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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"African-born"”.
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School determinants of political engagement and participation among South African 'Born Frees'
… Africa's first post-apartheid generation, the 'born frees'. I ask whether schools have had an impact on 'born free' students' civic engagement and the likelihood that they will participate in legal and illegal political activity, as well as voting in elections. Despite the legacies of the …
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Factors Associated with AIDS Risk Behaviors of African born Adolescents in Southern California
… contributing to the spread of HIV/AIDS among African born adolescents aged 15 to 19 years living in southern California. We used a cross-sectional design and collected data in two phases. The first phase was qualitative and data were collected from 25 participants in focus groups. The second …
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Birth-to-pregnancy intervals and adverse perinatal outcomes among African-born black women in Washington State.
… with adverse perinatal outcomes. The number of African-born blacks currently living in the U.S. exceeds 1.6 million. However, little is known about BTP intervals and the risk factors and outcomes related to short BTP intervals among African-born women living in the U.S. Objectives: The …
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A "Responsibility to Speak Out": Perspectives on Writing from Black African-Born Male Youth with Limited or Disrupted Formal Education
… highlight perspectives on writing of eight Black African- born male youth with limited and disrupted formal education enrolled at a secondary school in northeastern United States. Participants from Liberia, Sudan, and Somalia relocated to the U. S. through refugee services between 2003 and 2006. …
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(Un)Bundling the Black Experience at PWIs: Using Assets-based Frameworks to Explore the Lived Experiences of Black Sub-Saharan African-born Graduate Students in STEM
… US students and various groups of foreign-born students such as Black Sub-Saharan African (BSSA) students whose educational trajectories, outcomes, and experiences are unique based on their cultural orientations. Given the within-group differences in this population, prior research has …
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Blending Cultures, Identities in Transition: Nursing Students from African Countries in a South Georgia University
… study is an inquiry into the challenges faced by African born international nursing students at a university in southeast Georgia. The barriers to success that must be overcome by international students in the U.S.A. are well documented, and previous studies have shown that the barriers are even …
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The social structure and the process of assimilation of the Greek community in South Africa
… Greek immigrants of all generations into South African society (focusing mainly on the integration of the younger generations of South African born Greeks), and the consequences of this absorption at all levels. This chapter deals with the socialisation process taking place in the South African …
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Cycles: exploring the intertextual relationships between Bheki Mseleku, Bokani Dyer and Thandi Ntuli
Bheki Mseleku was a South African-born jazz pianist, composer and improviser. During his life-time, Mseleku had a prominent career in London and since his death his compositions have been widely performed in South Africa. In the late 1970s he went into exile and moved to London, where he received …
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Valerie Desmore s refusal(s): art practice as biomythography
The South African-born British artist and fashion designer Valerie Elizabeth Helene Desmore, who is said to have risen to fame in South Africa in 1942 at the age of sixteen, left South Africa in 1945 to pursue an art career in the United Kingdom. This move was prompted by the infamous South African …
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Mainstreaming second language learners: teachers' instructional strategies in the classroom
… interested in how instruction influences African children in the classroom. The U.S. immigration policies allowing citizens of foreign countries to migrate into the country, has favored the immigration of many Africans into the country either for educational purposes or in the hope of a …
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Designing with community health workers: feedback-integrated multimedia learning for rural community health
… The author also reflects on her position as an African-born qualitative researcher in Africa, and how her positionality affected the outcomes of this research.
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Identifying socio-cultural determinants to access : implications for e-governance in the water & sanitation sector
… education, as well as place of birth (foreign born vs. South African born). The results indicate that marginalised segments of the population have very limited capacity to communicate their needs to the municipal government. Therefore it seems that e-Governance in the water and sanitation …
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The construction of identity through race and ethnicity : coloured South African women in Western Australia
… through an exploration of how coloured South African women living in Western Australia construct their identities focusing on the dimensions of race and ethnicity. There is a dearth of research in Australia with migrants of mixed racial backgrounds. This work was seen as an important …
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In Search of Home: How Kenyans Domiciled in the USA Negotiate Transnational Identities Online.
There are a growing number of continental African immigrants in the United States who are changing the face of Black identity and politics in the USA. Whereas this group is largely invisible to mainstream media, they are visible in online diasporic media. However, there has been very little …
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Exploring cultural perspectives of physical activity among transnational African immigrants
Background: The overall foreign born population is increasing significantly in the US. The African-born population represent fastest rising immigrant group in the US since the 2000s. Transnational African Immigrants (TAIs) are a subset of African immigrants with a unique ability to sustain …
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"""The ineffable moments will be harder won"": the genesis, compositional process, and early performance history of Michael Tippett's The Heart's Assurance"
… unpublished correspondence with the South African-born British composer Priaulx Rainier, and documents within the BBC Written Archives, shed further light on the cycle’s genesis. The majority of scholarship on Tippett focuses on his larger orchestral and operatic works. This study reveals …