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 economies …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 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, …
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 …
This thesis focuses on the tensions between fact and fiction—reportage, memoir and creative writing. It provides broad context and reconceptualizes the way that migrant narratives …
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 …
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 …
