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Showing 1 to 20 of 350 for “"South Asian"”.
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SOUTH ASIAN DIVORCE AND DISPUTES INVOLVING CHILDREN OF SOUTH ASIAN ORIGIN
… are of considerable socio-legal significance: South Asian divorce and disputes involving South Asian children. Both themes are explored empirically by means of a qualitative research study conducted in an urban and industrial area of Britain with a high South Asian population. The thesis thus …
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The Effects of Pregnancy Loss on South Asian Males
<p>The South Asian male experience of pregnancy loss is understudied. The existing studies on men, and international based studies on South Asian men, point out that they are impacted on an emotional and psychological level and in their identity or romantic relationships. No U.S.-based studies were …
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The Contours of Secularism in South Asian Minority Writing
… relationship between secularism and identity in South Asian minority writing. Though India and Sri Lanka were founded as secular states in the 1940s, they have consistently failed to protect the rights of religious and ethnic minorities since the 1980s. Thus, critics have been debating whether …
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South Asian immigrants' mental health and use of health services.
South Asian immigrants' mental health and use of health services.
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Religiosity and psychological well-being in South Asian Muslim women
… relate to shame and self-compassion in South Asian (SA) Muslim women. The study’s qualitative component explored the conceptualisation of shame. The results show that orthodoxy and spirituality are related yet distinct entities. Greater shame associates with lower self-compassion. No …
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Violence, Militarism and the Environment in Contemporary South Asian Literature
… on the rise in violence and militarism within South
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SURFACE AND AEROSOL EFFECTS ON THE SOUTH ASIAN MONSOON HYDROCLIMATE
This work targets important couplings in the South Asian monsoon system at interannual or longer time-scales and associated processes and mechanisms: aerosol-hydroclimate, atmosphere-ocean, and land-atmosphere. Anomalous springtime absorbing aerosols loading over the Indo-Gangetic Plain (IGP) leads …
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The use of smokeless tobacco among UK South Asian communities
… tobacco products, of which the majority are from South Asian communities. The use of chewing tobacco products needs to be investigated due to the association with adverse health effects amongst its users. The purpose of this research was to investigate the opinions and attitudes towards the use of …
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DESIS ON A SPECTRUM: THE POLITICAL AGENDAS OF SOUTH ASIAN AMERICANS
… in New York City and Washington, D.C., with South Asian-origin members and constituents. These groups are 1) The Washington Leadership Program; 2) South Asian Americans Leading Together; and 3) Seva New York; and 4) Desis Rising Up and Moving. I collected qualitative data via in-person …
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Temporary Employment Agencies in Ontario: Experiences of South Asian Immigrant Women
… this study examines the experiences of recent South Asian immigrant women working through temporary employment agencies in Ontario, paying particular attention to how social factors such as gender, race and immigrant status shape these experiences. As FPE pays attention to the interconnection …
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Ways of becoming : South Asian students in an Australian postgraduate environment
… proportion of this student cohort comes from South East Asian and South Asian countries. Whilst there has been a good deal of research on international students from South East and Far East Asia, who share a Confucian Heritage Culture (CHC) background, there are relatively very few studies on …
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Spectacular Subjects: Embodiment, Abjection & Imagined Community in Contemporary South Asian Fiction
… of the human body in contemporary South Asian fiction, arguing that such representations encode authorial responses to the incipient violence involved in the construction and assignment of subaltern subject positions within the modern imagined community. The study is particularly …
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Exploring experiences of mental health in second generation South Asian Canadians
… sparsely describes this phenomenon within the South Asian Canadian immigrant population. Furthermore, despite experiencing differential acculturation, there is a paucity in the literature concerning second generation South Asian Canadians. Thus, this research explored their experiences of …
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International students’ work experience in London: Case of South Asian students
The number of international students is increasing in universities around the world with the growth of the internationalisation of higher education institutions (Waters and Brooks, 2011, Buckner, 2019). However, migration researchers have largely ignored the study of international student mobility. …
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Transforming Limits: Home, Literary Activism and Engagement in South Asian Literature
… as a significant and recurring preoccupation of South Asian literary fiction and non - fiction predominantly in the twentieth century, with some notable extensions into the first decade o f the twenty - first century. Relatedly, it considers the centrality of ‘home’ in cultural, social and …
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Second generation South Asian Muslims' conceptualisations of religious and ethnic identity
… the media and popular consciousness that young Asian Muslims are perhaps not as 'passive and obedient' as was previously thought. In addition to this, young Muslim South Asians are the fastest growing demographic group in Britain today and being located, for the most, at or near the bottom of …
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South Asian Young British Muslims: Identity, Habitus and the Family Field
… identities amongst young British Muslims from South Asian backgrounds as well as the strategies used by their parents to transmit values. The thesis applies and extends Bourdieu’s (1930-2002) theory of habitus and social field to the study of identity negotiation and intergenerational …
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