses encountered while caring for patients who are refugees, asylum seekers and undocumented migrants. The second main theme The nurses’ emotional reactions describes subjective feelings the nurses expressed while working with patients who have this background. Discussion: The results show that nurses experienced difficulties in the communication and difficulties giving care related to different cultural views on health. Stereotyping and bias of patients could also occur among nurses, which affected the care negatively. These consequential findings are discussed in relation to Leininger’s theory of transcultural nursing.
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Slivkoff, Paulina Matvei. "The formation and contestation of Molokan identities and communities : the Australian experience." University of Western Australia. School of Social and Cultural Studies, 2007. http://theses.library.uwa.edu.au/adt-WU2007.0084.
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[Truncated abstract] Molokans are a Russian sectarian community that has been a transnational diasporic community since their exile from southern Russia in 1839. During the 1839 exodus they were relocated to Georgia, Armenia, and Azerbaijan. These countries make up a region referred to by Molokans as Transcaucasia located in and around the Caucasus Mountains. A further migration to Turkmenistan followed in 1889. Since that time, Molokans have settled in Iran, the United States of America, Mexico, Australia and Brazil. The colonies in Brazil and Mexico have disbanded with members re-joining Molokan communities in the United States of America and Australia. The communities remain in contact with one another and with various Molokan communities still existing in the Russian Soviet Socialist Federal Republic. Molokans are characterised by a religious structure of lay ministers and elders in a traditional, patriarchal social community. They are a collectivity of churches (there is no hierarchy between the churches) and sub-groups who practise varying degrees of adherence to Molokan dogma. They are a millenarian, charismatic religious community similar to Pentecostals and Anabaptists with the exception that they have ceased to evangelise and have become ‘closed’ communities practising endogamy. Given their closed structure, relatively little is known about this group in mainstream society . . . Spirituality, in the form of prophecy, healing, and the shared expression of religious ecstasy (rejoicing in the Holy Spirit) provides a sense of communitas that helps to bind the communities. Persecution in Russia and in the United States of America promoted mistrust of outsiders and contributed to the closure of social boundaries. Interventionist and reform activities in both Russia and the United States of America reinforced the belief that social closure was the only way to maintain cultural continuity. Their shared history of migration and persecution contributes to the building of a core community identity.
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Wang, Jiaying. "Examining the Impacts of U.S. Natives' Attitudes toward NCAA International Student-Athletes on International Student-Athletes' College Experience and Transition." Miami University / OhioLINK, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1588291405584156.
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MARTINS, Jaqueline Michele França. "Marias trabalhadoras e migrantes." Universidade Federal de Campina Grande, 2014. http://dspace.sti.ufcg.edu.br:8080/jspui/handle/riufcg/148.
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Esta dissertação possui como objetivo analisar as experiências migratórias e de vida das mulheres migrantes numa perspectiva de gênero. Escolhi o enfoque de gênero, pois penso que as construções sociais que pesam sobre o gênero feminino, como deveres, proibições, aprovações e dentre outros aspectos são significantes para entendermos como se configuram as experiências migratórias no universo feminino. Busquei conhecer as diferentes experiências migratórias a partir de três momentos, antes da migração, estando elas no Rio de Janeiro e com o retorno a cidade de Fagundes- Paraíba. Destaco alguns aspectos para análise, como o lugar e papel da mulher migrante na família, relação com o trabalho; novos arranjos familiares; desafios e conflitos vividos ao conciliar o trabalho, educação, cuidados dos filhos e relação com os respectivos cônjuges; que mudanças ocorreram no retorno à Fagundes, após anos morando e trabalhando no Rio de Janeiro. A migração das mulheres ocorreu da cidade de Fagundes, Paraíba, para o Rio de Janeiro. Estando as mulheres atualmente na condição de migrante de retorno. A todo o momento no texto estou falando de mulheres trabalhadoras migrantes. Mulheres que encontraram na migração uma possibilidade de emprego e posteriormente uma conquista de autonomia. Para compreensão desses aspectos utilizo a metodologia da História Oral, pois ela considera a compreensão das vivências e singularidades das experiências ao longo do tempo.
The objective of this work is to analyze migration and life experiences of women in a gender perspective. I chose the gender approach , because I think that the social constructions that weigh on females , as duties , prohibitions , approvals and among other aspects are significant to understand how to configure the migration experiences in the female population . I sought to know the different migration experiences from three times , before migration , as they were in Rio de Janeiro and with the return of the city Fagundes - Paraíba . Highlight some aspects for analysis , as the place and role of migrant women in the family , relationship and work, new family arrangements ; challenges and conflicts experienced to combine work , education , child care and relationship with their spouses , what changes have occurred the return to Fagundes , after years living and working in Rio de Janeiro . The migration of women occurred Fagundes city , Paraíba to Rio de Janeiro . And women are currently in the return migrant status . At all times in the text I'm talking about women migrant workers . Women found that migration is a possibility of employment and subsequently an achievement of autonomy . To understand these aspects use the methodology of oral history because it considers the experiences and understanding of the uniqueness of the experiences over time.
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Ibarra, Carolina. "Building Bridges: The Role of Human Capital and Social Capital in the Migration Experience of Mexicans in the Vancouver Metropolitan Area." Thesis, Linköping University, Department of Management and Economics, 2005. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-2739.
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Migration is a process that begins with the mere thought of moving, but it continues long after the individual arrives in her or his new home. The process is constrained by certain factors such as capital, immigration policy, and the existence of kinship networks. Individuals who are able to overcome these constraints and decide to migrate, must overcome a new set of challenges upon arrival in the host county. These challenges include the need to adapt to a new labour market, use of a new language, and integration with the rest of society. Human and social capital are important tools that allow immigrants to successfully meet these challenges.
Human and social capital play different roles in the migration process of these individuals. Human capital allows Mexican individuals to overcome the barriers to initial migration, but it does not ensure successful social or labour market integration. Social capital is a more effective tool in the resettlement process, and it also helps to strengthen transnational bonds.
The Mexican community in the Vancouver CMA does not rely on a complex set of kinship networks. However, this study found that there is an ongoing process to create social capital. This process simultaneously encourages the formation of nationality-based social capital (i.e. bonding social capital) and bridging social capital. These types of capital are important because they help the community to overcome the challenges of integrating into the labour market as well as the larger society. Furthermore, the person-to-person contact between Mexicans and the rest of society fosters mutual understanding. Since much of the Mexican community maintains strong ties to the source country, integration is an important point of reference for further engagement between Mexico and Canada.
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Ukiru, Judi Minage. "Acculturation experience of Africa immigrants in the United States of American." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2002. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/2127.
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The conclusions extracted from this research project show that little research has been done on social issues presented by the African immigrant to America. Those charged with public welfare research and intervention must develop tools and strategies necessary to assess the needs of African immigrants, to facilitate their improved adjustment to their environment. African immigrants in the United States can benefit from similar research designs and resources accorded to the Latino and Asian populations.
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Miner, Jenny. "Migration for Education: Haitian University Students in the Dominican Republic." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2013. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/pomona_theses/89.
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Haitian university students represent a part of the increasing diversity of Haitian migrants in the Dominican Republic. Using an ethnographic approach, I explore university students’ motivations for studying in the Dominican Republic, their experiences at Dominican universities and in Dominican society, Haitian student organizations, and their future plans. Additionally, I focus on Haitian students’ experiences with discrimination and how they relate to other Haitian migrants in the Dominican Republic. I find that most students come to the Dominican Republic due to the difficulty of gaining entrance to affordable Haitian universities and logistical convenience. The university is a unique setting where Haitian and Dominican students are clearly peers, which results in increased interactions between the two groups and decreased discrimination towards Haitian students. However, Haitian students remain a relatively isolated group within the university and in the larger Dominican society. Many students reported experiencing discrimination, although students identified class, rather than race or nationality, as the main reason for discrimination. Furthermore, I focused on the role of language in migrants’ experiences. I found that while a high command of Spanish allowed migrants to avoid identification as Haitian and subsequent discrimination, Kreyòl was used as a resource to create solidarity and maintain cultural ties to Haiti. My research suggests that it is important to keep in mind the distinct notions of race and nationality in Haiti and in the Dominican Republic when considering contemporary struggles for the rights of Haitian migrants and their descendants in the Dominican Republic.
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Lawrence, Jody. "Placing the lived experience(s) of TB in a refugee community in Auckland, New Zealand." Thesis, University of Auckland, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/2292/3151.
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Although rates of tuberculosis (TB) in much of the western world have steadily declined since the Second World War, this infectious disease remains a leading cause of death among those living in impoverished circumstances. Social science perspectives have argued that TB is as much a reflection of socio-economic inequality and the uneven distribution of power and resources as it is about biological processes. In this thesis I explore the lived experience of TB within the Somali refugee community in Auckland, New Zealand. While migrants and refugees are frequently blamed for the resurgence in TB in Western countries, very little is known about the determinants that underlie this manifestation of the disease. The present research addresses this gap in the literature by employing a transdisciplinary social science approach that considers the determinants of health and illness that range across the social, cultural economic and political domains of human experience. The geographical underpinnings of the work are borne out in the fundamental goal: to (literally and metaphorically) place the lived experience of health, disease (and particularly TB) within the Somali refugee community in the wider context of migration and resettlement. Employing qualitative methods I draw upon participants’ narratives to highlight the different ways in which Somali health beliefs and experiences have been shaped by wider structural forces. I demonstrate that within Auckland, Somalis encounter multiple and overlapping layers of disadvantage. The combined impacts of this disadvantage have a profound influence on their health and illness experience, particularly in terms of the development and ongoing occurrence of TB. Respondents with TB recounted widespread stigma that exacerbated the harm incurred by the illness itself. Although Somalis are highly marginalised, the thesis acknowledges the agency and creativity exerted by people in fashioning the course of their life within the context of considerable structural constraints.
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Yan, Ru, and n/a. "Settlemnet Stress and Health Needs of Migrant Women From the People's Republic of China in Brisbane." Griffith University. School of Public Health, 2005. http://www4.gu.edu.au:8080/adt-root/public/adt-QGU20050824.110000.
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The late 1980s saw the onset of a rapid expansion of Chinese immigration into Australia. While this influx of Chinese migrants has produced a proliferation of research on the more affluent migrants from Hong Kong and Taiwan, studies on migrants especially women from the People's Republic of China (PRC) have remained few and far between. Among those few studies on PRC-born migrant women, all of them identified settlement stress and its health implications as a major concern among PRC-born migrant, yet there has been little concerted effort on why this is the case, particularly in the area of health needs and solutions. Considering the increasing presence of PRC-born migrant women in Australia, there is a clear need for a comprehensive in-depth investigation into their settlement stress, to address their social and health needs and to provide solutions. This study aims to examine in-depth the PRC-born migrant women's settlement experience in Brisbane, focusing especially on their stress, social and health needs. This study employed both qualitative and quantitative methods. Since this study paid more attention to these migrant women's own life experiences, it is mainly a qualitative one, using informant interview, focus group and in-depth interviews to explore how best their stress could be alleviated. Quantitative method is based on secondary data analysis to provide a community profile of PRC-born migrant women in Brisbane and Queensland. This study firstly draws on literature reviews to explain historical, social, cultural and gender based factors underpinning PRC-born migrant women's settlement stress and health status. Findings reviews that settlement stress comes from social isolation and loneliness; cultural difficulties; lack of support prior to and after childbirth, as well as assistance with childcare; conflicts in both marital and familial relations; academic stress; and finally, problems in utilising public transport. Particularly, this study highlights that downward mobility; barriers to access health services; and language barriers are a major source of stress and the cause of health problems for PRC-born migrant women when settling in Brisbane. As strategies, this study adapts health promotion strategies named as empowerment framework and Ottawa Charter action framework to address the needs highlighted in this study. Settlement stress affects health particularly mental health. Strategies provided in this study can also help migrant women from other non-English speaking countries. More significantly, this study encourages governments and service providers to pay more attention to migrant women's settlement processes in order to help them integrate into Australian society smoothly and quickly.
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Sundin, Emil. "Perception and effects of implementing Kotlin in existing projects : A case study about language adoption." Thesis, Högskolan Dalarna, Informatik, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:du-28198.
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The Kotlin programming language has seen an increase of adoption since its launch in 2011. In late 2017 Google announced first-class support for Kotlin on the Android platform which further popularized the language. With this increase in popularity we felt it was interesting to investigate how Kotlin affects the developer experience. We performed a case study to see how Java developers perceive the Kotlin language, and how it meets the requirements of these developers. To gather the developer requirements and their perception of Kotlin we performed two sets of interviews and rewrote parts of their codebase. The first set of interviews identified developer requirements and the second set of interviews showcased the Kotlin language and its potential use in their codebase. The results show that Kotlin can meet most of the developer requirements and that the perception of Kotlin is positive. Kotlin’s ability to be incrementally adopted was a prominent feature which reduced the inherent risks of technology adoption while providing them the ability to further evaluate the language. The expressiveness of a programming language has previously been found to be a prominent factor of language adoption. In this study, we identified the expressive nature of Kotlin as a major factor of its adoption potential.
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Gearon, Alinka. "'Child trafficking' : experiences of separated children on the move." Thesis, University of Bath, 2016. https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.690732.
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‘Child trafficking’ as a phenomenon requiring a policy and practice response has, in recent years gathered considerable pace. ‘Child trafficking’ is a crosscutting social issue, relevant to policy areas of child protection, child migration, criminal justice, immigration, social policy and human rights. This thesis explores children’s own accounts and lived experiences of ‘child trafficking’, addressing a notable gap in hearing from children directly. The thesis critically engages with the social construction of the ‘trafficked child’ examining how contemporary concepts of childhood shape and inform ‘child trafficking’ policy and practice. How ‘child trafficking’ policy has been constructed politically is examined, in shaping how ‘child trafficking’ is defined in practice. The implications for children experiencing trafficking of a system built on current assumptions about childhood and ‘child trafficking’ are considered. The study explores how children’s experiences of their childhood and ‘child trafficking’ challenge many assumptions underpinning policy and practice. The findings reveal a disjuncture between immigration-driven and prosecution focused ‘child trafficking’ practice and children requiring a welfare and individualised response to their needs. Children needed practitioners to listen to them, believe them and take action upon child protection concerns. A conclusion is drawn that the way in which ‘child trafficking’ policy and practice in England is presently constructed, and experienced, appears not to reflect the lived ‘realties’ of young people in this study. A new approach to ‘child trafficking’ policy and practice is recommended underpinned by a conceptual shift in how we perceive childhood and adolescence. Intended audiences of this study include policy-makers and front-line practitioners including social workers, the police, immigration officers and other services. This qualitative study contributes in developing methods with a hard to access population addressing a difficult subject area, promoting children and young people’s participation in research.
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Al, Shalabi Rasha. "Mapping the Dominican-American experience : narratives by Julía Alvarez, Junot Díaz, Loida Maritza Pérez and Angie Cruz." Thesis, University of Essex, 2017. http://repository.essex.ac.uk/19396/.
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Dominican mass-migration to the United States only started in the 1960s but Dominican Americans are now a sizable minority and in 2014 they became the largest Latino group in New York City. This thesis examines fictional works by Dominican American writers who migrated to the United States from the early 1960s to the 1990s which explore the predicament of Dominican Americans before and after the consolidation of Dominican-American communities. The novels under scrutiny here were published in English between 1991 and 2012 by Julia Alvarez (b. 1950), Loida Maritza Pérez (b. 1963), Junot Díaz (b. 1969), and Angie Cruz (b. 1972) and present us with characters whose search for a ‘home’ and for ways in which to articulate their individual and collective identity are shaped by continuous negotiations between the traditional values of their country of origin and the potentially transformative opportunities afforded by their new country. I will show how these texts powerfully challenge homogeneity, marginalisation, mainstream ideologies, nationalism, and discrimination while questioning the economic, social, religious, patriarchal, educational, and political structures of both the Dominican Republic and the United States in order to formulate diverse modalities of belonging to what Julia Alvarez has called a new “country that’s not on the map” and establish their own distinct position as Dominican American writers.
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Tejding, Ronny, and Cecilia Lemon. "ATT VÅRDA PATIENTER FRÅN ANDRA KULTURER : En litteraturstudie eu ett sjuksköterskeperspektiv." Thesis, Mälardalens högskola, Akademin för hälsa, vård och välfärd, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mdh:diva-40153.
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Bakgrund: Globalisering och folkvandringar ställer nu helt andra krav på hälso- och sjukvård i hela Europa. Bara i Sverige är 1/5 av Sveriges befolkning är födda i andra länder är Sverige. Vi är med andra ord ett mångkulturellt samhälle. Detta ställer den svenska sjukvården inför stora utmaningar och på hur sjuksköterskorna förmår att möta denna utmaning i det dagliga omvårdnadsarbetet. Syfte: Att beskriva sjuksköterskors erfarenheter av att vårda patienter med olika kulturella bakgrunder. Metod: En deskriptiv litteraturstudie utfördes med hjälp av tio kvalitativa studier. Resultat: Resultatet i detta arbete beskriver omvårdnadsarbetet med transkulturella patienter i tre dimensioner enligt följande: kommunikationsproblem, kulturellt könsrollsrelaterade diskrepanser samt avslutningsvis, att sjuksköterskorna påvisar stereotypisering vid arbete med transkulturella patienter. Slutsats: Det har framkommit i detta arbete att sjuksköterskor i sitt dagliga arbete med transkulturella patienter upplever olika språk, kommunikations och kulturrelaterade problem i den praktiska omvårdnadssituationen. Den transkulturella omvårdandsteorin har gjort anspråk på att kunna förklara och lösa denna typ av friktion mellan sjuksköterskan och de transkulturella patienterna, men har inte lyckats göra detta. Det har föreslagits att den transkulturella omvårdandsteorin är inaktuell för dagens snabba föränderliga mångkulturella migration. Det behövs ny forskning som kan stödja sjuksköterskeprofessionen in i framtidenBackground: Globalization and immigration now make completely different demands on healthcare service throughout Europe. In Sweden one fifth of the population are born in another country. In other words, Sweden is a multicultural society. The healthcare service of Sweden faces a great challenge and in how nurses are capable to meet this challenge. Aim: The purpose of this study was to describe nurses' experiences of caring for patients with different cultural backgrounds. Method: A descriptive literature study was performed analyzing ten qualitative studies. Result: It has been found in this thesis that when working with transcultural patient’s nurse’s experiences problems in three dimensions surrounding the nursing situation. The problems were the following: Language and communications problems, culture-gender role discrepancies and finally stereotyping by nurses. Conclusion: It has been found that nurses in their daily work with transcultural patients experience different cultural problems in their nursing situation. The transcultural care theory has claimed to be able to explain and solve this kind of friction between the nurse and the transcultural patient, but not managed to do so. It has been argued that the transcultural care theory has proven to be out-of-date for today’s fast multicultural migration. New research is needed to support the nursing profession into the future.