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

Description:
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 …
Year:
2013
Contributor:
Teitelbaum, Benjamin R (creator)
Perlman, Marc (Director)
Titon, Jeff (Reader)
Miller, Kiri (Reader)
Tucker, Joshua (Reader)
Bohlman, Philip (Reader)
Brown University. Music: Ethnomusicology (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
extremism
immigration
Nationalism
Music
Radicalism
Emigration and immigration
Racism
Sweden
Scandinavia
Collection:
Music
Ethnomusicology
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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

Description:
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 economies …
Year:
2011
Contributor:
Larson, Eric David (creator)
Hu-Dehart, Evelyn (Director)
Bogues, Anthony (Reader)
Buhle, Paul (Reader)
Brown University. American Civilization (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
mexico
oaxaca
identity
united states
immigration
Social movements
Nationalism
Labor
Emigration and immigration
Globalization
Mexico
Mexico--Oaxaca (State)
United States
Collection:
American Studies
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Black Identities Revisited: New and Old African Americans in Middle Class New York

Description:
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, Asia …
Year:
2013
Contributor:
Clerge, Orly (creator)
Itzigsohn, Jose (Director)
Silver, Hilary (Reader)
Henry, Paget (Reader)
Dill, Ann (Reader)
Baiocchi, Gianpaolo (Reader)
Brown University. Sociology (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
immigration
race & ethnicity
urban sociology
Emigration and immigration
Sociology, Urban
Collection:
Sociology
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By Forests Or By Fields: Organizing Immigrant Labor in the Pacific Northwest, 1940-1990

Description:
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 …
Year:
2010
Contributor:
Sifuentez, Mario J (creator)
Garcia, Matt (Director)
Jacoby, Karl (Reader)
Hu-DeHart, Evelyn (Reader)
Brown University. American Civilization (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
Immigration
Bracero
Farm Workers
Union
UFW
Tejano
Emigration and immigration
Labor
Mexicans
Agricultural laborers
PCUN
United Farm Workers of America
Pacific Northwest
Collection:
American Studies
Theses and Dissertations
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Characterizing the Health Experience of Tuvaluan Migrants in Auckland, New Zealand

Description:
It is predicted that increasing numbers of citizens of the Pacific Island nation of Tuvalu will migrate to New Zealand in the coming decades due …
Year:
2020
Contributor:
Emont, Jordan Paul (creator)
Toll, Elizabeth (Advisor)
Goldman, Roberta (Reader)
Brown University. Division of Biology and Medicine (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
Health services
climate change
Health behavior
Emigration and immigration
Pacific Ocean--Islands of the Pacific
Tuvalu
Collection:
Biology and Medicine
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Chronicles of Violence: Human Rights Abuses on the Central American Migrant Trail

Description:
This thesis will seek to address the scope of violence that migrants encounter in transit on the Central American Migrant Trail and evaluate the effectiveness …
Year:
2021
Contributor:
Rice-Aguilar, Camila L. (creator)
Durante, Erica (thesis advisor)
Montero, Iris (reader)
Brown University. Latin American and Caribbean Studies (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
Human rights
Mexico
Immigrants
Emigration and immigration
Central America
North America--Mexican-American Border Region
Collection:
Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies
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College Prospects and Risky Behavior among Youth and Other Essays in Applied Microeconomics

Description:
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 …
Year:
2014
Contributor:
Koohi, Shiva (creator)
Aizer, Anna (Director)
Chay, Kenneth (Reader)
Foster, Andrew (Reader)
Brown University. Economics (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
public policy
higher education
immigration
Economics
Political planning
Human capital
Tuition
Education, Higher
Emigration and immigration
Fertility
Contraception
Recessions
Collection:
Economics
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Cuban America: An Oral History Archive of Young Cuban Americans in 2020

Description:
The purpose of this project is to highlight the unique experiences and beliefs of today’s young Cuban Americans in an oral history archive in order …
Year:
2020
Contributor:
Muñoz, Laura (creator)
Whitfield, Esther (thesis advisor)
Durante, Erica (reader)
Brown University. Latin American and Caribbean Studies (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
Emigration and immigration
Cuba
Cuban Americans
Oral history
Florida--Miami
Collection:
Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies
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Descent

Description:
This collection is an exploration of familial history, immigration, and how one acquires and understands language. The poetry is concerned both with things said and …
Year:
2019
Contributor:
Santos, Evelyn (creator)
Mena-Landry, Erica (thesis advisor)
Brown University. Literary Arts (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
English language--Grammar--Theory, etc.
Puerto Rico
Spanish language
Emigration and immigration
Uzbekistan
Jews, Bukharan
Immigrants--Cultural assimilation
Poverty
Translating and interpreting
Persian language
Russian language
Poetry
American poetry--Women authors
Colonization
Jews--Colonization
Racially mixed families
Collection:
Literary Arts
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Elections beyond borders: Overseas voting in Mexico and the Dominican Republic, 1994-2008

Description:
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 …
Year:
2010
Contributor:
Lieber, Matthew A. (creator)
Andreas, Peter (Director)
Snyder, Richard (Reader)
Krotz, Ulrich (Reader)
Brown University. Political Science (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
overseas voting
external voting
emigration
diaspora
comparative institutions
Transnational voting
Emigration and immigration
World politics
Nation-state
Mexico
Dominican Republic
Collection:
Political Science
Theses and Dissertations
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Emerald Pub to Silver Saloon: Building an Irish Saloon Community in the American Mining West

Description:
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 …
Year:
2012
Contributor:
Charest, Michelle A (creator)
Rubertone, Patricia (Director)
Simmons, William (Reader)
Alcock, Susan (Reader)
Orser, Charles (Reader)
Brown University. Anthropology (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
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
Nevada
Collection:
Anthropology
Theses and Dissertations
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From Chae Chan Ping v. United States to Hernandez v. Mesa: The Price of U.S. Security and Sovereignty

Description:
This thesis argues that to maintain legitimate civil liberties, the American judiciary must consistently extend legal standing and robust due process protections to civilian litigants …
Year:
2020
Contributor:
Podugu, Priyanka R. (creator)
Schiller, Wendy (thesis advisor)
Brettschneider, Corey (reader)
Testa, Paul (reader)
Brown University. Political Science (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
Emigration and immigration
United States
Constitutional law
Civil rights
Political science
National security
U.S. Supreme Court
Collection:
Political Science
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Hospitality and the Horizons of Democracy: Responsibilities to Immigrants

Description:
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 …
Year:
2016
Contributor:
Williams, Liza B (creator)
Krause, Sharon (Director)
Morone, James (Reader)
Gourevitch, Alexander (Reader)
Brown University. Political Science (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
immigration
integration
Emigration and immigration
Citizenship
Democracy
Hospitality
Social integration
Incorporation
Collection:
Political Science
Theses and Dissertations
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Immigration, Protest, and the Politics of Latino/a Identity

Description:
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 …
Year:
2012
Contributor:
Silber Mohamed, Heather (creator)
Orr, Marion (Director)
Morone, James (Reader)
Schiller, Wendy (Reader)
Brown University. Political Science (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
Identity
immigration
protest
Latino politics
Latina politics
Ethnicity
Emigration and immigration
Social movements
Collection:
Political Science
Theses and Dissertations
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Intergenerational trauma and mental health in Asian American immigrant families

Description:
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. …
Year:
2017
Contributor:
Cai, Jieyi (author)
Hayden, Brian (advisor)
Operario, Don (reader)
Brown University (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
Asian Americans
Intergenerational trauma
Emigration and immigration
Mental health
Collection:
Cognitive, Linguistic, and Psychological Sciences
Theses and Dissertations
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Invisible Immigrants: The Politics of Transnational/racial Asian American Adoptees

Description:
This thesis attempts to bridge together seemingly disparate scholarly thoughts—the legacies of U.S. interventions into Asia, past and present American immigration policy, the American family, …
Year:
2020
Contributor:
Wexler, Emma J. (creator)
Shih, Elena (thesis advisor)
Lee, Robert "Bob" George (reader)
Brown University. American Studies (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
Social movements
Immigrants
Emigration and immigration
Asian Americans
Adoptees
Interracial adoption
Intercountry adoption
Adoption
Immigrants--Political activity
diaspora
Ethnicity
Kinship
Collection:
American Studies
Theses and Dissertations
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Language as a Tool of Scapegoatism: Politically Engendered Characterizations of Migrant Women in an Era of Diversionist Racism

Description:
In the last decade, millions of immigrants in the United States have been the subject of discursive violence engendered and perpetuated by policy and the …
Year:
2021
Contributor:
Nájera-Uresti, Florín (creator)
Sobral, Patricia (thesis advisor)
López-Sanders, Laura (reader)
Polatty, David (reader)
Brown University. Independent Concentrations (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
Human rights
Women
Emigration and immigration
Critical race theory
Migration
Forced migration
Migrant Women
Critical discourse analysis
Linguistic analysis (Linguistics)
Collection:
Office of the Dean of the College
Independent Concentrations
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Locating Asian-Indigenous Encounters in the Pacific Coast Salmon Canneries, 1870-1952

Description:
In the first half of the twentieth century, the canned salmon industry brought Asian migrants and Northwest Coast Native peoples together in fishing and canning …
Year:
2020
Contributor:
Jiang, Jessica Sijia (creator)
Shibusawa, Naoko (thesis advisor)
Baker, Mary Tuti (reader)
Brown University. American Studies (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
Indigenous peoples
Race discrimination
Indians of North America
Labor productivity
Emigration and immigration
Racially mixed families
Asian Americans
Imperialism
Capitalism
Salmon
Salmon fisheries
Interracial marriage
North America--Pacific Coast
Leisure--Social aspects
Employees
Tlingit Indians
Coast Salish Indians
Filipino Americans
Chinese Americans
Japanese Americans
United States--Columbia River
Washington (State)--Puget Sound Region
Fisheries
Salmon canneries
Alaska Natives
Alaska, Southeast
Collection:
American Studies
Theses and Dissertations
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Remaking Boston's Chinatown: Race, Space, and Urban Development, 1943-1994

Description:
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 cycles …
Year:
2014
Contributor:
Chen, Thomas C. (creator)
Lee, Robert (Director)
Malone, Patrick (Reader)
Zipp, Samuel (Reader)
Brown University. American Studies (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
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
Massachusetts--Boston
Massachusetts
New England
Collection:
American Studies
Theses and Dissertations
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Solidarities and Solitude: Tracing the Racial Boundaries of the Iranian Diaspora

Description:
Solidarities and Solitude: Tracing the Racial Boundaries of the Iranian Diaspora offers a history of the Iranian diaspora in the United States from the Cold …
Year:
2020
Contributor:
Yalzadeh, Ida (creator)
Shibusawa, Naoko (Advisor)
Guterl, Matthew (Advisor)
Alvarado, Leticia (Reader)
Alsultany, Evelyn (Reader)
Brown University. Department of American Studies (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
U.S. Foreign Policy
Race and Ethnicity
Emigration and immigration
Iran
diaspora
California--Los Angeles
Collection:
American Studies
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