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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"immigration history"”.
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Recycled Modernity: Google, Immigration History, and the Limits for H-1B
… to argue in favor of higher limits under the Immigration and Nationality Act exception referred to as "H-1B" for the section of the law where it appears. H-1B authorized temporary admission for highly skilled labor in specialty occupations. Congressional testimony by Laszlo Bock, Google Vice …
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Critical Pedagogy and Peace Education in International Service-Learning: A Curriculum Exploring Race, Positionality, Power, and Privilege
… the white savior complex, and American immigration history. Using race, power, and privilege, I explore how these themes relate to acquiring awareness and understanding of participants' societal positioning. Through this lens, my aim is that students can become aware of how systemic …
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From Displaced Persons to Exiles: Nationalism, Anti-Communism, and the Shaping of Latvian American Diaspora
… Building on archival research conducted at the Immigration History Research Center, University of Minnesota, the project uses newspaper articles to identify the variety of discourses present in major diasporic periodicals and draws out points of contention as well as agreement on the shaping of …
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For conscience's sake: the 1839 emigration of the Saxon Lutherans
… States because of religious persecution, their history is a unique part of American religious and immigration history. Arriving during the antebellum period, the immigrants faced the unique challenges of the young American republic, which would include the trauma of the nativist movement, …
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DIGITAL MEDIA AND THE KOREAN DIASPORA: A JOURNEY OF IDENTITY CONSTRUCTION
… of media communication technology throughout the immigration history of the Korean diaspora. This research finds that the advent of digital media has had a significant impact on the Korean diaspora. Despite a generational split in terms of Korean diasporic members’ digital media usage, all of my …
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The Representation of the Ethnic and Cultural 'Other' in Primary School Textboooks: A Comparative Case Study of North Rhine Westphalia (Germany) and Ireland
… (Germany), which has an established immigration history, and Ireland, where immigration is as a relatively new phenomenon. As a result of increased migration over the last decade, societies in both contexts have become more ethnically and culturally diverse. For this purpose, this …
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"You'll Get Used to It!": The Internment of Jewish Refugees in Canada, 1940-43
… reflecting its administration's anti-semitic immigration policies more broadly. Instead of using their case as a signpost in Canada's liberalizing immigration history, this dissertation situates their story in a longer narrative of class and ethnic discrimination to show the troubling …
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Student perspectives on study abroad: the case of Louisiana State University's summer internships in the French Alps
… in this study uncovered details about the immigration history among the Ubaye Valley, parts of Mexico, and southern Louisiana. The development of this program abroad and its founding principles and goals were also unearthed. Findings revealed that the lack of structure and organization of …
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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
… Asian immigrants have experienced a nuanced immigration history in the US while straddling the Black-White racial binary. Despite their growing presence, research on South Asian mental health is relatively limited and often subsumed under the broader category of "Asian Americans," which …
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Narrators, Navigators and Negotiators: Foreign Service Officer Life Stories from Canada's Africa Refugee Resettlement Program, 1970 to 1990
… Foreign Service officers, in order to tell a history about how officers "heard" and decided on the claims of refugee applicants who sought admission and resettlement to Canada through its Africa Refugee Program from the early 1970s to 1990. This focus allows the study to explore the …
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Danish Cedar Falls : The immigrant experience
1 PDF file (vii, 70 pages)
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“God will deliver us” : human rights abuses from Guatemala to Iowa and back, 1980-2014
1 PDF file (v, 131 pages)
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Maltese emigration in the nineteenth century
… Had such a movement come into existence, the history of Maltese emigration would have been different. I have deemed it fit to begin this essay with a brief outline of Malta's economic history throughout the nineteenth century. This will serve as a background, and will help us to understand …
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De Guanajuato to Green Bay: A generational story of labor, place, and community, 1926-2010
… Place and Community, 1926-2010,” traces the history of guanajuatense migration to the United States across (and beyond) the twentieth century and allows us to recalibrate our understanding of the sustained cycles of Mexican migration to the U.S. I argue that even though much has been written …
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Colonizing Schemes In An Integrated Atlantic Economy: Labor And Settlement In British East Florida, 1763-1773.
The colonization of British East Florida in 1763 did not occur in a vacuum. Colonizers formulated different settlement plans based on their experience in the colonies and the Atlantic world in general. The most obvious differentiation was in their choice of labor. Some men chose to base their …