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The Aspirations Formation of Disadvantaged Jamaican Male Youths
… the aspirations formation of disadvantaged Jamaican male youths. The design of the study was a Type 3 holistic design which considered the global nature of multiple cases, and focused on the impact of work, family, school, peers and siblings on subjects1 aspirations. Six case studies were …
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Jamaican Diasporic Counter-Archives: Performative Archival Imaginings In Ontario, Canada
… historical preservation, and the methods used by Jamaicans who descend primarily from indigenous peoples in Africa, this research-creation project asks an ontological question: What are archives (the records) in the Jamaican diaspora in Canada? Noting the performative nature of the community’s …
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Educational and Career Aspirations and Expectations of Selected Jamaican Students
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When Wives Migrate and Leave Husbands Behind: A Jamaican Marriage Pattern
<p>For over a hundred years Jamaicans have been migrating to make the proverbial `better life' for themselves and their families. In the early 20th century husbands migrated, leaving wives behind. As economies of the United States and Canada have become more service-oriented, wives migrate leaving …
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The mental health effects of community violence exposure on Jamaican youth
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Immigrant Identities and Geographies of Belonging: Jamaican Immigrant Organizations in Toronto
… the relationships between the construction of Jamaican immigrant identities and the organizations they establish in Toronto. I investigate how various axes of identity including generation, race, gender, class and ethnicity influence Jamaican immigrants involvement in immigrant organizations …
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Food Consumption Similarities and Differences for Two Types of Jamaican Households
… gap in the literature by comparing two types of Jamaican households and how these households differed in their food consumption patterns. This study collected data from two focus groups and 102 survey respondents from the cities of Pembroke Pines, Miramar and Lauderdale Lakes in South Florida. …
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Recidivism Among Jamaican Teenage Mothers : A Historical Cohort Study 1995-1998
… A random sample (n=260) of primiparous Jamaican adolescent mothers 12-16 years who gave birth in 1994 in the parishes of Kingston & St. Andrew, St. Catherine and Manchester was selected from vital records and interviewed for this study in 1998.</p> <p>The results confirmed that the WCJF …
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A Comprehensive Guidance Counseling Program for Jamaican Schools: a Needs Assessment
… perceptions of the existing guidance program in Jamaican schools and (b) to identify aspects of the Comprehensive Guidance Counseling Program (CGCP) that are desired by stakeholders in order to observe if there were any significant gaps between the perceived current and desired status of guidance …
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Education and rural community development: a conceptual model and Jamaican case
Rural citizens in developing countries are becoming the focal point of social, economic and political development efforts. These people traditionally have been left out of the developmental process. National leaders have now realized that the citizens of rural areas have the potential to contribute …
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Single Canadian mothers of Jamaican heritage share experiences about their children's education
… experiences of four single Canadian mothers of Jamaican heritage with respect to their children’s education. Four themes suggested in the literature—beliefs, practices, barriers, and supports—guided the research. The interviews with the mothers largely confirmed previous research in the field. …
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The Jamaican Marronage, a Social Pseudomorph: The Case of the Accompong Maroons
Based on ethnography, oral history and archival research, this study examines the culture of the Accompong Maroons by focusing on the political, economic, social, religious and kinship institutions, foodways, and land history. This research demonstrates that like the South American Maroons, the …
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Gendered Production Roles and Integrated Pest Management in Three Jamaican Farming Communities
In the promotion of Integrated Pest Management (IPM) as an alternative to pesticides, the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), the Office of International Research and Development (OIRD) at Virginia Tech, and the Caribbean Agricultural Research and Development Institute …
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Wah Eye Nuh See Heart Nuh Leap: Queer Marronage In The Jamaican Dancehall
… of colonial and post-colonial British and Jamaican Laws and the interpretive legalities of sexuality, compulsory heterosexuality, and queerness. The research project begins by exploring the ways in which the gendered colonial law produces black sexualities as excessive and in need of …
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Free Women and the Making of Colonial Jamaican Economy and Society 1760-1834
This study considers the social and economic lives of free women in Jamaica from 1760 to 1834. Throughout the period studied Jamaica was Britain’s most important imperial holding. The colony’s slave economy, driven by the labour of hundreds of thousands of enslaved men and women, generated …
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ROSCAs, poverty alleviation and economic development : a case study of Jamaican paadner groups
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1992.
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