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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"Strategies of Survival"”.
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Strategies of survival among illegal migrants in Montreal
… approach examines the migration and employment strategies of illegal migrants in the labour market in Montreal. The migratory flows discussed are permanent in nature. The thesis also examines the role of networks in initiating the migration process and in securing employment in Montreal. It …
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Micro wholesaling businesses involved in the sector of confectionary products - strategies of survival and growth
… businesses find themselves has been a result of the strong presence of supermarkets and superstores in the last years. The researcher attempts to picture the current market reality that constitutes the background of the Thesis by posing the main research question: "How can micro Greek …
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An Examination of Refugees Strategies of Survival: A Critical Ethnographic Study of the Status of Resettlement Organizations and the Promotion of Alternative Forms of Resettlement Setting
… integration that promote healthy levels of independence and connection to the U.S. cultural practices, similar to that of home communities. Instead, a host culture dominates with complex and "none-reachable" profit-making institutions suffocating home culture practices. Within this …
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"""What I Did Is Who I Am"": African American Women and Resistance to Slavery in Colonial and Revolutionary New England"
… and collective. My dissertation uncovers acts of resistance and strategies of survival that enslaved New England women used to fashion an identity which enabled them to cope with and sometimes to mitigate the effects of racial prejudice, gender inequality, sexual and labor exploitation, and …
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On the Move across Phnom Dangrek: Mobilities and Silences in the Thai-Cambodian Borderland
… is a historical and ethnographic study of a mountainous landscape of Phnom Dangrek where it has always been the periphery of various political entities and marked by violent Cold War struggle and regional politics. Through analysis of mobility and silence and engagement with decolonizing …
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"Too disconnected/too bound up": the paradox of identity in Mercé Rodoreda's The time of the doves
… to, yet affected by, hegemonic discourses of power. However, as long as women's experiences are viewed singularly along an axis of sexual difference, placing paradox as a trope for female identity risks reinscribing a closed system of oppression based only on male-female relations, thereby …
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Women on the Line: A Qualitative Study of Women's Experience of Work in the Meat Industry
This study examines the experiences of women who work in the meat industry. Drawing from symbolic interaction and standpoint theory frameworks, this research focuses on how gender, race, and nationality influence work experiences and family life for women in comparison to men in the meat industry. …
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A Social and Economic History of Darzis (Muslim Tailors) in Calcutta, c. 1890-1967
This thesis brings together two bodies of scholarship, the first on immobility, and the second on artisan capitalism. Darzis (Muslim tailors) and Dawoodi Bohra merchants who stayed on in Calcutta between 1890 and 1967, are at the heart of this study. They are shown to be resilient survivors rather …
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Chicana Sartoriality: Self-Fashioning Towards Decolonial Futures
… worked to define and understand the contours of Mexican American culture and ethnoracial identity. Chicanidad—or the cultural and political identity of Mexican Americans who ‘know their history’—and Chicane Studies continue to be troubled by questions of assimilation, colonialism, …
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Making Spaces for Ourselves: Queer Asian American Bodies in Contemporary American Musical Theatre
… American Musical Theatre” examines the queer strategies of space-making within and relation to the musical theatre form, arguing that queer Asian Americans actively create spaces of belonging on the musical stage. I argue that queer Asian Americans respond to histories of exclusion, …
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Seeking Safety: The Cognitive Foundations of Civilian Behavior during Violence
… are confronting violence, what determines the strategies they choose in pursuit of safety? Why do some people flee violence, while others try to fight back, adapt, or hide? Individual choices during conflict have real political consequences—from violence escalation to migration crises—but the …
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Born of Coatlicue: Literary Inscriptions of Women in Violence from the Mexican Revolution to the Drug War
… dissertation analyzes literary representations of women and violence from Mexican, Chicana, and Spanish authors. It focuses on two historical periods of extreme violence affecting the U.S.-Mexico border region: The Mexican Revolution and the turn-of-the-century crisis of the Nation-State that …
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Bargaining in a Labor Regime: Plantation Life and the Politics of Development in Sri Lanka
This dissertation is an ethnographic study of migrant labor, development, and gender among Malaiyaha ("Hill Country") Tamil tea plantation residents in contemporary Sri Lanka. It draws on one year of field research (2008-2009) conducted during state emergency rule in Sri Lanka amongst Malaiyaha …