Category: Immigration, Refugees, Race, Nation
Influences of Sociocultural Dimensions on Higher Education Experiences and Career Choices of 1.5 Generation Young Australian Chinese Immigrants (GYACIs)
This study explores the impact of sociocultural dimensions on the higher education experiences and career choices of 1.5 Generation Young Australian Chinese Immigrants (GYACIs). With Australia’s overseas-born population as immigrants, there is a significant portion of 1.5 and 2nd Generation young individuals who face challenges in negotiating between two cultures ( heritage and home). Given …
“Too Much Mushkilla”: Sociolinguistic and Cultural Challenges of Ghanaian Migrant Workers in Qatar’s Education City
This study examines the sociolinguistic and cultural challenges faced by Ghanaian migrant workers in Qatar’s Education City. Despite the growing number of studies on migrants and migration in Qatar and the GCC, previous studies have primarily focused on the physical abuse and treatment of these workers, neglecting to recognize migration as a sociocultural phenomenon. This …
Performing Transnational Citizenship and Projecting Counter-Knowledge for Decolonization
Since the migratory movement of people has increased due to various disasters, both natural and man-made, it is increasingly important to pay attention to the complex identity (trans)formation of transnational citizens, which is not simply classified according to their nationality, birthplace, race, and ethnicity (Yuval-Davis et al., 2005). What stories are told by immigrants as …
Rohingya Refugees to Indonesia: An International Legal Perspective
In Indonesia there is a popular discussion about Rohingya refugees. Rohingya is an ethnic group living in Myanmar, specifically in the Rakhine or Arakan region. Cases related to the Rohingya began to surface in 1982. The Burmese Citizenship Law did not include the Rohingya among the 135 ethnicities recognized as indigenous citizens. All Rohingya ethnic …
Power, System, and Social Action: Reflections on Social Theory
In understanding the social relationship as a moment capable of reciprocal effects structured according to the binomial push/counterthrust, the reference to Georg Simmel and relational theory is inevitable. Therefore, assuming the relationship as the presupposition before sociology, and sociology itself as a problematic investigation of the forms of relation, it is possible to consider phenomena …
Exploring Land and Identity of a First-Generation Chinese-American Immigrant Educator: An Arts-Based Autoethnography
This arts-based autoethnography pioneers a methodology integrating Chinese calligraphic expression and interpretive visual analysis to elucidate a Chinese-American immigrant scholar’s identity negotiations within the settler colonial terrain the author inhabits. The core innovation demonstrates how diasporic artistic practices can reveal complex cross-cultural positionality and obligations toward Indigenous land and custodianship obscured in prevailing scholarly discourses. …
Effective Immigration Policy and Societal Transformation: The Benefits and Challenges of a Rapidly Growing Multicultural Population in Canada
This paper presents the complex historical context and development of immigration policy in Canada and examines the rapid and profound changes and trends in Canadian society which are occurring due to new record levels of immigration. The benefits and challenges of a rapidly growing multicultural population and the evolving relation between immigration and national identity …
Filipinos for Export: The Case of Low-Skilled Workers
This research aims to analyze the Philippine government’s involvement in exporting labor to Taiwan, a country where the Philippines is recognized as a major labor provider. Focusing on the recruitment, selection, and preparation of low-skilled Filipino migrant workers, the study delves into how the Philippine government prepares these workers by imparting knowledge about Taiwanese culture …
Psychological Well-Being Among Immigrants and Refugees in St. Louis, Missouri
The process of migration and integration into immigrants’ host communities has been noted to be a stressful, non-normative event from a psychosocial point of view. Given the magnitude of immigration to the U.S., it is increasingly important to understand the variables that impact immigrant psychological well-being, an essential aspect of successful integration. The data for …
Covert Prejudice and Discourses on Otherness During the Refugee Crisis: Α Case Study of the Greek Islands’ Press
The present paper presents a discursive analysis of the recurrent repertoires of covert prejudice in the regional press of three Greek islands (Lesvos, Chios, Samos) during the refugee crisis period. Between 2015 and 2016, these islands played a central role as first-line receiving communities for the large numbers of refugees and migrants who arrived in …
Explaining Crimmigration in Indonesia: A Discourse of the Fight against People Smuggling, Irregular Migration Control and Symbolic Criminalization
Controlling migration in the world’s largest archipelago brings various challenges to the Indonesian authorities that differ from other countries. The difficulties become even more complicated since Indonesia has been known as the most favorite transit country for people who want to migrate to Australia due to its strategic geographical location, which is situated between the …