12. Building a Professional Identity Boundary Work and Meaning Making among West African Immigrant Nurses

2019 ◽  
pp. 143-152
Keyword(s):  
Professional Identity ◽  
Meaning Making ◽  
Boundary Work ◽  
West African ◽  
African Immigrant ◽  
Immigrant Nurses

scholarly journals How Meaningfulness and Professional Identity Interact in Emerging Professions: The Case of Corporate Social Responsibility Consultants

2021 ◽  
pp. 017084062110355
Author(s):  
Konstantinos Iatridis ◽  
Jean-Pascal Gond ◽  
Effie Kesidou
Keyword(s):  
Corporate Social Responsibility ◽  
Social Responsibility ◽  
Professional Identity ◽  
Identity Formation ◽  
Meaning Making ◽  
Professional Socialization ◽  
Work Meaningfulness ◽  
Professional Self ◽  
Complex Relationships ◽  
Corporate Social

Although interest in meaningfulness is mounting in the growing stream of research dedicated to how professionals experience it, research has only just begun to investigate the complex relationships between the search for meaningfulness and the constitution of professional identity for emerging professional groups. This paper investigates how meaningfulness interacts with the formation and enactment of professional identity, focusing on the emerging professional group of corporate social responsibility (CSR) consultants. Relying on interviews with 39 CSR consultants, we induce two social mechanisms bridging meaningfulness and professional identity, namely ‘meaning-making through professional self-identification’ and ‘meaning-making through professional socialization’. Our results explain how these mechanisms produce distinct, and potentially contradictory, professional identities of CSR consultants, which themselves enable contrasted forms of professional identity enactment. The study advances meaningfulness research by clarifying how the self-other tension is played out through identity formation and revealing the gendered nature of meaningfulness. The research also contributes to studies on professional identity through the specification of meaning-focused mechanisms of identity formation, and ultimately to micro-CSR research by offering a nuanced approach to how CSR is involved in the production of work meaningfulness.

scholarly journals Barriers to malaria prevention in US-based travellers visiting friends and relatives abroad: a qualitative study of West African immigrant travellers†

2019 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Emily J Walz ◽  
Hannah R Volkman ◽  
Adebola A Adedimeji ◽  
Jilliane Abella ◽  
Lauren A Scott ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Study ◽  
Malaria Prevention ◽  
West African ◽  
African Immigrant ◽  
Visiting Friends And Relatives

Exploring Factors That Facilitate Acculturation Strategies and Academic Success of West African Immigrant Youth in Urban Schools

2019 ◽  
Vol 52 (1) ◽  
pp. 21-50 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alex Kumi-Yeboah ◽  
Gordon Brobbey ◽  
Patriann Smith
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Academic Success ◽  
Extracurricular Activities ◽  
Immigrant Students ◽  
Immigrant Youth ◽  
West African ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Acculturation Strategies ◽  
African Immigrant ◽  
New School

Immigrant students in U.S. educational system experience challenges learning to adapt and integrate into new educational environments. Little is known, however, about factors that facilitate acculturation strategies of immigrant youth from West Africa and how they affect their academic success and challenges faced. Considering the current political discourse over the influence of immigration in U.S. schools, 20 immigrant youth from Ghana and Nigeria were recruited and interviewed in the metropolitan area of New York City. Analyses of semi-structured interviews revealed that teacher, parent, and peer support; social and electronic media; and extracurricular activities emerged as the factors that helped acculturation strategies and academic success. Challenging factors were dealing with sociocultural differences; discrimination, stress, and social integration; and language differences. The article discusses the implications of these findings for teachers to understand acculturation strategies to help West African immigrant youth to adapt, acculturate, and integrate into new school environments.

Exploring perceptions of stress factors among transnational West African immigrant women

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Kelsie D. Kelly ◽  
Anuoluwapo Osideko ◽  
Kelechi Ibe-Lamberts ◽  
Daudet Ilunga Tshiswaka
Keyword(s):  
Immigrant Women ◽  
West African ◽  
Stress Factors ◽  
African Immigrant ◽  
African Immigrant Women

Culture-specific development of early mother–infant emotional co-regulation: Italian, Cameroonian, and West African immigrant dyads.

2019 ◽  
Vol 55 (9) ◽  
pp. 1850-1867 ◽  
Author(s):  
Manuela Lavelli ◽  
Cecilia Carra ◽  
Germano Rossi ◽  
Heidi Keller
Keyword(s):  
West African ◽  
African Immigrant

Casting the Sacred Reading the Self

2010 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 217-227
Author(s):  
Velma Love
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
Material Culture ◽  
Meaning Making ◽  
Cultural Practice ◽  
West African ◽  
The Self ◽  
African Origin ◽  
Relational Approach ◽  
Sacred Texts ◽  
The People

"Casting the Sacred" examines the material culture and storied environment associated with African American engagements with the unwritten scriptures of the Yoruba Ifa tradition of West African origin, and offers a compelling case for expanding conventional notions of scriptures. This essay builds on the work of historians of religion who take a relational approach to the study of scriptures, placing the focus on the people and their engagement with sacred texts as cultural practice and system of meaning-making. Showcasing the diviner as the chief orchestrator of the storied environment, this work draws attention to the set of personal scriptures derived form Oracular utterances. It also notes the physicality of bodies, shells, divining chains, palm nuts, floor mats, and notebooks, all of which are significant aspects of "reading," a means of accessing and engaging a form of sacred knowledge which clients incorporate into their lives.

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