Global Education Beyond Immersion and Regimes of Mobility

This chapter suggests new approaches to global education based on ethnographic fieldworks of students' study abroad experience and a classroom project that challenges the binary opposition of “cultures” in the notion of immersion by drawing on the multi-scalar networks framework where individuals are seen to have multiple connections to others and by replacing the notion of “global competence” with “structural competence” that sees mundane practices as symptoms of wider structural arrangements. This chapter also challenges the double standard over mobility in “regimes of mobility” and argues for connecting study abroad and minority immigrant experiences on campus and including diverse programs within the purview of global education.

“They Wait until the Disease Has Taking over You and the Doctors Cannot Do Anything about It”: Qualitative Insights from Harambee! 2.0

African immigrants make up a large subgroup of Black/African-Americans in the US. However, because African immigrant groups are typically categorized as “Black,” little is known about their preventative healthcare needs. Differences in culture, life and healthcare experiences between African immigrant populations and US-born people may influence preventive health care uptake. Thus, policymakers and healthcare providers lack information needed to make informed decisions around preventive care for African immigrants. This formative study was conducted among the largest East African immigrant communities in King County, WA. We recruited religious leaders, community leaders, health professionals, and lay community members to participate in thirty key informant interviews and five focus group discussions (n = 72 total), to better understand preventative healthcare attitudes in these communities. Through inductive coding and thematic analysis, we identified factors that impact preventative healthcare attitudes of the Somali, Ethiopian and Eritrean immigrant communities and deter them from accessing and utilizing healthcare. Cultural beliefs and attitudes around preventative healthcare, mistrust of westernized healthcare, religious beliefs/views, intersecting identities and shared immigrant experiences all influence how participants view preventative healthcare. Our results suggest that interventions that address these factors are needed to most effectively increase uptake of preventative healthcare in African immigrant communities.

A Bounded Land: Reflections on Settler Colonialism in Canada, Cole Harris, (Vancouver, BC: UBC Press, 2020), 344 pages

Review of: A Bounded Land: Reflections on Settler Colonialism in Canada Cole Harris (Vancouver, BC: UBC Press, 2020), 344 pages In A Bounded Land: Reflections on Settler Colonialism in Canada, distinguished Canadian geographer Cole Harris republishes a selection of his many writings and thereby reframes his interrogation of the meaning of the term “settler” in “settler colonialism.” Through an exploration of various immigrant experiences at specific locations, Harris lays out a broad architecture of settler colonialism through an analysis of the organization of immigrant space and the contraction of Indigenous space since settler colonialism began in Canada some 500 years ago.

Ethnic trauma in migration: FSU-born Israeli women’s narratives in an online support group

This article lays ground for the concept of ethnic trauma for understanding the crisis of migration and its aftermath. The analysis is based on autobiographical stories recently published by the online community of the women who immigrated to Israel from the USSR/FSU as children or adolescents (Generation 1.5) in the early 1990s. Despite its self-selected nature, this story-telling project captures many generic features of the Russian-Israeli (and other) immigrant experiences. These stories form a collective narrative featuring trauma, coping and eventual victory – a discursive plot quite typical for contemporary Israeli therapeutic culture. In the age of identity politics, ethnic trauma becomes a political tool deployed in the struggle for recognition by different immigrant and minority groups. The discourse of trauma, resilience and overcoming/catharsis incorporates immigrants in the local discourse, letting them negotiate their identity and claim full belonging. Thus, ethnic trauma emerges as a political resource to support immigrants’ claims of equal rights and demands for symbolic reparations.

No Small Matter

For many centuries Jews were renowned for the efforts they put into their children's welfare and education. Eventually, prioritizing children became a modern Western norm, as reflected in an abundance of research in fields such as pediatric medicine, psychology, and law. In other academic fields, however, young children in particular have received less attention, perhaps because they rarely leave written documentation. The interdisciplinary symposium in this volume seeks to overcome this challenge by delving into different facets of Jewish childhood in history, literature, and film. The book visits five continents and studies Jewish children from the 19th century until the present. It includes chapters on the demographic patterns of Jewish reproduction; on the evolution of bar and bat mitzvah ceremonies; on the role children played in the project of Hebrew revival; on their immigrant experiences in the United States; on novels for young Jewish readers written in Hebrew and Yiddish; and on Jewish themes in films featuring children. Several chapters focus on child Holocaust survivors or the children of survivors in a variety of settings ranging from Europe, North Africa, and Israel to the summer bungalow colonies of the Catskill Mountains. In addition to the symposium, this volume also features chapters on a transformative Yiddish poem by a Soviet Jewish author and on the cultural legacy of Lenny Bruce.

Introduction: Jewish Children in the 20th Century

This chapter introduces the book. This book visits five continents and studies Jewish children from the late 19th century until the present. It includes chapters on the demographic patterns of Jewish reproduction; on the evolution of bar and bat mitzvah ceremonies; on the role children played in the project of Hebrew revival; on their immigrant experiences in the United States; on novels for young Jewish readers written in Hebrew and Yiddish; and on Jewish themes in films featuring children. Several chapters focus on child Holocaust survivors or the children of survivors in a variety of settings in Europe, North Africa, Israel, and the United States.

Adjustments

This poem is about being a Black immigrant in the cold winter whiteness of Manitoba where it seems no one really cares about the culture and climate clash the immigrant experiences. In creating the poem, Dr. Lam drew from the transcript of a focus group of newcomers to Brandon, Manitoba.

Writing in Exile: Bidoon Resistance and Speaking Truth to Power

This article concentrates on the writings of the late Naser Al-Zafiri who documented the realities of the Bidoon community’s experiences in Kuwait and the diaspora. In his novels, through the detailed portrayals of the characters and their stories, Zafiri explicates lived experiences of belonging and homelessness of the Bidoon in Kuwait, as well as their immigrant experiences and encounters in Canada and other countries. By illustrating the pedagogical and political significance of Zafiri’s novels, and situating it in relation to other resistance work, the article contributes to our understanding of truth-telling, resistance, resiliency and survival of the Bidoons in Kuwait and in the diaspora.