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Showing 1 to 20 of 43 for “"immigrant experience"”.
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Danish Cedar Falls : The immigrant experience
1 PDF file (vii, 70 pages)
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The immigrant experience in Albuquerque, 1880-1920
<p>This study focuses on the experiences of the foreign-born residents of Albuquerque, New Mexico, from 1880 to 1920. Its primary aim is to determine how immigrants in one southwestern urban area fit into the history of American immigration. Topics considered include economic and geographic …
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The German Immigrant Experience in Late-Antebellum Kentucky
… focuses almost entirely on the German-American experience in late-antebellum Kentucky, it will, from time to time, make comparisons to immigrants elsewhere in America, especially the Irish. In addition, the thesis will explore the rich story of the strengths and weaknesses, the harmony and …
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The immigrant experience : networks, skills and the next generation
… several issues in the adaptation process of immigrants and their children in Canada. Chapter 2 investigates why second-generation immigrants are better educated than the remaining population. Using a standard human capital framework where individuals choose how much to invest in both their …
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Ellis Island: The public and personal representations of the immigrant experience
Between 1892 and 1954, more than 12 million immigrants arrived at Ellis Island's shores for the promise of a new beginning in America. During this period of immigrant influx and in the decades to follow, anti-immigrant sentiment remained at the forefront of the collective American conscious, …
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The community of Indianapolis: A microcosm of the Greek immigrant experience
Open Restriction set for Item 111775 on 2019-08-06T18:55:31Z with date null by mhoh2@illinois.edu.
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Jewish women in Glasgow c1880-1950: gender ethnicity and the immigrant experience
… diversity in the Scottish past. By examining the experiences of women in immigrant Jewish families and including gender analysis, it also forms an addition to British/Jewish history. The development of a Jewish community is examined in chronological format beginning with the arrival of immigrants …
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The unmeltables : the role of the physical environment in the immigrant experience
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture; and, (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1985.
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Sentimental Journey?: The Immigrant Experience of World War II-Era War Brides in Montana
During and after World War II, over one hundred thousand American servicemen married women they met in the course of their deployment overseas. In early 1946, these women, commonly known as “war brides,” began to immigrate to the United States to join their husbands. Over one hundred of the women …
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Sentimental Journey?: The Immigrant Experience of World War II-Era War Brides in Montana
During and after World War II, over one hundred thousand American servicemen married women they met in the course of their deployment overseas. In early 1946, these women, commonly known as “war brides,” began to immigrate to the United States to join their husbands. Over one hundred of the women …
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Breaking the Bonds of Silence: The Immigrant Experience in Magical Realist Novels of Katherine Vaz and Chitra Divakaruni.
… the genre, when employed by non-American immigrant women, takes on new characteristics. It not only highlights the mystical underpinnings of everyday life but instructs in a subliminally didactic manner by opening the reader to new possibilities through delightful imagery and a plot woven …
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If You Don’t Live By The Sea, You Won’t Talk About Sailing: An Interpretative Phenomenological Approach of the Polish Immigrant Experience in Chicago and the Acculturation of Racial Beliefs
… language barriers may negatively impact Polish immigrants and their abilities to form accurate and healthy beliefs about the BIPOC community. Through understanding the acculturation of racial beliefs, we may better understand the role incoming immigrants play in maintaining systematic racial …
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Between Mobility and Stability: Immigration, Free Trade, and Human Rights in the Context of the Latino Immigrant
… understanding human rights abuse toward Latino immigrants. It is argued here that the opening up of Mexico and Central American countries to free trade, and the restricted movement across borders has increased human rights abuse toward immigrants. In order to investigate these issues this …
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"Go West and Grow Up With the Country": A Study of German and Irish Immigrant Communities in the American Midwest, 1850-1900
… St Louis, Missouri, this thesis examines these immigrant communities from a state of transition to settlement and ultimately assimilation through economic, social, cultural, political and religious lenses. By exploring the German and Irish migrant groups in this manner, the diversity of the …
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A history of the Jewish community of Potchefstroom and environs
… century to 2008. Beginning with the immigrant experience the processes of assimilation, acculturation and secularization are explored. The Jewish community developed in parallel with the fortunes of the town until external factors prompted the departure of individuals and families to …
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How Religious Narratives and Rituals Function in Constructing the Experience of Immigrants Within the Context of a Haitian Baptist Church in South Florida
… and rituals function in constructing the experience of immigrants within the context of a Haitian Baptist church in South Florida. The church and its contexts are described. Then, an overview of relevant literature provides the foundation for the theory that is outlined below. The search …
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Narrating Americanization: space and form in U.S. immigrant writing, 1890-1927
This dissertation addresses a component of U.S. immigrant writing that literary scholarship has generally neglected: the relationship between aesthetics and place. Drawing on theories of ethnicity, nation, and space, I argue that the particular features of an immigrant group and the region where it …
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La Sangre LLama
… 24" x 36", and explore the contemporary Latino immigrant experience that often involves instability, acculturation, and loss of identity. The attire found on the subjects all vary in patterns and colors to represent different nationalities that fall under the umbrella of Hispanic Culture. …
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Setting the white bear right: Willa Cather's use of folk narratives in ``O Pioneers!,'' ``My \'Antonia,'' and ``Shadows on the Rock''
… of Marchen, legends, myths, and personal experience narratives in three novels concerning the immigrant experience in North America. Cather uses these folk narratives principally to emphasize two essential ideas. First, she uses them to show that the successful pioneer is one who adapts …
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Greek immigration to, and settlement in, central Illinois, 1880-1930
This dissertation is a micro-history of Greeks immigrants to central Illinois between 1880 and 1930. The study focuses specifically on those Greek immigrants who were involved in the confectionery trade, opening candy stores (often accompanied by soda fountains and restaurants) in the small towns …
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