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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...