17. Aphasia, Language and Culture: Arabs in the US

2012 ◽  
pp. 275-291 ◽  
Author(s):  
Reem Khamis-Dakwar ◽  
Karen Froud
Keyword(s):  
Language And Culture ◽  
The Us

scholarly journals VII Zverev International Conference at RSUH: Colonial and Postcolonial Discourses in American Literature, Culture, and Politics: Pro et Contra

2021 ◽  
pp. 437-449
Author(s):  
Irina V. Morozova ◽  
Victoria I. Zhuravleva
Keyword(s):  
American Literature ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Language And Culture ◽  
Historical Texts ◽  
Radical Alterity ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
The Us ◽  
Literature Culture ◽  
Postcolonial Discourse ◽  
Critical Discourses

The review outlines the major topics of the conference on American Studies held by RSUH in May 2021. Colonial and postcolonial discourses, their intervention and interpretation are still simultaneously extraordinarily enabling and theoretically problematic. The question is how literary and historical texts as well as cultural and political representations could be analyzed from colonial and postcolonial point of view. The conference topics integrated colonial and postcolonial discourses into a wide range of humanitarian fields in order to understand their common elements, which make a contribution to an identifiable American national outlook. Themes of interest included colonialism as a discourse of domination; hybrid modalities of identity and their difference; ethnographic translations of radical alterity; postcolonialism and feminism as critical discourses; the relationship between race, language, and culture; global history and postcolonialism; postcolonial discourse in the US foreign policy.

Language and Culture as Barriers to Healthcare for Chinese Immigrants

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Edwin Leung
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Quality Care ◽  
Chinese Immigrants ◽  
Cultural Barriers ◽  
Care Seeking ◽  
Language And Culture ◽  
The Us ◽  
Older Chinese ◽  
The Impact ◽  
To Receive

Immigrants and their descendants are projected to account for 88 percent of United States population growth through 2065. Currently, immigrants make up for about 13.5 percent of the US population. In addition, 65.5 million Americans speak a language other than English at home. Language and culture are the two most significant barriers faced by immigrants seeking health care. These barriers have a significant impact on immigrants’ ability to receive quality care, make them more vulnerable to poor health outcomes. Many resources exist to help immigrants with various needs including health care. However, more effort is needed to strengthen the resources that are aimed to address and alleviate language and cultural barriers in the health care system. This thesis reviews scholarly literature in order to provide a better understanding of the impact of language and cultural barriers on the health care seeking experiences of older Chinese immigrants, evaluate the efficacy of existing tools and services designed to address these issues, and proposes ways to improve these existing resources in order to build a better experience for all immigrants seeking health care.

scholarly journals The onward migration of North Korean refugees to Australia: in search of cosmopolitan habitus

2017 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 1-20
Author(s):  
Kyungja Jung ◽  
Bronwen Dalton ◽  
Jacqueline Willis
Keyword(s):  
Academic Research ◽  
Language And Culture ◽  
North Korean Refugees ◽  
Onward Migration ◽  
The Us ◽  
North Korean Defectors ◽  
Korean Identity ◽  
Unique Experience ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Insight Into

Based on assumed common ethnicity, language and culture, South Korea is believed to be the best country for North Korean defectors to restart their lives. This is, however, not necessarily the case. Since the mid-2000s, 2000 to 3000 North Koreans have allegedly settled in the UK, Canada, the US, Australia and EU countries. Despite this trend and its broader implications, the onward migration process of North Korean refugees, together with their motivations and lived experiences, remain poorly addressed in academic research. Drawing from the unique experience of North Korean refugees’ onward movement to Australia, the paper suggests that discarding a North Korean identity and habitus and gaining cosmopolitan habitus are the main reasons behind North Korean defectors’ onward migration. The paper is the first empirical study on North Korean refugees resettled in Australia to adopt habitus as a theoretical framework, and thus provides new insight into migration studies.  

scholarly journals Adaptation and identity shifts after migration and return migration: Turkish qualified returnees from Germany and the US

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-28
Author(s):  
Meltem Yilmaz Sener
Keyword(s):  
Host Country ◽  
Return Migration ◽  
Home Country ◽  
Social Groups ◽  
Language And Culture ◽  
Host Country Nationals ◽  
The Us ◽  
Country Culture ◽  
Identity Shifts

This study looks at the adaptation experiences of Turkish qualified migrants who returned to Turkey after living in Germany and the US, discussing their identity shifts both during the period spent in the host country and after the return. I look at their i- pre-migration familiarity with the language and culture of the host country, ii- social groups in the host country, iii- association memberships in the host country, iv- frequency of their visits to Turkey, v- the extent to which they followed the developments in Turkey, vi- reasons behind the decision to return, vii- re-adaptation to the home country culture after return, and viii- relationships with other returnees and host country nationals after return. By focusing on these aspects of their experiences, I aim to demonstrate the kinds of orientations they have had to the host and home country cultures, and the identity shifts they had both after migration and return. I also discuss whether there are any differences between the returnees from Germany and the US in terms of these dimensions.

‘Undesirable Italians’: prolegomena for a history of the Calabrian ’Ndrangheta in Australia

Modern Italy ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 83-99 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen Bennetts
Keyword(s):  
Local Knowledge ◽  
Secret Society ◽  
Italian Language ◽  
Scholarly Literature ◽  
Language And Culture ◽  
The Us ◽  
History Of ◽  
Scholarly Discussion ◽  
Conducting Research

Although Italian mafia scholars have recently been turning their attention to the Calabrian mafia (known as the ’Ndrangheta) diaspora in Australia, their efforts have been limited by conducting research remotely from Italy without the benefit of local knowledge. Australian journalists and crime writers have long played an important role in documenting ’Ndrangheta activities, but have in turn been limited by a lack of expertise in Italian language and culture, and knowledge of the Italian scholarly literature. As previously in the US, Australian scholarly discussion of the phenomenon has been inhibited, especially since the 1970s, by a ‘liberal progressive’ ‘negationist’ discourse, which has led to a virtual silence within the local scholarly literature. This paper seeks to break this silence by bringing the Italian scholarly and Australian journalistic and archival sources into dialogue, and summarising the clear evidence for the presence in Australia since the early 1920s of criminal actors associated with a well-organised criminal secret society structured along lines familiar from the literature on the ’Ndrangheta.

scholarly journals The Resilience of Deficit Thinking

2015 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Curt Dudley-Marling
Keyword(s):  
Students Of Color ◽  
School Failure ◽  
Deficit Thinking ◽  
High Poverty ◽  
Language And Culture ◽  
Poor Students ◽  
The Us ◽  
High Achieving Schools ◽  
Systemic Factors ◽  
Schooling Practices

Deficit thinking, which situates school failure in the minds, bodies, communities and culture of students, dominates schooling practices in the US and Canada. From this perspective, the remedy to school failure is to “fix” students, their families, culture or language. Critics of deficit thinking point to systemic factors, especially diminished opportunities to learn, to explain high levels of school failure among poor students and students of color. Decades of fierce critique have failed to diminish the appeal of deficit thinking. This paper considers the resistance of deficit thinking to critique by examining the appeal of Ruby Payne’s Culture of Poverty, a particularly egregious instantiation of deficit thinking that pathologizes the language and culture of people living in poverty. The paper then turns to more recent work by the author to counter deficit thinking by showing what happens when students in high-poverty schools are challenged by the kind of thoughtful, engaging, high-expectation curricula common in affluent, high-achieving schools and classrooms.

The Eleventh Circuit Holds that Agreements in which Pharmaceutical Companies Pay Generic Companies Not to Compete May be Valid

2004 ◽  
Vol 32 (1) ◽  
pp. 181-184
Author(s):  
Amy Garrigues
Keyword(s):  
Pharmaceutical Companies ◽  
Court Decisions ◽  
Patent Holder ◽  
Trial Court ◽  
Court Of Appeals ◽  
The Us ◽  
Antitrust Laws ◽  
Per Se ◽  
Appeals Court ◽  
Two Sides

On September 15, 2003, the US. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit held that agreements between pharmaceutical and generic companies not to compete are not per se unlawful if these agreements do not expand the existing exclusionary right of a patent. The Valley DrugCo.v.Geneva Pharmaceuticals decision emphasizes that the nature of a patent gives the patent holder exclusive rights, and if an agreement merely confirms that exclusivity, then it is not per se unlawful. With this holding, the appeals court reversed the decision of the trial court, which held that agreements under which competitors are paid to stay out of the market are per se violations of the antitrust laws. An examination of the Valley Drugtrial and appeals court decisions sheds light on the two sides of an emerging legal debate concerning the validity of pay-not-to-compete agreements, and more broadly, on the appropriate balance between the seemingly competing interests of patent and antitrust laws.

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