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Description:: This dissertation explores the experience of violence and precarity among Central American youth as they travel through Mexico to the United States. Based on a multi-sited ethnographic study conducted across Mexico from 2015 to 2019, I illustrate how the journey of these youth migrants is, in its basic expression, an...
Keyword:: Migration, Central America, Violence, Youth, Latin America, and Children
Subject:: Sociology, Social research, and Latin American studies
Creator:: Escamilla Garcia, Angel Alfonso
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 06/22/2022
Date Created:: 2022-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15999 and etdadmin_upload_896810

Description:: This dissertation studies three topics in 19th and early 20th century economic history. Chapter 1 studies the causes behind low inter-regional migration from the American North to the South prior to the Civil War. Chapters 2 and 3 focus on topics in the economic history of Egyptian agriculture. Chapter 2...
Keyword:: Migration, Civil War, Technology Adoption, Cash Crops, Cotton, and Egypt
Subject:: Economic history
Creator:: Daubenspeck, Jamie Mark
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 04/29/2020
Date Created:: 2020-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: etdadmin_upload_717976 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14988

Description:: This dissertation traces the historical development of diasporic Filipino American activism after the watershed 1965 Immigration and Nationality Act and during the military dictatorship of Ferdinand E. Marcos in the Philippines. Using multi-country archival research and approximately sixty oral history interviews, it analyzes labor, student, anti-dictatorship, and human rights activists...
Keyword:: Migration, Diaspora, Activism, Filipino American, Filipino, and Empire
Subject:: History, Asian American studies, and Ethnic studies
Creator:: Sales, Joy Nicolas
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 02/12/2020
Date Created:: 2019-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14618 and etdadmin_upload_661917

Description:: Erythropoietin-producing human hepatocellular (Eph) receptors and their corresponding ephrin ligands are asymmetrically expressed at cell-cell contacts allowing for bidirectional signaling with forward signaling through the receptor expressing cell and reverse signaling through the ligand expressing cell. Eph receptors are the largest family of receptor tyrosine kinases (RTKs) in mammals, which...
Keyword:: Keratinocyte, Migration, Lipid raft, Eph receptor, Ephrin, and Transmembrane domain
Subject:: Driskill Graduate Training Program in Life Sciences
Creator:: Rosa Ventrella
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Date Uploaded:: 11/25/2019
Date Modified:: 11/25/2019
Date Created:: 2018-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Description:: Bosnian women war refugees are not only trauma survivors, but are actively engaged in economic and social practices that shape their American sites of relocation. These economic activities--wage labor, and unremunerated volunteer and kin labor--are embedded in a moral framework of mutual obligation rooted in the concept veze / connections,...
Keyword:: Migration, Gender, Refugees, Chicago, Moral Economy, and Bosnia
Subject:: Anthropology
Creator:: Christiana Croegaert
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Date Uploaded:: 06/26/2018
Date Modified:: 06/26/2018
Date Created:: 2007-05-14
Resource Type:: Dissertation

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