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Reconstructing Lives, Recapturing Meaning : Refugee Identity, Gender, and Culture Change.

Av: Medverkande: Materialtyp: TextUtgivningsuppgift: Oxford : Taylor & Francis Group, 1994Datum för upphovsrätt: ©1994Utgåva: 1st edBeskrivning: 1 online resource (233 pages)Innehållstyp:
  • text
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  • computer
Bärartyp:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780203985649
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  • 325.21
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BOOK COVER -- HALF-TITLE -- TITLE -- COPYRIGHT -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- INTRODUCTION -- SECTION I THE DYNAMICS OF CULTURE CHANGE AND ADAPTATION AMONG REFUGEES -- Chapter 1 CAMBODIAN REFUGEES AND IDENTITY IN THE UNITED STATES1 -- DEFINING "CAMBODIANNESS" -- BECOMING "CAMBODIAN" IN AMERICA -- DECIDING HOW TO BE CAMBODIAN IN AMERICA -- DEFINING A "MYTHICAL" CAMBODIAN -- RE-CREATING "REAL" CAMBODIANS IN AMERICA -- MAINTAINING "CAMBODIANNESS" AMONG AMERICANS -- REFERENCES -- ENDNOTES -- Chapter 2 REFUGEE ADOLESCENTS AND THEIR CHANGING IDENTITIES -- INTRODUCTION -- IDENTITY IN THE DROP-IN CENTER -- Dominant Idioms of Ethnicity in the Drop-In Center -- ETHNIC IDENTITY IN THE SCHOOL-BASED WORKSHOPS -- THE MANIPULATION OF ETHNIC IDENTITY -- The Reaffirmation of Latino/North American and Latino-Americano Identities -- Analysis -- CONCLUSIONS -- REFERENCES -- ENDNOTES -- Chapter 3 RESPONDING TO EVENTS FROM AFAR: Soviet Jewish Refugees Reassess Their Identity1 -- FIRST IMPRESSIONS-OR-"THOSE POOR PEOPLE" -- PELESOSI AND THE NEW WAVE -- DEJA VU AND THE ETHIC OF KINSHIP -- CONCLUSIONS -- REFERENCES -- ENDNOTES -- SECTION II CHANGING CONCEPTS OF GENDER ROLES AND IDENTITIES IN REFUGEE COMMUNITIES -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 4 REINTERPRETING GENDER: Southeast Asian Refugees and American Society -- INTRODUCTION -- METHODS -- NEWCOMERS AND ESTABLISHED RESIDENTS -- MEN, WOMEN, AND WORK -- MARRIAGE AND DIVORCE -- AMERICAN GENDER CONCEPTS -- HUSBANDS AND WIVES: RENEGOTIATING ROLES -- INTERGENERATIONAL CONFLICT -- SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS -- REFERENCES -- ENDNOTE -- Chapter 5 BUDDHISM, MAINTENANCE AND CHANGE: Reinterpreting Gender in a Lao Refugee Community -- INTRODUCTION -- BACKGROUND -- GENDER -- ENGENDERED SPACE -- RELIGIOUS STATUS AND GENDER -- THE LIFE HISTORIES OF TWO LAO BUDDHIST FUNCTIONARIES -- The Monk -- The "Mei Khao" or Nun -- CONCLUSIONS.
REFERENCES -- ENDNOTES -- Chapter 6 OLD TRADITIONS IN A NEW WORLD: Changing Gender Relations Among Cambodian Refugees1 -- LITERATURE REVIEW -- RESEARCH SETTING -- "IDEAL" MARRIAGE PARTNERS -- The "Ideal" Wife -- The "Ideal" Husband -- The "Ideal" Relationship -- Changing Cambodian Women -- THE MEANS OF CONTROL -- Men's Overt Control -- Women's Covert Control -- DISCUSSION -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- ENDNOTES -- SECTION III METHODS IN REFUGEE RESEARCH: TWO ETHNOGRAPHIC APPROACHES -- Chapter 7 LIFE OUT OF CONTEXT: Recording Afghan Refugees' Stories -- INTRODUCTION -- BACKGROUND -- Entree and Issues of Trust -- The Issue of Note-Taking -- The Construction of Life Histories -- RECORDING REFUGEE LIFE STORIES -- NOT JUST A RESEARCHER, BUT ALSO A PERSON -- The Effect of Refugee Research on the Anthropologist -- Adaptive Strategies to Refugee Research -- SUMMARY -- REFERENCES -- ENDNOTES -- Chapter 8 THIRTY-YEAR RETROSPECTIVE ON THE ADJUSTMENT OF CUBAN REFUGEE WOMEN -- INTRODUCTION -- OF CULTURE, CLASS, AND HISTORY: CHANGE ALONG SEVERAL DIMENSIONS -- LIKE NO OTHER: THE DEMOGRAPHY OF CUBAN-AMERICAN HISPANICS -- The Importance of Family and Females in the Cuban Success Story -- CASE STUDIES OF LONG-TERM REFUGEE ADAPTATION -- Approach -- Interview Schedule -- An Overview of Five Women's Lives -- Differential Change -- MULTI-DIMENSIONAL APPROACHES TO CUBAN SEX ROLE VALUES -- A Sorting Technique and Multidimensional Scaling Results -- Factor Results -- Self-Reflections: "How Have I Changed?" -- REFERENCES -- SECTION IV IMPLICATIONS FOR APPLICATION -- Chapter 9 CONSTRUCTIONS OF REFUGEE ETHNIC IDENTITY: Guatemalan Mayas in Mexico and South Florida -- INTRODUCTION -- CULTURE AND BOUNDARY -- Constructing Boundary, Transforming Identity -- Ethnicity, Boundary, and Adaptation -- Mayas in Guatemala -- THE EXODUS -- Camp Mayas: The Refugees of Pujiltic.
Urban Maya Refugees: The "Unofficials" -- Florida Mayas -- CONCLUSIONS -- REFERENCES -- ENDNOTES -- Chapter 10 REFUGEES IN AN EDUCATIONAL SETTING: A Cross-Cultural Model of Success -- INTRODUCTION -- THE GENDER-CULTURE CONNECTION -- A MULTIFACETED APPROACH -- Cultural Background -- Gender of the Student -- Level of Trauma Involved in Initial Refugee Experience -- Conditions in Host Country -- Family Environment -- Educational Background -- Psychological Characteristics -- CONCLUSIONS -- REFERENCES -- ENDNOTES -- CONTRIBUTORS.
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BOOK COVER -- HALF-TITLE -- TITLE -- COPYRIGHT -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- INTRODUCTION -- SECTION I THE DYNAMICS OF CULTURE CHANGE AND ADAPTATION AMONG REFUGEES -- Chapter 1 CAMBODIAN REFUGEES AND IDENTITY IN THE UNITED STATES1 -- DEFINING "CAMBODIANNESS" -- BECOMING "CAMBODIAN" IN AMERICA -- DECIDING HOW TO BE CAMBODIAN IN AMERICA -- DEFINING A "MYTHICAL" CAMBODIAN -- RE-CREATING "REAL" CAMBODIANS IN AMERICA -- MAINTAINING "CAMBODIANNESS" AMONG AMERICANS -- REFERENCES -- ENDNOTES -- Chapter 2 REFUGEE ADOLESCENTS AND THEIR CHANGING IDENTITIES -- INTRODUCTION -- IDENTITY IN THE DROP-IN CENTER -- Dominant Idioms of Ethnicity in the Drop-In Center -- ETHNIC IDENTITY IN THE SCHOOL-BASED WORKSHOPS -- THE MANIPULATION OF ETHNIC IDENTITY -- The Reaffirmation of Latino/North American and Latino-Americano Identities -- Analysis -- CONCLUSIONS -- REFERENCES -- ENDNOTES -- Chapter 3 RESPONDING TO EVENTS FROM AFAR: Soviet Jewish Refugees Reassess Their Identity1 -- FIRST IMPRESSIONS-OR-"THOSE POOR PEOPLE" -- PELESOSI AND THE NEW WAVE -- DEJA VU AND THE ETHIC OF KINSHIP -- CONCLUSIONS -- REFERENCES -- ENDNOTES -- SECTION II CHANGING CONCEPTS OF GENDER ROLES AND IDENTITIES IN REFUGEE COMMUNITIES -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 4 REINTERPRETING GENDER: Southeast Asian Refugees and American Society -- INTRODUCTION -- METHODS -- NEWCOMERS AND ESTABLISHED RESIDENTS -- MEN, WOMEN, AND WORK -- MARRIAGE AND DIVORCE -- AMERICAN GENDER CONCEPTS -- HUSBANDS AND WIVES: RENEGOTIATING ROLES -- INTERGENERATIONAL CONFLICT -- SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS -- REFERENCES -- ENDNOTE -- Chapter 5 BUDDHISM, MAINTENANCE AND CHANGE: Reinterpreting Gender in a Lao Refugee Community -- INTRODUCTION -- BACKGROUND -- GENDER -- ENGENDERED SPACE -- RELIGIOUS STATUS AND GENDER -- THE LIFE HISTORIES OF TWO LAO BUDDHIST FUNCTIONARIES -- The Monk -- The "Mei Khao" or Nun -- CONCLUSIONS.

REFERENCES -- ENDNOTES -- Chapter 6 OLD TRADITIONS IN A NEW WORLD: Changing Gender Relations Among Cambodian Refugees1 -- LITERATURE REVIEW -- RESEARCH SETTING -- "IDEAL" MARRIAGE PARTNERS -- The "Ideal" Wife -- The "Ideal" Husband -- The "Ideal" Relationship -- Changing Cambodian Women -- THE MEANS OF CONTROL -- Men's Overt Control -- Women's Covert Control -- DISCUSSION -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- ENDNOTES -- SECTION III METHODS IN REFUGEE RESEARCH: TWO ETHNOGRAPHIC APPROACHES -- Chapter 7 LIFE OUT OF CONTEXT: Recording Afghan Refugees' Stories -- INTRODUCTION -- BACKGROUND -- Entree and Issues of Trust -- The Issue of Note-Taking -- The Construction of Life Histories -- RECORDING REFUGEE LIFE STORIES -- NOT JUST A RESEARCHER, BUT ALSO A PERSON -- The Effect of Refugee Research on the Anthropologist -- Adaptive Strategies to Refugee Research -- SUMMARY -- REFERENCES -- ENDNOTES -- Chapter 8 THIRTY-YEAR RETROSPECTIVE ON THE ADJUSTMENT OF CUBAN REFUGEE WOMEN -- INTRODUCTION -- OF CULTURE, CLASS, AND HISTORY: CHANGE ALONG SEVERAL DIMENSIONS -- LIKE NO OTHER: THE DEMOGRAPHY OF CUBAN-AMERICAN HISPANICS -- The Importance of Family and Females in the Cuban Success Story -- CASE STUDIES OF LONG-TERM REFUGEE ADAPTATION -- Approach -- Interview Schedule -- An Overview of Five Women's Lives -- Differential Change -- MULTI-DIMENSIONAL APPROACHES TO CUBAN SEX ROLE VALUES -- A Sorting Technique and Multidimensional Scaling Results -- Factor Results -- Self-Reflections: "How Have I Changed?" -- REFERENCES -- SECTION IV IMPLICATIONS FOR APPLICATION -- Chapter 9 CONSTRUCTIONS OF REFUGEE ETHNIC IDENTITY: Guatemalan Mayas in Mexico and South Florida -- INTRODUCTION -- CULTURE AND BOUNDARY -- Constructing Boundary, Transforming Identity -- Ethnicity, Boundary, and Adaptation -- Mayas in Guatemala -- THE EXODUS -- Camp Mayas: The Refugees of Pujiltic.

Urban Maya Refugees: The "Unofficials" -- Florida Mayas -- CONCLUSIONS -- REFERENCES -- ENDNOTES -- Chapter 10 REFUGEES IN AN EDUCATIONAL SETTING: A Cross-Cultural Model of Success -- INTRODUCTION -- THE GENDER-CULTURE CONNECTION -- A MULTIFACETED APPROACH -- Cultural Background -- Gender of the Student -- Level of Trauma Involved in Initial Refugee Experience -- Conditions in Host Country -- Family Environment -- Educational Background -- Psychological Characteristics -- CONCLUSIONS -- REFERENCES -- ENDNOTES -- CONTRIBUTORS.

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