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Showing 1 to 20 of 63 for “"foreigner"”.
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The Familiar Foreigner: English Colonists and American Indians Writing Each Other
In captivity narratives and missionary documents of the early colonial period (1608-c. 1750), English colonists portray Native American cultures as completely foreign yet eerily familiar. Captivity narratives play on foreignness while missionary documents play on familiarity; but both fall back on …
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ADAPTING TO A FOREIGNER IN THE FAMILY: TAIWANESE MOTHERS IN LAW AND TRANSNATIONAL MARRIAGE
During the past two decades, a body of literature has emerged on marriage between Taiwanese men and South-East Asian women. Almost all the studies that explore aspects of the lived experience of female marriage migrants have mentioned the role of mothers-in-law, but these older women were rarely …
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Open hearts, closed doors : native Protestants, pluralism, and the "foreigner" in America, 1924-1965.
At the turn of the twentieth century, leading white Protestant denominations sponsored vigorous home mission work among immigrant communities in the United States. As the century progressed, these programs, often conducted by women and occasionally by immigrants themselves, blended progressive …
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From protection to persecution: exploring the impact of anti-foreigner mobilisation on refugee rights in South Africa
This research explores how anti-foreigner mobilisation impedes the rights and lives of refugees in South Africa. This study does this by highlighting the anti-foreigner mobilisation movement, Operation Dudula. Grounded in a qualitative desk review, the study examines the systemic, social and …
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The Fragile "Bonds of Whiteness": Relationships Between Native White Southerners and Foreigners in Porter, Mccullers, and O'Connor
… the native, white Southerner and the white foreigner (of Swedish, Grecian, and Polish descent, respectively). I propose that the Southerner's perception of the foreigner may be understood in terms of three criteria: the foreigner's physical appearance, the foreigner's ritualized behavior, …
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Finding Your Pulse: Insidious Trauma, Psychological Distress, and Collective Action Among Sexual Minority Latinx
… minority communities (POC heterosexism) and foreigner objectification and posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms and psychological distress among U.S. sexual minority Latinx people. Additionally, group-specific collective action (i.e., ethnic/racial collective action, sexual minority …
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Staging Sex or Fighting Foreignness? Marlowe's Edward II as Xenophobic Drama
… its audience aware that a life dedicated to a foreigner ultimately ends in death from a foreigner.</p>
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Teacher Otherness in Early Childhood Education: Rethinking uncertainty and difference through a Kristevan lens
… and psychoanalytical notions of the foreigner, of the foreigner within, and her theory on the subject in process are fundamental to my examinations throughout this thesis. Highlighting the often unspeakable senses and experiences of being Other, unfamiliar, unpredictable, strange, …
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Deslanting the Lens
… Dong, Asian men have been relegated to perpetual foreigner status in American cinema. This paper will explore why the portrayal of Asian men has been limited to very specific ideas about Asian and Asian Americans are in society. This analysis will also include how socio/political events have …
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Seeing the future, speaking to the past : nomadic projects and thoughts
… the time at MIT. Through my experiences as a foreigner, I have become interested in global nomadic behavior and it's effect on the socio-psychological experiences of individuals and the development of new social formations. In my projects, I attempt to address the issues of alienation, …
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The Marquis de Cuevas : pushing the boundaries of self
… always acutely aware of his shortcomings as a foreigner. Classed as an eccentric other, Cuevas participates in the larger discourse of cosmopolitanism, engaging with the issue of what it means to be foreign in the cities of Paris, New York and Santiago de Chile. The four chapters that comprise …
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Belonging in the Psychic Nowhere: Racial Trauma, Racial Melancholia and Related Mental Health Outcomes Amongst South Asian Immigrants in the US
… it examined the roles of the perpetual foreigner syndrome, sense of belonging, and internalization of the model minority myth, by employing the psychoanalytic theory of racial melancholia. Quantitative data were collected via self-report measures, and qualitative data were obtained …
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Bible Noise: Hearing Hidden and Silenced Voices through Sound Art Practice in the Reading Aloud of the Bible
… to are those of women and the ‘alien’ or foreigner, as two marginalised groups. To do this I draw upon postcolonial, Black and feminist theology to examine, reimagine and contextualise these voices. Along with theology, philosophical ideas of plurality through Hannah Arendt and Jean-Luc …
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Foreign Seamen and the British Navy, 1793-1815
… and migration, examining the legal terms of ‘foreigners’’ naval employment, the political and diplomatic background, cultural and social integration, and the demographic characteristics of these men. The conclusions are as follows. First, studying these aspects transforms our conception of the …
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Building the border: The treatment of immigrants in France, 1884-1914
… 1884 and 1914, several hundred thousand male foreigners, chiefly Italian, entered unskilled occupations in France's ""dual labor market."" In French Lorraine, Italians formed an industrial labor underclass in mining and construction. This work analyzes the French response to this proletarian …
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LA CONDIZIONE DI PRECARIETÀ DEL MIGRANTE: UNA PROSPETTIVA GIUSLAVORISTICA
… attention to the legal position that the foreigner holds in the Italian legal system and the effects that this condition produces on the employment relationship. The first part of the thesis traces the legislative framework that regulates the entry and stay of non- EU nationals in the …
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Yoshimura's Ghost: Essays on Rural Japan
… offering a perspective only accessible to a foreigner seeing the ways in which a centuries old culture, which is in many ways the most “modern” of any on the planet, absorbs and makes its own cultures from around the world.</p>
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From the Ground Up: Journeys Through the Leitrim Landscape
… tensions: old/new; local/global; native/foreigner etc. These forms of knowledge and counter-hegemonic spaces sit in opposition to the increasingly globalised systems of knowledge operating in the West. This research addresses questions such as: Who determines the value or usefulness of …
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After the wall : a Berlin adventure
… and social issues, in this case anti-foreigner violence in Germany. Despite the sometimes-weighty subject matter, humour is an important ingredient in the story's telling. The goal was to create a compelling and entertaining mystery.
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