Browsing by Author "Paredes, Liliana"
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Item Open Access A Home of Our Own: Social Reproduction of a Precarious, Migrant Class(2019-04-29) Aguilar, ErickMany of the recent migrants from Honduras, El Salvador, Guatemala, and Mexico have experienced the rise of drug-related gang violence and declining economic conditions in their home countries brought on by transnational agreements. With the ongoing collapse of their communities and homes via these conditions, many of these migrants move to the United States and join precarious jobs, such as agricultural labor. This thesis explores the ways in which family connections, inside and outside the home, affects the decision-making processes that leads migrant parents to join these precarious labor regimes. Through participant-observation and semi-structured interviews with migrant mothers and fathers from Honduras and Mexico living in rural towns in Eastern North Carolina, I investigate the social reproductive forces of the family that help fuel mass migration into rural North Carolina. Furthermore, I use my own experience as the son of an agricultural worker to complement my findings within the fields. My findings show that migrant mothers choose to migrate to North Carolina to raise their sons in proximity to their fathers, which they believe will allow their sons to learn how to become successful laborers in the future. Additionally, migrant parents believe that the home can be a place where the trauma of displacement can be undone. These findings show a glimmer of how lives can be structured and shaped outside of wage labor.Item Open Access Examining Family Separation Through Narratives of Family, Migration, and Separation Among Deported Mexican-U.S. Family Members(2019-12-06) Kopp, TylerFamily separation entered the U.S. political mainstream in the spring of 2018 when the Trump administration began separating thousands of migrant families at the U.S.-Mexico border. While this policy is the first of its kind to deliberately use family separation as immigration enforcement in contemporary U.S. history, the U.S. has a much more extensive history of separating families, especially Mexican-U.S. families, through deportation. This research examines how deportation-induced family separation of Mexican-U.S. family members impacts familial relationships, as told through the narratives of deported family members in Mexico. These narratives suggest that family can be a broad and dynamic community that often includes people outside one’s biological or adopted family network. They also present a conception of family through the lens of mutually supportive relationships and shared experiences with family members. The narratives suggest that the physical aspects of family separation inhibit one’s ability to fully serve one’s familial role of support and to share experiences with one’s family members. For these reasons, family separation often stagnates or deteriorates familial relationships. Transnational and national policy reform can end family separation in the U.S. and Mexico, reunite families that have been separated, and allow the U.S. to come to terms with its past of family separation and address the victims of separation.Item Open Access Patient-Physician Interactions with Minority Communities(2019-05-05) Premasinghe, IvanaWhile there are many studies that highlight lack of access as a barrier to healthcare for minority communities, fewer studies examine the actual patient-physician interactions that occur in the doctor’s office. This thesis examines patient-physician interactions as reported by patients and physicians, aiming at accounting for their experiences in the general context of healthcare service. Five important topics were discovered within the literature, and these topics were used as the background to generate patient interview questions and physician questionnaires (surveys). The topics were as follows: general information on diversity and accessibility of medical practice, patient-physician interactions, translation services, medical interpreter services, and the medical community. Through the responses of these interviews/questionnaires, three main themes were revealed as relevant: 1.) Patients’ reported experiences about their interactions with the doctors and the healthcare system, 2.) What doctors know and understand about the minority communities they are serving, and 3.) Potential best practices for health care professionals to better serve minority and unprivileged communities (as referred by patients and physicians). These themes and their various subthemes were analyzed and used to generate various proposals and future directions of patient-physician research.Item Open Access Usos de SER/ESTAR en los foros de discusión lingüística: la pragmática de la interacción entre aspecto verbal y clases semánticas(2021-04) Ndubuisi, JachikeEste estudio es la culminación de muchos años de curiosidad sobre cómo el español que aprendí, estudié y desarrollé durante mi proceso de adquisición se encontraba con usos y ejemplos que no solo eran sorprendentes en términos de su estructura, sino que contradecían las explicaciones que había aprendido en mis años de estudiante de español. Así, esta monografía revisa algunos de estos casos que me intrigaron mucho. Este trabajo es cualitativo y se acerca al estudio de ser y estar desde la perspectiva de la variación lingüística, particularmente observando el componente regional de la variación. La pregunta de investigación se plantea qué explica o permite estos usos diferentes de ser y estar y por qué presentan contradicciones con lo aprendido antes. La fuente de datos la proveen foros de discusión en línea de wordreference.com. Metodológicamente se identificaron comentarios y preguntas de los participantes alrededor del uso de ser y estar en los tiempos pasados para hablar de comida y de eventos y situaciones. El marco teórico que permite el análisis de los datos y ofrece la base para una interpretación de estos usos extraordinarios de ser y estar nos la dan la semántica del aspecto verbal y las implicaciones pragmáticas de la selección de aspecto. Concluyo que el valor aspectual entra en juego con otros componentes semánticos que explican las interpretaciones variadas de los hablantes. Por último, incluyo mis reflexiones como un eterno estudiante de español sobre las implicaciones personales prácticas de aprender y entender estos usos desde una perspectiva de selección aspectual.Item Open Access Vulnerabilidad de lenguas en Durham, NC: un análisis geolingüístico y socioeconómico(2022-06-12) Kelly, AlexanderIn the context of linguistic rights, I present a series of cartographic observations about the growing diversity of languages in Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina. This work’s purposes are to identify vulnerable populations through language and related socioeconomic trends, share information in an accessible manner to community members, and discuss methods to promote linguistic equity. I explore the right to speak one’s own language, linguistic rights in the Americas, and their importance in Raleigh-Durham-Cary, a multilingual area. I share the information about local linguistic diversity gathered from interviews with community advocates. The methodology of creating the maps and conducting statistical analyses is then explained. I present the maps and make observations about diverse language groups’ characteristics. Finally, I observe which language communities are the most vulnerable.