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"Come Hear our Merry Song": Shifts in the Sound of Swedish Radical Nationalism

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Organized opposition to immigration, globalization, and minority groups in Sweden exploded during the 1980s and 1990s, energized in large part by the spread of skinhead ...
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2013
Contributors:
Teitelbaum, Benjamin R (creator) Perlman, Marc (Director) Titon, Jeff (Reader) Miller, Kiri (Reader) Tucker, Joshua (Reader) Bohlman, Philip (Reader) Brown University. Music: Ethnomusicology (sponsor)
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extremism immigration Nationalism Music Radicalism Emigration and immigration Racism
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Anxieties of Empire: Class, Race, Nation, and the Roots of the Anti-Neoliberal Globalization Movement in the U.S. and Mexico, 1987-2003

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As the Cold War ended and a "New World Order" emerged, elites in the U.S. and Mexico created a continental economic arrangement, integrating national ...
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2011
Contributors:
Larson, Eric David (creator) Hu-Dehart, Evelyn (Director) Bogues, Anthony (Reader) Buhle, Paul (Reader) Brown University. American Civilization (sponsor)
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mexico oaxaca identity united states immigration Social movements Nationalism Labor Emigration and immigration Globalization
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Black Identities Revisited: New and Old African Americans in Middle Class New York

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Two important social transformations have occurred since the 1960's: The rise of the black middle class and the influx of immigrants from Latin, America ...
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2013
Contributors:
Clerge, Orly (creator) Itzigsohn, Jose (Director) Silver, Hilary (Reader) Henry, Paget (Reader) Dill, Ann (Reader) Baiocchi, Gianpaolo (Reader) Brown University. Sociology (sponsor)
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immigration race & ethnicity urban sociology Emigration and immigration Sociology, Urban
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By Forests Or By Fields: Organizing Immigrant Labor in the Pacific Northwest, 1940-1990

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The aim of this dissertation is too examine the role that ethnic Mexican labor played in fashioning the Northwest into one of the most productive ...
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2010
Contributors:
Sifuentez, Mario J (creator) Garcia, Matt (Director) Jacoby, Karl (Reader) Hu-DeHart, Evelyn (Reader) Brown University. American Civilization (sponsor)
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Immigration Bracero Farm Workers Union UFW Tejano Emigration and immigration Labor Mexicans Agricultural laborers PCUN United Farm Workers of America
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College Prospects and Risky Behavior among Youth and Other Essays in Applied Microeconomics

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This dissertation evaluates the impact of public policies and economic conditions on human capital investment decisions. Chapter 1 examines the wide-ranging effects of subsidizing college ...
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2014
Contributors:
Koohi, Shiva (creator) Aizer, Anna (Director) Chay, Kenneth (Reader) Foster, Andrew (Reader) Brown University. Economics (sponsor)
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public policy higher education immigration Economics Political planning Human capital Tuition Education, Higher Emigration and immigration Fertility Contraception Recessions
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Elections beyond borders: Overseas voting in Mexico and the Dominican Republic, 1994-2008

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Increasingly, transnational life has raised issues of overseas citizenship. I use the concept of political remittances to highlight long-distance entrepreneurship aimed at homeland politics. Emigrant ...
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2010
Contributors:
Lieber, Matthew A. (creator) Andreas, Peter (Director) Snyder, Richard (Reader) Krotz, Ulrich (Reader) Brown University. Political Science (sponsor)
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overseas voting external voting emigration diaspora comparative institutions Transnational voting Emigration and immigration World politics Nation-state
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Emerald Pub to Silver Saloon: Building an Irish Saloon Community in the American Mining West

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This dissertation explores the ways in which 19th-century Irish residents of the American Mining West created and maintained community by embracing the saloon as a ...
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2012
Contributors:
Charest, Michelle A (creator) Rubertone, Patricia (Director) Simmons, William (Reader) Alcock, Susan (Reader) Orser, Charles (Reader) Brown University. Anthropology (sponsor)
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Historical Archaeology 19th Century Saloon Public House Pub Immigration GIS Embodiment Identity Drink Virginia City Archaeology and history Archaeology Irish Americans Irish Bars (Drinking establishments) Emigration and immigration Group identity Food Alcohol
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Hospitality and the Horizons of Democracy: Responsibilities to Immigrants

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Drawing on contemporary democratic theory and the history of political thought, this dissertation explores questions of immigrant justice and how responsibilities might emerge in relationships ...
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2016
Contributors:
Williams, Liza B (creator) Krause, Sharon (Director) Morone, James (Reader) Gourevitch, Alexander (Reader) Brown University. Political Science (sponsor)
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immigration integration Emigration and immigration Citizenship Democracy Hospitality Social integration Incorporation
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Immigration, Protest, and the Politics of Latino/a Identity

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What does it mean to “become” American? And, how do political and social context affect this process? This dissertation begins to answer these questions, with ...
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2012
Contributors:
Silber Mohamed, Heather (creator) Orr, Marion (Director) Morone, James (Reader) Schiller, Wendy (Reader) Brown University. Political Science (sponsor)
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Identity immigration protest Latino politics Latina politics Ethnicity Emigration and immigration Social movements
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Intergenerational trauma and mental health in Asian American immigrant families

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This study investigates how the mental health of Asian American college students relates to their immigrant parents' pre-migration trauma using the framework of intergenerational trauma ...
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2017
Contributors:
Cai, Jieyi (author) Hayden, Brian (advisor) Operario, Don (reader) Brown University (sponsor)
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Asian Americans Intergenerational trauma Emigration and immigration Mental health
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Remaking Boston's Chinatown: Race, Space, and Urban Development, 1943-1994

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This dissertation examines the politics of race and urban space in Boston’s Chinatown from 1943 to 1994. A diverse downtown neighborhood that survived multiple ...
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2014
Contributors:
Chen, Thomas C. (creator) Lee, Robert (Director) Malone, Patrick (Reader) Zipp, Samuel (Reader) Brown University. American Studies (sponsor)
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Boston space city urban development redevelopment place racial formation urban history immigration identity community displacement highway Chinatowns Race Cities and towns Economic development City planning Chinese Americans Asian Americans Oral history History Immigrants Emigration and immigration Ethnicity Landscapes Gentrification Urban renewal Roads
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Succeeders: Latino Youth Learning to Belong

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This dissertation examines college aspiration as a lens onto Latino youth’s claims to socio-political belonging in a nativist United States. In 2012-2013, I conducted ...
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2015
Contributors:
Flores, Andrea E (creator) Leinaweaver, Jessaca (Director) Lutz, Catherine (Reader) Warren, Kay (Reader) Villenas, Sofia (Reader) Brown University. Anthropology (sponsor)
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Latinos/as Immigration Education Emigration and immigration
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The Effects of International Migration on the Educational Attainment and Educational Mobility of Youth in Mexico

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Studies on the socioeconomic impact of U.S. migration in Mexico often focus on the investment of remittances in household assets and property. Little attention ...
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2011
Contributors:
Sanchez Soto, Gabriela (creator) Lindstrom, David (Director) Hogan, Dennis (Reader) White, Michael (Reader) Short, Susan (Reader) Bridwell-Mitchell, Ebony (Reader) Brown University. Sociology (sponsor)
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International Migration Adolescents Emigration and immigration Education Social mobility Teenagers
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The Labor of Refuge: Kalmyk Displaced Persons, the 1948 Displaced Persons Act, and the Origins of U.S. Refugee Resettlement

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This dissertation explores the formation of the U.S. refugee system as it developed during the early Cold War years. Premised on the idea that ...
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2013
Contributors:
Johnson, Jessica Ann (creator) Lee, Robert (Director) Rodriguez, Ralph (Reader) Shibusawa, Naoko (Reader) Brown University. American Civilization (sponsor)
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Displaced Persons Resettlement Immigration Modern U.S. History Law and Policy Political Economy Displaced Persons Act of 1948 Refugees Emigration and immigration Economics Kalmyks Race
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