Immigrant Consumers: Marketing and Public Policy Considerations in the Global Economy

1995 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 83-94 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lisa Peñaloza
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Identity Formation ◽  
Cultural Differences ◽  
Global Economy ◽  
Social Issues ◽  
The United States ◽  
Policy Implications ◽  
Policy Issues ◽  
United States Economy ◽  
Marketing Activities

The author addresses marketing and public policy implications stemming from the presence of Mexican immigrant consumers in the United States economy. Their transnational consumption experiences raise a number of policy issues as the result of cultural differences in language, currency, processes of identity formation, and relations with others. In addition, the author discusses more general social issues regarding the significance of marketing activities situated at the nexus of consumption and labor in the global economy.

“You Are Not Like Me!”

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Onoso Imoagene
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Ethnic Identity ◽  
Identity Formation ◽  
Cultural Differences ◽  
Second Generation ◽  
The United States ◽  
Assimilation Theory ◽  
Segmented Assimilation ◽  
Key Factor

Chapter 2 shows how the proximal host is a crucial actor influencing how the second generation of Nigerian ancestry identify. How the presence of the proximal host affects identity formation among the black second generation is generally overlooked in segmented assimilation theory and is a key factor emphasized in beyond racialization theory. The chapter details how relations with the proximal host in childhood, particularly feelings of rejection and exclusion based on perceived physical and cultural differences, laid the foundation for developing a distinct ethnicity in adulthood. I discuss the responses of the proximal hosts in the United States and Britain to the Nigerian second generation when they were young. What was viewed as discriminatory responses by members of the proximal host by the Nigerian second generation fostered a feeling of being black but different among the Nigerian second generation. The tense relations between proximal hosts and the African second generation required the young Nigerian second generation to start the process of defining what being black meant to them and defining a diasporic ethnic identity differentiating them from their proximal hosts.

GRAHAM E. FULLERAND REND RAHIM FRANCKE, The Arab Shiעa: The Forgotten Muslims (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1999.) Pp. 290. $49.95.

2001 ◽  
Vol 33 (4) ◽  
pp. 644-646
Author(s):  
Kamran Aghaie
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
New York ◽  
Cultural History ◽  
The United States ◽  
Arab Countries ◽  
Policy Implications ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Policy Issues ◽  
Political Analysis ◽  
Practical Representation

As a historian interested in Shiעi communities in Arab countries, I could not help but be disappointed by the lack of social and cultural history in this study. However, this is not a negative reflection on the book. What may at first seem like a weakness to readers such as myself, who are more interested in social and cultural history, is actually a necessary part of the authors' formulation of their argument. The book is intended to be a very practical representation of the Arab Shiעi with political analysis that has immediate policy implications for the Shiעi themselves, the Arab regimes that rule over them, and the United States. As a monograph dealing with policy issues related to the Arab Shiעi, this book is very successful and is of special interest to scholars, activists, and policy-makers dealing with issues related to the Arab Shiעi.

Schizophrenia in Later Life: Public Policy Issues in the United States

2019 ◽  
pp. 223-241
Author(s):  
Michael B. Friedman ◽  
Lisa Furst ◽  
Paul S. Nestadt ◽  
Kimberly A. Williams ◽  
Lina Rodriguez
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Public Policy ◽  
Later Life ◽  
The United States ◽  
Policy Issues

Question Bridge: Black Males: Socially Engaged Art and the Politics of Dialogue

1969 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 53-66 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sara Fruchtman
Keyword(s):  
Identity Formation ◽  
Black Males ◽  
Social Issues ◽  
The United States ◽  
Frantz Fanon ◽  
The Public ◽  
Socially Engaged Art ◽  
Art Practices ◽  
The Public Sphere ◽  
Media Narratives

Question Bridge: Black Males is a 'trans-media' art project created by Hank Willis Thomas and Chris Johnson in collaboration with Bayeté Ross Smith and Kamal Sinclair. The artists travelled throughout the United States for four years to engage more than 150 Black men in an intercultural dialogue about identity and representation. These exchanges are part of socially engaged art practices that Grant H. Kester calls "dialogical aesthetics," in which artists adopt a collaborative, process-based approach to facilitate a dialogue within communities. As an artwork that is based on conversation, collaboration and community engagement, Question Bridge offers an opportunity to explore the potential for creative expression to engage social issues and stimulate change. This article uses Kester‘s dialogical aesthetics to examine the relationship between dialogue and identity formation. Drawing on postcolonial theorists Frantz Fanon and bell hooks, as well as Jürgen Habermas‘ conception of the public sphere, I argue that Question Bridge creates an opportunity for transformational dialogues that challenge and ultimately deconstruct dominant stereotypes and popular media narratives.

Adoption: Transracial and Intercountry

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rowena Fong ◽  
Ruth G. McRoy ◽  
Amy Griffin ◽  
Catherine LaBrenz
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Identity Formation ◽  
Challenging Behaviors ◽  
The United States ◽  
Social Work Practice ◽  
Policy Implications ◽  
Practice Research ◽  
Adoptive Families ◽  
Transracial Adoptions ◽  
The Impact

A history of transracial and intercountry adoptions in the United States is briefly provided as well as highlights trends, demographics, practices, and policies that have evolved as families have become more diverse. The current prevalence of intercountry and transracial adoptions in the United States is examined as well as the impact of policy changes in the United States and abroad on rates of intercountry adoption. Additionally, the challenges that have emerged for children adopted transracially and from abroad, as well as for their adoptive families, are reviewed. These include navigating ethnic and racial identity formation, cultural sensitivity, and challenging behaviors. Finally, future directions for social work practice, research, and policy are explored, and implications are provided for social workers intervening with families who have adopted children transracially or internationally. Specifically, adoption-competent professionals should also integrate cultural humility and competence into their therapeutic work with adoptive children and families. Implications for research in the conclusion focus on expanding prior studies on intercountry and transracial adoptions to incorporate racial and ethnic groups underrepresented in the literature. Policy implications include increasing access and funding for post-adoption services for all adoptive families.

Experiencing Clinical Ethical Dilemmas: Cases of Ethical Decision-Making in the Care of Children with Major Craniofacial Deformities

1995 ◽  
Vol 32 (6) ◽  
pp. 494-494 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ronald P. Strauss
Keyword(s):  
Social Workers ◽  
Ethical Decision ◽  
Ethical Decision Making ◽  
Social Issues ◽  
Ethical Dilemmas ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Policy Implications ◽  
Craniofacial Anomalies ◽  
Policy Issues ◽  
Case Based

This series of six papers considers ethical and health policy issues related to the care of children born with major craniofacial anomalies, using a real-life case-based approach. The papers are based upon the direct experiences of pediatricians, craniofacial surgeons, social workers, parents, and ethicists. Using a simple theoretic framework presented In the paper by Sharp, the authors “unpack” their cases and discuss the ethical, clinical, and social issues raised, considering policy implications.

Institutional/Image Advertising and Idea/Issue Advertising as Marketing Tools: Some Public Policy Issues

1979 ◽  
Vol 43 (1) ◽  
pp. 68-78 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. Prakash Sethi
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Social Issues ◽  
Corporate Communications ◽  
Political Speech ◽  
Economic Interests ◽  
Corporate Marketing ◽  
Institutional Image ◽  
Policy Issues ◽  
Commercial Speech ◽  
Marketing Tool

Corporations have been increasingly resorting to institutional advertising campaigns to express managements’ viewpoints on controversial social issues where their vital economic interests are at stake. Such corporate communications blur the line between commercial speech and political speech which have varying degrees of protection from regulations and differing tax treatment. A new classificatory scheme is proposed to facilitate distinguishing between image/goodwill and idea/issue advertising. The objective is to demonstrate how idea/issue advertising can be made an effective corporate marketing tool, while at the same time improve corporate public credibility.

Online Games as Powerful Food Advertising to Children

2009 ◽  
pp. 358-369
Author(s):  
Richard T. Cole ◽  
Elizabeth Taylor Quilliam
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Childhood Obesity ◽  
Online Games ◽  
The United States ◽  
Food Advertising ◽  
Policy Issues ◽  
Teaching Tools ◽  
Dietary Choices ◽  
Continued Use ◽  
Advertising To Children

As Internet marketing has evolved, customized online games created to promote specific brands or products have been embraced by food marketers. At the same time that these advergames, a hybrid of entertainment and advertising, have emerged, childhood obesity in the United States has reached what some consider epidemic proportions. Advertising to children is frequently implicated as contributing to children’s poor dietary choices, and ultimately to childhood obesity and its attendant medical risks. In this chapter, we describe the nature of advergames, consider their effectiveness as teaching tools and advertisements, and suggest public policy issues related to the continued use of advergames to promote non-nutritious foods to children.

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