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Description:: ABSTRACT In the past two decades, the number of African and Afro-Caribbean immigrants arriving in the U.S. has been increasing. Black immigrants (36% of whom migrated from Africa and 50% from the Caribbean since 2000) now account for nearly 10% of the Black population in the U.S. This growing demographic...
Keyword:: immigration, race, and heath
Subject:: Communication
Creator:: Jean-Pierre, Phoebe Anne-Alexandra
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 04/15/2021
Date Created:: 2021-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: etdadmin_upload_794329 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15458

Description:: In an 18-month ethnographic and interview-based study of Afghan Americans in the greater Bay Area, California, I explore the relationship of culture and religion amongst this refugee community. As a majority of refugees in the past decade have been Muslim, it is important to understand what their process of integration...
Keyword:: immigration, racialization, Islam, Afghan, identity, and Muslim
Subject:: Sociology, Religion, and Ethnic studies
Creator:: Ahmad-Sediqe, Iman
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 02/12/2020
Date Created:: 2019-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: etdadmin_upload_653428 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14561

Description:: Cultivating Citizens: Ecology and Nationality in U.S. Immigrant Literature explores how and why American ecosystems became objects of appreciation, intervention, and attachment within immigration literature published during the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century. Fictional and nonfictional stories about US-bound immigrants represented naturalization and nationality as materializing through interactions within human/nonhuman assemblageswhat we...
Keyword:: citizenship, climate, immigration, ecocriticism, United States, and naturalization
Subject:: English
Creator:: Kellen Bolt
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Date Uploaded:: 10/28/2019
Date Modified:: 11/20/2019
Date Created:: 2018-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Description:: This dissertation examines the history of Mexicans' changing racial status in the Chicago metropolitan region, a place where race has traditionally been understood in strictly black and white terms. From World War I through the 1930's whites violently resisted Mexicans moving into their neighborhoods in Chicago, East Chicago, and Gary,...
Keyword:: immigration, housing, Mexican Americans, whiteness, race, and Chicago
Subject:: History
Creator:: Michael T.M. McCoyer
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Date Uploaded:: 08/27/2018
Date Modified:: 08/27/2018
Date Created:: 2007-11-20
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Description:: The concept of deportation has become increasingly important in recent years, as states more and more turn to removal as a technique of control over population and territory. But within the field of political theory the concept of deportation has not yet received the attention it deserves. This dissertation helps...
Keyword:: immigration, constitutional law, removal, sovereignty, plenary, and deportation
Subject:: Political Science
Creator:: Charles Clarke
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Date Uploaded:: 03/28/2018
Date Modified:: 03/28/2018
Date Created:: 2017-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation

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