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Browsing by Subject "Immigration"
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Are Refugees and Immigrants Different? Gauging the Correlation Between Refugee Status and Economic and Educational Success
(2015-12-15)Little previous research has analyzed the long-term economic and educational trajectories of refugee and immigrant arrivals in the U.S. Studies have found that refugees outperform immigrants in long-term earnings and economic ... -
Assessing and Addressing Protection Needs of Undocumented Migrant Children in North Carolina
(2015-05-06)This thesis investigates differential protection outcomes among undocumented migrant youth from Central America who are transferred to North Carolina. The literature shows there is a significant gap in research on the protection ... -
Between Optimism and Precarity: Unravel the Intersectional Challenges of Chinese Female Immigrant Teachers in the United States
(2023)This thesis investigates the work and life experiences of an under-discussed and female-dominant Chinese diasporic community, Chinese immigrant teachers in American K12 education. I argue that, firstly, while being privileged ... -
Coequal Heirs: The Civil War, Memory, and German-American Identity, 1861-1914
(2015-05-22)Upon the outbreak of the American Civil War, German-Americans took up arms in defense of their adopted country. The German-American community in 1861 was incredibly diverse, and notions of shared German identity were secondary ... -
El Nuevo Bajio and the New South: Race, Region, and Mexican Migration since 1980
(2018)My dissertation examines the circular transit of ideas about race and identity. Through transnational archival research and oral histories in North Carolina and throughout Mexico, I argue that migrants' ideas about race ... -
Essays on Migration, Social Networks and Employment
(2022)Immigrants rely on social networks upon arrival to their country of destination to access resources, find a job, and begin the process of incorporation. However, the contours of how and under what circumstances networks ... -
Finding Home: Journey of an Italian Immigrant
(2015-04-06)This paper accompanies an interactive multimedia documentary that tells the story of the Carlevaro family’s journey from Palermo, Sicily to New York City, then to Brooklyn, Rutherford, NJ and eventually Stony Point, NY. ... -
Intergenerational influences and Migration: Ruality and Adolescent Fertility in Lujan, Argentina
(2013)This cross sectional study explores migration, intergenerational influences and social isolation as determinants of early pregnancy in Lujan's rural communities, which are home to generations of migrants from neighboring ... -
Investing in the Homeland: Foreign Assets and Patterns of Immigrant Economic Incorporation
(2016)This dissertation consists of three separate studies that examine patterns of immigrant incorporation in the United States. The first study tests competing hypotheses derived from conflicting theoretical frameworks−transnational ... -
Loss, Perseverance, and Triumph: The Story of Gerd and the von Halle Family
(2011-05-17)The following narrative details the life of Gerd von Halle. Gerd was a German Jew who moved to Amsterdam to escape Nazi persecution in 1933. The von Halle family was a prominent German Jewish family with origins dating back ... -
Modern Transnational Familia - Exploring cultural gaps in the experiences of Latinx families
(2016-05-02)This thesis addresses the complex experiences of transnational Latinx families living here in the United States based on eleven interviews conducted, as well as prior research centered around Latinx transnationalism. Tr... -
North Carolina and Immigration Reform: Policy Options To Address Omnibus Immigration Legislation in the North Carolina General Assembly
(2012-04-10)Despite no significant movement toward comprehensive federal immigration reform since 2007, stakeholders from virtually all points on the political spectrum continue to call for an overhaul. In the meantime, states have ... -
"One People without Borders": The Lost Roots of the Immigrants' Rights Movement, 1954-2006
(2019)Why, this dissertation asks, did the same Mexican American groups who in the 1950s warned about a “wetback invasion,” come, in the span of only two decades, to take up the cause of the undocumented—even to see themselves ... -
Trapped Like Monkeys in a Cage: Structural Racism and Mental Health in the Dominican Republic
(2017)Haitian immigrants and their Dominican-born descendants face sociopolitical exclusion in spite of their contribution to the Dominican economy. This project engages three key theoretical perspectives to explain inequality ...
