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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"Border Theory"”.
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Investigating the causes of delays at border posts: A focus on institutional and infrastructural factors at Beitbridge Border Post
… regarded as the busiest and the most inefficient border post in Sub-Saharan Africa due to its poor state of systems and infrastructure. It takes travellers more than two hours to cross the border on a normal day, and a minimum of two days during holidays. Trucks spend up to five days trying to get …
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A study of work-family balance policies and practices for returning nursing mothers in the Nigerian banking industry
… balance, this study draws on work-family border theory.The findings of this study show that there are limited work-family balance policies in the Nigerian banking sector. The returning nursing mothers lack autonomy and flexibility in their work due to lack of formal policy, bureaucracy, …
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Exploring work life balance among entry-level admissions representatives
… framework applied was Campbell-Clark’s border theory and how work and life crossed between each border of employee obligations. This research provided a new perspective on the shared experiences of entry-level admissions representatives. This study focused upon describing what multiple …
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CENSURED MOTHERHOOD: COMMUNICATING THE DOUBLE BIND BETWEEN MOTHERHOOD AND THE PROFESSORIATE
… In addition to the EOC, this study used border theory (Clark, 2000; Desrochers & Sargent, 2004; Nippert-Eng, 1996) and double bind theory (Bateson et al., 1956) as theoretical frameworks. Border theory operationalizes the experiences of individuals into domains, or spaces and places which …
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Gender, work-life balance and health amongst women and men in administrative, manual and technical jobs in a single organisation: a qualitative study
… within the context of Clark’s (2000) work/family border theory, which aims to explain how individuals balance paid work and family, and construct the borders between these domains. The thesis focused on paid employment, family, leisure, and reported experiences of work-life balance amongst the …
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Perceptions of work-life management among women at a higher education institution in Illinois
… interviews, this study uses a work/life border theory framework to explore the work-life balance experiences of 10 non-faculty women at an HEI. Findings from analyses of the interviews (and post-interview follow up interviews) disclosed five key themes around (1) benefits and support, (2) …
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The underside of borders: reading Chican@ and Native American literature at the turn of the twenty-first century
“The Underside of Borders: Reading Chican@ and Native American Literature at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century” focuses on Chican@ and Native American novels published from 1990 to the present. Teasing out the common denominators of different methodologies grouped under the umbrella term “border …
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Sustaining family child care providers' psychosocial wellness
… theoretical framework based on work-family border theory (Clark, 2000) and social convoy theory (Kahn & Antonucci, 1980), this study examined the implications of the co-location of FCC work and personal family life upon the daily experiences of FCCPs. Analyses of an administrative survey of …
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Border inspections in a dual-language, second-grade classroom in the U.S. Midwest
This study employed Border Theory as a theoretical framework and Lugo’s conceptualization of border inspections as a tool for social analysis of the multiple borders faced by four second-grade children of Mexican immigrant families at a 50-50 Dual Language (DL) school in the U.S. Midwest. The image …
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Class, labor, and color hierarchies: an ethnographic study of Mexican yarderos/as in South Chicago
… with two lawn care service companies. I utilize Border Theory as a critical framework to guide the collection of ethnographic materials, my interpretation of events, and my cultural analysis of the intersections between class, labor and color among this working class population. More notably, …
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Managing Work and Leisure in the Digital Age: A Practice Exploration of Digital Nomadism
… this gap, this study brings together practice theory and border theory to identify border management practices within the context of digital nomadism by investigating the relationship between work, leisure, and digital technology, to uncover a typology of digital nomads. Grounded in the …
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La patria perdida o imaginada: translating teodoro torres in "el mexico de afuera"
… trying to find the American Dream north of the border, Teodoro Torres's novel depicts the life of Luis Alfaro, a landed Mexican rancher, who is very successful in his transition to his new community in the American Heartland. </p> <p>Exposed to a much diminished degree of racial discrimination …
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Disability, leisure, and work-life balance
… framework for this study was work/family border theory. This theory emphasizes the challenges of moving between the work and non-work domains of one’s life and the role of relationships and identities in influencing the ease with which this might be done. Additionally, I utilized the …
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Consuming Dora the Explorer: a critical pedagogical examination of culture, literacy, and media
… critical bicultural pedagogy (Darder, 1991) and borderlands theory (Anzaldúa, 1999) to construct a conceptual and analytical framework.