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Showing 1 to 20 of 89 for “"ETHNIC IDENTITIES"”.
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There's a Place for Us: How Ethnic Identities Are Revealed in Ethnic-Specific Organizations
<p>Ethnic-specific organizations have long been features of American society. Historically, they have provided ethnic actors with</p> <p>a means of preserving culture and history. They have also been sites where collective interests are pursued. In this dissertation I study two ethnic-specific …
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People and place in the new frontier: an examination of Han and Uyghur ethnic identities
This thesis demonstrates how Han and Uyghur ethnic identities are constructed in urban Xinjiang, how they have evolved over time and how both identities gain their meaning largely from a process of interaction with the ‘other’. It shows that the boundaries that exist between Uyghur and Han hugely …
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The securitisation of ethnic identities and the 1993 genocide in Burundi: an interpretative case study
… as the product of the securitisation of ethnic identities. By utilising an International Security Studies approach in combination with a Fanonian conception of colonial society, this dissertation provides an alternative interpretation as to why the genocide occurred. At heart of its …
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Insights into motivating factors for clinical trial participation across racial and ethnic identities: A hints data study
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2025-05-01
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(RE)CONSTRUCTING ETHNIC IDENTITIES: DIGITAL MEDIA AS AN IMPORTANT PLATFORM AMONG THE CHILDREN OF KOREAN IMMIGRANTS IN THE U.S.
… children of immigrants seem to renegotiate their ethnic identities. This tendency is known in research literature as “segmented assimilation,” meaning that identity is constantly in-process and evolving in modern society. Under the influence of digital media, immigrant children positioned between …
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The construction of ethnic identities in comic books : analysing the (re)presentation of Self and Others in 'The Adventures of Tintin'
… especially regarding their function, ethnicity, and dispersion throughout different narrative plots in these comics. Specifically, the aim here is to create a systematic categorisation of the data by employing a narrative analysis and integrating it with other approaches to reveal the …
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DIS/REORIENTATION OF CHINESE INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS’ RACIAL AND ETHNIC IDENTITIES IN THE U.S.: COMMUNICATING RACE AND ETHNICITY IN THE GLOBAL-LOCAL DIALECTIC
… education. Most of them need to adjust their identities in some degrees to adapt to U.S. American social and cultural contexts. One key transition that is significantly under discussed and often ignored is Chinese international students’ adjustment into a racialized system in the U.S. Because …
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The health of Irish-descended Catholics in Glasgow: a qualitative study of the links between health risk and religious and ethnic identities
… interviews, with people in different religious/ethnic, gender, class and age groups, the analysis focuses on three key areas of social life: employment, communal life and family life. The impact of structural and cultural factors on health and identity, and the ways in which structure and …
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Being othered: A qualitative study on how Chinese students make meaning of their national and ethnic identities within the context of the COVID-19 pandemic
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2025-12-01
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The Multiple Meanings of San Diego's Little Italy: A Study of the Impact of Real and Symbolic Space and Boundaries on the Ethnic Identities of Eight Italian Americans
… with a particular place can promote a sense of ethnic identity. This study focused on eight Italian American community members’ perceptions of San Diego’s Little Italy as both a container and creator of ethnic identity. The study addressed a) how the participants define and convey their Italian …
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Crossing boundaries of cultures and identities: Polish migrants in Belfast
This thesis deals with the construction of ethnic identities of Polish migrants in Belfast. It proposes an understanding of identity as a multidimensional and multilayered entity, and focuses on the processual nature of shaping of one’s sense of belonging, where different kinds of identities are in …
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Deepening pre-service teachers' understandings of race and ethnicity through intergroup dialogue
… of organizing a critical dialogue about race and ethnicity (Nagda & Zúñiga, 2003). This study was used as an intervention with pre-service teachers to explore whether the participation in an intergroup dialogue course influenced their understanding of their racial and ethnic identities, racial …
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THE ONTOLOGY OF DIFFERENCE: NATIONALISM, LOCALISM AND ETHNICITY IN A GREEK ARVANITE VILLAGE
… which are used etic-ly to envisage a group as an ethnic group. The Arvanites are a group of Albanian speaking Greeks who have been living in Greece for one thousand years. They are thought to have come to Greece as mercenaries. The Great Empires gave them lands where they eventually settled down …
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Politiche di sviluppo e questione etnica. La cooperazione italiana IN Bosnia Erzegovina
… projects they realized and how they faced the ethnic issue that characterized BH. I consider the relation shaped between Italian NGOs and Bosnian civil society as an object of ethnic interests. In BH, once part of former Yugoslavia, the transition from the communist regime to a democratic …
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"Family is Really All Over The Place:" Ethnic Identity Formation Within A Transnational Network
This dissertation explores the process of ethnic identity formation in immigrants from the Campania region of Italy who settled in Ontario (Canada) and Buenos Aires (Argentina) after the Second World War. It centres on the collection of twenty-five original testimonies from narrators from the …
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Leadership Developmental Networks of Professionals of Color: Contemporary Conceptions of Mentoring Relationships
… another? 3) What perceived impact do racial and ethnic identities have on the interactions between developers and protégés? In addition to using questionnaires to understand the structure of protégés’ leadership developmental networks, critical incident technique was embedded within the case …
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Ethnic identity amongst the mixed-bloods of the Great Lakes Region, 1760-1830
… This group did not develop a shared sense of ethnic consciousness during this period. A preference for exogamous mating patterns hindered their ability to form a culturally self-sustaining group. "Marital" alliances crossed ethnic differences more readily than class barriers, channelling …
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Incognitos: Modern Slumming Narratives and the Unmaking of Sexual Identity
… typically uncovers and classifies urban racial-ethnic and sexual ""perversions,"" ""Incognitos"" contends that some sexually suspect early-twentieth-century writers---white and Black---manipulated its form to avoid sexual exposure and to challenge developing constructions of sexuality in modern …
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Beyond the Missions: Ethnogenesis in Colonial Paraguay, 1556-1700
… in shaping the process by which they assumed new ethnic identities (or ethnogenesis) in Christian communities. Moreover, Guaraní social norms deeply influenced colonials and their institutions, including Blacks and the practice of African slavery. This argument challenges the dominant paradigm …
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