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Showing 1 to 20 of 38 for “"Immigrant community"”.
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Speakeasy : mobile telephony for community networking and civic engagement in an immigrant community
Immigrants face a variety of barriers limiting their access to social services. These include inability to speak English, unfamiliarity with available services, and distrust of government agencies. To overcome these obstacles, many immigrants rely on informal social networks for information, …
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Cultural perspectives of mental health beliefs and treatment expectations within the Chinese immigrant community
… of cultural perspectives within the Chinese immigrant community in the UK. Using a constructivist grounded theory methodology, intensive interviews were used to collect data from twelve participants. The participants were all first generation Chinese immigrants who had experience of using …
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Musicking and Literacy Connections in the Third Space: Leveraging the Strengths of a Latinx Immigrant Community
… identities as integral members of a learning community, are accepted as leaders by their peers and are seen as literate in their music making practices. This habitus of success can have a durable, generative and transposable impact on the identity formation for the bilingual student that goes …
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The Civic Engagement Of Latino Immigrants In The United States
… the incorporation and engagement of Latino immigrants in American society by examining how demographic characteristics, socioeconomic factors, and characteristics of the immigrant experience, as moderated by acculturation and trust in government influence their civic engagement.</p> <p>The …
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The Immigrants in the Central Coast of California Need Motivation to Attend Classes and Learn English as Their Second Language
<p>This field project shows that the immigrant community that works in the fields from the Central Coast of California need the motivation to attend adult school to learn English as their second language. A six-week courses is included.</p>
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Local ways of knowing : schooling, language, and literacy in a marginal, culturally distinctive community in Botswana
… by people in one, marginal, culturally distinct immigrant community in respect to schooling, language, and literacy and how these are likely to impact on their children's participation in schools. The methodological frame for both data collection and analysis for this study aligned with those …
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Language maintenance by Haitian immigrants in the USA: a case study of the Chicago community
… tongue (L1) maintenance, with an emphasis on immigrant contexts by case-studying the Haitian immigrant community in Chicago as a potential exemplar of bilingual immigrant communities that is embedded in an economically and culturally dominant language: English. The dissertation examines the …
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Global fantasies and heartland realities: Making a global city in the Midwest
… economies, this research project examines how immigrant CBOs’ claim citizenship and establish belonging within the context of neoliberal multiculturalism. Indianapolis is a new destination for immigrants in the Midwest and during Mayor Greg Ballard’s terms (2008-2016) the city rebranded itself …
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"Little Madeira": the Portuguese in Woodstock c.1940-c.1980
… evolution or the Portuguese or Madeiran immigrant community of Woodstock between the 1940s and 1980s. As the majority of Portuguese in Woodstock came from Madeira the terms, Portuguese and Madeiran, will be used interchangeably when referring to the immigrants. Throughout this period, …
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Broadcasting La Presencia Latina: Tracing Identities Across Fields of Interaction in Rural Minnesota
… the concerted efforts of an emergent Latinx immigrant community in Westplain, Minnesota to construct and assert their individual and collective identities within the public sphere through a range of multimodal and face-to-face communicative resources. I address enduring questions within the …
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Learning Race and *Class: Chinese Americans in Multiracial Bridgeport
… in Bridgeport, a multiracial working class immigrant community adjacent to Chicago's Chinatown. Specifically, I observe that Chinese Americans in Bridgeport are subjected to various and even contradictory experiences of racialization: they are often racialized together with Latinos as …
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Making Place for Arts & Culture: how arts & culture play into interdisciplinary strategies for community development without displacement
… of arts & culture in the context of community development at a neighborhood scale. Specifically, it asks: how might arts and culture interventions be used as part of interdisciplinary strategies to bolster marginalized communities dealing with systemic disinvestment without …
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Across Imagined Boundaries: Understanding Mexican Migration to Georgia in a Transnational and Historical Context
The Mexican immigrant community in Georgia grew at a dramatic rate between 1970 and 2000 as individuals entered the area to participate in the states burgeoning economy. Social networks played an integral role in this process, transferring information about Georgia through family and friendship …
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Exploring the Uses of Cultural Funds of Knowledge Among Ethnic Minority Immigrant College Students in Their Constructions of Learning Identities Within a Collaborative Photovoice Project
… by an increase in ethnic minority and immigrant student populations, yet there is little reflection of such diversity in the curriculum and teacher preparation and practice. Ethnic minority immigrant students bring with them into learning spaces much valuable cultural knowledge. If …
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Acculturation in a community garden: the shifting role of a Hmong garden in eastern Wisconsin
… is a small midwestern city that is home to a community garden that has been kept by a Hmong immigrant community for more than 30 years. This thesis uses a cultural geographic approach to present an ethnography of Sheboygan’s Hmong community garden. This ethnography addresses convergent …
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An evaluation of immigration and integration policies with respect to the muslim community in Iceland
… the integration of Muslims and Middle Eastern immigrants as found in literature on the subject are also dealt with. Interviews and focus groups with the goal of understanding the status of this particular immigrant community in Iceland were conducted and results of those interviews are …
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PRECARIOUS WORK EXPERIENCES OF IMMIGRANT TRUCKERS: LABOR PROCESS, NETWORKS, AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP
… process by which first-generation Turkish male immigrants arrive in the United States, enter low-wage jobs, and then shift to the trucking industry. This shift brings a significant upward mobility for them. This discussion explains how the socio-economic cleavages within the immigrant community …
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Countering the DREAMer Narrative: Storytelling, Immigration Reform, and the Work of 67 Sueños
… For activists in the United States fighting for immigrant rights, especially the passage of the DREAM Act, storytelling has been an important tactic, but the nature of the narrative that was constructed has its drawbacks because it excluded some members of the immigrant community. In 2010, the …
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Nonprofit Continuum: Brazilian-centered Organizations in the Bay Area of San Francisco
… experience the same issues inherent in any immigrant community, such as immigration status, education, health, and socio-economic issues. To address these issues and ease immigrants’ stay in the host country, nonprofit organizations and community groups are created. This thesis project …
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