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Virk, Baljinder. "Combating labour market disadvantage among ethnic minority groups." Thesis, University of Bristol, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/1983/f2cd9737-4853-42e5-aa57-226deda225e0.
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Many people from ethnic minorities experience disadvantage in the labour market in comparison to the white population. In general, they have lower employmen rates, suffer higher levels of unemployment, longer periods of unemployment, occupational and industrial segregation and lower earnings. However, different groups experience different levels of disadvantage. Whilst African Asians and Chinese experience broad parity with the white population, Indians and Caribbeans experience some disadvantage and Pakistanis and Bangladeshis experience 'severe' disadvantage. This thesis reports upon research based on an in-depth case study in Bristol and evaluates the positive action training programme delivered by an ethnic minority training provider.
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Sanchez, Patricia Elizabeth. "Prevalence of type 2 diabetes among minority groups." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2005. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/2840.
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The purpose of this study was twofold. First, the study evaluated Loma Linda University Medical Center's (LLUMC) Diabetes Treatment Center's (DTC) effectiveness in providing diabetes education and services to high risk minority populations. Second, the results of the study helped the DTC determine the need for expanding its present efforts in the form of community health prevention services to San Bernardino County residents.
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Batonyi, Gabor. "The Hungarian Minority in Slovakia." Palgrave Macmillan, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/10454/3544.
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NoThe Ethnopolitical Encyclopaedia of Europe is the first work of its kind that systematically and rigorously examines the politics of ethnicity throughout the continent as a whole. Rather than indulge in a tour of Europe designed to unearth as many diverse population groups as possible, the Encyclopaedia is focused and serves as a unique data source on the continent's politically mobilised ethnic groups. In order to facilitate easy access, the various regions of Europe are assessed and then the nature of the politics of ethnicity is analysed on a country-by-country basis. The combination of incisive entries, maps, tables and easy-to-use country guides makes this an invaluable reference book for both academics and practitioners.
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Pusaksrikit, Theeranuch. "Self-Gift Behaviour of Ethnic Minority Groups in Britain." Thesis, University of Manchester, 2009. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.508628.
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In recent years, some researchers have started examining the existence of crosscultural self-gifting, as well as its place in consumers' lives, according to an individual-centred versus a group-centred view of self. Nevertheless, inconsistent findings of prior research call for further studies clarifying the role of self-view in self-gift consumption. This study thus attempted to fill this gap by examining ethnic immigrant consumer groups' self-gifting behaviours in comparison to White host members in the UK. Furthermore, the increasing size and growing spending power of ethnic minority groups, varying acculturation processes, and different self-views together highlight a need for a better understanding of how the self-gift phenomenon might vary between Whites and South Asian immigrants in the UK. Thus, the primary objective of this research was to examine the differences and similarities in self-gift attitudes and behaviours between British Whites and South Asian immigrants (British Indians, British Pakistanis, and British Bangladeshis). This research is theoretically grounded in the literature from three domains - namely, ethnicity, attitudinal and behavioural dimensions of acculturation and self-construal - to investigate the ethnic groups' self-gift attitudes and behaviours and to explore the interaction effects among these three domains on self-gifting. Data collected utilising a survey method provided evidence to support the prominence of self-gifting amongst British consumers, including the three ethnic minority groups. The findings also indicated some similarities and differences in self-gifting of these ethnic groups in terms of their ethnicity, acculturation, and selfconstrual. Although the main findings suggested that British Whites and South Asian immigrants do not differ in most self-gift attitudes and behaviours, South Asian immigrants who attitudinally acculturate in both host and home cultures are more likely to engage in self-gifting than immigrants who only have high attitudinal acculturation in either the host or the home culture, or who have low attitudinal acculturation in both cultures. In addition, Strong behavioural acculturating immigrants are more likely to engage in self-gifting than Weak behavioural acculturating immigrants. The results from combined White and South Asian samples demonstrated that individuals who hold equally high independent and interdependent self-views are more likely to engage in self-gifting than individuals 11 who hold either high independent self-views or high interdependent self-views only, or who hold low self-views in both categories. However, the impacts of accultUration and self-construal on self-gift attitudes and behaviours may differ depending on ethnicity.
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Hennink, Monique Marcelle. "Family planning of minority groups : Asian women and seasonal workers." Thesis, University of Southampton, 1997. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.241967.
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Bryant, Joanna. "The integration of minority faith groups in acute healthcare chaplaincy." Thesis, Cardiff University, 2018. http://orca.cf.ac.uk/119052/.
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Chaplaincy provides a microcosm through which the public role of religion can be examined and interrogated. Only two studies have examined the question of minority faith involvement in chaplaincy, both conducted before the large-scale introduction of formalised substantive chaplaincy posts for minority faith groups. The rapid development of Muslim chaplaincy, from visiting ministers to lead chaplains, has begun to be explored. But it is clear that a study concerning all minority faith groups involved is necessary in order to fully understand how far the boundaries of inclusion and exclusion have shifted since the turn of the century. Practitioner literature barely accounts for these developments in chaplaincy, while contributions by minority faith groups are rare. This thesis develops this literature by exploring the status and integration of minority faith groups in acute healthcare chaplaincy. This is achieved through a multi-site ethnography of five case studies of chaplaincy teams across England. Minority faith involvement is largely, but not solely, characterised by mediation, negotiation, and stagnation. These findings are situated within a broader framework of participatory parity, which not only refers to distribution and recognition, but also the socialisation 'gap' that exists for many minority faith chaplains. These factors impact on their ability to speak the language of the institution and the chaplaincy profession. These findings and analyses are then compared with the chaplaincy literature to show the situatedness of the mainstream chaplaincy discourses around spirituality, marginality, professional identity, and collegiality. The findings and analysis have significant implications for an understanding of how the roles of religious professionals adapt and change in a diasporic context, but also for understanding how religion is mediated in the National Health Service.
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Koshoedo, Sejlo A. "Physical activity among black and minority ethnic groups in Scotland." Thesis, University of Aberdeen, 2013. http://digitool.abdn.ac.uk:80/webclient/DeliveryManager?pid=203416.
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Introduction: The higher risk of non-communicable diseases among Black and Minority Ethnic (BME) groups is associated in part with the low physical activity levels. This means that the increasing BME population in the UK could lead to an increase in the burden of diseases due to physical inactivity. This study aimed to explore the reasons for less participation in physical activity by BME groups living in Scotland. Methods This thesis comprises mixed methods: a systematic review of barriers to engaging in physical activity among BME groups in UK; and, a qualitative study including six focus groups to explore individuals from BME group's perceptions, attitudes, knowledge, barriers, motives, preferences and opportunities about physical activity. Participants in the qualitative study included men and women, aged 25 to 40, from African, Caribbean, Indian and Nepalese communities in Aberdeen. The focus groups were recorded, transcribed, and analysed using the Framework Analysis. Results: Fourteen primary studies conducted in the UK were included in the systematic review. The meta-ethnography identified barriers to physical activity among BME groups at individual, community and organisational levels. The focus group study included 49 BME individuals living in Scotland. The reasons for less participation in physical activity were attributed to a wide range of factors including: individual and collective perception of physical activity and health beliefs; barriers; motives; and preferences. The overall findings from the mixed methods provide completeness of data to contributing factors to low physical activity among BME groups. Both studies reinforced perception rather than actual experience of barriers to physical activity among BME groups. This indicates a theoretical construct to adapt in studying behaviour of BME individuals toward physical activity. The research also adds to the knowledge that many of factors were shaped by migration history and socio-cultural background from the country of origin. Conclusion: There is recognition of social, cultural and environmental influence on physical activity behaviour of BME groups. While the burden of physical inactivity is prominent among BME groups, there is need to consider appropriate strategies adapted to BME groups that would in turn lead to behavioural changes and successful interventions. Beyond the understanding of practical barriers to physical activity, interventions need to adapt conceptual understanding of physical activity of BME individuals at individual, community and organisational levels to address the barriers identified in this thesis.
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Adger, Sonja M. "The underrepresentation of minority groups in North Carolina's gifted programs /." Electronic version (PDF), 2004. http://dl.uncw.edu/etd/2004/adgers/sonjaadger.pdf.
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Hillin, Suzanne. "Authoritarianism, Social Dominance Orientation, and Behavior in Majority and Minority Groups." TopSCHOLAR®, 2000. http://digitalcommons.wku.edu/theses/719.
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The influence of authoritarianism, social dominance, and ingroup identification on ingroup favoritism and outgroup discrimination in a minimal group paradigm were investigated in this study. Possible effects of majority and minority group size interactions with these constructs were also examined. It has been previously shown that right-wing authoritarianism (Altemeyer, 1981) and social dominance orientation (Pratto, Sidanius, Stallworth, & Malle, 1994) influence ingroup favoritism and outgroup discrimination in Tajfel's (1978) minimal group paradigm (McFarland & Ageyev, 1992; Perrault & Bourhis, 1999; Sidanius, Pratto, & Mitchell, 1994). Majority and minority group status also influence behavior in minimal groups (Gerard & Hoyt, 1974; Otten, Mummendey, & Blanz, 1996; Sachdev & Bourhis, 1984; Simon & Brown, 1987). Based on motivational differences between authoritarianism and social dominance, individuals higher in authoritarianism were expected to display greater ingroup favoritism than those lower in authoritarianism, regardless of group size. Social dominance was expected to interact with group size such that individuals higher on this dimension in minority groups would identify less with the ingroup, as opposed to those in majority groups who would identify more, and display less favoritism toward the ingroup than those in majority groups. To create minimal groups, participants completed an estimation task and were told that their scores indicated they were either "overestimators" or "underestimators." Three conditions were established: Neutral (group size was unspecified), majority (one group was identified as being numerically large), and minority (one group was identified as being numerically small). Trait ratings (Thompson & Crocker, 1990) and Tajfel's (1978) resource allocation task were used to measure ingroup favoritism. Participants overall displayed ingroup favoritism on both dependent measures, although parity was used most on the Tajfel (1978) matrices. Neither authoritarianism, social dominance, nor any interaction between these constructs and group size significantly affected trait ratings. On the matrices, authoritarianism led to favoritism on only one of the six pull scores and did not interact with group size. Social dominance led those in the neutral condition to display greater ingroup favoritism. Contrary to predictions, social dominance led those in majority groups to select parity over favoritism, but did not affect those in minority groups. Finally, ingroup identification mediated the relationship between social dominance and ingroup favoritism on the trait ratings for those in neutral and minority groups, though not in the predicted direction. Those in minority groups gave more positive trait ratings to the ingroup rather than to the majority outgroup as their identification with the ingroup increased.
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Taynen, Jennifer Emily. "Minority and religious groups in China : explaining discrepancies in state response." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/32265.
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The People's Republic of China has long demonstrated significant variation in its treatment of the diverse ethnic and religious minority groups that exist within its borders. Specialists in Chinese Regional Studies, especially those whose research focuses on Chinese ethnic minorities, tend to attribute this discrepancy in policy to ingrained racism or Han-chauvinism within the state apparatus. In contrast, Political Scientists tend to hypothesize that the state varies its policies to respond to groups that show the potential to mobilize and pose a threat to state authority. Here, anticipated observations for each explanation are used to create two models that trace how 1) state racism and 2) perceived mobilization potential would result in the state instituting more repressive controls over a minority group. The critical distinction between the two explanations requires that state attacks (literal or figurative) be identified as either primarily symbolic or primarily strategic. Five cases from the Chinese Communist context are examined with reference to these models. Religious minority status is held as a constant among all the cases selected. Within the cases, variability is found in the levels of ethnic distinctiveness from the Han Chinese majority. While there are many minority groups that could have fit these criteria, the cases highlighted here are the Tibetan Buddhists, the Chinese Buddhists, the Uighur Muslims, the Hui (Chinese) Muslims, and the Falungong. It is concluded that in the first four cases, the strong correlation between levels of ethnic distinctiveness and levels of state repression suggests that state racism plays a significant role in informing state policy, the same does not hold true for the Falungong case, and once state attacks are further broken down into symbolic and strategic actions, there is strong evidence that both state racism and state fear of minority mobilization play a role in informing the Chinese state's actions.Arts, Faculty of
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Doyle, S. "Differences and similarities between minority groups in U.K. undergraduate engineering courses." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2003. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.598633.
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In recent years, women have entered all fields at university in unparalleled numbers. There remains however a few subjects, such as Engineering, were their presence has hovered around the 14% mark nationally. A questionnaire was designed as a means of determining if the experiences students have in university engineering departments affect how many women take up Engineering degrees. As it became clear that women are but one minority group in Engineering, when compared to non-U.K. students, it was decided to include these students as part of the analysis . Hence, this thesis explores the similarities and differences between students in U.K. Undergraduate Engineering courses as recorded by the measure of a questionnaire and analysed by statistical methods including the Anova, T-test and Bivariate Correlations. The questionnaire was created out of a feminist methodological framework using quantitative analysis that sought to understand why the numbers of women in the field of Engineering are so low despite parity in most other subjects including other types of sciences. Questionnaires were collected from 605 students, 74 of whom were female at 8 different U.K. universities. Students were then analysed according to fee status (Home, Overseas or European Union) and/or gender. Few differences in variables such as confidence, attitudes towards lectures and labs, staff, classmates, motivations for choosing an Engineering degree were found between men and women. Rather more differences were found according to fee status. The findings suggest that the penultimate year of a university degree may be too late to make any real changes to the numbers of women in the field; rather resources should be devoted towards intervention at an earlier level and continued support at university for both women and other minority groups such as non-U.K. students. This thesis suggests ways educators may do this.
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Bennett, Philip Christopher. "Peripheral arterial disease amongst minority ethnic groups in the United Kingdom." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 2013. http://etheses.bham.ac.uk//id/eprint/4726/.
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Peripheral arterial disease (PAD), a common manifestation of atherosclerosis, is an important healthcare problem with considerable morbidity and mortality. Intermittent claudication (IC) is the commonest symptomatic manifestation of this disease. This thesis investigates the prevalence of PAD in South Asians (people originating from India, Pakistan and Bangladesh) and Blacks (Black African, Black Caribbean) and makes ethnic comparisons of its associations with traditional cardiovascular risk factors, inflammatory and haemostatic biomarkers and markers of angiogenesis in these ethnic groups. This thesis also makes associations between common carotid intima media thickness, a marker of pre-clinical atherosclerosis, traditional cardiovascular risk factors and novel biomarkers. Furthermore this thesis validates translated versions of the Edinburgh Claudication Questionnaire into Punjabi and Urdu.
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Hindi, Noor. "Dear God. Dear Bones. Dear Yellow." University of Akron / OhioLINK, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=akron1590426765847724.
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Richardson, Leonda V. "The Experience of Underrepresented Minority Dental Hygiene Faculty." The Ohio State University, 2018. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1543329324959347.
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Shaker, Sahba. "Understanding informal segregation : racial and spatial identities among the Indian minority of Mokopane." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/18375.
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South Africa is a melting pot and a meeting place for a multitude of "races", representing an optimal arena for understanding the psychology of contact and desegregation. This study focuses on the spatial arrangement of minority identities, through continued informal segregation, among the Indian minority of Mokopane. Drawing on 28 open-ended interviews, segregation is explored in everyday interactions and spaces. Working within a spatial-discursive framework, critical discourse analysis is employed, paired with a basic observational and descriptive analysis. Participants' discursive constructions overwhelmingly demonstrate patterns of informal segregation among the Indian minority community, within the micro-ecology of contact. Caught within a sandwiched or "buffer" identity, issues of space constantly inform negotiating conceptions of "Indianness". In mapping the dialogue of the Indian community, a story of the evolution of segregation emerges, creating a replication of internal divisions. This study ultimately demonstrates the need for a spatial-discursive orientation and a more "embodied" turn in our understanding of segregation.
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Williams, Patricia E. "The perceptions of clinical psychology : a focus on the different ethnic groups." Thesis, University of Sheffield, 2002. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/10204/.
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Introduction: The under-representationo f minority ethnic staff groups within the clinical psychology profession has been a serious area of concern for some time. Central to these concerns has been the questionable ability of the profession to adequately address, provide for and meet the needs of an increasingly diverse multi-racial and multi-ethnic society, for whom the utilisation of clinical psychology services are extremely poor. Literature review: The literature review indicated that minority ethnic groups were generally marginalized and excluded from clinical psychology services on a number of different levels, due to a combination of referral conventions, professional misunderstandings of psychological distress, the limitations of conceptual frameworks and cultural factors. Research report: Given the profession's lack of success in attracting and recruiting staff from minority ethnic groups, this thesis was undertaken to: (a) explore the perceptions of clinical psychology held by different ethnic groups, using psychology undergraduates as the target population and (b) investigated their intention or otherwise to pursue a future career in clinical psychology, using the Theory of Planned Behaviour (TPB) as a model. The results showed the TPB to be predictive of intention in all cases. However, for the minority ethnic groups, there were significantly more perceptions of disadvantage in pursing clinical psychology, as there were the factors that would deter them from entering the profession. Methodological limitations of the study, practical implications and directions for future research are discussed. Critical appraisal: An appraisal of the research process is presented, concluding with salient learning points for the future.
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Menifield, Charles E. "Influence on minority groups in Congress : the black, women's issues, and hispanic caucuses /." free to MU campus, to others for purchase, 1996. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/mo/fullcit?p9821336.
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Auton, Malcolm Frederick. "Making stroke services equitable for minority groups : the potential role of cultural competence." Thesis, University of Central Lancashire, 2013. http://clok.uclan.ac.uk/6629/.
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Background: In stroke services, providers are challenged to address the needs of people from ethnic minorities. Aim: This thesis will explore the stroke service needs of people from ethnic minorities, and how stroke services can address them. Part 1; Methods: Two group interviews with South Asian participants were used to inform an interview schedule. Using this schedule, 23 individual interviews were performed with South Asian participants, some of whom had experienced a stroke and some who had not. Part 1; Findings: Participants who had not used stroke services held positive expectations about those services. Participants who had used stroke services were negative about their overall experience. Attitudes and behaviour of service providers were seen as poor, and that they lacked an understanding of culturally specific issues. Participants expressed a need to be treated as an individual, to feel cared for and respected, and suggested that staff receive training to address this. Further research was needed to explore the efficacy of training service providers to be culturally competent. Part 2; Methods: Online databases were systematically searched for interventions evaluating service provider cultural competence training, and papers on theoretical frameworks of cultural competence. Components of theoretical frameworks were compared and evaluated. The training literature was evaluated and synthesised using realist methods. A stakeholder group reviewed the findings and made recommendations for practice. Part 2; Findings: Three overarching components reflected these theoretical frameworks, which were; cultural awareness, knowledge and skills. The success of training interventions, underpinned by these components, varied by the type of outcome measured. Where intervention outcomes were based on service providers’ self-reports they were perceived to be effective; where outcomes were based on service-user ratings they were perceived to be moderately effective, and where outcomes were based on clinical assessments they were perceived to be ineffective. The few studies with service-users rating their experiences indicated that a more detailed awareness of cultural issues coupled with practice improved ratings. Other studies have demonstrated that service-user ratings and outcomes can be improved by individuals, or teams, with effective levels of cultural skills implementing subject-specific health interventions. Underpinning these interventions were the understanding of service-users’ cultural needs, matched with appropriate skill-sets of teams or individuals. A stakeholder review of these findings confirmed that raising cultural awareness is an important first step in improving staff cultural competence. In addition, translating training into practice and matching the expectations of minority group stroke service-users, requires on-going support at an organisational and leadership level, with which confidence can develop through mentorship and shaping. Conclusion: The available evidence has shown how to provide cultural awareness knowledge and skills training, but not how to translate this into practical cultural competence. This thesis explores further exiting evidence to draw out components and mechanisms that seem to truly deliver cultural competence. Based on a systematic literature search and a realist review, this thesis proposes a model to suggest how true cultural competence can be achieved.
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McCoy, Leila M. (Leila Melanie). "Agenda-Setting by Minority Political Groups: A Case Study of American Indian Tribes." Thesis, University of North Texas, 1990. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc331286/.
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This study tested theoretical propositions concerning agenda-setting by minority political groups in the United States to see if they had the scope to be applicable to American Indian tribes or if there were alternative explanations for how this group places its agenda items on the formal agenda and resolves them. Indian tribes were chosen as the case study because they are of significantly different legal and political status than other minority groups upon which much of the previous research has been done.
The study showed that many of the theoretical propositions regarding agenda-setting by minority groups were explanatory for agenda-setting by Indian tribes. The analyses seemed to demonstrate that Indian tribes use a closed policy subsystem to place tribal agenda items on the formal agenda. The analyses demonstrated that most tribal agenda items resolved by Congress involve no major policy changes but rather incremental changes in existing policies. The analyses also demonstrated that most federal court decisions involving Indian tribes have no broad impact or significance to all Indian tribes. The analyses showed that both Congress and the federal courts significantly influence the tribal agenda but the relationship between the courts and Congress in agenda-setting in this area of policy are unclear.
Another finding of the study was that tribal leaders have no significant influence in setting the formal agendas of either Congress or the federal courts. However, they do have some success in the resolution of significant tribal agenda items as a result of their unique legal and political status.
This study also contributed to the literature concerning agenda-setting by Indian tribes and tribal politics and study results have many practical implications for tribal leaders.
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Moura, Anabela. "Prejudice reduction in teaching and learning Portuguese cultural patrimony." Thesis, University of Surrey, 2000. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.325868.
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Li, Zhen. "Minority migration from 1985 to 2005 in China| Migration process, migration outcomes, and socioieconomic incorporation at destination places of four ethnic minority groups." Thesis, State University of New York at Albany, 2016. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10109581.
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As internal migration started to increase in the late 1970s in China, ethnic minorities have also participated in this demographic event to improve their livelihood. However, minority migration has been much neglected in the current literature. To fill the gap in the literature, the dissertation aims to: (1) examine migration selectivity and destination selection process of ethnic minorities in China; (2) investigate whether migration can lead to upward socioeconomic mobility for ethnic minorities; (3) assess the extent of socioeconomic integration of minority migrants at destination places; (4) reveal and explain differences in patterns of migration and destination adaption across ethnic groups; and (5) uncover temporal patterns of minority migration, migration outcomes, minority integration at destinations. To achieve these goals, this dissertation makes use of the micro-data of the 1990 China population census, the 1995 mini-census, the 2000 census and the 2005 mini-census.
Regarding minority migration process, model results suggest that education selectivity of minority migrants is mostly positive, but it is only consistently observed for the Zhuang. While migrant networks and co-ethnic networks does not matter much for the out-migration decision for minorities, they do weigh more on minority migrants’ decision as to where to go. Minority migrants tend to go to places with larger migrant networks. In general, they also go to places with more co-ethnics, but the effect of co-ethnic networks reveals important group-specific differences.
Minorities can mostly benefit from engaging in migration. However, what is interesting is the finding that the Uyghurs stand out as the only minority group that shows a trend of deteriorating migration outcomes. Moreover, evidence also reveals that for the Uyghurs and the Zhuang, long-distance migration is not more beneficial than short-distance migration.
Finally, very different patterns of incorporation at destination communities emerge from the analyses. The relative position of the Uyghur migrants to the Han is declining over time and in the most recent time period, they are doing significantly worse than their Han counterparts. The Hui and the Koreans are doing more successfully. Surprisingly, the Zhuang migrants are disadvantaged to the Han and this disadvantage is consistent across time.
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Furuhashi, Takeshi, Tomohiro Yoshikawa, and Kazuto Inagaki. "A Study on Extraction of Minority Groups in Questionnaire Data based on Spectral Clustering." IEEE, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/2237/20713.
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Ruzzante, Daniela. "(De-)mentalization and objectification processes towards minority groups: When the human-object divide fades." Doctoral thesis, Università degli studi di Trento, 2022. http://hdl.handle.net/11572/328504.
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While cutting-edge research has shown how – from a neural and cognitive point of view – human beings are perceived and elaborated differently from objects, in social psychology different studies demonstrated that this human-object divide fades in several circumstances. Research in social psychology is continuing to advance the knowledge on dehumanization and objectification phenomenon in which human beings are perceived and elaborated more similar to an object and less like a human being. Recently, this has been demonstrated quite literally directly comparing human stimuli with a mind and perceptually similar mindless objects (Vaes et al., 2019, 2020). Such direct comparisons allow us to demonstrate how the well-documented human-object divide tends to fade during dehumanization and objectification phenomena. Presenting five research studies, this thesis aims not only at proving how de-mentalized human stimuli are cognitively perceived as object-like (Chapter 2 and 3), but also at showing how these phenomena are influencing more subtle, un-controlled behaviour processes that impact human social interactions (Chapter 4). Specifically, in Chapter 2, two similar EEG studies aimed at exploring the timeline of the mentalization process by adapting a paradigm in which the human-object divide is investigated. By manipulating both perceptual and contextual information, ingroup and outgroup human faces together with their identity-matched doll-like avatar faces were presented while registering participants’ neural correlates. Thanks to the direct comparison between mindless and mindful targets our goal was to unravel the time course of mentalization and its underlying processes. By adapting the same paradigm, in Chapter 3 we explored the process of sexual objectification and presented sexually objectified men and women with their gender-matched doll-like avatars. Our primary goal was to investigate how objectified men and women are perceptually and cognitive perceived by looking at a sample of gay men. By directly comparing mindless and mindful targets we wanted to understand whether sexual objectification might be target (i.e., always mainly directed towards women regardless of the perceivers sexual orientation) or agent specific (i.e., directed towards different targets depending on the perceivers sexual orientation). Moreover, we also wanted to explore what might drive heterosexual men and women and gay men to objectify others. Finally, the purpose of Chapter 4 was to investigate an implicit and unconscious consequence of sexual objectification. By presenting objectified and non-objectified women expressing happiness and anger we measured participants’ spontaneous mimicry responses. Our goal was to determine whether sexual objectification – a phenomenon in which women are considered as object-like – might influence such an uncontrolled and implicit human behaviour that affects normal social interactions.
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Thornberry, P. "The rights of ethnic, religious and linguistic minority groups and their members in international law." Thesis, Keele University, 1985. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.376303.
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The thesis concerns itself with the fundamental rights of ethnic, religious and linguistic groups in contemporary international law. The rights outlined are to be found in multilateral treaties and general or customary international law. The first right identified is the right to existence which is principally associated with the Genocide Convention 1948. The second right outlined is the right of individuals belonging to minorities to an identity in cultural, religious and linguistic terms. This right is found in treaties rather than general customary law. The principal vehicle for the right to identity is Article 27 of the United Nations Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. The relationship between this right and the right of individuals not to be discriminated against on grounds of race, language or religion is a major focus of the text. The rights of indigenous and tribal populations are also discussed: in addition to being in most cases minorities in their States, these populations have been the subject of specific action mainly in the International Labour Organisation. They are therefore entitled to all the rights of minorities as well as those rights specifically drawn up in their favour. The thesis commences with an outline of the legal and philosophical problems raised by the existence of minorities and indigenous populations and discusses the history of the protection of minority groups by international law, culminating in the League of Nations regime for their protection. A consistent theme running through the work is the relationship between individual and collective rights in international law and the conclusion of the work attempts to characterise international law in this respect, and to forecast the direction which the law will take in the future.
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Platt, Lucinda. "The experience of poverty : welfare dynamics among children of different ethnic groups." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2001. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.365527.
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Zamat, Christopher. "Multicultural Motivations: Power, Counterpower, Elites, and Independence." Thesis, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/34563.
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This thesis examines the motivations for adopting multiculturalism. To this end, it examines a phenomenon that is commonplace in everyday life but is curiously absent from the academic literature: power. I argue that power provides a better causal explanation for the adoption of multiculturalism than previous explanations, such as desecuritization, and renders justifications for multiculturalism based exclusively on moral grounds insufficient and impractical in the world of politics. I divide the analysis into two parts: power acquisition as a factor that prompts dominant groups to enact multicultural policies, and power as a factor that enables non-dominant groups to mobilize for greater rights. In the process, I examine the structure of power in the modern nation-state, and claim, in short, that it is not only a network of boundaries, rules and institutions, but also an instrument used to delimit independence. I also claim that dominant groups will be most amenable to accepting multiculturalism if it does not alter the existing power praxis, and even reinforces the authority of the bearers of power. In areas of the world where multiculturalism is perceived as granting minorities too much power, it has been and will continue to be outright rejected. Moreover, I contend that minorities are not powerless and can effectively mobilize to acquire greater rights by engaging in ‘counterpower’. Ultimately, I conclude that the realistic prospects of diffusing multiculturalism, in light of the analysis of power, are poor, since in many areas of the world, authorities have too strong a grasp on power, and the counterpower of the masses is concordantly too weak. In this respect, a focus on the concept of power with regard to the adoption of multiculturalism reflects the political reality.
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Chang, Edward C., Christina A. Downey, Jameson K. Hirsch, and Natalie J. Lin. "Introduction to Positive Psychology in Racial and Ethnic Minority Groups: A Second Call to Action!" Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2016. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/456.
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Book Summary: Positive psychology has become a vibrant, well-regarded field of study, and a powerful tool for clinicians. But, for many years, the research in areas relevant to positive psychology, such as happiness, subjective well-being, and emotional intelligence, has been based on findings from largely White samples and has rarely taken the concerns of the ethnic community into consideration. Now, for the first time, leaders in the field have come together to provide a comprehensive reference that focuses specifically on how a culturally-informed approach to positive psychology can help capitalize on the strengths of racial minority groups and have a greater potential to positively impact their psychological well-being.
Acting as a bridge between positive psychology theory and research—largely based on an essentialist view of human behavior—and the realities of practice and assessment in diverse groups, Positive Psychology in Racial and Ethnic Groups focuses on four main ethnic groups: Asian Americans, Latin Americans, African Americans, and American Indians.
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Blomén, Victoria. "Representing group interests : A study on the substantive representation of women and minority groups in the Jordanian House of Representatives." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Statsvetenskapliga institutionen, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-328865.
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In the world today there is a tendency that women and minority groups are under-represented in political decision-making. In order to come to terms with the under-representation of women and minorities many countries are taking measures to increase the number of women and minority representatives. However,there is an ongoing debate on whether increased number of group representatives lead to increased representation of group interests. The question is if women and minority representatives are more responsive to their respective group’s interests compared to other representatives. In this study, I have conducted asurvey with members of the Jordanian House of Representatives in order to investigate whether women and minority representatives are more responsive to their respective group’s interests compared to other representatives. The survey has been designed to capture representatives’ priorities and attitudes towards certain policy areas and issues. The results from the survey show that women and minority representatives to a certain extent are more responsive to their respective group’s interests compared to other representatives, indicating that an increased number of women and minority representatives would lead to increased representation of women and minority interests. Furthermore,this study finds that female representatives are more responsive to women’s interests when it comes to priorities than when it comes to attitudes, whereas representatives from the Christian minority are more responsive to Christian issues when it comes to attitudes than when it comes to priorities. These results indicate that there are differences between different groups when it comes to the representation of their groups’ interests. Thus, research on one group might not be directly transferable to other groups.
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Yan, Fei. "Re-constructing the nation : struggles in portraying minority ethnic groups in Chinese mainstream history textbooks." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 2018. http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/10057040/.
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This thesis examines the changes to the portrayal of minority ethnic groups in Chinese history textbooks since the establishment of the People’s Republic of China in 1949. It finds that ideological shifts in Beijing have led to minority ethnic groups being portrayed in changing and even contradictory ways in school textbooks. In the history textbooks of the 1950s, the Chinese nation was largely defined as a Han nation-state, and other ethnic groups were generally represented as non-Chinese who had historically been ‘threats’ or ‘enemies’ of the Han/Chinese. It was not until the reform era from the late 1970s that a more inclusive and multi-ethnic conception of the Chinese nationhood was adopted, with ‘minority’ ethnic groups incorporated into the Chinese historical narrative and portrayed more positively. However, as the Communist Party took an increasingly nationalist turn from the 1990s, simultaneously downplaying messages of socialist internationalism, Han ethno-centrism became more apparent once again in textbook narratives, with minority ethnic groups correspondingly marginalised. This thesis also finds that, although non-Han groups were portrayed very differently in history textbooks to match shifting political ideologies, what remained unchanged throughout PRC history was the representation of the backwardness of the non-Han in relation to the Han who were always portrayed as advanced. Based on this examination, this thesis argues that while history education has always been used by the Communist Party to inculcate a highly state-centred vision of national identity, underlying conceptions of the Chinese nationhood have been rather fluid, and there has been no consistent progress towards a more inclusive notion of ‘Chineseness’. Instead, different visions have co-existed and competed, reflecting tensions inherent in the project of constructing modern national consciousness: China has struggled (and is still struggling) to stretch the short, tight skin of the nation over the gigantic body of its empire.
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Calvo, Sara. "Ethnic minority groups and social enterprise : a case study of the East London Olympic boroughs." Thesis, Middlesex University, 2013. http://eprints.mdx.ac.uk/12446/.
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The world has witnessed the emergence of a great number and variety of social entrepreneurial activities in recent years. In the United Kingdom, the SE sector has experienced considerable growth and nowadays is at the centre of academic and political debate. Yet, very little is known about the extent and nature of ethnic minority involvement in social enterprise activity. Critical to an understanding of this is the reduction of grant funding to third sector organisations as well as the change in race relations and equality policies. Moreover, the social enterprise political discourse that has seen social enterprises as an alternative to move towards market-led provision and the privatisation of public services is relevant to understand the development of ethnic minority social enterprise activities. This research produces insights into the nature and extent of ethnic minority social enterprise activities in the East London Olympic Boroughs and provides a fundamental contribution to the development of policy thinking. This thesis also contributes to theory building in the area through the development of a conceptual framework. Structuration and Mixed Embeddedness theories are considered to explain how the development of ethnic minority social entrepreneurial activities depends on the complex interaction between ethnic minority entrepreneurs (as agents) and the context (as structures) in which they are embedded. This research draws upon evidence from a case study in the East London Olympic Boroughs using a mixed-methods approach, which includes literature and policy review, telephone survey, semi-structured interviews and an in-depth study of organisations. Through analysis of the case study, what is discovered is that there are challenges in defining and measuring ethnic minority social enterprise activities. This thesis also reveals that the role of individual ethnic minority entrepreneurs is crucial for the development of social enterprise activities as well as the context in which they are embedded in terms of their access to resources, market opportunities and the political context that determines this development. Finally, findings demonstrate that the current policy discourse provides little scope for engagement for the majority of small-scale ethnic minority social enterprise organisations.
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White, Jamie Szittai. "Spiritual Formation Revealed Around the Table: An Impact Study of Food and Faith." Ashland Theological Seminary / OhioLINK, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=atssem1605432187526995.
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Chang, Edward C., Christina A. Downey, Jameson K. Hirsch, and Natalie J. Lin. "Challenges and Prospects for Positive Psychology Research, Theory, Assessment, and Practice in a Multiracial and Multiethnic World." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2016. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/444.
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Book Summary: Positive psychology has become a vibrant, well-regarded field of study, and a powerful tool for clinicians. But, for many years, the research in areas relevant to positive psychology, such as happiness, subjective well-being, and emotional intelligence, has been based on findings from largely White samples and has rarely taken the concerns of the ethnic community into consideration. Now, for the first time, leaders in the field have come together to provide a comprehensive reference that focuses specifically on how a culturally-informed approach to positive psychology can help capitalize on the strengths of racial minority groups and have a greater potential to positively impact their psychological well-being.
Acting as a bridge between positive psychology theory and research—largely based on an essentialist view of human behavior—and the realities of practice and assessment in diverse groups, Positive Psychology in Racial and Ethnic Groups focuses on four main ethnic groups: Asian Americans, Latin Americans, African Americans, and American Indians.
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Sanchez, Victoria Eugenie. ""As Long As We Dance We Shall Know Who We Are" : a study of off-reservation traditional intertribal powwows in Central Ohio /." The Ohio State University, 1995. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1392307814.
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MacDonald-Dennis, Christopher. "Competing narratives : the interplay between racial and ethno-religious identity among Ashkenazi Jewish undergraduate anti-racist peer educators /." Ann Arbor, MI : University Microfilms, 2005. http://proquest.umi.com/dissertations/preview/3193920.
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Vorsina, Margarita. "Essays on terrorism: its effects on subjective wellbeing, its socio-economic drivers, and the related attitudes." Thesis, Griffith University, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10072/373030.
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Terrorism is an enduring consequence of the willingness of humans to use violence with the goal of affecting politics or of forcefully promoting ones ideology by inducing fear in the populace. Alarmingly, the frequency of terror attacks appears to be increasing. The most recent Global Peace Index Report notes that their terrorism impact indicator recorded the greatest deterioration over the period from 2008 to 2017, with 60 per cent of countries having higher levels of terrorism than a decade ago (Institute for Economics and Peace, 2017). The main objective of this research is to investigate socio-economic reasons for terrorism and the effects of terrorism on subjective wellbeing. In doing so, this research estimates the association between terrorism, self-reported life satisfaction and national income; explores the effect of the 2002 Moscow theatre siege on the level of expectations of life in the future of the Russian population; assesses the role of social dominance orientation (SDO) in explaining individuals’ fear of experiencing a terrorist attack and support for counter-terrorism policies; and analyses the effect of ethnic economic inequality on domestic terrorism. The results indicate that on the macroeconomic level terrorism is negatively associated with life satisfaction. This suggests that the social costs of terrorism are potentially much higher than the economic costs, and measuring only the conventional economic costs of terrorism significantly underestimates the true costs. When a different measure of wellbeing is used in the analysis, the net effect of a terrorist incident may not necessarily be negative. The findings indicate that people often experience positive reactions after a terrorist attack. These results are explained by the theory of post-traumatic growth – a theory that refers to the positive psychological change experienced as a result of adversity, with terrorism incidents inadvertently promoting more meaningful interpersonal relationships, new views of the self and new views of the world. This suggests that the wellbeing effects of terrorism are complex: to expand the understanding of the social consequences of terrorism it is necessary to pay equal attention to the positive effects of terrorism. This research expands the knowledge of the socio-psychological determinants of attitudes towards terrorism and counter-terrorism policies. The results show that social dominance orientation – an individual’s preference for inter-group hierarchies within a social system or group-based discrimination – positively predicts support for ‘defensive’ counter-terrorism policies, fear of terrorism and fear of Islamic extremism. It also predicts the relationship between social dominance orientation and support for defensive policies is mediated by fear. These findings have policy implications for the study of individuals’ willingness to forgo liberties in order to preserve the inter-group hierarchies and the conditions of support for liberty-infringing counter-terrorism policies. Finally, the results of this research indicate that ethnic economic inequality is robustly, positively and significantly associated with domestic terrorism. This in turn has an important implication that governments should pursue policies that promote the economic and social inclusion of minority ethnic groups.Thesis (PhD Doctorate)
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
Dept Account,Finance & Econ
Griffith Business School
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Macleod, Marsaili. "The meaning of work in the Gaelic labour market in the Highlands and islands of Scotland." Thesis, Available from the University of Aberdeen Library and Historic Collections Digital Resources. Restricted access until June 5, 2010, 2008. http://digitool.abdn.ac.uk:80/webclient/DeliveryManager?application=DIGITOOL-3&owner=resourcediscovery&custom_att_2=simple_viewer&pid=25897.
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Emery, Meaghan Elizabeth. "Writing the fine line : rearticulating French National Identity in the divides. A cultural study of contemporary French narrative by Jewish, Beur, and Antillean authors /." The Ohio State University, 2001. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1382548822.
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Alex, Roji. "The politics of representation in Indian media : implications of the portrayal of Hindus and minority groups." Thesis, University of Westminster, 2015. https://westminsterresearch.westminster.ac.uk/item/97051/the-politics-of-representation-in-indian-media-implications-of-the-portrayal-of-hindus-and-minority-groups.
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This thesis explores the politics of representation in Indian media with special focus on news television’s portrayal of issues concerning Christian community. The portrayal of communities is studied in relation to the dynamics of engagement between India’s rapidly expanding news television and the growing Hindutva (Hinduness) movement which espouses an exclusivist and majoritarian ideology, demanding a Hindu nation for Hindus. In its endeavor to understand this complex issue it focuses on India’s two national news networks – Aaj Tak in Hindi, the country’s most popular news broadcaster, and Headlines Today, a leading English-language network – locating their ways of engagement with the Hindutva movement. The thesis, which looks at the nationalist movement’s involvement with the print media and cinema in India, claims that the socio-political situation in the country helped the Hindutva groups to realign the threads of nationalism with that of Hindu nationalism by re-organizing and redefining their ideology to suggest a particular version of national identity and citizenship. The news television, while passing through various stages of evolution, has been engaging with a number of dominant ideologies. In recent decades, the right-wing Hindu ideology has been a powerful force in Indian politics and its engagement with news television, particularly Hindi language television, has been visible in the media narratives on various socio-political and cultural issues. The thesis claims that news television’s treatment of communal issues has helped the creation of a Hindutva public sphere. In the process, the thesis argues, India’s minority communities have been threatened, having to bear the brunt of this new alignment, undermining the secular tradition of India and contributing to anti-minority rhetoric. Drawing on a range of methods – including focus groups of news consumers, face-to-face, in-depth interviews with media personnel, as well as detailed content analysis of news reports, the thesis argues that Hindi news television, driven by market values, created new avenues and vistas for the Hindu nationalists to engage with the public. News television’s association with the Hindutva groups, it is suggested, helped construct a new national identity and a new Indian-ness, conforming to Hindutva ideology.
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Graf, Jennifer A. "Minority Groups' Conceptualization of Multiculturalism and Ethnic Identity in Hawai'i: The Japanese American and Polynesian Experience." Thesis, University of Hawaii at Manoa, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/10125/7072.
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The goal of this thesis is to examine minority groups' conceptualizations of multiculturalism and ethnocultural identity in Hawaiʻi. Two of Hawaii's minority groups were studied- Japanese Americans and Polynesians. A multi-method study on ethnic identification in a multicultural society is presented. Students at the University of Hawaiʻi completed ethnic identification surveys on ethnocultural identification, attitudes toward ethnic identification, likeness to other groups, and social distance. A sample of the Japanese Americans and Pacific Islanders represented in the first phase participated in interviews where the themes about living in a multicultural society and its relation to ethnic identification were further explored. This procedure enabled valuable insights into what multiculturalism and ethnic identity mean to different groups of people and implications for future research are discussed.vii, 87 leaves
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Sillah, Ansumana Rahman Muctaru. "Breast Cancer and Mammography Screening Among Black and Ethnic Minority Groups in Sheffield : A Qualitive Study." Thesis, University of Sheffield, 2008. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.500062.
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France-Dawson, Merry. "The social context of health care for minority ethnic groups diagnosed as having sickle cell conditions." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 1994. http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/10021509/.
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Health care needs are socially defined and care provision is dependent on these definitions. There is generally poor consideration of the needs of people with genetically determined conditions, especially when they are perceived to be rare. In Britain, sickle cell conditions mainly affect people of African and Caribbean ancestry. Sickle cell is considered to be rare by many health professionals despite the fact that 1 in 10 people from these ethnic groups carry the gene, and that each year more than 200 babies are born with serious sickle cell states in London alone. This study was conducted in two parts. Part 1 examines how much people who with one or more sickle cell genes know about the conditions. It investigates their experiences of and perceived need for health care and their attitudes regarding self-care. The study also examines whether clients have received genetic and other counselling, understood the information provided and whether they were encouraged to use positive health strategies to avoid ill health. Part 2 examines how the socialisation and education of nurses and health visitors may have affected their knowledge of sickle cell conditions. It assesses their experience of caring for people with the conditions and the contributions they could make to patient/client care. Statutory and voluntary sickle cell counsellors were also interviewed regarding the service they provided, their satisfaction with that service and their perceived needs for improving such services. The socialisation of individuals is discussed to show how the different racial groups (ie. largely carers versus clients) involved in the study, develop perceptions of each other, and how this could contribute to misconceptions on both sides as well as to the overall health problems of people with sickle cell conditions. Social environments (ie. housing, employment, education, racism and so on) are also discussed.
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Holder, Sharon M. "Health inequalities amongst older people from ethnic minority groups in Britain : 'sensitivity' of different SES measures." Thesis, University of Southampton, 2011. https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/208223/.
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The United Kingdom (UK) ethnic population is ageing. However, there has been a dearth of research focussing on the ethnic diversity of the older population and the implications for health and health care needs. In fact ‘ageing’ and ‘ethnicity’ are rarely integrated within health research. According to the United Kingdom (UK) 2001 Census, there are over 4.6 million individuals belonging to minority ethnic groups, with a quarter million aged 50 years or over. The ageing of these communities over the next two decades places greater emphasis on the importance of empirical evidence on their health status and the policy implications for health and health care needs. This thesis contributes to our understanding of health, socio-economic status (SES), ethnicity and ageing. The research explores the ‘sensitivity’ of different measures and their appropriateness and validity in assessing health inequalities amongst ethnic minority groups in order to better understand health inequalities in later life. This is a critical issue with widespread policy implications. Using cross-sectional data from Health Survey for England (HSE), with a sample size of 5,086 men and women 50 years and older, different logistic regression models are run for the outcome variables general health and limiting long-standing illness in order to ascertain the ‘sensitivity’ of SES of the different measures of health amongst the different ethnic minority groups. The results suggest that older people from ethnic minority groups are more likely to report bad/very bad’ health compared with the White population. For example, amongst Black Africans the odds of reporting ‘bad/very bad’ health are 1.45 times the odds amongst Whites, amongst Pakistanis the equivalent odds are 1.69 times the odds amongst Whites, amongst Bangladeshi the odds are 2.34 times the odds of Whites, and amongst Chinese people the odds are 2.53 times the odds of Whites. There are distinct patterns in reporting ‘bad/very bad’ health and a LLSI amongst and between ethnic minority men and women aged 50 and over based on SES measures employed in the study. Additionally, behavioural risk factors, that is, smoking and alcohol consumption were significant predictors of reporting ‘bad/very bad’ health and LLSI. Health inequalities have important implications for policy, particularly for health and health care. The research findings would be useful in informing national policies (e.g. health promotion campaigns, housing, occupationally based services, culturally competent health care services) and locally based interventions (e.g. health campaigns for older men and women; health education) would be better targeted at ethnic minority groups of older men and women
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Whiteside, David. "Desire for inclusion in association football amongst minority ethnic communities in England." Thesis, Loughborough University, 2011. https://dspace.lboro.ac.uk/2134/9060.
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This thesis examines the desire for inclusion in association football amongst minority ethnic communities in England. The thesis is based on two case studies informed by semi-structured qualitative interviews. These case studies focus on two minority ethnic groups, the Asian community in Bury and the black community in the City of Liverpool, and the relationship of these respective communities with local professional football clubs (specifically Bury FC and Everton FC). The thesis notes that despite, by most objective measures, football grounds being less dangerous places to visit nowadays, members of minority ethnic groups continue to reject live spectatorship. Such rejection exists despite evidence of engagement in football amongst the male members of these minority ethnic groups. Asian respondents expressed little civic pride in Bury or interest in Bury FC, and thus their rejection of spectatorship opportunities was unconscious. Data from black respondents identified widespread sense of belonging and identification with the City of Liverpool, but conscious rejection of spectatorship at Everton FC. Despite recognition of the clubs anti-racist work black respondents argued that the idea persists that Everton are institutionally racist with racist fans. While such a perception had also previously been ascribed to Liverpool FC (Everton s near neighbours), such perceptions had changed quicker at Liverpool FC, who appear more effective at attracting minority ethnic spectators. A number of factors emerged that contribute to the continued rejection of spectatorship amongst British minority ethnic groups at professional football clubs. One of these is the perception that football clubs are unwelcoming places and white spaces . Fear of racism and fear of violence were also often cited although these were found not to be absolute in nature for either minority ethnic group. Indeed, evidence from both groups found that they are developing their own we image rather than internalising their own group disgrace , though it is also argued that Elias and Scotson s notion of two groups, the established (white s) and the outsiders (blacks), is too simplistic and a more fluid conceptualisation is called for. Overall, the data illustrated that the identities of members of minority ethnic groups are complex, multifunctional, context specific and fragmented and thus so are their relationships with football.
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Swann, Johnnie Faye. "The Impact on Congregational Leaders in the Use of Lay Speakers inPulpit Ministry." Ashland Theological Seminary / OhioLINK, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=atssem1610544625722524.
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Atzinger, Elizabeth Benjamin. "Provision of education to minority groups in Austria." Diss., 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/17991.
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Austria's aim to provide equitable education to its citizens is an ongoing process. In 1747 a
decree opened schools to all children. From 1891 to 1941 schooling was compulsory for
children between 6 and 14. In 1955 the Austrian Constitution guaranteed Austrian minority
groups equal access to education. In 1966 and 1976 legislation further guaranteed minority
groups' right to be taught in their home language subject to certain provisos. Currently
minority groups are supposed to be taught in their horne language for the frrst three years of
school and school is compulsory for nine years. This study wished to establish whether
minority groups are, in fact, provided with education as provided for by law, and examined
the situation in the United States of America, the United Kingdom and Canada as well. If
Austria is successful, Zimbabwe or South Africa could adapt her policies in their educational
situation.Educational Leadership and Management
M Ed. (Educational Management)
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L, Philips, and Vanessa Taylor. "Addressing the palliative care needs of minority groups." 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10454/7035.
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Davey, Christopher J., S. V. Slade, and D. Shickle. "Eyecare for ethnic minority groups in the UK." 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10454/9902.
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Li, Yi-rung, and 李易蓉. "On the Resistance of Minority Ethnolinguistic Groups in Taiwan." Thesis, 1995. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/54801070160671811617.
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Grube, Dennis C. "The law and minority groups in nineteenth-century Britain." Thesis, 2005. https://eprints.utas.edu.au/19809/1/whole_GrubeDennisC2005_thesis.pdf.
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This thesis interrogates the substance behind the rhetorical 'rule of law' in Great
Britain between 1829 and 1895. It is the argument of this thesis that in order for the law to
be a strong force for national unity it had to be made by those who professed a 'British'
Protestant faith and upheld a 'British' morality. For the first half of the nineteenth-century,
Jews, atheists and Roman Catholics were all prevented on religious grounds from entering
Parliament to make British law. As the century progressed, these bans were progressively
lifted, leaving lawmakers to create a replacement class of scapegoats; 'moral criminals'.
Prostitutes, homosexuals and the Irish came to dominate the imagination of the late
Victorians as threats to the moral integrity of Britain. These people were not truly 'British'
and could thus safely be made the targets of 'British law'.
The thesis seeks to build on Linda Colley's work on British nationalism in the
eighteenth century, and her stress upon the need to have an 'other'. It is argued here that
Colley's concept of the need for 'otherness', can be applied within British society as well as
with regard to those who lived elsewhere. The British needed 'outsiders' within their own
society against which to define themselves as religiously, racially or morally legitimate.
This extended beyond Roman Catholic 'others', already identified by Colley, to a whole
series of religious and moral minority groups that could be seen as `un-British'.
The rhetoric of the 'rule of law' underpinned a society that was encouraged to
believe that it was the law which stood between it and the tyrannies and turbulence that the
Continent experienced throughout the nineteenth century. The values of government as
they were espoused through the law became the values of Britain. Hence, those who believed themselves to be 'British' were encouraged to support the moral and religious
standards that were set for them. This meant being hostile to the 'others' who were not
seen to support those standards.
Over the course of the period 1829-1895, from Roman Catholic emancipation to the
Oscar Wilde trials, governments moved from seeing religious groups as 'others' to seeing
moral 'deviants' as the outsiders against whom the truly British should unify in shared
disdain. As Jews, Roman Catholics and atheists were brought into a genuine sense of
partnership in the British constitution, homosexuals, prostitutes and the allegedly innately
criminal Irish found themselves further and more vehemently displaced. Legal 'otherness'
slowly stopped being a religious question and became rather a moral one.
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Huggins, Nadine S. "Canadian nationhood and the identity discourse : incorporating minority ethnic groups." Thesis, 1994. http://spectrum.library.concordia.ca/2661/1/MM90809.pdf.
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