During the 1960s era of decolonization, the Chinese and Tanzanian governments framed the close relationship between them in the relational language of anti-imperial “friendship.” The …
In this dissertation, I examine issues of ethnic engineering, interethnic tensions and social problems through a story of Meskhetian Turks, a group that was subjected …
In this dissertation, I study two policy-relevant questions using empirical methods from applied microeconomics. The first chapter is co-authored with Felipe Brugues and Javier Brugues. …
This dissertation examines the representation of migrant subjects in the United States by a group of contemporary Latin American novelists: Edmundo Paz Soldán (Bolivia, b. …
This dissertation uses a life course perspective to investigate migration and marriage as separate and inter-related life events. It explores the gendered nature of migration …
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 …
Just as the Russian Federation became host to the world’s second-largest immigrant population, political life in Russia was transformed by the political ascendance of Vladimir …
There is a general consensus that rising unauthorized migration is a significant policy concern for governments across the globe. Yet, and despite increasing migration within …
“The Age of Encampment: Race, Migration, Surveillance, and the Power of Spatial Scripts, 1933-1950” is an attempt at writing the history of the rise of …
The conversion of epithelial cells to mesenchymal cells, or the epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT), is a phenotypic program critical to embryonic development and wound healing, however, …
How does armed conflict and its consequences impact the migration decisions of women? Existing migration theories have various focuses and flaws that make them inadequate …
This dissertation consists three quantitative analyses that aim to examine the impact of migration not only on migrants themselves, but also on their young children …
This dissertation is composed of three essays in development economics. The first investigates the effect of rural economic growth brought about by migration and remittances …
This dissertation examines the processes that drive ethnic minority women from the Northeast Region of India to migrate to Bangalore and the transformations they undergo …
This dissertation traces changing understandings of indigeneity in highland Peru, articulated in the ways people have adapted music alongside new media technologies over the last …
This dissertation analyzes the representation of the orphan in the contemporary Portuguese literature that constitutes a critical revisiting of the end of Portuguese colonialism in …
