scholarly journals Intercultural Communication, the Influence of Trauma, and the Pursuit of Asylum in the United States

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 187
Author(s):  
Sarah C Bishop
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Oral History ◽  
Intercultural Communication ◽  
Asylum Seekers ◽  
The United States ◽  
Oral History Interviews

This project analyzes the roles of communication and culture in credible fear interviews and asylum hearings in the United States to elucidate how autobiographical testimonies enable and restrain asylum seekers in their efforts to establish themselves as deserving of protection. This work shows how trauma influences one’s ability to narrate their past and argues that culturally-bound storytelling norms negatively and unevenly threaten the outcomes of some asylum cases. I support this claim with evidence from oral history interviews with asylum seekers, immigration officers, judges, and attorneys.

scholarly journals “Repent of the Sins of Homophobia”

2021 ◽  
Vol 24 (3) ◽  
pp. 68-95
Author(s):  
Rachel Waltner Goossen
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Social Media ◽  
North America ◽  
Oral History ◽  
Sexual Minorities ◽  
The United States ◽  
Faith Communities ◽  
Exclusionary Practices ◽  
The Past ◽  
Oral History Interviews

Across North America, Mennonites are widely regarded to be among the most conservative of Christian groups. But in recent decades, Mennonite understandings of LGBTQ+ identity have transformed faith communities, as the engagement of social media-conscious activists such as Pink Menno have contributed to evolving practices regarding sexual minorities in Mennonite churches. Recent ordinations and the growing visibility of queer ministers, chaplains, and theologians have led to recent schism in Mennonite Church USA, with traditionalists departing the denomination in record numbers. The decentralized nature of Mennonitism has contributed to more inclusive policies in the past two decades, although decentralization also allows exclusionary practices to persist in some churches and institutions. This article draws from oral history interviews with thirty Mennonite theologically trained LGBTQ+ leaders from across the United States and Canada. These narratives demonstrate how—in some sectors of the Mennonite community—queer and non-queer people are accelerating changes in historically homophobic spaces.

Past Forward: Oral History Interviews with Holocaust Survivors and Storytelling

Collections ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 133-142
Author(s):  
Uta Larkey
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
College Students ◽  
Oral History ◽  
Holocaust Survivors ◽  
The United States ◽  
Digital Form ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Special Collections ◽  
New Research ◽  
Oral History Interviews

This article highlights new research opportunities on oral history interviews and storytelling. From 2003 to 2013, Goucher College students interviewed Holocaust survivors in Baltimore, Maryland, and publicly retold their stories on campuses, in schools, and in synagogues. These oral history interviews and storytelling presentations are stored in digital form in the Special Collections at the Goucher Library and are currently in the process of being made available online. The students used their chronologically structured interviews to develop their own narration of the survivors’ accounts. The interviews and presentations include a wide variety of survival experiences all over war-torn Europe as well as the survivors’ recollections of their arrival in the United States. The Goucher Testimony Collection adds another aspect to existing archived oral history interviews: the survivors entrust their stories to interviewers the ages of their own grandchildren. The interviews as well as the digitized storytelling presentations are a rich source for comparative analyses with interviews from other collections and/or other forms of testimonies. The techniques and approaches are also applicable to other oral history/storytelling projects, such as with war veterans or immigrants.

scholarly journals New Zealand Architects Abroad

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Michael Dudding
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
Oral History ◽  
Architectural History ◽  
The United States ◽  
Detailed Knowledge ◽  
University Archives ◽  
Oral History Interviews ◽  
Mies Van Der Rohe ◽  
Shed Light

<p>This thesis is an oral history based investigation of four recently graduated architects (Bill Alington, Maurice Smith, Bill Toomath and Harry Turbott) who individually left New Zealand to pursue postgraduate qualifications at United States universities in the immediate postwar period. Guided interviews were conducted to allow the architects to talk about these experiences within the broader context of their careers. The interviews probed their motivations for travelling and studying in the United States. Where possible archival material was also sought (Fulbright applications, university archives) for comparison with the spoken narratives.   Although motivated by the search of modernity and the chance to meet the master architects of the period (Gropius, Mies van der Rohe, and Wright) what all gained was an increase in the confidence of their own abilities as architects (or as a landscape architect in the case of Turbott who switched his focus while in the United States). This increase in confidence partly came from realising that their architectural heroes were ordinary people. Although searching for modernity, their encounters with the canon of architectural history also had a profound effect. This detailed knowledge of what these four subjects felt about architecture, architectural education, and their experiences of studying, working, and touring abroad has helped to shed light on the development of and influences on postwar architecture in New Zealand.   The series of oral history interviews that were recorded during this project not only form the basis of the research material for this thesis, but are, in their own right, a significant contribution to the knowledge and understanding of New Zealand’s postwar architectural history.</p>

Deaf People in Hitler's Europe: Conducting Oral History Interviews With Deaf Holocaust Survivors

2005 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 43-52
Author(s):  
Donna F. Ryan
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Oral History ◽  
Holocaust Survivors ◽  
The United States ◽  
Deaf People ◽  
Holocaust Memorial ◽  
Memorial Museum ◽  
Holocaust Memorial Museum ◽  
Oral History Interviews ◽  
Gallaudet University

Deaf people living in Europe between 1933 and 1945 were mistreated, forcibly sterilized, incarcerated, and murdered by the Nazis. Their stories have been overlooked or underappreciated because of the complexities of communication and the difficulties historians face gaining access to those communities. This article describes the challenges faced by two United States historians when they interviewed deaf Holocaust survivors in Budapest, Hungary and during a conference, "Deaf People in Hitler's Europe," co-sponsored by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and Gallaudet University. It also raises general questions of adapting methodologies to facilitate "oral" history interviews for deaf informants.

scholarly journals New Zealand Architects Abroad

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Michael Dudding
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
Oral History ◽  
Architectural History ◽  
The United States ◽  
Detailed Knowledge ◽  
University Archives ◽  
Oral History Interviews ◽  
Mies Van Der Rohe ◽  
Shed Light

<p>This thesis is an oral history based investigation of four recently graduated architects (Bill Alington, Maurice Smith, Bill Toomath and Harry Turbott) who individually left New Zealand to pursue postgraduate qualifications at United States universities in the immediate postwar period. Guided interviews were conducted to allow the architects to talk about these experiences within the broader context of their careers. The interviews probed their motivations for travelling and studying in the United States. Where possible archival material was also sought (Fulbright applications, university archives) for comparison with the spoken narratives.   Although motivated by the search of modernity and the chance to meet the master architects of the period (Gropius, Mies van der Rohe, and Wright) what all gained was an increase in the confidence of their own abilities as architects (or as a landscape architect in the case of Turbott who switched his focus while in the United States). This increase in confidence partly came from realising that their architectural heroes were ordinary people. Although searching for modernity, their encounters with the canon of architectural history also had a profound effect. This detailed knowledge of what these four subjects felt about architecture, architectural education, and their experiences of studying, working, and touring abroad has helped to shed light on the development of and influences on postwar architecture in New Zealand.   The series of oral history interviews that were recorded during this project not only form the basis of the research material for this thesis, but are, in their own right, a significant contribution to the knowledge and understanding of New Zealand’s postwar architectural history.</p>

scholarly journals Learning to Detain Asylum Seekers and the Growth of Mass Immigration Detention in the United States

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-29
Author(s):  
Smita Ghosh ◽  
Mary Hoopes
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Infectious Diseases ◽  
Cognitive Dissonance ◽  
Media Coverage ◽  
Asylum Seekers ◽  
Ad Hoc ◽  
The United States ◽  
Critical Component ◽  
Immigration Detention ◽  
Important Shift

Drawing upon an analysis of congressional records and media coverage from 1981 to 1996, this article examines the growth of mass immigration detention. It traces an important shift during this period: while detention began as an ad hoc executive initiative that was received with skepticism by the legislature, Congress was ultimately responsible for entrenching the system over objections from the agency. As we reveal, a critical component of this evolution was a transformation in Congress’s perception of asylum seekers. While lawmakers initially decried their detention, they later branded them as dangerous. Lawmakers began describing asylum seekers as criminals or agents of infectious diseases in order to justify their detention, which then cleared the way for the mass detention of arriving migrants more broadly. Our analysis suggests that they may have emphasized the dangerousness of asylum seekers to resolve the dissonance between their theoretical commitments to asylum and their hesitance to welcome newcomers. In addition to this distinctive form of cognitive dissonance, we discuss a number of other implications of our research, including the ways in which the new penology framework figured into the changing discourse about detaining asylum seekers.

Refugees in Resettlement: Processes, Policies, and Mental Health in the United States

2021 ◽  
Vol 49 (2) ◽  
pp. 178-195
Author(s):  
Johanna E. Nilsson ◽  
Katherine C. Jorgenson
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Asylum Seekers ◽  
Culturally Responsive ◽  
The United States ◽  
Refugee Crisis ◽  
Intervention Model ◽  
Humanitarian Crisis ◽  
American Psychological ◽  
Introductory Article

According to 2019 data, there are 26 million refugees and 3.5 million asylum seekers around the globe, representing a major humanitarian crisis. This Major Contribution provides information on the experiences of refugees resettled in the United States via the presentation of five manuscripts. In this introductory article, we address the current refugee crisis, refugee policies, and resettlement processes in the United States, as well as the American Psychological Association’s response to the crisis and the role of counseling psychology in serving refugees. Next follows three empirical articles, addressing aspects of the resettlement experiences of three groups of refugees: Somali, Burmese, and Syrian. The final article provides an overview of a culturally responsive intervention model to use when working with refugees.

scholarly journals Un productor multicultural. Entrevista a Alex Gómez

Dixit ◽  
2015 ◽  
pp. 40
Author(s):  
Graciela Rodríguez-Milhomens
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Cultural Identity ◽  
Intercultural Communication ◽  
The United States ◽  
Palabras Clave ◽  
Identidad Cultural

Es un apasionado de la documentación audiovisual. Cuando estudiaba comunicación, en la compleja Cali colombiana de los noventa, Alex Gómez comenzó a documentar diferentes realidades, diferentes culturas, diferentes estilos de vida. Los trabajos que realizó con indígenas y comunidades afrocolombianas, varios de los cuales siguen siendo emitidos en la televisión de su país, lo marcaron profundamente. Luego de trabajar en producción televisiva, estudió una maestría en educación en España y desde hace algún tiempo vive en Estados Unidos, país que le ha permitido continuar con su pasión: la comunicación intercultural. Desde su empresa, dirige documentales, con la misma tónica: comunicar la diversidad, comunicar para la diversidad, comunicar para la interculturalidad. Palabras clave: comunicación intercultural, identidad cultural, educación, producción audiovisual, documentales.He is passionate about audiovisual documentaries. Alex Gómez began to record different realities, cultures and lifestyles already when he was a media scholar in the complex city of Cali during the 1990's. He has been deeply influenced by his works on indigenous Afro-Colombian communities, many of which are still being shown on TV in that country. After working for TV in production units he undertook a Master in Education in Spain and he has been living in the United States where he can still develop his passion: intercultural communication. From his company he directs documentaries with the same spirit: communicating diversity, communication for diversity and communication for an intercultural world.Key words: intercultural communication, cultural identity, education, audiovisual production, documentaries. 

Immigration Detention Reborn, 1981–1982

2018 ◽  
pp. 51-70
Author(s):  
Carl Lindskoog
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Asylum Seekers ◽  
Reagan Administration ◽  
The United States ◽  
Immigration Detention ◽  
Mass Migration

Immigration detention was formally reborn in the United States when the Reagan administration reinstituted a policy of detention in 1981. And at that moment, the new detention policy applied exclusively to Haitians. Chapter 3 documents how and why Haitian asylum seekers were the first targets of the revived detention program; it considers how the Reagan administration’s concerns about surging numbers of asylum seekers and anxiety over mass migration to the United States also influenced its decision to redeploy immigration detention. Finally, this third chapter documents the government’s early efforts to construct its new detention system and the movement that emerged to resist it.

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