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Showing 1 to 20 of 35 for “"sojourners"”.
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Shifting personal brandscapes: young sojourners’ consumer acculturation
… acculturation agents and forces for young sojourners. In particular, this research focuses on how individual sojourners’ consumer-brand relationships and personal brandscapes shift as result of temporary mobility. In addition, the impacts of the individual’s sojourn on home and host others …
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Metaphor as a Tool for Preparing Sojourners
Sojourners, or people who live in a foreign country for a limited period of time, must prepare to communicate effectively in a foreign culture. Current theory suggests that sojourners learn to develop primary social interaction schemas to prepare for intercultural communication. Because sojourners …
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Peasants, Servants, and Sojourners: Itinerant Asians in Colonial New Spain, 1571-1720
This dissertation charts the social interactions, work experiences, and routes traveled by Asian workers within and between the colonial Philippines and Mexico between 1571 and 1720. Residents of early colonial Mexico called these workers chinos. Most free chinos were Filipinos, but enslaved chinos …
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Endarkened seeking: The storymaking of Black American women faculty sojourners in Senegal
The purpose of this dissertation study is to examine the stories of Black American women faculty who participate in overseas professional development programs, an area of research that has been sorely neglected. Education researchers’ most recent focus —as it relates to experiences abroad of Black …
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Fragile civility: an evangelical American school meets Korean educational sojourners in neoliberal time
This study is situated in the burgeoning body of scholarship on South Korea’s “Early Study Abroad” (ESA) movement and English hegemony and bilingual education, and in the larger narrative of global educational migration, especially the integration of international students into U.S. schools. It …
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Reentry adjustment of short-term student sojourners: A test of the U-curve hypothesis
… = 4.84, df = 1, p =.028). Adaptation of sojourners overseas as measured by the Culture Shock Adaptation Inventory was not significantly correlated with reentry adjustment.
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Strangers, sojourners, selves: the intercultural communication experiences of ethnic Chinese students in western tertiary education
This study describes the intercultural communication experiences of Confucian heritage culture students in a western tertiary setting. Exploring the intercultural communication encounters enabled an understanding of how these ethnic Chinese students socially constructed their everyday lives. In …
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Sojourner consumer behaviour : the influence of nostalgia, ethnocentrism, cosmopolitanism and place attachment
… Transient consumers are formally known as sojourners. Despite the recognition that sojourners’ international mobility is contributing to the development of multicultural marketplaces worldwide, there is a paucity of empirical evidence on their consumer behaviour. As opposed to other border …
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Qiaoxiang and managing overseas Chinese affairs in contemporary North China: The case of Changyi county and its sojourners
… Wei river, enjoys a rich history of sending out ‘sojourners’, who have explored the world and then returned home. Being the major producing area of jianchou (rough silk made by wild silkworm), Changyi sojourners began sell silk in Southeast Asia, the Peninsular India, the Korean Peninsula, and …
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The media & Japanese children in diaspora: understanding Japanese families’ media consumption & everyday lives in London
… examined the media consumption of the Japanese sojourners in London which is the largest Japanese diaspora in Europe. Japanese sojourners are sent by their companies and tend to upgrade their lifestyles supported by the employers. Eleven Japanese sojourners' families who had children aged five …
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Moving Through Space, Pausing In Place: Vietnamese Doctoral Sojourners’ Transnational Experiences of Identity (Re)Negotiation, Sense of Belonging, and Sense of Home
For the past decades, an increasing number of international students have travelled overseas to study for their doctoral degrees. Vietnamese doctoral students have actively joined this international education-migration flow. As they are a highly mobile group, their sequential movement involves a …
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A Narrative Inquiry into International Students' Lived Journeys of Counselling in Canada
… a counselling journey in Canada? What are sojourners' constructed narratives of counselling in Canada? How do these narratives inform and/or resist larger societal discourses about international students and their mental health seeking? What can we learn from these narratives when creating …
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CROSS-CULTURAL ADJUSTMENT OF NATIVE ENGLISH TEACHERS IN HONG KONG: AN INVESTIGATIVE STUDY
… cross-cultural adjustment, both in terms of the sojourners and of the host culture. A literature review indicates that cross-cultural adjustment has many different dimensions, and that levels of culture shock and cross-cultural adjustment depend, in part, on individuals’ characteristics. The …
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The Sojourner experience: An exploration of identity transformation through communication
… affect the identity transformation process of sojourners? RQ2: How does identity transformation affect the way sojourners communicate? Ten participants from six countries were interviewed in a forty (40) minute interview session. A qualitative methodology with an open-minded exploratory …
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Re-entry training and education for returning sojourner undergraduates of French grandes écoles
… French engineering grande ecole undergraduate sojourners.</p> <p>With particular attention to the historical and specific character of a grande ecole's interdependent relationship with industry and professional training as an integral part of the educational design, this program has been …
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Long-Term Western Residents in Japan: Hidden Barriers to Acculturation
… to provide a framework for analyzing Western sojourners’ acculturation experiences in Japan, as well as for choosing the research methods for conducting a qualitative analysis. The research involved interviewing 12 expatriates from English-speaking countries who have been in Japan for at least …
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"""Am I Korean American?"": beliefs and practices of parents and children living in two languages and two cultures"
… Illinois, where the number of Korean sojourners (temporary residents) exceeds that of Korean immigrants. Forty participant parents provided demographic information. They described their children's language-use patterns depending on interlocutors as well as their language proficiency in …
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