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Shukla, Shikha. "Social Responsibility from the Perspective of Different Generations of Immigrant Entrepreneurs: The Unappreciated Benefits." Thesis, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/42132.
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Immigrant businesses represent a very large percentage of SMEs in Canada. Significant attention has been given to the phenomenon of immigrant entrepreneurship and their economic contribution to developed countries. However, little is known about the social contributions of these immigrant entrepreneurs to the host country. While the values of immigrant entrepreneurs are rooted in their home culture, they continue to evolve their beliefs and values to integrate into the host country. Emerging literature also affirms that the behaviour of second generation is different from the first generation immigrants. It is known that immigrants’ small business social responsibility (SBSR) is influenced by their home context, but how the host country context influences the SBSR behaviour of different generations is rarely explored. The objective of this study is to understand how society and culture integrate to shape immigrant social responsibility behavior and contributions, with focus on comparing first and second generation. Drawing from mixed embeddedness approach and culture values lens, I theorize about the influence of home country culture and host country context on immigrants SBSR behaviour and the potential consequences of differences in embeddedness on their contributions to the host country. Drawing on 20 detailed semi-structured interviews, I find that irrespective of the differences in generation, immigrants SBSR contributions are influenced by their home culture, their network composition, and the extent to which they are embedded in the host county. At the theoretical level, the mixed embeddedness approach has been augmented by applying it in the field of SBSR. In addition, the study fills a gap by introducing second generation immigrant entrepreneurs’ in SBSR context.
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Hussain, Thu Al Fikar. "Vem är jag…? Frågan utan svar : En kvalitativ intervjustudie om andra generationens invandrares erfarenhet av den svenska historieundervisningen." Thesis, Jönköping University, Högskolan för lärande och kommunikation, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-53251.
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This interview study was conceived from the idea about how students who are second generations immigrants, have experience with the Swedish history lessons and how it relates to their identity building. Six different students were selected for the interview, and they all shared backgrounds but had different ethnicity. The study showed that several of the students felt that there was a disconnection with the Swedish history lessons and with their identity. The most common complaint was that the student felt that they could not voice their opinion or that the Swedish history lesson was too Eurocentric in their education plan. Some students also felt that they could not discuss certain topics, because of fear from the teacher. The study did however show that some of the students was more lenient and accepting of the Swedish history study and felt that their teacher knew what they were talking about, and that some certain topic was highlighted and that they could relate to their identity.
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Ekblom, Jens. "Does parental origin reflect the labor market outcome? : Study of differences between native Swedes and second generation immigrants." Thesis, Stockholms universitet, Sociologiska institutionen, 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-132136.
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Sweden is a country with an increasing foreign born population, where more and more people growing up with two parents born outside of Sweden. In this paper I examine the different labor market outcome for native Swedes and the six largest groups of second generation immigrants in the ages 30-39 years. The analysis is divided in two part where the first examining the level of gainful employment and the second the distribution in line of work. By using data from population register there was possible to perform detailed analysis. The gainfully employment rate are lower for the different groups of second generation immigrants. Unlike earlier studies regarding employment differences depending on parental origin, there are however not as distinct pattern of ethnic penalties. The result regarding line of work from the second part of the analysis show that some groups of second generation have a higher risk of being in less-qualified jobs after controlling for education, personal- and parental variables.
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Omer, Mirza, and Mathias Svensson. "Human and Ethnic capital : The labor market performance of first-, second-, and third generation male immigrants in Sweden." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för nationalekonomi och statistik (NS), 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-85434.
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This essay studies the earnings, human and ethnic capital of immigrants in Sweden and how its transmitted across generations. it focuses on the first-, second-, and third-generation immigrants, were the results indicates that there are differences regarding earnings relative to natives between the generations and how the ethnic-, and human-capital is transmitted across generations. First-generation immigrants had an earning advantage relative to natives, meanwhile the second-, and third-generation faced a disadvantage. One conclusion is that the ethnic capital from the first-generation has a negative impact on the earnings of second-, and third-generation immigrants in Sweden. When measuring the ethnic capital from the second-generation immigrants, the results shows a positive influence on the earnings of the third-generation.
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Strelitz, Jason. "The second generations : a longitudinal study of origins and socio-economic outcomes for children of immigrants in England and Wales." Thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London), 2006. http://etheses.lse.ac.uk/2406/.
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This thesis is a study of the relationship between childhood circumstances and socioeconomic outcomes in adulthood for the Second Generation; children of immigrants in the UK. Using data from the ONS Longitudinal Study it aims to answer two main questions. After controlling for a range of childhood characteristics, are there significant differences in the aggregate socio-economic outcomes of Second Generation groups and the children of UK born parents. To what extent are particular childhood characteristics associated with socio-economic outcomes among the Second Generation. The thesis analyses the experiences of the Second Generation as a whole, and a broad range of origin groups, including children of parents from: the Caribbean, Eastern Europe, India, Ireland, Pakistan, Southern Europe and 'White' English Speaking origins. Alongside a control group, of children of UK born parents, this breadth provides an important comparative perspective. The results show the Second Generation to have experienced greater upward social mobility than the children of UK born parents but to be more disadvantaged in terms of deprivation and unemployment. These patterns are exacerbated when controlling for prior characteristics. All individual Second Generation groups experience greater long range upward mobility and disadvantaged origins appear less of a risk factor for disadvantaged destinations than they do for children of UK born parents. But for some, there is greater risk of downward mobility; advantaged origins are not the protective factor, which they are for most people. The results show that for the Second Generation, socio-economic and geographical origins are important predictors of adult outcomes. However the relationship between social origins and destinations may be weaker than for children of UK born parents. It is discussed, whether factors such as greater levels of aspiration, and experiences of racism and discrimination may mediate the long term trajectories of some of the Second Generation.
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El, Chababi Maria. "Are They Really Different? The Entrepreneurial Processes from the Perspective of Different Generations of Immigrant Entrepreneurs." Thesis, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/31692.
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Immigrant entrepreneurship is defined as business establishment and ownership among immigrants who arrive to a new host country. Immigrant entrepreneurship has become an important theme due to the increasing rates of immigration to developed countries, and its impact on their economic development. However it is also discredited and qualified as low value-added, rarely innovative, restricted to the ethnic communities and with stagnating growth potential. Following this debate, a new research stream affirms that immigrants should not be treated as one entity. Thus attention is shifting towards groups of immigrant entrepreneurs that were previously neglected in the literature. One such group consists of the second generation children of immigrants. Work to date provides ample investigation about immigrant entrepreneurs and their entrepreneurial process; however there is less research on similarities and differences in the entrepreneurial process experienced by first and second generation immigrant entrepreneurs. Despite some recent research on second generation immigrant entrepreneurs, this topic remains understudied. The objective of this study is to understand, from a multi-level perspective, how different generations of immigrant entrepreneurs experience the entrepreneurial process. Using a grounded theory approach and qualitative in-depth interviews, the findings indicate that first and second generation immigrant entrepreneurs experience the entrepreneurial process differently by facing different micro and macro level enablers and obstacles. They also recognize, evaluate and exploit opportunities differently. The extent to which they are embedded in specific environments affects their entrepreneurial experiences.
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Caron, Louise. "De l'immigration permanente aux migrations circulaires : l'expérience de la (re)migration dans les trajectoires individuelles en France." Thesis, Paris, Institut d'études politiques, 2019. http://www.theses.fr/2019IEPP0023.
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Cette thèse étudie le rôle des trajectoires migratoires depuis et vers la France métropolitaine dans les parcours individuels. Dépassant la conception traditionnelle de la migration comme un mouvement unidirectionnel et linéaire, l’objectif de cette thèse est d’abord d’améliorer la connaissance du phénomène de remigration des immigrés en France. En considérant la France à la fois comme espace d’arrivée et de départ, elle vise plus largement à renouveler l’approche des migrations en comparant différents types de migrants rarement étudiés conjointement : immigrés, natifs des DOM, Français nés à l’étranger, deuxièmes générations, et natifs de la population majoritaire. En combinant les données fiscales et du recensement de l’Échantillon Démographique Permanent (1975-1999, 2011-2016), et de l’enquête Trajectoires et Origines (2008), cette recherche s’appuie sur un dispositif empirique original qui permet d’explorer la place des expériences migratoires dans les parcours individuels à divers moments du processus migratoire. La comparaison entre différentes catégories de population met au jour la diversité des trajectoires migratoires au départ de la France métropolitaine, réelles ou envisagées, et de leurs déterminants. L’analyse combinée de ces processus de sélection et des effets d’un séjour à l’étranger sur les carrières professionnelles au retour en France apporte des éléments nouveaux sur le rôle des migrations dans la (re)production des inégalités sociales. Enfin, cette thèse montre comment considérer les mobilités passées et les possibles remigrations futures des immigrés affine notre compréhension des mécanismes d’intégration socioéconomique dans la société d’accueilThis doctoral dissertation studies the role of migration trajectories from and to metropolitan France in individuals’ trajectories. Breaking with the conventional depiction of migration as a one-way and one-time movement, this thesis aims first of all at improving our knowledge of immigrants’ remigration in France. By considering France both as a place of arrival and departure, this research more broadly seeks to renew the analytical approach of migration, by drawing systematic comparisons between several types of migrants rarely studied together: immigrants, internal migrants from overseas French departments, French nationals born abroad, second generations, and natives. I combine large datasets drawn from censuses and tax returns (the Permanent Demographic Sample, 1975-1999, 2011-2016) and the Trajectories and Origins survey (2008). Thus, this research is based on an original empirical framework that makes it possible to explore the role of migration experiences in individuals’ trajectories at various points in the migration process. The comparison between different populations reveals the diversity of migration patterns from France, and of their determinants. The combined analysis of these selection processes and of the effects of an international experience on professional careers upon return in France provides new insights into the role of migration in the (re)production of social inequalities. Finally, this thesis shows the need to consider past migration and potential future remigration of immigrants to understand the mechanisms of socioeconomic integration in the host society
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Mikhail, Anne. "Career development of second-generation immigrant women." Thesis, McGill University, 2010. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=95106.
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Second-generation immigrants represent a significant subgroup of the Canadian population and workforce; however, the career development of adult second-generation immigrant women has not been examined. In order to understand the career development of second-generation women, an integration of Gottfredson and the feminist-multicultural career development theories was used. According to this integrated framework, it was important to understand: 1) sex-roles and gender and occupational stereotypes; 2) the effect of culture (i.e., familial, social class, and societal); 3) the effect of socio-cultural factors and systemic institutions (e.g., occupational stereotypes and discrimination); and 4) the effect that immigrant mothers had on the career development of second-generation immigrant women. A phenomenological approach was used to examine the career development experiences of second-generation immigrant women. Participants were 21 second-generation immigrant women between the ages of 24 and 39 years old, who had been working for at least 2 years. The women participated in an individual interview and co-created two pictorial representations of their own and their family's career development experiences. Participants were asked to describe their career aspirations, interests, values, and decision-making process as well as the influence of gender, family, culture and other societal factors on their career development. Results showed that the career development of second-generation immigrant women was very similar to that of North American women, indicating that the struggles that North American women faced seemed to be a cross-cultural phenomenon that transcended cultural and immigration status boundaries. Additionally, findings suggested that participants were influenced by their family and culture to pursue post-secondary education and culturally acceptable careers. It was also found that school programs (e.g., co-operative education program) were influential becausLes immigrants de deuxième génération constituent un sous-groupe important de la population Canadienne et des travailleurs canadiens; toutefois, le développement de carrière des immigrantes de deuxième génération d'âge adulte n'a jamais été examiné. Afin de comprendre le développement de carrière des immigrantes de deuxième génération, une synthèse de la théorie de Gottfredson et du développement de carrière féministe multiculturelle ont été utilisés. Selon ce cadre de travail, il était important de comprendre ce qui suit : 1) les rôles sexuels et les stéréotypes; 2) les influences culturelles (p. ex. famille, classe sociale et société); 3) les incidences des facteurs socioculturels et des institutions systémiques (p. ex. stéréotypes et discrimination professionnels); et 4) l'influence des mères immigrantes sur le développement de carrière des immigrantes de deuxièmes génération. Une approche phénoménologique a été utilisée pour étudier le développement de carrière des immigrantes de deuxième génération. Le groupe de participantes était constitué de 21 immigrantes de deuxièmes génération âgées entre 24 et 39 ans, et qui travaillaient depuis au moins deux ans. Les femmes ont passé une entrevue individuelle et elles ont créé en collaboration deux représentations graphiques, l'une de leur propre développement de carrière et l'autre du développement de carrière de leur famille. Les participantes ont décrit leurs aspirations professionnelles, leurs intérêts, leurs valeurs et leur processus décisionnel ainsi que l'influence du sexe, de la famille, de la culture et d'autres facteurs sociaux sur leur développement de carrière. Les résultats ont démontré que le développement de carrière des immigrantes de deuxième génération était très semblable à celui des femmes nord américaines, ce qui indique que les obstacles auxquels ces dernières font face semblent constituer un phénomène interc
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Mazahaem, Flores Ali. "Human capital effect on second generation immigrant entrepreneurs." Honors in the Major Thesis, University of Central Florida, 2013. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETH/id/879.
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Interest in entrepreneurship has increased in the past few years as more schools are beginning to incorporate subject and degrees specializing in the area as well as individuals mobilizing into an entrepreneurial lifestyle due to the lack of opportunities in the standard workplace environment. Historically, immigrants have made up a large majority of entrepreneurs and it has been their primary way of upward mobility in society. The boom in high tech start-ups and other small businesses in the last decade have primarily been driven by children of immigrants. As a result of these recent trends this study analyses the foreign born children of immigrants and their entrepreneurial capacity. The intent of this study is to find to what extent human capital affects the entrepreneurial capacity of immigrant children, if any. By analyzing the Theory of Human Capital in Entrepreneurship and its main variables, the study aims to find their level of human capital. Through the gathering of recent population data, analysis of research journals, publications and books, we evaluate the level of human capital and how it affects the capacity of the individual. Historically, evidence has shown a correlation between the two and we hope to contribute to the research and better understand its role in our subject matter as well as bring more awareness to a topic that lacks information.B.S.B.A.
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Leão, Teresa Saraiva. "Mental and physical health among first-generation and second-generation immigrants in Sweden /." Stockholm, 2006. http://diss.kib.ki.se/2006/91-7140-812-6/.
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Simon, Saleeb. "Indian immigrants in America: a sociological study of second generation adolescents." DigitalCommons@Robert W. Woodruff Library, Atlanta University Center, 1986. http://digitalcommons.auctr.edu/dissertations/2267.
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Bortnik, Helen Martha. "Acculturation and family values : first, second, and third generation Russian immigrants." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 1991. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/30374.
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This study compared acculturation and familism of first, second, and third generation Russian immigrants. A sample of 71 included 22 first generation, 30 second generation, and 18 third generation male and female Russian immigrants from Vancouver, B.C., ranging in age from 19 to 82. Questionnaires mailed included demographic items, the Bardis Familism Scale (Bardis, 1959), and a revised Short Acculturation Scale (Marin, Sabogal, Marin, Otero-Sabogal, and Perez-Stable, 1987). Results of one-way ANOVA's revealed that there were no significant differences in scores on the Bardis Familism Scale between any of the three generations, contrary to previous studies with other immigrant groups. However, second and third generation subjects scored significantly higher on the acculturation scale than first generation ones, [F (2, 67) =25.00, p = .001]. A high level of Russian speaking ability and a low education level were associated with higher familism scores, and greater length of time in Canada was associated with higher acculturation scores. Since scores on the acculturation scale were consistent with those obtained in studies with other immigrant groups, this study provides support for the validity of this scale for Russian immigrants.Education, Faculty of
Educational and Counselling Psychology, and Special Education (ECPS), Department of
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Ladha, Sonia. "Second Generation Immigrant Adaptation: Construction of a Hybrid Cultural Identity." ScholarWorks@UNO, 2005. http://louisdl.louislibraries.org/u?/NOD,194.
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Thesis (M.A.)--University of New Orleans, 2005.Title from electronic submission form. "A thesis ... in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in the Department of Sociology"--Thesis t.p. Vita. Includes bibliographical references.
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McConville, Emma Grace. "The Wage Gap Between First- and Second-and-Higher-Generation White and Mexican Immigrants." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2012. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cmc_theses/356.
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This study aims to measure the wage gap between the white and Mexican population residing in the United States. It also looks at male and female first- and second-and-higher generations in both white and Mexican populations. Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS) is used for the years 1980, 1990, 2000, and 2010. This study finds that first-generation white males are negatively affected by the wage gap, while second-and-higher-generation Mexican females have continuously benefited from the wage gap over the past thirty years.
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Holmes, Katie Elizabeth. "Early predictors of downward assimilation a study of contemporary second-generation immigrants /." Connect to this title online, 2008. http://etd.lib.clemson.edu/documents/1239896140/.
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Huang, Jing. "Second generation internal immigrants' bilingual practices and identity construction in Guangzhou, China." Thesis, Lancaster University, 2018. http://eprints.lancs.ac.uk/125702/.
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Since China’s Economic Reform in 1978, there has been huge internal population mobility. The setting of this research, Guangzhou, is one of the cities that host the largest number of immigrants, and the dominant local speech, Cantonese, is unintelligible to immigrants who speak other language varieties, including China’s official language Putonghua. Since 2010 debates have arisen on the relationship between the state language policy of Putonghua Promotion which has been launched and implemented for sixty years and the narrower space for Cantonese use. A major discourse employed in the debates is concerned with immigrants associated with a Putonghua identity as a threat to Cantonese. There is little research on how the interaction between local language beliefs and the state language ideologies underlying Putonghua Promotion may influence immigrants’ life experiences and identities. This study investigates second generation immigrants’ bilingual practices and identity construction in individual and small-group interviews conducted in restaurants or cafes. I drew on critical discourse studies (Reisigl and Wodak, 2016) to examine participants’ use of discursive strategies in narratives of language-use-related life stories to construct social identities. I also use a framework integrating a sequential approach to conversation analysis (Auer, 1995) and membership categorisation analysis (Sacks, 1986b) to explore the role of code choices in accomplishing linguistic identities in interview conversations and naturally occurring service encounters. Adopting Jenkins’s (2008) notion of internal-external dialectics of identification, I found that immigrant participants’ identities can be understood as constantly negotiating categories imposed or assigned by others and managing diverse self-identifications in interactions. They resisted, challenged or re-defined an imposed derogatory category, laau, which was connected to their use of Putonghua in schools, workplaces, and other situations and to discrimination against them. They claimed their competence in using Cantonese for the negotiation of the categorization. They aligned with hybrid and complex social groups, and celebrated the seemingly contradictory but unique self-identifications. Meanwhile, they used Cantonese to align themselves with Cantonese speakers and distanced themselves from Putonghua speakers in group interview conversations, while in individual interviews they used Putonghua to highlight the most important information and Cantonese was used for less important topics. And in service encounters they used code-switching for ‘doing being’ Cantonese speakers or bilinguals. The discourse analysis and conversation analysis show the consistency in their assigning value to Cantonese as well as acknowledging the prestigious status and the practicality of Putonghua. In summary, this thesis is a contribution to studies of bilingualism and de facto language policies in urban China. It reveals that individuals and social groups of a language community can negotiate the Putonghua Policy through imposing the use of Cantonese and Cantonese-related categories to others in mundane talk and institutional interactions. It also contributes to studies of China’s internal immigrants in terms of exploring how immigrants’ life experiences are affected by conflicting language ideologies, and how immigrants can employ bilingual repertoires to negotiate problematic but taken-for-granted discrimination and manage to be at ease with their unique self-identifications.
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Ashraf, Mujeeba. "Experiences of young adult Muslim second generation immigrants in Britain : beyond acculturation." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/8099.
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This research is an attempt to understand the living experiences of young adult Muslim SGIs, in Britain. This research advocates to understand their living experiences from the perspective of social identity approach which discusses multiple dimensions of identity, unlike acculturation theory which focuses on a mono dimension of identity. This research introduced a multiple social identity model for Muslim SGIs. Contrary to the previous literature, the first study, the interview study, revealed that they explained their conflicts with their non-Muslim British peers and with their parents on the basis of non-shared identity. With their non-Muslim British peers they shared cultural (national) identity, therefore, they explained their conflicts in terms of different religious values (practices); with their parents they shared religious identity, therefore they explained their conflicts in terms of different cultural (ethnic) values and practices. They argued that their parents practise various cultural practices in the name of Islam, and Muslim SGIs distinguished Islam from their parents' culture, and identified with the former, not the latter, and attributed their conflicts to their parents' cultural values. In addition, they explained that their religious identity enables them to deal with conflicts with peers and parents. The second study, the focus group, successfully validated the findings of the first study, and it broadened the understanding of the fact that SGIs and their parents both explained their religion in their own cultural context. Their religious (Muslim) identity also promotes their relationships with their non-Muslim British peers and parents, which contributes positively towards their British identity, and more specifically they define themselves as British Muslims. In the third study, the survey study, the hypotheses were developed on the bases of the qualitative studies. It was expected and found that British and Muslim identities were positively correlated; they had non-significant identity differences with the Muslim identity and significant identity difference with British and ethnic identities from their parents. Ethnic identity difference from their parents was the only found predictor of their attribution of their conflicts to their parents' cultural values.
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Yeboah, Samuel. "SOCIALIZATION AND IDENTITY OF GHANAIAN SECOND GENERATION IMMIGRANTS IN GREATER CINCINNATI, OHIO, USA." Miami University / OhioLINK, 2007. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1196786508.
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Bonikowska, Aneta Kinga. "The immigrant experience : networks, skills and the next generation." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/1407.
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This thesis explores several issues in the adaptation process of immigrants and
their children in Canada.
Chapter 2 investigates why second-generation immigrants are better educated
than the remaining population. Using a standard human capital framework where
individuals choose how much to invest in both their children's and their own
human capital, I show that a gap in education can arise in the absence of
differences in unobservable characteristics between immigrants and the native
born. Rather, it can arise due to institutional factors such as imperfect
transferability of foreign human capital and credit constraints. The model's
key implication is a negative relationship between parental human capital
investments and children's educational attainment, particularly in families
with uneducated parents. I find strong empirical evidence of such tradeoffs in
human capital investments occurring within immigrant families.
Chapter 3 re-assesses the effect of living in an ethnic enclave on labour
market outcomes of immigrants. I find evidence of cohort effects in the
relationship between mean earnings and the proportion of co-ethnics in the CMA
which vary by education level. Next, using information on the proportion of
one's friends who share one's ethnicity, I test a common assumption that the
enclave effect is a network effect. I find that traditional, geography-based
measures of the ethnic enclave effect capture the impact of factor(s) other
than social networks. In fact, the two effects generally offset each other to
some degree in determining immigrant employment outcomes. Neither measure has a
statistically significant effect on average immigrant earnings, at least in
cross-sectional data.
Chapter 4, co-authored with David Green and Craig Riddell, tests two
alternative theories about why immigrants earn less than native-born workers
with similar educational attainment and experience - discrimination versus
lower skills (measured by literacy test scores). We find that immigrant workers
educated abroad have lower cognitive skill levels (assessed in English or
French) than similar native-born workers. This skills gap can explain much of
the earnings gap. At the same time, foreign-educated immigrants receive no
lower returns to skills than the native born. These results offer strong
evidence against the discrimination hypothesis.
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Baumann, Emily Rebecca. "The effects of ethnic identity on the assimilation behaviors of second generation immigrants." Connect to this title online, 2009.
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Brady, Benjamin R. "Moral Identification: An Alternative Approach to Framing Second-generation Immigrants' Ethnic Identity Ambivalence." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2010. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/2276.
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Contemporary sociological research on second-generation immigrants living in the United States is lined with questions of ethnic inclusion and transnational participation. Many scholars are interested in how the children of immigrants relate to their parents' ethnic identity while being raised in a new land. Noting that the majority of scholars in this field approach ethnic identity within a social constructionist perspective, in this study I explore the ways that identity ambivalence and ethnic belonging are framed. Specifically, I critically question the ways that an ethnic identity is assumed to be valued and asserted in a constructionist model. After presenting a traditional view of the social construction of ethnic identity, primarily from the work of Stephen Cornell and Douglas Hartmann (2007), I draw out ways that self and identity are framed and highlight key assumptions of an uncommitted self and identity as an objective construction. I trace these assumptions through second-generation immigration literature and critically question how individuals can be shown to experience ambivalence or value an identity if they are conceptually framed as selves who stand apart from their ethnic identity constructions. To better appreciate their ambivalence and convincingly illustrate that one identity matters above another, as a claim for ambivalence inherently assumes, I argue that second-generation immigrants must be understood as strong evaluating, moral selves and the ethnic identities they embody as moral narratives which underlie their self-constitution. In advancing this argument, I look outside of sociology to the work of Charles Taylor (1989) and Charles Guignon (2004) who articulate a view of moral, committed selves. Building from these authors' work, I present moral identification as an alternative framework for understanding ethnic identity. In this moral approach, I delineate the concepts of valuation and moral identification and present them in a framework of identity authenticity and social accountability.
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Nanni, Beatrice Maria Rosa Searing Donald. "The challenges of second generation immigrants in Italy a comparative analysis between Italian immigrants in the United States and Egyptian immigrants in Italy /." Chapel Hill, N.C. : University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2007. http://dc.lib.unc.edu/u?/etd,1310.
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Thesis (M.A.)--University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2007.Title from electronic title page (viewed Apr. 25, 2008). "... in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in the Department of Political Science, Concentration TransAtlantic Studies." Discipline: Political Science; Department/School: Political Science.
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Kim, Sujeong. "Identity, difference, and power : the construction of identities among second-generation Korean Americans /." Diss., Connect to a 24 p. preview or request complete full text in PDF format. Access restricted to UC campuses, 2003. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/ucsd/fullcit?p3089471.
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Ma, Ying. "The Acquisition and Maintenance of Ethnic Languages among Second-Generation Immigrant Children." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1326224368.
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Abad, Neetu Suresh. "The influence of paternal autonomy-support upon ethnic culture identification among second-generation immigrants." Diss., Columbia, Mo. : University of Missouri-Columbia, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10355/4949.
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Thesis (M.A.)--University of Missouri-Columbia, 2007.The entire dissertation/thesis text is included in the research.pdf file; the official abstract appears in the short.pdf file (which also appears in the research.pdf); a non-technical general description, or public abstract, appears in the public.pdf file. Title from title screen of research.pdf file (viewed on October 22, 2007) Includes bibliographical references.
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John, Mauricia A. "The Impact of Race, Class and Gender on Second-Generation Caribbean Immigrants’ Assimilation Patterns into the United States." The Ohio State University, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1341618172.
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Calica, Reuel M. "Effective ministry to second generation Filipinos an ethnographic study of adult second generation Filipinos at Faith Bible Church of Vallejo /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 2008. http://www.tren.com/search.cfm?p002-0825.
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Soyal, Bejna Dilsen. "En studie över etnisk boendesegregation i Sverige : Med fokus på andra generationens invandrare." Thesis, Högskolan i Gävle, Samhällsbyggnad, GIS, 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hig:diva-29598.
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The study is a qualitative study that aims to examine how foreign-born parents affect second-generation immigrants choice of form of housing and residential areas and what differences there are between Swedish native-born and foreign-born parents. The study also examines how ethnicity affects young adults' choice of housing and residential area and the importance of second-generation immigrants attitudes towards segregated areas in the future have. The study focuses on the residential neighbourhoods of Sätra located in Gävle and Vivalla located in Örebro. Both neighbourhoods are million program areas but in different ways. The data collection consisted of ten people, five women and five men. The method asked specific questions and then interviewees spoke about themselves and how they perceive housing segregation. The selection has been made strategically thus the people that have been interviewed are born in Sweden and have parents that are born abroad. Also all of the interviewed individuals live in segregated areas. There is a lot of prejudice in the media and the public about segregation and the vulnerability of segregated areas. The results shows five women and five men’s own experiences and thoughts about living in segregated residential areas, having foreign- born parents, how both have affected them and their views of ethnic segregation.Undersökningen är en kvalitativ studie där intervjuer kommer göras för att jag somforskare ska kunna befinna mig i den sociala miljön som analyseras. Studien syftar tillatt granska hur utlandsfödda föräldrar påverkar andra generationens invandrares val avbostadsform och bostadsområde samt vilka skillnader det finns mellan inlandsfödda ochutlandsfödda föräldrar. Samt hur etnicitet påverkar unga vuxnas val av bostadsform ochbostadsområde och vilken betydelse andra generationens invandrares inställning tillboendesegregerade områden i framtiden har. För att utföra arbetet har en fallstudieanvänts. Anledningen till att en fallstudie har använts är för att arbetet ska utföras underen tidsbegränsad period. I studien ligger fokus på bostadsområdena Sätra och Vivalla,det dessa två områden har gemensamt är att de är segregerade på olika sätt och ärmiljonprogramsområden. Datainsamlingen bestod av tio personer, fem kvinnor och femmän. I studien tas intervjupersonernas erfarenheter, tankar och upplevelser med ochmetoden går ut på att ställa bestämd frågor och sedan har intervjupersonerna fått pratautifrån sig själva och hur de själva upplever ämnet. Urvalet är strategiskt, detintervjupersonerna har gemensamt är att de själva är födda i Sverige och harutlandsfödda föräldrar från olika länder samt bor i segregerade områden. Detförekommer mycket fördomar av media och människor utifrån på grund avsegregationen och utsattheten som råder i områdena. Resultatet visar fem kvinnor ochfem mäns egna erfarenheter, upplevelser och tankar av att bo i bostadsområdena och attha utlandsfödda föräldrar, hur det har påverkat dem och hur de ser på den etniskaboendesegregationen.
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Wolde, Sam A. "Acculturation, Identity Formation, and Mental Health-Related Issues Among Young Adult Ethiopian Immigrants." ScholarWorks, 2017. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/3928.
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Immigration is a contributing factor to population growth in the United States. Ethiopian immigrants who are residing in the United States constitute the second-largest African immigrant group next to Nigeria. The effect of immigrants' identity formation and acculturation process on their social and emotional wellness has drawn behavioral and social scientists' attention. Still, limited research has been devoted to exploring Ethiopian immigrants' acculturation and identity formation processes and how these processes shape 1.5- and second-generation immigrants' perceptions of mental health-related issues. This phenomenological study explored identity formation, acculturation processes, and mental health beliefs in 1.5- and second-generation Ethiopian immigrants. Face-to-face semi-structured interviews were conducted with 12 participants. Inductive analysis was used to determine the emergence of 4 themes: (a) participants' acculturation struggle, (b) ethnic identity challenges, (c) protective factors that helped participants to sustain and overcome the challenges and difficulties they faced through the acculturation and identity formation processes, and (d) heritage-based mental health perceptions. These findings have the potential to generate multicultural awareness among immigrants' parents, social workers, educators, policy makers, and mental health providers regarding the challenges young immigrants encounter during the acculturation and ethnic identity formation processes
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Cort, David Anthony. "A reexamination the role of familial acculturation and parental resources in the process of second generation immigrant assimilation /." Diss., Restricted to subscribing institutions, 2007. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1432804721&sid=1&Fmt=2&clientId=1564&RQT=309&VName=PQD.
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Cymbaluk, Leon M. "Strategies conducive to formation of independent second-generation Korean North American congregations." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 2007. http://www.tren.com/search.cfm?p023-0207.
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Trejos-Castillo, Elizabeth. "Parenting processes and risky sexual behaviors in first and second generation Hispanic immigrant youth." Auburn, Ala., 2006. http://repo.lib.auburn.edu/2006%20Summer/Dissertations/TREJOS-CASTILLO_ELIZABETH_36.pdf.
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Zevallos, Zuleyka, and zzevallos@swin edu au. "'You have to be Anglo and not look like me' : identity constructions of second generation migrant-Australian women." Swinburne University of Technology, 2004. http://adt.lib.swin.edu.au./public/adt-VSWT20050323.142704.
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My thesis explores the social construction of identity of 50 second generation migrant-Australian women aged 17 to 28 years using a qualitative methodology. I conducted in-depth semi-structured interviews with 25 women from Latin American backgrounds and 25 women from Turkish backgrounds. My study investigated the intersections of ethnicity, gender, sexuality and nationality. I found that the Latin women constructed their ethnic culture in reference to their country-of-origin traditions, and that they also identified with a pan-ethnic Latin culture that included migrants from other South and Central America countries. I found that the Turkish women constructed Turkish culture in reference to their religious practices, and they saw themselves as �Muslim-Turks� who identified with an Islamic pan-ethnic culture that included Muslim migrants from different national backgrounds. The women in both groups drew upon Anglo-Australian culture when it came to their gender and sexuality constructions. The Latin and Turkish women did not see themselves as �typical� women from their migrant communities. Instead, their sense of femininity was informed by what they saw as Australian egalitarianism. The women in both groups saw Anglo-Australians� gender relationships as an ideal, and as one woman said of Anglo-Australians, �how much more equal can you can get?� The women�s social construction of the nation was equally influenced by multiculturalism and an Anglo-Australian identity. They highly valued their Australian citizenship and felt positive about their lives in Australia. At the same time, they had faced ongoing racism and they reported that other people judged their Australian identities through racial characteristics. One woman said that in order for people to be accepted as Australian, �you have to be Anglo and not look like me�. Despite this sense of social exclusion, the majority of my sample held hybrid migrant-Australian identities. I develop a threefold typology of the women�s identities, and I found that 13 women did not see themselves as Australian, 36 women saw themselves as partly-Australian, and one woman held an exclusively Australian identity. I argue that narratives of multiculturalism and Anglo-Australian identity influenced the women�s social construction of identity. Their belief that Australian identity was multicultural was at odds with their experiences of racism and their own self identities, and so I examine the women�s beliefs in reference to an �ideology of multiculturalism�. This ideology supported the women�s contribution to the nation as second generation migrants, and ultimately, they expressed an unwavering support for Australian multiculturalism.
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Crosby, Cathryn Read. "The academic literacies experiences of Generation 1.5 learners how three Generation 1.5 learners negotiated various academic literacies contexts in their first year of university study /." Columbus, Ohio : Ohio State University, 2007. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=osu1186153515.
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Mandes, Alejandro Salvador. "Ministry to second, third and fourth generation Latinos in North America." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 2007. http://www.tren.com/search.cfm?p001-1191.
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Alakija, Oluwafunmilayo Bode. "Mediating home in diaspora : identity construction of first and second generation Nigerian immigrants in Peckham, London." Thesis, University of Leicester, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/2381/38649.
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This thesis originally sets out to interrogate Brah’s conception of diaspora as the site of everyday lived experiences. Unlike other notions, Brah’s contention is that migrants’ desire for the homeland is a myth. For seven months, the thesis investigates the validity of this statement in the everyday diasporic experiences of first and second generation Nigerians, in the diasporic space of ‘Little Lagos’; Peckham, London. Of particular interest, and under focus in the study, is media use and the affordances that new media technologies, as tools of negotiating multiple attachments to a contemporary Nigeria, provide. In the main, the study sought to find answers to three questions. The first of these was whether the media made the diaspora feel at home within the diasporic space of Peckham. The second investigates how connections between contemporary Nigeria and the UK are negotiated, and the third, the different identities and attachments constructed in ordinary media consumption compared to media engagements with exceptional media events such as those relating to terrorism. Based on media ethnography, the study involves 67 demographically diverse participants – 49 first generation and 19 second generation Nigerian immigrants in Peckham. A combination of participant observation and semi-structured interviews were used to collect the data. The collected data was analysed manually using thematic analysis. One of the key findings is that home is lived in the present by the Nigerian migrants, validating Brah’s proposition, and corroborated by mediation from social, cultural, religious and commercial practices. Although both generations interact with a contemporary Nigeria that is trendy; and has been facilitated in differing ways by technological developments; the first generation of the Nigerian migrants use the media to navigate ties with the home and the place of settlement. For the second generation, the media are windows to global trends, connect them to Nigerians all over the world, as well as keep them abreast of events and issues in Nigeria. Furthermore, the thesis shows through both generations’ contestation of media’s emphasis on the Nigerian aspect of the Woolwich killers’ identities, and through the younger generation’s celebration of the inclusion of afrobeat music, Nollywood and the representation of ankara in the host society and the global mainstream, that discourses of hybrid identities would continue to revolve around a national centre. This thesis builds on the work of Couldry (2013) and Johnson and McKay (2011), as the findings demonstrate that social, religious and cultural practices shape both generations’ engagements with diasporic media, and expand national identification and definitions of home. Overall, the key discovery is that home will continue to be a major issue in diasporic discourse.
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Stein, Jacob R. "Coping and Physical Well-being among First, 1.5, and Second-generation Immigrants of Non-European Descent." Thesis, Pepperdine University, 2018. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10933508.
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This study brings attention to the growing body of literature examining the role of culture and context in the study of generation-status differences in cross-cultural coping and physical well-being among immigrants to the United State. Prior literature on the unique challenges, stressors, coping strategies, and health outcomes for immigrants provides a basis for hypothesized generation status differences on cross-cultural coping (collectivistic, avoidance, and engagement) and physical well-being (health, safety, and environmental). A sample of 118 male and female first, 1.5, and second-generation immigrants of non-European backgrounds, between the ages of 18 and 35, were recruited from the local community to complete an online questionnaire. Results from the cross-sectional study did not yield support for the hypothesized generational status differences. However, exploratory analyses yielded several significant correlations including a positive relationship between collective coping and the safety dimension of physical well-being. Within-generation exploratory analyses yielded several significant correlations and differences on measures of coping strategies and physical well-being for demographic/contextual factors such as religiosity, age, SES, English fluency, connection to the U.S. culture, education, and ethnicity amongst 1.5 and second-generation immigrants. The empirical investigation of cross-cultural dimensions of coping and physical well-being among immigrants represents a new direction for research. This study also has potential implications for more nuanced understandings of the immigrant paradox, the socioecological perspective of acculturation, collective coping, and inclusion of both objective and subjective experiences of the environment. Implications for theory and practice, methodological limitations, and suggestions for future research are also discussed.
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Smith, Shahriyar. "Contexts of Reception and Constructions of Islam: Second Generation Muslim Immigrants in Post-9/11 America." PDXScholar, 2017. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/3766.
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The World Trade Center attacks on September 11, 2001 fundamentally transformed the context of reception for Muslim immigrants in the U.S., shifting it from neutral to negative while also brightening previously blurred boundaries between established residents and the Muslim minority. This study explores how second-generation Muslim immigrants have experienced and reacted to post-9/11 contexts of reception. It is based on an analysis of ten semi-structured in-depth interviews that were conducted throughout the Portland Metropolitan Area from January to April of 2016. It finds experiences of discrimination to be primarily affected by two factors: public institutions and gender. It also finds, furthermore, that research participants react to negative post-9/11 contexts of reception by redrawing bright boundaries to include themselves within the American mainstream. Because Islam itself has become politicized within post-9/11 contexts of reception, this study also explores how second-generation Muslim immigrants construct and maintain religious meaning as a form of political identity. It finds that research participants unilaterally construct a Localized Islam that is dynamic and variable in its response to familial and social pressures. The thesis concludes by putting forward a typology outlining its four primary forms of localization within contemporary social and political environments.
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Aniwaer, Kunduozi. "Intergenerational earnings mobility of second-generation immigrants in Sweden : A summary of theoretical and empirical findings." Thesis, Umeå universitet, Nationalekonomi, 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-116726.
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Monteagut, Lorraine E. "Second-Generation Bruja: Transforming Ancestral Shadows into Spiritual Activism." Scholar Commons, 2017. https://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/7426.
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The aim of this dissertation is to develop and illustrate a spiritually centered narrative method for transforming disorder into agency and action. I use my own position as a second-generation Hispanic female immigrant to show how training in a spiritual practice that mirrors my ancestral traditions helped me productively move through a sense of displacement, illness, and lack of purpose. My research includes travel to Havana, Cuba, and immersion in a five-week shamanic counseling training program in Tampa, Florida, during which I learned how to narrate my experiences as I engaged in shamanic journeying. As I reflect on these experiences, I explore three questions: How can second-generation immigrants 1) overcome family histories of displacement to create a sense of home? 2) engage in self-care practices that promote healing and nourishing relationships? and 3) create healthy identities and a sense of purpose within their communities? Through the process of writing my own story, I move from individual pathology toward communal creativity and tap into the burgeoning activist movement of bruja feminism.
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Jurva, Katrina. "Feeling Finnish and Canadian: Second-generation Finnish immigrant views on ethnic identity and intercultural communication." Thesis, University of Ottawa (Canada), 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/27696.
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This thesis research contributes to the literature on Finnish Canadians, and in particular the second-generation, which has attracted limited scholarly attention. It examines how these individuals make sense of their Finnish ethnic and Canadian cultural identities, and the intercultural communication issues that emerge out of their sense of belonging to two cultures. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 17 second-generation Finnish immigrants in the Ottawa area following Rubin and Rubin's (2005) responsive interviewing approach. It was found that these individuals identify strongly with being Canadian but largely experience symbolic ethnic identity, acknowledging their ethnicity as important but not living day-to-day within Finnish ethnic culture. While some did not report difficulties as a result of their two cultures, others experienced intercultural communication issues with Canadians and/or Finns. These findings suggest that, in some cases, even symbolic ethnic identity may result in intercultural communication issues with both ethnic and broader cultural group members.
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Rodriguez, Karina Marie. "Immigration and College Ideologies: The Experiences of First, Second, and Third Generation Immigrants from México to the United States." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/577192.
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The focus of this study was to analyze the way in which my family members viewed education after immigrating from México to the United States. I used portraiture methodology to conduct interviews and narratives of the maternal and paternal sides of my family. They were all in agreement that education is important, and that it is a key tool for social mobility here in the United States. These ideas were consistent throughout the interviews, regardless of generational status and regardless of whether the person attended college or not. The differences came in the experiences of navigating the educational system in this country. There was a stark contrast between the paths to success of my maternal and paternal sides of the family. I propose that because my dad's side of the family immigrated sooner and assimilated faster in American society, they were able to take advantage of more resources available to them. Their view of and goals for a higher education were more established and attainable than for the members of my mom’s side of the family who faced different barriers including having to learn English.
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Liu, Vanessa. "How Far the Apple Falls: The Role of Culture on Second-Generation Educational Attainment." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2017. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cmc_theses/1625.
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This paper analyzes the effect of culture – measured by aggregate levels of an immigrant parent’s home country educational attainment – on the educational attainment of second-generation immigrants in America. I use 2005-2014 October U.S. Current Population Surveys (CPS) data and the Barro-Lee data set to match the educational attainment of second-generation immigrants to the educational attainment averages of the respective home country from which their parents emigrated. Overall, I find that second-generation immigrants’ educational attainment is significantly and positively affected by their immigrant parent’s home country educational attainment. This suggests that cultural norms, particularly those regarding education, may persist in immigrant families even after resettling in America. I also find that the effects of home country educational attainment on second-generation outcomes do not differ by the gender of the second-generation immigrant.
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Mateo, Maria Christina. "Second generation Spanish immigrants in Greater London : the production and refusal of ethnic identity in everyday life." Thesis, Goldsmiths College (University of London), 2000. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.343955.
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Izadi, Paria. "Social media effects on diaspora tourism : A case study on second generation of Iranian immigrants in Stockholm." Thesis, Södertörns högskola, Turismvetenskap, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-42027.
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The impact of social media in tourism industry is significant. This study examines the role, impact, and relationship of social media platforms among second generation Iranian Swedish in Stockholm as a segment of tourism market when travelling to Iran. In addition, the purpose of this study is to explore if social media has a motivational role for diaspora tourism on second generation of immigrants’ trip to their origin country. The study uses content analysis and online questionnaire to collect data of 22 second generation Iranian diaspora who have traveled to Iran at least once during their lifetime. Three themes were identified from the collected qualitative answers based on the objectives of the research: Iranian diaspora motivations to visit homeland, feelings, and traveler experience by social media. Findings demonstrate the social media platforms are working as a motivation-pull factor influencing second generation immigrants to visit Iran, in much the same as other pull factors do. Also, the results show the User Generated Contents (UGC) such as travelers generated reliable travel information and introduction of new destinations can persuade second generation of diaspora immigrants to go back to their origin country for another visit. Finally, the findings of this research have revealed that two outcomes of trip to Iran by second generation of Iranian immigrants are Visiting Friends and Relatives (VFR) and visiting tourism attractions. Such outcomes can highly affect the diaspora members’ decisions in planning their travel to their origin country.
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Nilsson, Amanda. "I mitten av två kulturella världar : En kvalitativ studie om andra generationens invandrares livsvillkor och tillhörighet." Thesis, Högskolan i Halmstad, Akademin för hälsa och välfärd, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hh:diva-42445.
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Syftet med studien har varit att undersöka hur andra generationens invandrare upplever sin tillhörighet samt hur deras livsvillkor påverkas av att bo i ett stigmatiserat område. Studien har genomförts med en kvalitativ metodansats där fem semistrukturerade intervjuer har utförts. Det insamlade materialet har analyserats med hjälp av teoretiska utgångspunkter som Vanessa Mays teori om tillhörighet, Erving Goffman och Loic Waquants stigmateorier och Thomas Scheffs teori om sociala band. Resultatet visar att informanterna känner sig stigmatiserade dels för att de har utländsk bakgrund och dels för att det finns en territoriell stigmatisering genom deras bostadsområde. Informanternas föräldrar har inte alltid lyckats bli integrerade i Sverige, vilket även påverkar informanterna. Föräldrarna behöver ha en tillhörighet som då främst har blivit hemlandets kultur, som informanterna i olika grad tar efter. De flesta känner därför tillhörighet till sina föräldrars kultur och hemland, vilket också påverkar att informanterna föredrar umgänge med personer som har en liknande bakgrund.This research addresses the understanding of how second generation immigrants perceive their sense of belonging and how their living conditions are affected by living in a stigmatized area. The study has been done with a qualitative method, where five semi-structured interviews have been conducted. The collected material has been analyzed with the help of Vanessa May’s theory of belonging, Erving Goffman and Loic Waquant’s stigma theories and Thomas Scheff’s theory of social ties. This research presents that the informants in some ways feel discriminated and stigmatized, partly because of their foreign background and partly because there is a territorial stigma through their residential area. The parents of the informants have not always managed to become integrated in Sweden, which affects the young people. As a result of this, the parents retain more of the culture of their home country, which the informants then have inherited. The majority of the informants feel that they belong to their parents culture an homeland, they then prefers to interact with people with similar background.
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Noh, Marianne S. "Contextualizing Ethnic/Racial Identity: Nationalized and Gendered Experiences of Segmented Assimilation Among Second Generation Korean Immigrants in Canada and the United States." Akron, OH : University of Akron, 2008. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=akron1226517022.
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Dissertation (Ph. D.)--University of Akron, Dept. of Sociology, 2008."December, 2008." Title from electronic dissertation title page (viewed 12/30/2008) Advisor, Matthew T. Lee; Committee members, Kathryn Feltey, Susan Roxburgh, Baffour Takyi, Carolyn Behrman; Department Chair, John Zipp; Dean of the College, Ronald F. Levant; Dean of the Graduate School, George R. Newkome. Includes bibliographical references.
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Sadeghi, Sahar. "National Narratives and Global Politics: Immigrant and Second-Generation Iranians in the United States and Germany." Diss., Temple University Libraries, 2014. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/274683.
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This dissertation project examines the lived experiences of immigrant and second- generation Iranian immigrants to uncover the factors that shape their perceptions of belonging in two differ western nations. It is a qualitative methods study that utilized in-depth interviews. I address the limitations of past research by highlighting that Iranians' experiences of belonging and membership in western nations are greatly influenced by the national narratives of their host societies and the global politics surrounding Iran. My central research questions are: How do America's and Germany's national narratives of immigration influence Iranians' sense of belonging? and How do Iranians perceive the global politics surrounding Iran as impacting their lives in the West? Research on Iranians in the United States and Europe underscores Iranians' proclivity to become entrepreneurs in their new nation, the lack of solidarity and community among Iranians, and the discrimination that they experience due to their ethnic and religious identities. However, we lack comparative scholarship that examines Iranian immigrants' experiences in two nations where the national narratives are different. Moreover, there is an absence of research that addresses whether, and how, global politics influence perceptions of belonging. The three empirical chapters examine the data from sixty-four in-depth interviews with immigrant and second-generation Iranians living in northern and southern California, and Hamburg, Germany. In the first interview data chapter, I examine the motivations of Iranians' migration to the US and Germany, their settlement experiences, and their expectations of their lives in their new nation. Specifically in this chapter, I reveal that the lack of foreign policy considerations for post-Revolution Iranian exiles in the US and the institutionalized nature of refugee policy, and lack of it, in each nation helps explain the varying settlement experiences of immigrant-generation Iranians in the US and Germany. It is noteworthy that these experiences also helped shape Iranians' understanding of each nation's main values and characteristics. In the second empirical chapter, I show that national narratives of immigration are important in shaping Iranian immigrants' understandings, expectations, and experiences of belonging and membership in the US and Germany. These narratives inform their interpretations of not just the prospects of belonging, but the indications of whether they have accomplished it. In the last data chapter, I explore how Iran's global political standing influences the lives of Iranian immigrants living in the US and Germany. In both the US and Germany, the dominant negative discourse surrounding a highly politicized homeland stigmatizes Iranians' identities, and makes them more subject to experiences of marginality and discrimination. Specifically, in the US, global politics puts a cap on Iranians' quality of middle class experiences, and facilitates the construction of social marginality and discrimination against them. In Germany, it helps solidify a boundary that is already there. Ultimately, this dissertation research uncovers three important aspects in regards to perceptions of belonging among Iranians in the US and Germany: First, a comparison of Iranian immigrant experiences in two western nations where the narratives of belonging are considerably different demonstrated that the national narratives of an immigrants' host society greatly shape and mediate perceptions and experiences of belonging and membership. Specifically in the US, Iranians perceive belonging when they can obtain opportunities for social mobility, when their ancestry is not marked or stigmatized, and when they can place themselves in the `nation of immigrants' narrative. In Germany, Iranians perceive that they can come close to belonging once they are perceived as having culturally accommodated to German society, can access greater opportunity structures, and are perceived and accepted as `good foreigners and immigrants'. Second, an examination of how global politics surrounding Iran impact Iranians' lives in western nations revealed that their identities are stigmatized; they encounter marginality and exclusion, and ultimately feel that they do not belong or have full membership in the US and Germany. Interestingly, Iranians in both nations hypothesized that an improved Iranian standing would help facilitate belonging and membership. What is more, their perceptions of how their lives would change, and how belonging would take shape, if they did not live with the stigmas created by Iran's global politics, were inextricably linked to the national narratives of their host societies. Third, there were significant generational differences in how the second-generation in each nation assessed belonging. In the US, the second-generations' ability to access the educational resources needed for professional careers, despite their perceptions of the existence of anti-Iranian prejudice, legitimized both the US national narrative and proved to them that they can secure a good quality of life and be a part of US society. In Germany, the second generation experienced generational lag with regard to belonging. Their ability to belong is not resolved by length of residence, German citizenship, German educational attainments, or their adherence German cultural norms and practices. Rather, second generation believed that being marked as foreigners was perpetual, and not an identity that one loses after a few generations. Ultimately, among the US second-generation US sample there were more significant/powerful declarations of the ability to acquire social mobility and belonging, while those in Germany experienced a more generalized feeling of not belonging. This research contributes to ongoing conversations regarding immigrant belonging and membership. It adds the comparative dimension of belonging and membership by examining evaluations of belonging in two western nations where the national narratives are different. Furthermore, it takes into account how the contentious and antagonistic political relationship between Iran and western nations has impacted Iranians' lived experiences, and ability to belong, in the US and Germany. Ultimately, the inclusion of national narratives and global politics contributes to our understanding of the sociological processes that facilitate, and disrupt, experiences of immigrant belonging and membership in their host society, and provides us with a deeper understanding of the layered and complex dynamics that shape immigrant experiences.
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Raka, Shpresa. "Kosovar Albanian Identity within migration in the Swedish society." Thesis, Malmö högskola, Institutionen för globala politiska studier (GPS), 2009. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-23634.
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ABSTRACTWithin migration and globalization the concept of ethnic identity, religious identity and belonging have come to play a significant role in both immigrants’ lives and as well in social context. Sweden, as a multicultural society has been dealing with different ethnic groups of immigrants and the way these minority groups perceive themselves to be and how they are perceived by others in the society has also come to be of high importance. By migrating people also change their position. They often occupy inferior positions in the society when they settle down in the new country. Identity as a phenomenon is very abstract. It is a process that is shaped by social processes. My own thoughts to the questions of identity shape and belonging inspired me to specifically look into the Kosovar Albanian immigrants in Sweden and investigate their views and experiences of their shapes and changes of identity while living in Sweden, where they constantly are facing cultural differences. I wanted to research this phenomenon, partly because this subject lies personally close to me and see if other Kosovar Albanians share the same experiences.From the experiences of the respondents that were selected during the interviews it is shown that immigrants are always in between two cultures, which gives the sense of confusion while they do not know where ‘home’ really is. The respondents show everything from how they feel themselves to how they are perceived by others. They have a background with different values and norms, they have an existing identity and they are influenced by Swedish values and norms, which leads to identity shape. The important theories that are described in the text strengthen the respondents’ views and experiences and give a broader understanding to the issue of identity. Ethnicity, culture, religion, diaspora and transnationalism are highly crucial to the subject. The historical background of the Kosovar Albanians is also important because of their pre-existing national and ethnic feelings about their country as an independent state and their rights to express their culture. Keywords: identity, ethnicity, first & second generation immigrants, culture, diaspora, transnationalism, ‘Kosovar’ identity.
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Anand, Avninder Singh. "The effects of second generation Sikh adolescents' perceived closeness to parents and acculturation on anxiety and acculturation stress /." CIFA website:, 2007. http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/pdwerner/cifa1.htm.
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