Immigration-Related Dissertations, 2005

By Alisia Minasian on September 1, 2006

It is the mission of the Center for Immigration Studies to inform, examine, and critique American immigration policy. In the pursuit of this goal, the Center seeks to provide the latest immigration news and research for all involved in the debate of this complex issue. In addition to its e-mail news services, papers, books, and monthly publications, the Center disseminates an annual list of doctoral dissertations and theses inspecting some aspect of immigration in order to keep those involved abreast of the most recent developments in emerging immigration scholarship. This compilation contains dissertations completed in 2004. Abstracts of these dissertations can be viewed for free though the end of this year at ProQuest Digital Dissertations. Full copies may be obtained for a fee.

For ease of use, the list is organized into the following categories: Policy/Politics, Migration Processes/Networks, Economics/Labor, Acculturation/Ethnicity, Language, Education/Schools, Women/Families, Health, Religion, History, Canada/Mexico, Overseas, and Refugees/Asylum. However, many of the items in this list could have easily fallen into two or three different categories. Those readers who are interested in a particular topic are encouraged to browse the entire list due to the list's necessarily subjective organizational scheme.


Policy/Politics

We won’t turn back: The political economy paradoxes of immigrant and ethnic minority settlement in suburban America
by Lorrie Ann Frasure, PhD
UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND, COLLEGE PARK

Rethinking culture and cultural: The politics of meaning-making
by Rita Dhamoon, PhD
THE UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA (CANADA)

Citizenship unbound: The global politics of neo-liberalism and labor migration
by Isabelle Virginie Barker, PhD
RUTGERS THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW JERSEY - NEW BRUNSWICK

The politics of European Union immigration and asylum policy cooperation
by Matthew James Fouse, PhD
PRINCETON UNIVERSITY

The fiscal impacts of immigrants and the resultant changes in state redistributive policy
by Stephanie A. Botello, PhD
UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON

Local races, politicized ethnicity, and political narratives in New York
by Andreas Yiorgos Kourvetaris, PhD
COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY

Policing the boundaries between ‘us’ and ‘them’: Immigrants, narrative identity, and the politics of inclusion/exclusion (New York City, California)
by Kevin James Keogan, PhD
RUTGERS THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW JERSEY - NEW BRUNSWICK

La Idea Salvadora: Immigration and colonization politics in Mexico, 1821--1857
by David K. Burden, PhD
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SANTA BARBARA

Open for business, closed for bodies: Rethinking territoriality of United States statecraft at the United States-Mexico border
by Coleman, Mathew Charles Coleman, PhD
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, LOS ANGELES


Migration Processes/Networks

Population-based empowerment practice in immigrant communities
by Alireza Moula, Dr
LINKOPINGS UNIVERSITET (SWEDEN)
UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND, COLLEGE PARK

International migration of physicians and nurses to the United States
by Peter Sotir Hussey, PhD
THE JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY

Qualitative case study of a Palestinian immigrant in the United States
by Shawn McCall, PsyD
CHICAGO SCHOOL OF PROFESSIONAL PSYCHOLOGY

Housing tenure choice of immigrants in the United States
by Zhenfeng Pan, PhD
UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE

Immigration multiplier: A new method of measuring the immigration process
by Yu, Bin, PhD
BROWN UNIVERSITY

Toward a common market in residency: International migration and regional integration
by Lee Biernbaum, MA
UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI - COLUMBIA

Three essays on international migration
by Juventino Ulyses Balderas Gonzalez, PhD
UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO AT BOULDER

The immigrant lifecycle: A story of unskilled migration from India to the United States
by Paritosh Bansal, MA
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA

Communication and collective identities in the transnational social space: A media ethnography of the Salvadoran immigrant community in the Washington, D.C. Metropolitan Area
by Jose Luis Benitez, PhD
OHIO UNIVERSITY

Islam and the making of transnational citizenship: Pakistani immigrant experience in Houston, Texas
by Ahmed Afzal, PhD
YALE UNIVERSITY

Placing progress: Contextual inequality, internal migration, and immigrant incorporation
by Jamie Michelle Goodwin-White, PhD
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON

The significance of social networks and migration to the health status of Mexican immigrant mothers and their children: A bi-national case study
by Theresa L. Thompson-Colon, PhD
THE UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN - MADISON

Migration, demographic change, and the enigma of identity in Belize
by Karl Steven Seitz, MA
ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY

Comparative diasporas: Jamaicans in South Florida and Toronto (Ontario)
by Terry-Ann Jones, PhD
UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI, 2005, 230 pages


Economics/Labor

Bootstraps and beltways: The state’s role in immigrant community banking
by Alethia Elizabeth Jones, PhD
YALE UNIVERSITY

One hundred years of buying care: Gender, race, immigration and market care work in the twentieth century
by Mignon Duffy, PhD
BRANDEIS UNIV., THE HELLER SCHOOL FOR SOCIAL POLICY AND MGMT.

Manufacturing bodies: A (re)description of the undocumented sweatshop worker in the United States
by Ricardo Andres Garza Wicker, MA
CONCORDIA UNIVERSITY (CANADA)

Ideology, policy and the (re)production of labour market inequality: A critical discourse analysis of Access to Professions and Trades
by Michelle P. Goldberg, PhD
UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO (CANADA)

Three studies of immigrant labor market assimilation in the United States
by Ilana Redstone, PhD
UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA

Orientation towards ‘clerical work’: Institutional ethnographic study of immigrant women’s experiences and employment-related services
by Hongxia Shan, MA
UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO (CANADA)

Narratives of Chinese female immigrant professionals: Factors that affect their career development and strategies used for career adjustment
by Yuting Shih, PhD
UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS AMHERST

Critical reflections of Filipino immigrant accountants on their work experiences in the San Francisco Bay Area
by Manuel Z. Baldeviso Valle, EdD
UNIVERSITY OF SAN FRANCISCO

Essays on welfare and immigration
by Francesca Mazzolari, PhD
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO

Doing the corner: A study of immigrant day laborers in Brooklyn, New York
by Carolyn Pinedo Turnovsky, PhD
CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK

Crossing borders in the information age: The impact of highly skilled migrants on the labor market outcomes of the United States highly skilled workers
by Janna Batalova, PhD
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, IRVINE

Gender, racialization and the incorporation to work among Dominican and Mexican women in New York City
by Norma Fuentes-Mayorga, PhD
COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY

Picking a living: Farm workers and organized labor in California’s strawberry industry
by Gilbert Felipe Mireles, PhD
YALE UNIVERSITY

Wage earnings of Chinese in the United States: Individual and contextual determinants
by Binbin Qin, PhD
TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY

High-skilled immigrants in the United States labor market: Significance of country-of-origin
by Sarinda Taengnoi, PhD
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO

Three essays on international trade and factor flows
by Ryo Takashima, PhD
WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY


Acculturation/Ethnicity

Acculturation and physical activity in Korean immigrant women
by Ji Won Choi, PhD
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO, HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER

The process of ethnic identity development of the Latina 1.5 generation of foreign-born immigrant college students
by Sonia Jacqueline Garcia, PhD
MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY

The meeting ground of media use, acculturation, social capital and political socialization of ethnic groups: With an emphasis on Chinese cultural groups
by Qun Chen, PhD
UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI - COLUMBIA

Latina immigrants in public housing: Race relations, social networks and access to services
by Silvia Dominguez, PhD
BOSTON UNIVERSITY

‘Becoming American’: The intersections of cultural, ethnic, and gender ideals in predicting levels of perceived stress and mental and physical health among Asian immigrants
by Jana P. Haritatos, PhD
UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN

Chinese immigrant families with developmentally delayed children: Level of acculturation and quality of life
by Grace Shun-Yao Ho, PsyD
THE WRIGHT INSTITUTE

Replenished identity: Mexican Americans, Mexican immigrants and ethnic identity (California, Kansas)
by Tomas R. Jimenez, PhD
HARVARD UNIVERSITY

Difficulties of acculturation and coping strategies of recent non-Jewish Russian immigrant women in the United States of America
by Victoria N. Lashenykh-Mumbauer, PhD
CAPELLA UNIVERSITY

Sociocultural problems experienced by Ethiopian immigrants in the United States and communication of the Gospel
by Mohammed Mussa, PhD
FULLER THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY, SCHOOL OF INTERCULTURAL STUDIES

Latino immigrants’ perceptions of child abuse
by Gabriela Ramirez, MSW
CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY, LONG BEACH

The social construction of a rural Latino immigrant ethnic identity: ‘The good definitely outweighs the bad’
by Thomas Wayne Sanchez, PhD
THE UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA - LINCOLN

Association of acculturation and socioeconomic status with health status and nutrition behavior in adolescent females
by Sara Elizabeth Schaefer, PhD
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, DAVIS

Effects of attachment patterns on levels of acculturation and mother-daughter relationship among Asian Indian immigrant mothers and their adult daughters
by Swarna Lata Singhal, PhD
FIELDING GRADUATE INSTITUTE

Among thistles and thorns: West Indian diaspora immigrants in New York City and Toronto (Ontario)
by Alwyn D. Gilkes, PhD
CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK

The role of television as a means of communicating essential social service information to Spanish-speaking Hispanic immigrants
by Margaret E. Bouchard, PhD
WALDEN UNIVERSITY

Loss and mourning in immigration: Using the assimilation model to assess continuing bonds with native culture
by Hani M. Henry, PhD
MIAMI UNIVERSITY

Narratives of second-generation Asian American experience: Legacies of immigration, trauma, and loss
by Amy S. Cheng, PhD
UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS AMHERST

The invisible German immigrants of the 21st century: Assimilation, acculturation, Americanization
by Helmut Buehler, EdD
UNIVERSITY OF SAN FRANCISCO

Acculturation stress and alcohol use among international college students in a United States community college setting
by Chieko Koyama, PhD
VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY

Employment discrimination of Hispanics/Latinos: The effects of acculturation on the perception of harassment
by Jared A. Montoya, PhD
BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY

The effects of immigration on the development of adolescents: Five cases of North Americans immigrating to Costa Rica
by Elizabeth Courtney Hanna, PsyD
THE WRIGHT INSTITUTE

When East meets West: The relations between acculturation, self-discrepancy, and life satisfaction
by Shazia Kareem, MA
SOUTHERN CONNECTICUT STATE UNIVERSITY

The subjective experience of cultural self-identity among ‘white’ South African immigrants in the United States: A qualitative study
by Wood, Michele, PsyD
ARGOSY UNIVERSITY/SEATTLE

Asian American adolescents and the stress of acculturation: Differences in gender and generational levels
by Patricia M. Young, EdD
NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY

The impact of historical, social, and cultural contexts on Vietnamese adolescent identity exploration
by Easter Dawn Vo-Jutabha, PhD
CLARK UNIVERSITY

Americans’ attitudes toward immigrants and immigration: The role of values, social identification, and attitudinal ambivalence
by Kim Mizrahi, PhD
CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK

Central American immigrants and the democratization of Los Angeles: ‘La cadena de opresion y la resistencia’ (California)
by Eva Barraza, PhD
NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY

Language

English as a second language (ESL) learning experiences of immigrant high school students: A small city schools case study
by Lucy W. Karanja, MEd
UNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN BRITISH COLUMBIA (CANADA)

Ways of being in home and community: Language socialization of children with autism in multilingual South Asian immigrant families
by Brinda Jegatheesan, PhD
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA-CHAMPAIGN

Mediating language, literacy and bilingualism: Community liaisons as cultural and linguistic brokers
by Giselle Wilson Edman, EdD
ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY

Language ideology, ethnicity, and biliteracy development: A Korean-American perspective
by Mihyon Jeon, PhD
UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA

Experiences of ethnic acceptance and prejudice in English language learning: Immigrants’ critical reflections
by Jeffrey T. LaBelle, EdD
UNIVERSITY OF SAN FRANCISCO

Language, culture, and pedagogy: Immigrants from the former Soviet Union studying English as a second language in California postsecondary institutions
by Victoria Malko, EdD
CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY, FRESNO AND UNIV. OF CALIFORNIA, DAVIS

Community in diversity: A diversity awareness program for German and immigrant students in Germany’s multicultural secondary schools
by Ana Carina Maloney, PsyD
CHICAGO SCHOOL OF PROFESSIONAL PSYCHOLOGY

An inquiry into the language and literacy practices of Jamaican immigrant students’ home and community discourses
by Ilett O’Connor, EdD
HOFSTRA UNIVERSITY

The home language and literacy environment of young Spanish/English bilingual children
by Blanca G. Quiroz, EdD
HARVARD UNIVERSITY

The social organization of health care experiences of non-English speaking Chinese immigrants: Negotiating cultural and language differences in a changing health care context
by Sannie Yuet-San Tang, PhD
THE UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA (CANADA)

Que dice? Experiences of language brokering among Mexican heritage women
by Carrie L. Castaneda, PhD
THE UNIVERSITY OF UTAH

Communicative competence and second language abilities in the justice system: A forensic linguistic analysis of a Chinese immigrant’s run-in with the law
by Kristina Beckman, PhD
THE UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA

Home language maintenance and acculturation among second-generation Chinese children
by Donghui Zhang, PhD
UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA

Identifying ‘the target population’: A genealogy of policy-making for English as a second language (ESL) in Australian schools (1947--1997)
by Helen Margaret Moore, PhD
UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO (CANADA)


Education/Schools

Immigrant parents’ perceptions of barriers that may hinder their involvement with the school system
by Burnias, Josephine Cruz, MSW
CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY, FRESNO

Academic performance of immigrant students: Roles of generation status, race/ethnicity, and school environment
by Qigui Chang, PhD
ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY

New immigrant readers: The role of young adult literature in literacy development and academic confidence
by Ching-hsien Chiu, PhD
NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY

Emigrant expectations versus immigrant realities: A case study of second-generation Haitian students at Columbia High School
by Lovie E. B. Lilly, EdD
UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA

‘I go to school to learn’: Attitudes, stressors, and supports in the school experiences of young Latino immigrant students
by Elizabeth Mary Obara, PhD
UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND, COLLEGE PARK

Latino adolescents’ academic achievement and identity formation: The roles of family involvement and students’ goals
by Gabriela Chavira, PhD
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SANTA CRUZ

Assimilation and ambiguous experience of the resilient male Mexican immigrants that successfully navigate American higher education
by Sylvia Adelle De Leon, PhD
THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN

The perspectives of Caribbean high school students’ experiences in American science classrooms
by Renae Luenell Ferguson, PhD
GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY

Popular education: Adult education for Latina women’s empowerment (Paulo Freire)
by Mary Whitford Graves, EdD
RUTGERS THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW JERSEY - NEW BRUNSWICK

Who wins? Who loses? A case study of a parent-teacher conflict in an urban immigrant school district
by Guillermo Linares, EdD
COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY TEACHERS COLLEGE

The impact of access to books: Developing partnerships with Latino immigrant families through a preschool literacy program in an urban community
by Patricia Madrigal, PhD
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA

Variability in IQ scores and school achievement in voluntary and involuntary immigrants
by Aderemi O. Ogundiran, PsyD
HOFSTRA UNIVERSITY

Everyday challenges of building community and empowerment: An ethnographic study of immigrant Mexican parents advocating for school reform
by Mariolga Reyes Cruz, PhD
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA-CHAMPAIGN

Here I am now! Community service-learning with immigrant and refugee undergraduate students and youth: The use of critical pedagogy, situated-learning and funds of knowledge
by Janna Shadduck-Hernandez, EdD
UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS AMHERST

Education of non-European ancestry immigrant students in suburban high schools
by Mary P. Shodavaram, MS
UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON-CLEAR LAKE

The new collegiate diversity: The academic progress of immigrants in higher education
by Ingrid Skadberg, PhD
CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK

Reflections on the development of learning community among a group of traditional immigrant Latinas (English and Spanish text)
by Nieves Garza Gongora Torres, EdD
THE UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO

How Latino immigrant parents and school read each other: Parental involvement and literacy initiatives
by Claire E. White, EdD
HARVARD UNIVERSITY

Immigrant students’ out-of-school literacy practices: A qualitative study of Korean students’ experiences
by Youngjoo Yi, PhD
THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY

Political and educational perspectives of effective ELL education (Arizona)
by Darla M. Brown, PhD
THE UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA

The intersection of race, gender, and class in social transitions: Caribbean immigrant women negotiating United States higher education
by Tracy A. McFarlane, PhD
CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK

Perceptions of Korean immigrant students who are deaf and hard of hearing and their parents on United States public education
by Hye Jeong Shin, MSEd
THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS

Impact of Proposition 227 on bilingual teachers’ beliefs and practices (California)
by Lorenza Arengo-Yarnes, PhD
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA

Women/Families

Stress process of adjustment problems among adolescents in immigrant families: Generational differences
by Hyekyung Choo, PhD
UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA

Four immigrant women: Community college success stories
by Paulette Henderson, PhD
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY

Knowledge of and reactions to suspected child abuse by immigrant women from Mexico and United States born Mexican-American women
by Diana Magana, MSW
CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY, LONG BEACH

Experiences and coping strategies used by Mexican immigrant women in a California border town
by Olga Gabriela Martinez, PsyD
AZUSA PACIFIC UNIVERSITY

Multiple role occupancy, acculturation, and health promotion among Asian Indian immigrant women
by Elizabeth Susan Mathew, PhD
TEXAS WOMAN’S UNIVERSITY

In our different names: Korean immigrant women and the challenges of post-migration identity renegotiation
by Keumjae Park, PhD
RUTGERS THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW JERSEY - NEW BRUNSWICK

Mexican immigrant women making a life/re-making ethnicity: A critical inquiry into the ‘Latina/o health paradox’
by Edna Amparo Viruell-Fuentes, PhD
UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN

Physical activities among Korean midlife immigrant women in the United States
by Kyeongra Yang, PhD
THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN

Effects of practical needs and family values on living arrangements among Korean-born immigrant widows in the United States: Living along vs. living with adult children
by Ji-Young Cho, PhD
UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND, COLLEGE PARK

The separation and reunification of recently immigrated Mexican families
by Aida Elizondo Black, PhD
WALDEN UNIVERSITY

Music, dance, and family ties: Ghanaian and Senegalese immigrants in Los Angeles (California)
by Sherri Dawn Canon, PhD
THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN

Motherhood, migration and change: The effects of acculturation on pregnancy planning and contraceptive use among women of Mexican origin
by Ellen Katherine Wilson, PhD
THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL

The impact of immigration on maternal separation anxiety and their relationship to toddler affect regulation
by Letisha Marrero, PhD
CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK

Self construal of Japanese-born women in the United States: Examining egalitarian sex-role attitudes, self-esteem, acculturation and independence/interdependence
by Kyoko Mary Toyama, PhD
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY

La familia latina en America: Culturally sensitive factors to consider in the psychotherapeutic setting with immigrant families
by Michelle Alejandra Silva, PsyD
UNIVERSITY OF HARTFORD

The combined effects of trauma and immigration on Portuguese female immigrants
by Fatima Barbosa, PsyD
MASSACHUSETTS SCHOOL OF PROFESSIONAL PSYCHOLOGY

Intergenerational cultural differences: Learning from the experiences of immigrant families from India
by Kakli Gupta, PsyD
ALLIANT INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY, SAN FRANCISCO BAY

Health

Cultural understandings and experiences in managing diabetes of women from an Arab immigrant community in Iowa: A focused ethnographic study
by Ibtihal Khalaf Almakhzoomy, PhD
THE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA

Immigrant women and fertility: Rights and responsibilities
by Tatjana Alvadj-Korenic, MA
UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA (CANADA)

HIV/AIDS-preventive behavior in recent-immigrant Jamaican women
by Marjorie May Gillespie, PhD
UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND, BALTIMORE

South Asian immigrant cardiovascular risk assessment in Houston, Texas 2005
by Aijaz Ali Khowaja, DrPH
THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH

Exploring immigrant women’s mental health care experiences: From a health care provider’s perspective
by Joyce Maureen O’Mahony, MN
UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY (CANADA)

Hispanic immigrants’ intentions to seek depression care
by Leopoldo J. Cabassa, PhD
WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY

A cross-cultural comparison study of the effects of the immigration on the mental health of Iranian immigrants
by Alireza Ebrahimian, PsyD
ADLER SCHOOL OF PROFESSIONAL PSYCHOLOGY

Risk factors for asthma among Arab American immigrants in the metro Detroit area (Michigan)
by Mary Johnson, PhD
UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN

Intergenerational differences in health behaviors for Mexican-Americans: The role of culture and cohesion
by Rachel Tolbert Kimbro, PhD
PRINCETON UNIVERSITY

Navigating the change of life: The menopausal transition of Thai immigrant women
by Bulaporn Natipagon-Shah, PhD
UNIVERSITY OF SAN DIEGO

Prenatal breastfeeding education: An intervention for pregnant immigrant Hispanic women
by Jane M. Schlickau, PhD
UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA MEDICAL CENTER

Breast cancer screening behaviors among immigrant Iranian women in the United States
by Mehra Shirazi, PhD
OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY

Depressive symptoms in Armenian immigrant elders: A study of risk factors
by Aveh Soltanian, MS
CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY, FULLERTON
THE UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN - MADISON

A model to increase access to care for immigrants: Charting the development of San Francisco Chinatown’s ethnic-specific health care system
by Joshua Shu Yang, PhD
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, LOS ANGELES

Barriers to seeking mental health services among Korean American immigrant women
by Michelle Jean Choi, DrPH
UNIV. OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO, H.S. CENTER, SCH. OF PUBLIC HEALTH

Migration-related tuberculosis among Asian immigrants in San Francisco: Treatment outcomes, 1994--1998
by Shoshana Rachel Arai, PhD
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO

Understanding Latino health policy and barriers to care
by Debra Joy Perez, PhD
HARVARD UNIVERSITY

Short term, time limited cognitive behavioral therapy of major depression with Vietnamese refugee women: An analysis of three cases
by Sophia N. Tran, PsyD
ALLIANT INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY, SAN DIEGO

Religion

Competing for the future: Adaptation and the accommodation of difference in Coptic immigrant churches
by Ghada Barsoum Botros, PhD
UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO (CANADA)

Religion, immigrant churches, and community in an industrializing city: Swedish Protestants in Rockford, Illinois, 1854--1925
by Michael Lee Hillary, PhD
COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY

The change of attitude about healing in Korean immigrant church
by Suk Cha Jewell, DMin
ORAL ROBERTS UNIVERSITY

Singing the Lord’s song in a foreign land: A socio-ethical study of a Ghanaian immigrant church in New York
by Moses Ohene Biney, PhD
PRINCETON THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY

Polynesian pioneers: Twentieth-century religious racial formations and migration in Hawai’i
by Hokulani Kamakanikailialoha Aikau, PhD
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA

Upward climb or downward slide? Religion and mediating social capital in the Haitian immigrant communities of Miami, Montreal and Paris (Florida, Quebec, France)
by Margarita A. Mooney, PhD
PRINCETON UNIVERSITY

ISKCON and Indians: Religion and identity in North American Hinduism
by Travis Vande Berg, PhD
LOYOLA UNIVERSITY CHICAGO

History

Representations of literacy: The teaching of English and the immigrant experience in early twentieth-century America
by Amy E. Dayton, PhD
THE UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA

Denaturalizing the American naturalization process: The impact of America’s immigrant history on the new immigrant
by Sheila Skitnevsky-Finger, PsyD
MASSACHUSETTS SCHOOL OF PROFESSIONAL PSYCHOLOGY

A struggle for social cohesion, 1981-1995: Immigrant education policy under the socialist government of Francois Mitterrand
by Charlotte Collett, PhD
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY

Immigrants in our midst: Grace Abbott, the Immigrants’ Protective League of Chicago, and the new American citizenship, 1908-1924 (Illinois)
by Suronda Gonzalez, PhD
STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK AT BINGHAMTON

New Denmark, New Brunswick: New approaches in the study of Danish migration to Canada, 1872-1901
by Erik John Nielsen Lang, MA
CARLETON UNIVERSITY (CANADA)

Latina/o migration and community formation in postwar Chicago: Mexicans, Puerto Ricans, gender, and politics, 1945--1975 (Illinois)
by Lilia Fernandez, PhD
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO

Engendering transnational ties: Mexicanas and the other sides of immigration, 1942-2000
by Luz Maria Gordillo, PhD
MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY

Strangers to the land: The German presence in nineteenth-century Arkansas
by Shirley Sticht Schuette, MA
UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS AT LITTLE ROCK

We hold the center of the line of battle: The IWW, immigrant labor, and industrial unionism in the Pittsburgh district, 1909-1913 (Pennsylvania)
by James C. Koshan, PhD
KENT STATE UNIVERSITY

Downhome from Ulster: Ulster Irish immigration to the eastern townships of Quebec and the development of Irish ethnic identity, 1814-1850
by Kathleen Ruth Simonton, PhD
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SANTA CRUZ

Japanese immigrant women in Los Angeles, 1912-1942: A transnational perspective (California)
by Kyoko Kakehashi Fujisaka, PhD
THE UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN - MADISON

Puerto Rican revolutionary nationalism (1956-2005): Immigration, armed struggle, political prisoners and prisoners of war
by Michael Gonzalez-Cruz, PhD
STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK AT BINGHAMTON

Twentieth-century Indian immigration to Chicago (Illinois)
by Tajiya Hasan, MA
ROOSEVELT UNIVERSITY

Empire and underworld: Guiana in the French legal imagination c. 1789-c. 1870
by Miranda Frances Spieler, PhD
COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY

A nation of immigrants: The rise of ‘contributionism’ in the United States, 1924-1965
by Robert L. Fleegler, PhD
BROWN UNIVERSITY

An historical archaeology of the Irish proletarian diaspora: The material manifestations of Irish identity in America, 1850--1910
by Stephen Anthony George Brighton, PhD
BOSTON UNIVERSITY

Migrants between empires and nations: The Chinese in Cuba, 1874-1959
by Kathleen Maria Lopez, PhD
UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN

Irish immigration in the Cambridge area of New York State, 1850-1895: Unwilling emigrant and unwelcome refugee
by Eilis M. O’Hara, MALS
STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK EMPIRE STATE COLLEGE


Canada/Mexico

‘De tout avec ben de la sauce’: Community organizing for social housing in an immigrant neighbourhood (Quebec)
by Jill Hanley, PhD
UNIVERSITE DE MONTREAL (CANADA)

Resettlement of South Asian immigrant women of Pakistani descent in Canada
by Salaha Khan, MA
UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO (CANADA)

Immigrant university faculty members’ perceptions of their experiences in post-secondary employment in Canada
by Yuchen Li, MEd
LAKEHEAD UNIVERSITY (CANADA)

Rethinking immigrant success: The case of four South Asian entrepreneurs in Toronto (Ontario)
by Krishan Mehta, MA
UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO (CANADA)

Tudo se pasou: Portuguese men’s perceptions of fatherhood after settlement in Canada
by Mark Anthony Fernandes, MSc
UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH (CANADA)

(Dis)qualification: The social regulation of immigrant access to professional engineering in Ontario
by Erik Robert Girard, MA
UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH (CANADA)

West African women: Their missing recognition in multicultural Canada. A study of women’s shelters and abused immigrant women in Ontario
by Dunsi Oladele-Rabiu, MA
UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH (CANADA)

Early childhood caries and access to dental care in Portuguese-speaking immigrant children aged up to 48 months in the city of Toronto
by Renata Iani Werneck, MSc
UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO (CANADA)

Capital transformation and immigrant integration: Chinese independent immigrants’ language and social practices in Canada
by Hong Zhu, PhD
UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO (CANADA)

Vietnamese women living in Canada: Contextual factors affecting Vietnamese women’s breast cancer and cervical cancer screening practices
by Tam Truong Donnelly, PhD
THE UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA (CANADA)

Women refugee claimants in Canada: Intake patterns and gender-related persecution. Citizenship and Immigration Canada’s (CIC) policies and practices affecting women refugee claimants: An analysis of CIC and Immigration and Refugee Board (IRB) data
by Raquel M. Lopez, MA
QUEEN’S UNIVERSITY AT KINGSTON (CANADA)

A qualitative study on the factors influencing the cultural, economic and social integration of Afghan women in Canada
by Natasha Waseema Beg, MSW
CARLETON UNIVERSITY (CANADA)

Migrations and gradations: Reappraising the health profile of immigrants to Canada
by Robert Alexander Hawes, MSc
BROCK UNIVERSITY (CANADA)

We are Chinese Canadian: The response of Vancouver’s Chinese community to Hong Kong immigrants, 1980--1997
by Julianne Rock, MA
SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY (CANADA)

Overseas

The formulation of Turkish immigrant subjectivities in the German region of Swabia
by Tilman Lanz, PhD
UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS AMHERST

Contextual dynamics of immigration attitudes: Regional differences in southern Europe
by Xavier Escandell, PhD
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA-CHAMPAIGN

Integration and identity in the diaspora: An ethnography of the Afghan refugee community in St. Petersburg, Russia
by Lisa Frances Greenspoon, MA
CARLETON UNIVERSITY (CANADA)

Material and mythical perspectives on ethnicity: An historical archaeology study of cultural identity, national historiography, and the Eastern Cape frontier of South Africa, 1820-1860
by Patrice L. Jeppson, PhD
UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA

Globalisation, internationalisation and the knowledge economy in higher education: A case study of China and New Zealand
by Xiaoping (Isadora) Jiang, PhD
THE UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND (NEW ZEALAND)

Plotting immigration: Diasporic identity formation among immigrants from Turkey in Berlin (Germany)
by Jeffrey T. Jurgens, PhD
UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN

The European Union, immigration and inequality: ‘Albanian’ labor in the political economy of rural Greece
by Christopher M. Lawrence, PhD
CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK

Industry, the state, and immigrant Poles in industrial France, 1919-1939
by Philip H. Slaby, PhD
BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY

An attempt to mediate immigrant integration intercultural mediators in Catalonia (Spain)
by Jordi Agusti-Panareda, JSD
STANFORD UNIVERSITY

Expressing Patagonia: Sightseeing, journalism, and immigration in Argentina (Roberto J. Payro, Roberto Arlt, Moritz Alemann, Maria Bamberg, Spanish text)
by Jennifer Margit Valko, PhD
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, DAVIS

The state, the noncitizen, and the challenge of bilateral legitimacy in the United States, Canada, and Australia
by Alicia Marie Rampulla, PhD
UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS AMHERST

Citizens of an unborn kingdom: Stateless Palestinian refugees and contentious commemoration (Lebanon)
by Laleh Khalili, PhD
COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY


Refugees/Asylum

Survival songs: How refugee and immigrant women experienced violence
by Judith C. Heitzman, PhD
UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE

Constructing academic identities in exile among Somali refugee female high school students
by Eleni Oikonomidoy, PhD
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON

A collage of ‘borderlands’: Arts-informed life histories of childhood immigrants and refugees who maintain their mother tongue
by Sara Josephine Promislow, PhD
UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO (CANADA

A political conception of asylum
by Matthew Eben Price, PhD
HARVARD UNIVERSITY

Transitory freedom: Political discourses of refugee youth in a photography-based after-school program
by Tessa J. Tinkler, PhD
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SANTA BARBARA

Uganda Asian refugees and expellees in Los Angeles, the American El Dorado (California)
by Sham M. Chitnavis, PhD
UNIVERSITY OF HAWAI’I AT MANOA

Acting is not becoming: Cultural adaptation among Somali refugee youth
by Raynel Mary Shepard, EdD
HARVARD UNIVERSITY

European Jewish refugee chemists in the United States: Adjustment, achievements and Jewish identity
by Yael Epstein, MA
MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY

Acculturation of refugees: A study of refugee mothers from Bosnia and Herzegovina
by Aida B. Balsano, PhD
TUFTS UNIVERSITY

Contesting labels, rebuilding lives: Female African refugees in the United States
by Kathleen J. Batalden, MA
UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO AT BOULDER

Refugee protection challenges in the era of globalization: The case of Nairobi (Kenya)
by Elizabeth H. Campbell, PhD
STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK AT BINGHAMTON

Economic refugees: The art of labelling diaspora
by Saptarshi Chakraborty, LLM
UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO (CANADA)

Shifting grounds: Southern Sudanese asylum-seekers in Cairo (Egypt)
by Carla Nichelle Daughtry, PhD
UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN

Helping new neighbors: Resettlement workers’ construction of refugee identity
by Loretta Kuliawat Denhart, PhD
SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY

Mental health and academic skills of Sierra Leonean children from refugee families
by Michael A. Feder, PhD
GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY

Home is who you make it: Place, agency, and relationships among Fula refugees in Guinea
by Lacey Andrews Gale, PhD
BROWN UNIVERSITY

A personal narrative of a Vietnamese refugee: Challenges of growing up in the United States (Original writing)
by Chi Kim T. Huynh, MSW
CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY, LONG BEACH

Understanding Bosnian refugee integration and how it differs by country of resettlement: Denmark and the United States of America
by Nicole Gabriele Ives, PhD
UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA

The causes and consequences of livelihood strategy change among long-term refugee households: The Tibetan Rabgayling Settlement (India)
by Patrick John Large, MSc
UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH

Discrimination and academic motivation in adolescent refugee girls
by J. Lynn McBrien, PhD
EMORY UNIVERSITY

Moderators of mental health in refugees: A meta-analysis
by Matt Porter, PhD
NEW SCHOOL UNIVERSITY

A grant proposal: Investigating the experience of refugee interpreters who work with refugee clients in therapy
by Karen Trevithick, PsyD
CHICAGO SCHOOL OF PROFESSIONAL PSYCHOLOGY

Depression and somatization in community based asylum-seekers
by Rachel R. Boersma, PhD
BOSTON COLLEGE, WILLIAM F. CONNELL GRADUATE SCHOOL OF NURSING