scholarly journals Exploring Themes of Tibetan Cultural Identity During the Settlement Experience in Toronto, Canada

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Farha Akhtar
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Cultural Identity ◽  
Social Factors ◽  
The United States ◽  
Integration Strategy ◽  
Cultural Expectations ◽  
Culturally Different ◽  
Canadian Context ◽  
Emerging Themes ◽  
Tibetan Refugees

This study explores both existing research as well as emerging themes in the area of Tibetan exile communities. Previous research examining the settlement experiences of Tibetan refugees in Europe, the United States and India has focused largely on the various ways in which individuals acculturate and adapt to new, culturally different environments. Out of this research, a number of themes arise such as cultural expectations, internal concepts of identity, and citizenship. Authors have suggested that Tibetan refugees during settlement are likely to adopt a version of Berry’s integration strategy of acculturation. What is lacking in these earlier studies is an exploration of the experiences of Tibetan refugees in Canada. This study is set within a Canadian context and considers other social factors that may greatly influence the settlement experience, namely barriers to settlement such as the failure to have foreign credentials recognized. Key words: Tibetan, Refugees, Settlement, Acculturation, Cultural Identity.

scholarly journals Exploring Themes of Tibetan Cultural Identity During the Settlement Experience in Toronto, Canada

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Farha Akhtar
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Cultural Identity ◽  
Social Factors ◽  
The United States ◽  
Integration Strategy ◽  
Cultural Expectations ◽  
Culturally Different ◽  
Canadian Context ◽  
Emerging Themes ◽  
Tibetan Refugees

This study explores both existing research as well as emerging themes in the area of Tibetan exile communities. Previous research examining the settlement experiences of Tibetan refugees in Europe, the United States and India has focused largely on the various ways in which individuals acculturate and adapt to new, culturally different environments. Out of this research, a number of themes arise such as cultural expectations, internal concepts of identity, and citizenship. Authors have suggested that Tibetan refugees during settlement are likely to adopt a version of Berry’s integration strategy of acculturation. What is lacking in these earlier studies is an exploration of the experiences of Tibetan refugees in Canada. This study is set within a Canadian context and considers other social factors that may greatly influence the settlement experience, namely barriers to settlement such as the failure to have foreign credentials recognized. Key words: Tibetan, Refugees, Settlement, Acculturation, Cultural Identity.

Race and Ethnicity as Barriers to ART Access

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Judith Daar
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Social Factors ◽  
Race And Ethnicity ◽  
Women Of Color ◽  
The United States ◽  
Minority Populations ◽  
Lower Income ◽  
Patient Relationship ◽  
Power Structures ◽  
Income Levels

This chapter analyzes the racialization of infertility care in the United States, and seeks to understand why ART stratifies along race and ethnic lines. Researchers and scholars have proposed several theories, including lower income levels and access to insurance in minority populations, social factors that make women of color less likely to seek treatment for infertility, historic factors that give rise to a continuing aura of mistrust in the doctor–patient relationship, and express and implied discrimination by doctors who view minority populations as less deserving of parenthood than white patients. The chapter shows how these new eugenics, like the old eugenics, can persist only so long as political power structures support and advance their agenda.

scholarly journals A Cross-Cultural Comparison of an Extended Planned Risk Information Seeking Model on Mental Health Among College Students: Cross-Sectional Study

10.2196/15817 ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 22 (5) ◽  
pp. e15817 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zhaomeng Niu ◽  
Jessica Fitts Willoughby ◽  
Jing Mei ◽  
Shaochun Li ◽  
Pengwei Hu
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
United States ◽  
Cultural Identity ◽  
Health Information ◽  
Information Seeking ◽  
Media Use ◽  
The United States ◽  
Health Information Seeking ◽  
Chinese Sample ◽  
Mental Health Information

Background Approximately 42.5 million adults have been affected by mental illness in the United States in 2013, and 173 million people have been affected by a diagnosable psychiatric disorder in China. An increasing number of people tend to seek health information on the Web, and it is important to understand the factors associated with individuals’ mental health information seeking. Identifying factors associated with mental health information seeking may influence the disease progression of potential patients. Objective This study aimed to test the planned risk information seeking model (PRISM) in China and the United States with a chronic disease, mental illness, and two additional factors, ie, media use and cultural identity, among college students. Methods Data were collected in both countries using the same online survey through a survey management program (Qualtrics). In China, college instructors distributed the survey link among university students, and it was also posted on a leading social media site called Sina Weibo. In the United States, the data were collected in a college-wide survey pool in a large Northwestern university. Results The final sample size was 235 for the Chinese sample and 241 for the US sample. Media use was significantly associated with mental health information–seeking intentions in the Chinese sample (P<.001), and cultural identity was significantly associated with intentions in both samples (China: P=.02; United States: P<.001). The extended PRISM had a better model fit than the original PRISM. Conclusions Cultural identity and media use should be considered when evaluating the process of mental health information seeking or when designing interventions to address mental health information seeking.

scholarly journals ‘Little Spain’ or ‘Little Galicia’?

2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (3) ◽  
pp. 489-512
Author(s):  
David Miranda-Barreiro
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Cultural Identity ◽  
The United States ◽  
Migrant Community

This article studies three cinematic representations of the Galician migrant community in the United States: the documentaries Os 15000 de Newark (2007) and Little Spain (2014), and the feature-length film Little Galicia (2015). The analysis of these films focuses especially on the influence of their chosen framing on the migrants’ performance of their cultural identity. By assessing the performative aspect of identity, this article also examines the possibility of considering Galicianness as a transnational positioning, globally or glocally performed, rather than a geographically fixed essence.

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. 

An Educator's Journey

2019 ◽  
pp. 134-144
Author(s):  
Nenad Radakovic ◽  
Nesma Khalil
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Graduate Education ◽  
Education Program ◽  
Gifted And Talented ◽  
The United States ◽  
School Of Education ◽  
Immigrant Teachers ◽  
Canadian Context

The goal of this chapter is to contribute to the investigation of teachers that are gifted and talented (GATE teachers) by shedding light on the experience of immigrant GATE teachers. The authors position the case within Canadian graduate education and within the context of education of immigrant teachers. More specifically, they present the case study of a GATE teacher as she navigates through the masters of education program at a major Canadian school of education. The presentation of the case study is followed by the discussion of how it contributes to the conversation about GATE teachers and immigrant teachers within Canadian context. The chapter ends with the overview of implications of the study for the United States' context.

scholarly journals Global Imaginaries and Global Capital: Lawrence Chua’s Gold by the Inch and Spaces of Global Belonging

MANUSYA ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 12 (4) ◽  
pp. 49-69
Author(s):  
Christopher Patterson
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Cultural Identity ◽  
Sexual Desire ◽  
Structural Violence ◽  
The United States ◽  
Cultural Attitude ◽  
Global Capital ◽  
Chinese Descent ◽  
Bear Witness

The unnamed narrator in Lawrence Chua’s novel Gold by the Inch is multiply queered. He appears to the reader as a gay Thai/Malay migrant of Chinese descent living in the United States. As a traveler, his encounters with episodes of sexual desire lead him to different notions of belonging as his race, class, and sexuality travel with him, marking him as an out sider from one space to another. Likewise, every instance of mobility challenges his identity, allowing him to bear witness to unique forms of structural violence relative to whichever locality he happens to be in. In short, Chua’s narrator is faced with oppressions based on radical assumptions by the outside world that utilize his race, gender, sexuality, and American cultural identity as indicators for an insurmountable cultural attitude.

Reviewing CIO Comments

2011 ◽  
pp. 226-247 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Gordon Hunter
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
Chief Executive Officer ◽  
United States Of America ◽  
Chief Executive ◽  
The United States ◽  
Chief Information Officers ◽  
Foreseeable Future ◽  
Emerging Themes

This book is about the experiences of contemporary chief information officers (CIO). CIOs in New Zealand, Taiwan, and the United States of America agreed to participate. They also agreed to be identified along with the name of their company. They provided their interpretation of issues that have been dealt with and those they anticipate having to deal with in the foreseeable future. The results of the interviews allowed the identification of emerging themes related to management and technological aspects. Another important result is the identification of an alignment issue. That is, it is important to ensure that the interpretation of the CIO role is clearly and explicitly agreed upon by both the chief executive officer (CEO) and the CIO.

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