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September Compiled by Alisa Minasian It is the mission of the Center for Immigration Studies to inform, examine, and critique American immigration policy. In the pursuit of this goal, the Center seeks to provide the latest immigration news and research for all involved in the debate of this complex issue. In addition to its e-mail news services, papers, books, and monthly publications, the Center disseminates an annual list of doctoral dissertations and theses inspecting some aspect of immigration in order to keep those involved abreast of the most recent developments in emerging immigration scholarship. This compilation contains dissertations completed in 2004. Abstracts of these dissertations can be viewed for free though the end of this year at ProQuest Digital Dissertations. Full copies may be obtained for a fee. For ease of use, the list is organized into the following categories: Policy/Politics, Migration Processes/Networks, Economics/Labor, Acculturation/Ethnicity, Language, Education/Schools, Women/Families, Health, Religion, History, Canada/Mexico, Overseas, and Refugees/Asylum. However, many of the items in this list could have easily fallen into two or three different categories. Those readers who are interested in a particular topic are encouraged to browse the entire list due to the list's necessarily subjective organizational scheme. We won’t turn back: The political economy paradoxes of immigrant
and ethnic minority settlement in suburban America Rethinking culture and cultural: The politics of meaning-making Citizenship unbound: The global politics of neo-liberalism and
labor migration The politics of European Union immigration and asylum policy
cooperation The fiscal impacts of immigrants and the resultant changes in
state redistributive policy Local races, politicized ethnicity, and political narratives in
New York Policing the boundaries between ‘us’ and ‘them’: Immigrants,
narrative identity, and the politics of inclusion/exclusion (New York City,
California) La Idea Salvadora: Immigration and colonization politics in
Mexico, 1821--1857 Open for business, closed for bodies: Rethinking territoriality
of United States statecraft at the United States-Mexico border Population-based empowerment practice in immigrant communities International migration of physicians and nurses to the United
States Qualitative case study of a Palestinian immigrant in the United
States Housing tenure choice of immigrants in the United States Immigration multiplier: A new method of measuring the
immigration process Toward a common market in residency: International migration and
regional integration Three essays on international migration The immigrant lifecycle: A story of unskilled migration from
India to the United States Communication and collective identities in the transnational
social space: A media ethnography of the Salvadoran immigrant community in the
Washington, D.C. Metropolitan Area Islam and the making of transnational citizenship: Pakistani
immigrant experience in Houston, Texas Placing progress: Contextual inequality, internal migration, and
immigrant incorporation The significance of social networks and migration to the health
status of Mexican immigrant mothers and their children: A bi-national case study Migration, demographic change, and the enigma of identity in
Belize Comparative diasporas: Jamaicans in South Florida and Toronto
(Ontario) Bootstraps and beltways: The state’s role in immigrant community
banking One hundred years of buying care: Gender, race,
immigration and market care work in the twentieth century Manufacturing bodies: A (re)description of the undocumented
sweatshop worker in the United States Ideology, policy and the (re)production of labour market
inequality: A critical discourse analysis of Access to Professions and Trades Three studies of immigrant labor market assimilation in the
United States Orientation towards ‘clerical work’: Institutional ethnographic
study of immigrant women’s experiences and employment-related services Narratives of Chinese female immigrant professionals: Factors
that affect their career development and strategies used for career adjustment Critical reflections of Filipino immigrant accountants on their
work experiences in the San Francisco Bay Area Essays on welfare and immigration Doing the corner: A study of immigrant day laborers in Brooklyn,
New York Crossing borders in the information age: The impact of highly
skilled migrants on the labor market outcomes of the United States highly
skilled workers Gender, racialization and the incorporation to work among
Dominican and Mexican women in New York City Picking a living: Farm workers and organized labor in
California’s strawberry industry Wage earnings of Chinese in the United States: Individual and
contextual determinants High-skilled immigrants in the United States labor market:
Significance of country-of-origin Three essays on international trade and factor flows Acculturation and physical activity in Korean immigrant women The process of ethnic identity development of the Latina 1.5
generation of foreign-born immigrant college students The meeting ground of media use, acculturation, social capital
and political socialization of ethnic groups: With an emphasis on Chinese
cultural groups Latina immigrants in public housing: Race relations, social
networks and access to services ‘Becoming American’: The intersections of cultural, ethnic, and
gender ideals in predicting levels of perceived stress and mental and physical
health among Asian immigrants Chinese immigrant families with developmentally delayed
children: Level of acculturation and quality of life Replenished identity: Mexican Americans, Mexican immigrants and
ethnic identity (California, Kansas) Difficulties of acculturation and coping strategies of recent
non-Jewish Russian immigrant women in the United States of America Sociocultural problems experienced by Ethiopian immigrants in
the United States and communication of the Gospel Latino immigrants’ perceptions of child abuse The social construction of a rural Latino immigrant ethnic
identity: ‘The good definitely outweighs the bad’ Association of acculturation and socioeconomic status with
health status and nutrition behavior in adolescent females Effects of attachment patterns on levels of acculturation and
mother-daughter relationship among Asian Indian immigrant mothers and their
adult daughters Among thistles and thorns: West Indian diaspora immigrants in
New York City and Toronto (Ontario) The role of television as a means of communicating essential
social service information to Spanish-speaking Hispanic immigrants Loss and mourning in immigration: Using the assimilation model
to assess continuing bonds with native culture Narratives of second-generation Asian American experience:
Legacies of immigration, trauma, and loss The invisible German immigrants of the 21st century:
Assimilation, acculturation, Americanization Acculturation stress and alcohol use among international college
students in a United States community college setting Employment discrimination of Hispanics/Latinos: The effects of
acculturation on the perception of harassment The effects of immigration on the development of adolescents:
Five cases of North Americans immigrating to Costa Rica When East meets West: The relations between acculturation,
self-discrepancy, and life satisfaction The subjective experience of cultural self-identity among
‘white’ South African immigrants in the United States: A qualitative study Asian American adolescents and the stress of acculturation:
Differences in gender and generational levels The impact of historical, social, and cultural contexts on
Vietnamese adolescent identity exploration Americans’ attitudes toward immigrants and immigration: The role
of values, social identification, and attitudinal ambivalence Central American immigrants and the democratization of Los
Angeles: ‘La cadena de opresion y la resistencia’ (California) English as a second language (ESL) learning experiences of
immigrant high school students: A small city schools case study Ways of being in home and community: Language socialization of
children with autism in multilingual South Asian immigrant families Mediating language, literacy and bilingualism: Community
liaisons as cultural and linguistic brokers Language ideology, ethnicity, and biliteracy development: A
Korean-American perspective Experiences of ethnic acceptance and prejudice in English
language learning: Immigrants’ critical reflections Language, culture, and pedagogy: Immigrants from the former
Soviet Union studying English as a second language in California postsecondary
institutions Community in diversity: A diversity awareness program for German
and immigrant students in Germany’s multicultural secondary schools An inquiry into the language and literacy practices of Jamaican
immigrant students’ home and community discourses The home language and literacy environment of young
Spanish/English bilingual children The social organization of health care experiences of
non-English speaking Chinese immigrants: Negotiating cultural and language
differences in a changing health care context Que dice? Experiences of language brokering among Mexican
heritage women Communicative competence and second language abilities in the
justice system: A forensic linguistic analysis of a Chinese immigrant’s run-in
with the law Home language maintenance and acculturation among
second-generation Chinese children Identifying ‘the target population’: A genealogy of
policy-making for English as a second language (ESL) in Australian schools
(1947--1997) Immigrant parents’ perceptions of barriers that may hinder their
involvement with the school system Academic performance of immigrant students: Roles of generation
status, race/ethnicity, and school environment New immigrant readers: The role of young adult literature in
literacy development and academic confidence Emigrant expectations versus immigrant realities: A case study
of second-generation Haitian students at Columbia High School ‘I go to school to learn’: Attitudes, stressors, and supports in
the school experiences of young Latino immigrant students Latino adolescents’ academic achievement and identity formation:
The roles of family involvement and students’ goals Assimilation and ambiguous experience of the resilient male
Mexican immigrants that successfully navigate American higher education The perspectives of Caribbean high school students’ experiences
in American science classrooms Popular education: Adult education for Latina women’s
empowerment (Paulo Freire) Who wins? Who loses? A case study of a parent-teacher conflict
in an urban immigrant school district The impact of access to books: Developing partnerships with
Latino immigrant families through a preschool literacy program in an urban
community Variability in IQ scores and school achievement in voluntary and
involuntary immigrants Everyday challenges of building community and empowerment: An
ethnographic study of immigrant Mexican parents advocating for school reform Here I am now! Community service-learning with immigrant and
refugee undergraduate students and youth: The use of critical pedagogy,
situated-learning and funds of knowledge Education of non-European ancestry immigrant students in
suburban high schools The new collegiate diversity: The academic progress of
immigrants in higher education Reflections on the development of learning community among a
group of traditional immigrant Latinas (English and Spanish text) How Latino immigrant parents and school read each other:
Parental involvement and literacy initiatives Immigrant students’ out-of-school literacy practices: A
qualitative study of Korean students’ experiences Political and educational perspectives of effective ELL
education (Arizona) The intersection of race, gender, and class in social
transitions: Caribbean immigrant women negotiating United States higher
education Perceptions of Korean immigrant students who are deaf and
hard of hearing and their parents on United States public education Impact of Proposition 227 on bilingual teachers’ beliefs and
practices (California) Stress process of adjustment problems among adolescents in
immigrant families: Generational differences Four immigrant women: Community college success stories Knowledge of and reactions to suspected child abuse by immigrant
women from Mexico and United States born Mexican-American women Experiences and coping strategies used by Mexican immigrant
women in a California border town Multiple role occupancy, acculturation, and health promotion
among Asian Indian immigrant women In our different names: Korean immigrant women and the
challenges of post-migration identity renegotiation Mexican immigrant women making a life/re-making ethnicity: A
critical inquiry into the ‘Latina/o health paradox’ Physical activities among Korean midlife immigrant women in the
United States Effects of practical needs and family values on living
arrangements among Korean-born immigrant widows in the United States: Living
along vs. living with adult children The separation and reunification of recently immigrated Mexican
families Music, dance, and family ties: Ghanaian and Senegalese
immigrants in Los Angeles (California) Motherhood, migration and change: The effects of acculturation
on pregnancy planning and contraceptive use among women of Mexican origin The impact of immigration on maternal separation anxiety and
their relationship to toddler affect regulation Self construal of Japanese-born women in the United States:
Examining egalitarian sex-role attitudes, self-esteem, acculturation and
independence/interdependence La familia latina en America: Culturally sensitive factors to
consider in the psychotherapeutic setting with immigrant families The combined effects of trauma and immigration on Portuguese
female immigrants Intergenerational cultural differences: Learning from the
experiences of immigrant families from India Cultural understandings and experiences in managing diabetes of
women from an Arab immigrant community in Iowa: A focused ethnographic study Immigrant women and fertility: Rights and responsibilities HIV/AIDS-preventive behavior in recent-immigrant Jamaican women South Asian immigrant cardiovascular risk assessment in Houston,
Texas 2005 Exploring immigrant women’s mental health care experiences: From
a health care provider’s perspective Hispanic immigrants’ intentions to seek depression care A cross-cultural comparison study of the effects of the
immigration on the mental health of Iranian immigrants Risk factors for asthma among Arab American immigrants in the
metro Detroit area (Michigan) Intergenerational differences in health behaviors for
Mexican-Americans: The role of culture and cohesion Navigating the change of life: The menopausal transition of Thai
immigrant women Prenatal breastfeeding education: An intervention for pregnant
immigrant Hispanic women Breast cancer screening behaviors among immigrant Iranian women
in the United States Depressive symptoms in Armenian immigrant elders: A study of
risk factors A model to increase access to care for immigrants: Charting the
development of San Francisco Chinatown’s ethnic-specific health care system Barriers to seeking mental health services among Korean American
immigrant women Migration-related tuberculosis among Asian immigrants in San
Francisco: Treatment outcomes, 1994--1998 Understanding Latino health policy and barriers to care Short term, time limited cognitive behavioral therapy of major
depression with Vietnamese refugee women: An analysis of three cases Competing for the future: Adaptation and the accommodation of
difference in Coptic immigrant churches Religion, immigrant churches, and community in an
industrializing city: Swedish Protestants in Rockford, Illinois, 1854--1925 The change of attitude about healing in Korean immigrant church Singing the Lord’s song in a foreign land: A socio-ethical study
of a Ghanaian immigrant church in New York Polynesian pioneers: Twentieth-century religious racial
formations and migration in Hawai’i Upward climb or downward slide? Religion and mediating social
capital in the Haitian immigrant communities of Miami, Montreal and Paris
(Florida, Quebec, France) ISKCON and Indians: Religion and identity in North American
Hinduism Representations of literacy: The teaching of English and the
immigrant experience in early twentieth-century America Denaturalizing the American naturalization process: The impact
of America’s immigrant history on the new immigrant A struggle for social cohesion, 1981-1995: Immigrant education
policy under the socialist government of Francois Mitterrand Immigrants in our midst: Grace Abbott, the Immigrants’
Protective League of Chicago, and the new American citizenship, 1908-1924
(Illinois) New Denmark, New Brunswick: New approaches in the study of
Danish migration to Canada, 1872-1901 Latina/o migration and community formation in postwar Chicago:
Mexicans, Puerto Ricans, gender, and politics, 1945--1975 (Illinois) Engendering transnational ties: Mexicanas and the other sides of
immigration, 1942-2000 Strangers to the land: The German presence in nineteenth-century
Arkansas We hold the center of the line of battle: The IWW, immigrant
labor, and industrial unionism in the Pittsburgh district, 1909-1913
(Pennsylvania) Downhome from Ulster: Ulster Irish immigration to the eastern
townships of Quebec and the development of Irish ethnic identity, 1814-1850 Japanese immigrant women in Los Angeles, 1912-1942: A
transnational perspective (California) Puerto Rican revolutionary nationalism (1956-2005): Immigration,
armed struggle, political prisoners and prisoners of war Twentieth-century Indian immigration to Chicago (Illinois) Empire and underworld: Guiana in the French legal imagination c.
1789-c. 1870 A nation of immigrants: The rise of ‘contributionism’ in the
United States, 1924-1965 An historical archaeology of the Irish proletarian diaspora: The
material manifestations of Irish identity in America, 1850--1910 Migrants between empires and nations: The Chinese in Cuba,
1874-1959 Irish immigration in the Cambridge area of New York State,
1850-1895: Unwilling emigrant and unwelcome refugee ‘De tout avec ben de la sauce’: Community organizing for social
housing in an immigrant neighbourhood (Quebec) Resettlement of South Asian immigrant women of Pakistani descent
in Canada Immigrant university faculty members’ perceptions of their
experiences in post-secondary employment in Canada Rethinking immigrant success: The case of four South Asian
entrepreneurs in Toronto (Ontario) Tudo se pasou: Portuguese men’s perceptions of fatherhood after
settlement in Canada (Dis)qualification: The social regulation of immigrant access to
professional engineering in Ontario West African women: Their missing recognition in multicultural
Canada. A study of women’s shelters and abused immigrant women in Ontario Early childhood caries and access to dental care in
Portuguese-speaking immigrant children aged up to 48 months in the city of
Toronto Capital transformation and immigrant integration: Chinese
independent immigrants’ language and social practices in Canada Vietnamese women living in Canada: Contextual factors affecting
Vietnamese women’s breast cancer and cervical cancer screening practices Women refugee claimants in Canada: Intake patterns and
gender-related persecution. Citizenship and Immigration Canada’s (CIC) policies
and practices affecting women refugee claimants: An analysis of CIC and
Immigration and Refugee Board (IRB) data A qualitative study on the factors influencing the cultural,
economic and social integration of Afghan women in Canada Migrations and gradations: Reappraising the health profile of
immigrants to Canada We are Chinese Canadian: The response of Vancouver’s Chinese
community to Hong Kong immigrants, 1980--1997 The formulation of Turkish immigrant subjectivities in the
German region of Swabia Contextual dynamics of immigration attitudes: Regional
differences in southern Europe Integration and identity in the diaspora: An ethnography of the
Afghan refugee community in St. Petersburg, Russia Material and mythical perspectives on ethnicity: An historical
archaeology study of cultural identity, national historiography, and the Eastern
Cape frontier of South Africa, 1820-1860 Globalisation, internationalisation and the knowledge economy in
higher education: A case study of China and New Zealand Plotting immigration: Diasporic identity formation among
immigrants from Turkey in Berlin (Germany) The European Union, immigration and inequality: ‘Albanian’ labor
in the political economy of rural Greece Industry, the state, and immigrant Poles in industrial France,
1919-1939 An attempt to mediate immigrant integration intercultural
mediators in Catalonia (Spain) Expressing Patagonia: Sightseeing, journalism, and immigration
in Argentina (Roberto J. Payro, Roberto Arlt, Moritz Alemann, Maria Bamberg,
Spanish text) The state, the noncitizen, and the challenge of bilateral
legitimacy in the United States, Canada, and Australia Citizens of an unborn kingdom: Stateless Palestinian refugees
and contentious commemoration (Lebanon) Survival songs: How refugee and immigrant women experienced
violence Constructing academic identities in exile among Somali refugee
female high school students A collage of ‘borderlands’: Arts-informed life histories of
childhood immigrants and refugees who maintain their mother tongue A political conception of asylum Transitory freedom: Political discourses of refugee youth in a
photography-based after-school program Uganda Asian refugees and expellees in Los Angeles, the American
El Dorado (California) Acting is not becoming: Cultural adaptation among Somali refugee
youth European Jewish refugee chemists in the United States:
Adjustment, achievements and Jewish identity Acculturation of refugees: A study of refugee mothers from
Bosnia and Herzegovina Contesting labels, rebuilding lives: Female African refugees in
the United States Refugee protection challenges in the era of globalization: The
case of Nairobi (Kenya) Economic refugees: The art of labelling diaspora Shifting grounds: Southern Sudanese asylum-seekers in Cairo
(Egypt) Helping new neighbors: Resettlement workers’ construction of
refugee identity Mental health and academic skills of Sierra Leonean children
from refugee families Home is who you make it: Place, agency, and relationships among
Fula refugees in Guinea A personal narrative of a Vietnamese refugee: Challenges of
growing up in the United States (Original writing) Understanding Bosnian refugee integration and how it differs by
country of resettlement: Denmark and the United States of America The causes and consequences of livelihood strategy change among
long-term refugee households: The Tibetan Rabgayling Settlement (India) Discrimination and academic motivation in adolescent refugee
girls Moderators of mental health in refugees: A meta-analysis A grant proposal: Investigating the experience of refugee
interpreters who work with refugee clients in therapy Depression and somatization in community based asylum-seekers
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