scholarly journals Narrative Writing on New Immigrant Women: Perspective on Cultural Identity and Mother-Daughter Relationship

2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 72
Author(s):  
Shu-Chuan Chen ◽  
Chih-Hui Fang
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Identity ◽  
Immigrant Women ◽  
Documentary Films ◽  
Narrative Writing ◽  
New Immigrants ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Mother Daughter Relationship ◽  
Female Immigrants ◽  
New Perspective ◽  
New Immigrant

Three different types of narrative writings from women who have recently immigrated to Taiwan are discussed here: oral/confessional narrative, textual narrative, and documentary films. The first is the primary kind of narrative writing produced while immigrant women are still struggling with the acquirement of a new language, and relies on help from local people to deliver the new immigrants’ voice. The textual narrative illustrates the mother figures in terms of madness or absence from home; emphasizing the conflict of mother-daughter relationships. The last type of narrative writing produced by newly immigrating women are the documentary films, which are shot by themselves and attempt to demonstrate the bravery of these new immigrant spouses in defending their rights. The results of this paper show that, through the narrative writings, female immigrants from Southeast Asia in Taiwan have produced a variety of issues and topics which create a link of dialogue with Taiwanese society, and which need to be understood. What is more, the process of constructing their new identity is worth discussing as it provides a new perspective on Asian ethnic and women’s writing, and uncovers the need for more research into diasporic women―studied from the approach of displacement.

Investigating the Cultural Identity of the Japanese Marriage Immigrant Women in Korea

2015 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 107 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ishii Hiroko ◽  
Kiyeon Min ◽  
Seongok Yuhoa ◽  
Youngsun Lee
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Identity ◽  
Immigrant Women

scholarly journals Gender Discrimination and Excess Female Under-5 Mortality in India: A New Perspective Using Mixed-Sex Twins

Demography ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 57 (6) ◽  
pp. 2143-2167
Author(s):  
Ridhi Kashyap ◽  
Julia Behrman
Keyword(s):  
Gender Discrimination ◽  
Excess Mortality ◽  
Family Health ◽  
Female Child ◽  
Sub Saharan Africa ◽  
Birth Cohorts ◽  
Northern India ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Sub Saharan ◽  
New Perspective

AbstractSon preference has been linked to excess female under-5 mortality in India, and considerable literature has explored whether parents invest more resources in sons relative to daughters—which we refer to as explicit discrimination—leading to girls’ poorer health status and, consequently, higher mortality. However, this literature has not adequately controlled for the implicit discrimination processes that sort girls into different types of families (e.g., larger) and at earlier parities. To better address the endogeneity associated with implicit discrimination processes, we explore the association between child sex and postneonatal under-5 mortality using a sample of mixed-sex twins from four waves of the Indian National Family Health Survey. Mixed-sex twins provide a natural experiment that exogenously assigns a boy and a girl to families at the same time, thus controlling for selectivity into having an unwanted female child. We document a sizable impact of explicit discrimination on girls’ excess mortality in India, particularly compared with a placebo analysis in sub-Saharan Africa, where girls have a survival advantage. We also show that explicit discrimination weakened for birth cohorts after the mid-1990s, especially in northern India, but further weakening has stalled since the mid-2000s, thus contributing to understandings of how the micro-processes underlying the female mortality disadvantage have changed over time.

scholarly journals Italian Mothers and Italian-Canadian Daughters: Using Language to Negotiate the Politics of Gender

Genealogy ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 24
Author(s):  
Elena Anna Spagnuolo
Keyword(s):  
Gender Roles ◽  
Cultural Identity ◽  
Mother Tongue ◽  
Code Switching ◽  
Female Condition ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Family Narratives ◽  
Mother Daughter Relationship ◽  
Linguistic Means

This paper examines how migration redefines family narratives and dynamics. Through a parallel between the mother and the mother tongue, I unravel the emotional, linguistic, social, and ideological connotations of the mother–daughter relationship, which I define as a ‘condensed narrative about origin and identity’. This definition refers to the fact that the daughter’s biological, affective, linguistic, and socio-cultural identity grounds in the mother. The mother–daughter tie also has a gendered dimension, which opens up interesting gateways into the female condition. Taking this assumption as a starting point, I examine how migration, impacting on the mother–daughter relationship, can redefine gender roles and challenge models of femininity, which are culturally, socially, geographically, and linguistically embedded. I investigate this aspect from a linguistic perspective, through a reading of a corpus of narratives written by four Italian-Canadian writers. The movement from Italy to Canada enacts ‘the emergence of alternative family romances’ and draws new routes to femininity. This paper seeks to illustrate how, in the narratives I examine, these new routes are explored through linguistic means. The authors in my corpus use code-switching to highlight contrasting views of femininity and reposition themselves with respect to politics of gender.

scholarly journals Validation of a Lean Smart Maintenance Maturity Model

2020 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
pp. 296-302
Author(s):  
Hans Thomas Maier ◽  
Oliver Schmiedbauer ◽  
Hubert Biedermann
Keyword(s):  
Asset Management ◽  
Continuous Production ◽  
Maturity Model ◽  
Business Environments ◽  
Different Types ◽  
System Improvement ◽  
Production Research ◽  
New Perspective ◽  
Using Data ◽  
Management Domains

Rising complexity in industrial asset and maintenance management due to more volatile business environments and megatrends like Industry 4.0 has led to the need for a new perspective on these management domains. The Lean Smart Maintenance (LSM) philosophy, which focuses on both the efficient (lean) and the learning (smart) organization was introduced during the past few years, and a corresponding maturity model (MM) has been developed to guide organizations on their way to asset and maintenance excellence. This paper discusses use cases, in which the usability and the generic aspect of the LSM MM are validated by using data from three different asset management assessment projects in organizations with different types of production. Research results show that the LSM MM can be used as a basis for management system improvement, independent of production types such as one-of-a-kind industry, mass production and continuous production.

Is It Transnational? A New Perspective in the Study of Communism

2013 ◽  
Vol 40 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 114-139 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bogdan C. Iacob
Keyword(s):  
Cold War ◽  
Soviet Union ◽  
Cultural Identity ◽  
Iron Curtain ◽  
The Soviet Union ◽  
History Of ◽  
New Perspective ◽  
The Cold War ◽  
Fundamental Shift ◽  
The Continuum

This article presents a comprehensive review of the transnational perspective in the study of communism and the implications of this methodological turn for the transformation of the field itself. While advancing new topics and interpretative standpoints with a view to expanding the scope of such an initiative in current scholarship, the author argues that the transnational approach is important on several levels. First, it helps to de-localize and de-parochialize national historiographies. Second, it can provide the background to for the Europeanization of the history of the communist period in former Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union. Third, and most importantly, the transnational approach can reconstruct the international dimension of the communist experience, with its multiple geographies, spaces of entanglement and transfer, and clustered, cross-cultural identity-building processes. The article concludes that the advent of transnationalism in the study of communism allows for the discovery of various forms of historical contiguousness either among state socialisms or beyond the Iron Curtain. In other words, researchers might have a tool to not only know more about less, but also to resituate that “less” in the continuum of the history of communism and in the context of modernity. The transnational approach can generate a fundamental shift in our vantage point on the communist phenomenon in the twentieth century. It can reveal that a world long perceived as mostly turned inward was in fact imbricate in wider contexts of action and imagination and not particularly limited by the ideological segregationism of the Cold War.

Race, Skills, and Earnings: American Immigrants in 1909

1971 ◽  
Vol 31 (2) ◽  
pp. 420-428 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert Higgs
Keyword(s):  
Native American ◽  
Eastern Europe ◽  
Unfair Competition ◽  
Standard Of Living ◽  
Central Theme ◽  
Immigration Laws ◽  
New Immigrants ◽  
Lower Standard ◽  
New Immigrant

On December 5, 1910, the Immigration Commission presented its voluminous report to the Congress. Though the report covered a multitude of topics, a central theme was that the “new” immigrants from southern and eastern Europe were earning less than the “old” immigrants from northwestern Europe because the newcomers were willing to accept a lower standard of living. “They were,” the commission concluded, “content to accept wages and conditions which the native American and immigrants of the older class had come to regard as unsatisfactory.” The discovery of such “unfair competition,” along with its other findings, led the commission to recommend legislation restricting the admission of the “new” immigrant groups, and subsequently the immigration laws of 1917, 1921, and 1924 implemented this recommendation.

The Effect of Previous Material Research into the Manuscript of Dvůr Králové and the Manuscript of Zelená Hora on their Current State

2018 ◽  
Vol 63 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 5-19
Author(s):  
Martina Ohlídalová ◽  
Karel Křenek ◽  
Jana Tvrzníková ◽  
Michal Pech ◽  
Radka Šefců
Keyword(s):  
Physical Condition ◽  
Fluorescence Analysis ◽  
Material Research ◽  
National Museum ◽  
X Ray ◽  
Current State ◽  
New Information ◽  
Different Types ◽  
New Perspective ◽  
The 19Th Century

In 2017, the National Museum commemorated the bicentenary of the discovery of the Manuscript of Dvůr Králové and the Manuscript of Zelená Hora by further material research into both works and especially by an exhibition of their originals. The main aims of this research into the manuscripts included the documentation and evaluation of their current physical condition and the mapping of the effect of the microchemical analyses performed in the context of the disputes over the authenticity of the manuscripts between the middle of the 19th century and the 1970s. For the achievement of these objectives, a detailed documentation of all the pages of the manuscripts in different types of lighting (visible direct, lateral, transmitted, ultraviolet, infrared), optical microscopy, and the identification of the degradation productions of damaged places by means of X-ray fluorescence analysis and Raman spectroscopy were used. This provided new information on the current physical condition of the manuscripts and documentation of the damage caused by historical microchemical testing. In addition, some previously unpublished historical tests were identified, thus offering a new perspective on some current damage of the two manuscripts.

scholarly journals Der Erwerb der Verbflexion durch thailändische Immigrantinnen in der Schweiz. Eine Bestandaufnahme.

2006 ◽  
Vol 29 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Korakoch Attaviriyanupap
Keyword(s):  
Second Language ◽  
Native Speakers ◽  
Verb Morphology ◽  
Acquisition Process ◽  
Verb Inflection ◽  
Different Types ◽  
German Speaking ◽  
Female Immigrants ◽  
Acquisition Order ◽  
Inflectional Morphemes

This article focuses on the acquisition of German verb inflection by native speakers of Thai, an isolated language which has no concept of inflection at all. The acquisition process of German verb morphology is analyzed based on all the verb inflectional affixes found in the corpus consisting of spontaneous utterances in Standard German produced by16 female immigrants living in German-speaking Switzerland. It aims to find out a systematic acquisition order of verb inflectional morphemes and the explanation to this sequence, especially to answer the following four questions: 1) What is the acquisition order of verb inflectional morphemes found in this group of informants 2) Are there any differences between the acquisition of finite and that of non-finite verbs? 3) Are there any differences in the verb morphology acquisition of different types of verbs? 4) Does the acquisition of verb inflection by these informants share more similiarities with the instructed or with the natural acquisition of German as a second language?

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