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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"Immigration process"”.
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How Do Second Generation Immigrants Experience Immigration? Understanding the Impact of the Immigration Process on Second Generation Immigrants Through the Lens of Psychoanalytic Thinking
This dissertation explores the impact of immigration on second generation immigrants by investigating their lived experience. Using a hermeneutic methodology, this research focuses on second generation immigrants’ experience of themselves and being in the world. It aims to investigate the …
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Closing the Loop on Visa Security: A Case for Change
… an effort to increase security, streamline the immigration process, and address the above issues, this thesis recommends that the visa issuing function should be exclusively the responsibility of, and performed by, DHS.
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Effective Art Interventions for Adult Immigrants
… the mental health problems resulting from immigration. The first part of this thesis will examine the immigration-induced stressors: survival challenges, loss, and family conflicts. Then next section will describe the psychological problems these stressors induce. The thesis will then …
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Once the Sun Comes Up
… Cuba in the early 2000s, as well as the immigration process endured by the author and his mother when migrating to the United States in 2016. The relationship between memory and storytelling serves as the main topic of the memoir, as the author relies on stories told over family …
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An Archaeological Analysis of Canadian Immigration Legislation: From Welfare State Liability to Neo-Liberal Subject
… the three most recent pieces of Canadian immigration legislation: the Immigration Act of 1952, the Immigration Act of 1976, and the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act of 2001 (herein referred to collectively as the documents). The intent is to contribute to the archaeology of …
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Intermediaries and Migration in the United States
… intermediaries are segmentedly embedded in immigration process, which occurs as a result of decentralizing, disassembling, reassembling, and recentralizing processes at local, subnational, and national levels. The degree of segmented embeddedness is highly ethnicized and gendered. Second, …
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"Rethinking ""success"" of second generation immigrants: the role of families and communities in the transition to young adulthood"
… affected by risk factors unique to the immigration process, such as parental citizenship. Therefore, it is important to examine how these risk factors along with those specific to the immigrant experience may impact the success of second generation immigrants. Drawing from the life …
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Beyond Displacement: Understanding the Intersection of Cultural Variables on Mental Health Service Utilization among Newcomers
… Previous studies have mainly focused on how the immigration process and displacement from one’s country of origin influence mental health. Comparatively, few researchers have explored the association between these contributing factors and culture in how immigrants and refugees understand their …
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An examination of bureaucratic Home Office systems relating to mixed immigration-status families, including the use of Section 55 (Borders, Immigration and Citizenship Act, 2009): a mixed methods study
… children when their parents are detained under immigration powers. Very little is published in this field, and what is published, explores the existence and frequency of parental immigration detention in the UK. Family courts safeguard and prioritise the parental relationship, with children …
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Towards an affective pedagogical model for teaching English language and literacy to migrant learners
Learning is a process that involves both cognitive and emotional aspects. However, most of the research in education in South Africa tend to focus only on the cognitive side of learning and neglects the very important, emotional side. The consequences of this neglect lie most prominently with …
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Mapping the denial of space : Latinos and United States immigration law
Immigration legal spaces such as courtrooms and national borders are constructed by the geopolitical tensions that exist between U.S. nationalism and foreign bodies traversing its territory. Mexican, Guatemalan, Salvadorian, and Hondurans—referred to as Latinos in this research—constitute nearly …