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LÓpez, Linda C., Virginia V. SÁnchez, and Minami Hamilton. "Immigrant and Native-Born Mexican-American Parents' Involvement in a Public School: A Preliminary Study." Psychological Reports 86, no. 2 (2000): 521–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.2466/pr0.2000.86.2.521.
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Mexican-American parents of Texas elementary school students were surveyed to compare the types of school involvement in which immigrant and U.S.-born parents engage. Those completing the questionnaire included 246 mothers and 39 fathers born in Mexico as well as 95 mothers and 13 fathers born in the United States. More immigrant parents than U.S.-born parents indicated they helped their children with school work, attended school board meetings, volunteered at school, participated in parent-teacher conferences, went to school functions, served as room mother, engaged in school fundraising, and were present during parent advisory committee meetings.
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Parra-Cardona, Jose Ruben, Hsueh-Han Yeh, and James C. Anthony. "Epidemiological research on parent–child conflict in the United States: subgroup variations by place of birth and ethnicity, 2002–2013." PeerJ 5 (January 24, 2017): e2905. http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2905.
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BackgroundChronically escalated parent–child conflict has been observed to elicit maladaptive behavior and reduced psychological well-being in children and youth. In this epidemiological study, we sought to estimate the occurrence of escalated parent–child conflict for United States (US) adolescent subgroups defined by (a) ethnic self-identification, and (b) nativity (US-born versus foreign-born).MethodsUS study populations of 12-to-17-year-olds were sampled, recruited, and assessed for the National Surveys on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH), 2002–2013 (n = 111, 129). Analysis-weighted contingency table analyses contrasted US-born versus foreign-born who self-identified as: (a) Hispanic, (b) non-Hispanic African-American, (c) non-Hispanic Asian, and (c) non-Hispanic White.ResultsFrequently escalated parent–child conflict was most prevalent among US-born non-Hispanic White adolescents, from 18% at age 12 (95% CI [17.6%, 18.9%]) to 29% at age 17 (95% CI [28.3%, 29.7%]), followed by US-born Hispanic and non-Hispanic Asian children. Estimated prevalence proportions were markedly lower for African-American children, from 8% at age 12 (95% CI [6.8, 8.5]) to 16% at age 17 (95% CI [14.3, 16.7]). Broad and sometimes overlapping CI indicate that larger sample sizes are needed for complete evaluation of an apparent excess occurrence of frequent parent-child conflict among US-born versus foreign-born. Nonetheless, in the larger subgroups, the US-born show a clear excess occurrence of frequent parent-child conflict. For example, US-born Mexican children have 1.7 times higher odds of experiencing frequent parent-child conflict than foreign-born Mexican children (OR = 1.7, 95% CI [1.5, 2.0],p-value < 0.001).DiscussionThe main discovery from this multi-ethnic sample investigation is a rank-ordering of parent-child conflict prevalence estimates from high (non-Hispanic White) to low (non-Hispanic African-American). The pattern also suggests a possibly generalizable excess associated with US-born sub-groups. The epidemiological estimates presented here merit attention in future cross-cultural research focused on parent-child conflict.
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Der-Karabetian, Aghop, and Yolanda Ruiz. "Affective Bicultural and Global-Human Identity Scales for Mexican-American Adolescents." Psychological Reports 80, no. 3 (1997): 1027–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.2466/pr0.1997.80.3.1027.
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Scales were developed to measure affective aspects of Latino, American, and global-human identities among first- and second-generation Mexican-American adolescents. Participants were 84 boys and 93 girls from the Los Angeles high schools. 60 were born in Mexico, and 117 were born in the United States and had at least one parent born in Mexico. The affective Latino and American measures were independent and predictably related to a behaviorally oriented measure of acculturation. They were also used to identify Berry's four modes of acculturation: Separated, Assimilated, Marginalized, and Bicultural. The four acculturation groups rated similarly on self-esteem and academic aspiration. The first and second generations each scored higher on Latino identity than on American identity.
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Sagi, Abraham, Michael E. Lamb, Ronit Shoham, Rachel Dvir, and Kathleen S. Lewkowicz. "Parent-Infant Interaction in Families on Israeli Kibbutzim." International Journal of Behavioral Development 8, no. 3 (1985): 273–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/016502548500800303.
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Thirty-eight first-born kibbutz-reared infants and their parents were observed in the parents' living quarters when the infants were 8 and 16 months of age. Although childcare was the primary responsibility of nonparental caretakers (metaplot) rather than either parent, sex differences in parental behavior similar to those observed in the US and Sweden were found. As in these countries, kibbutz mothers were more likely to vocalize, laugh, display affection, hold, and engage in caretaking than fathers were. This suggests that immediate competing demands on the parents' time do not account for the widely-observed sex differences in parental behavior. Whereas American infants (especially boys) develop preferences on attachment behavior measures for the same sex parent and Swedish infants develop preferences for their mothers, these kibbutz infants showed no preferences for either parent, suggesting that the relatively similar involvement of mothers and fathers in childcare in the kibbutz context may counteract the tendency to form preferential relationships.
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Jannati, Elmira, and Stuart Allen. "Parental Perspectives on Parent–Child Conflict and Acculturation in Iranian Immigrants in California." Family Journal 26, no. 1 (2018): 110–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1066480718754770.
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Iranians have settled in a number of areas in the United States, especially Southern California and Texas, and experience substantial prejudice as a result of perceptions of their religion and national origin. This study explored the relationship between Iranian immigrant parents’ acculturation and the level of conflict they experience with their U.S.-born children. A survey was used to collect data from a sample of 100 first-generation Iranian immigrant parents living in Orange County, CA, with children aged 11–22 years. Parent-acculturation levels were expected to predict parent–child conflicts (PCCs) resulting from potential acculturation gaps between children and parents. Results demonstrated a moderate positive relationship between Iranian cultural involvement and PCC and a weak negative relationship between American cultural involvement and PCC. The effects of various demographic variables were also considered. Results show higher PCC levels among lower income families, suggesting a need for support from schools, counselors, or other institutions.
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Aronowitz, Michael. "Adjustment of Immigrant Children as a Function of Parental Attitudes to Change." International Migration Review 26, no. 1 (1992): 89–110. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/019791839202600105.
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This study examined the relationship between the adjustment in school of immigrant children and their parents’ attitudes to social change and new experiences. The subjects were 51 Jewish children between the ages of six and fifteen, all born in the former Soviet Union and immigrants to the United States, and a comparison group of 51 American-born Jewish children attending the same parochial school in San Francisco. Parental attitudes to social change and new experiences were found to be significant predictors of the adjustment in school of both immigrant and native children, even when the effects of parental education, family SES, and children's age, intelligence, English language competence and immigrant/native status were held constant. Parental attitudes to social change and new experience were not found to be differentially associated with adjustment for immigrant as opposed to native children. An interaction was found between the gender of the parent holding the set of attitudes toward change and new experiences, and the differential adjustment of sons and daughters.
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Lubbe, Carien, and Liana Kruger. "The Disclosure Practices of a South African-Born Adolescent Raised in an American Lesbian-Parent Family." Journal of GLBT Family Studies 8, no. 4 (2012): 385–402. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1550428x.2012.705622.
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Othman, Sally, Amanda Trofholz, and Jerica Berge. "How Time in the US and Race/Ethnicity Shape Parents Feeding Practices and Child Diet Quality." Current Developments in Nutrition 5, Supplement_2 (2021): 986. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/cdn/nzab051_030.
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Abstract Objectives Childhood obesity is a critical public health issue with short and long-term health and financial burdens. Studies show that childhood obesity is higher among children of immigrant/refugee households compared to children whose parents were born in the United States. Poor child dietary intake is a critical risk factor for elevated obesity prevalence. Nonetheless, parents feeding practices are known to be associated with child dietary intake. Thus, this study aimed to examine the associations between length of residence time in the US of migrants/refugees, parents feeding practices, and child diet quality while also taking into consideration race/ethnicity. Methods Data are from baseline measures of a longitudinal cohort study called Family Matters. The sample includes 1307 children ages 5–9 and their families from six racial/ethnic backgrounds. Results Results showed that feeding practices of immigrant/refugee parents changed in relation to their length of residency in the US, in particular, with regard to using directive (e.g., restriction), non-directive (e.g., modeling), and emotional feeding practices. Additionally, race/ethnicity was found to influence the relation between time length in the US and parents feeding practices. Moreover, the diet quality score changed in relation to parents' length of time in the US. For example, Hmong children had the poorest diet quality compared to African American, Native American, Hispanic, Somali, and White children. Conclusions Future research should consider studying more in-depth why parent feeding practices may change when parents move to the US and explore whether there is a combination of parent feeding practices that are most useful in promoting healthful child diet quality. It is also important to further examine why child diet quality declines (e.g., Hmong children) with parents' time living in the US as a migrant/refugee. Funding Sources Research is supported by grant number R01HL126171 from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (PI: Berge). Content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute of the National Institutes of Health.
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Bae, Junghee. "Teen Parents’ Cumulative Inequality in Job Achievement: Mediation Effect of Educational Achievement." Social Work Research 44, no. 2 (2020): 99–109. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/swr/svaa001.
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Abstract Teen pregnancy remains an important societal concern in the United States because teen pregnancy tremendously influences teen parents in terms of opportunities for education and employment. However, little is known about the long-term dynamic relationship between the trajectory of educational attainment and trajectory of job achievement among teen parents. This study examined the sample of National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1997, which comprises representative American youths born between 1980 and 1984 (N = 7,771). Latent growth models revealed that teen parents had not only lower initial educational levels, hourly compensation, and annual wages, but also lower increases in educational level, hourly compensation, and annual wages over 10 years. Also, the latent growth mediation model found that initial educational level and changes in educational level mediated the negative association between teen parents and job achievement. These findings suggest that social work intervention for teen parents should focus on supporting academic success in the long term and providing appropriate employment training programs for better job achievement. Future research may contribute by examining the long-term effect of being a teen parent beyond 10 years and investigating differences between teen mothers and teen fathers.
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Campbell, Andrew D., Raffaella Colombatti, Biree Andemariam, et al. "An Analysis of Racial and Ethnic Backgrounds within the Casire International Cohort of Sickle Cell Disease Patients: Implications for Disease Phenotype and Clinical Research." Blood 134, Supplement_1 (2019): 2305. http://dx.doi.org/10.1182/blood-2019-127613.
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Introduction: Millions are affected by Sickle Cell Disease (SCD) worldwide with the greatest burden in sub-saharan Africa. Its origin thought to lie within the malaria belt of the world, SCD continues to affect thousands of lives worldwide partly due to the migration patterns of the human race to different continents. We created the Consortium for the Advancement of Sickle Cell Research (CASiRe) to better understand the different phenotypes of SCD and compare the clinical profiles of patients living in different environments through a validated questionnaire and medical chart review, standardized across 4 countries (United States[U.S.] United Kingdom[U.K.], Italy and Ghana). For this report, we recorded the multi-generational ethnic and racial background of 877 SCD patients across the CASIRE cohort for our final analysis. Methods: CASiRe included 6 sites in the U.S. (Univ. of Michigan, Rainbow Babies & Children's Hospital, Promedica Toledo Children's Hospital, Children's Hospital at Montefiore, Connecticut Children's Medical Center, Univ.of Connecticut Health Center), 2 in Ghana(Ghana Institute of Clinical Genetics, Pediatric SCD Clinic at Korle Bu Teaching Hospital), 2 in Italy( Univ. of Campania Luigi Vanvitelli, Univ. of Padua, Italy), and U.K.(Guys & St. Thomas Hospital, Evelina Children's Hosp). Between 2011 and 2017, after obtaining IRB approval at each site and written informed consent, demographic, clinical and laboratory data were collected by interviewing the patient and/or parent/guardian At the 2 sites (Guys and St Thomas Hospital, UK; Univ. of Padua, Italy) with existing IRB approved SCD registries data were abstracted directly from their respective databases. Descriptive statistics were performed on a subset of demographic data that included: age, race, gender, sickle cell genotype, country of birth of patient, parents, and grandparents. The geographic region and country of origin was based on parents' country of birth and separated into 10 regions: W.Africa, C.Africa, N Africa, Caribbean, C. America, N America, Europe, S America, Asia, Middle East. Results: 877 patients were enrolled with a median age 19.3 years. 451 (51.4%) patients were children, 424 (48.3%) male. Ghanaians represented 41.6% (365) of patients, while 254 patients (29%) were from the U.S. Italy enrolled 81 patients (9.2%), and 177 patients (20.2%) were from the U.K. West Africa represented the largest geographic region of origin of(577/65.8%), followed by N. America (184/21%), Caribbean (51/5.8%), Europe (27/3.1%), and Central Africa (24/2.7%). Overall(Fig. 1), 75% of patients (658) had Hgb SS, 168 patients (19.2%) had Sickle C disease, 29 (3.3%) had Sβ+thal and 22 patients (2.5%) of patients had Sβ0 thal. Racially, 820 patients (93.5%) identified themselves as African American or Black, while 30 patients (3.4%) identified themselves as Caucasian and 21 patients (2.4%) identified themselves as Latino or Hispanic. All Ghanaians identified as Black, while in the US and UK, over 90% of patients identified themselves as Black, and about 3% reported themselves as Caucasian. In comparison, in Italy, over 76% of patients reported a Black racial background, while 21% reported Caucasian background. (Table 1 and 2)&gt;98%Ghanaian patients and their parents were born in Ghana. In contrast, 66.7% of patients and &lt;15% of parents in Italian sites were born in Italy with the 64% of parents emanating from West Africa (38% Nigeria).Over 85% of patients in the UK were born in the UK while only 5.1% of parents were born there (54% in Nigeria). In the US, &gt;90% of patients were born within the US; Parents of patients were born in America 70% of the time. Caribbean (12.5%) and West African countries(9.5%) were the next highest parent countries of origin. 32 different countries of origin were reported within our cohort with the US leading with 22 different countries. Conclusion: This study is the first to describe the geographic distribution of these migrations in a very large cohort of nearly 900 patients with SCD.West Africa represented the largest geographic region of origin for SCD patients in Europe while Caribbean was the leading Non-US geographic region of origin in American patients. The diverse ethnic backgrounds observed in our cohort raises the possibility of how genetic and environmental heterogeneity within each SCD population subgroup can have implications on the clinical phenotype and clinical research outcomes. Disclosures Campbell: Novartis: Research Funding; Cyclerion: Consultancy, Research Funding; Global Blood Therapeutics: Consultancy, Research Funding. Colombatti:Novartis: Consultancy; Global Blood Therapeutics: Consultancy; AddMedica: Consultancy. Andemariam:NovoNordisk: Membership on an entity's Board of Directors or advisory committees; New Health Sciences: Membership on an entity's Board of Directors or advisory committees; Global Blood Therapeutics: Other: DSMB Member; Bluebird Bio: Membership on an entity's Board of Directors or advisory committees; Emmaus: Membership on an entity's Board of Directors or advisory committees; Cyclerion: Membership on an entity's Board of Directors or advisory committees; Imara: Research Funding; Sanofi Genzyme: Membership on an entity's Board of Directors or advisory committees; Community Health Network of Connecticut: Consultancy; Terumo BCT: Membership on an entity's Board of Directors or advisory committees; Novartis: Membership on an entity's Board of Directors or advisory committees. Strunk:Novartis: Membership on an entity's Board of Directors or advisory committees; Global Blood Therapeutics: Speakers Bureau. Piccone:Hemex Health, Inc.: Patents & Royalties. Manwani:GBT: Consultancy, Research Funding; Novartis: Consultancy; Pfizer: Consultancy. Perrotta:Novartis: Honoraria, Research Funding; Acceleron Pharma: Research Funding.
Dissertations / Theses on the topic "American born parent"
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Eggers, Amy Sheena. "The Emotional Guardianship of Foreign-Born and Native-Born Hispanic Youth and Its Effect on Violent Victimization." Scholar Commons, 2010. http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/3554.
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This study seeks to expand the scope of assimilation theory by integrating it with elements of routine activities theory to better understand what influence assimilation has in regard to violent victimization. Specifically, the purpose of this study is to determine whether or not differences in victimization rates between foreign-born and native-born Hispanic youth are related to variations in emotional guardianship. Emotional guardianship refers to the aspect of relationships (i.e., affection and communication) between Hispanic youth and their parents that serve to protect the youth from being victimized. I hypothesize that foreign-born Hispanics have greater emotional guardianship than native-born Hispanics, and as a result foreign-born Hispanics have lower probabilities of victimization. To test this hypothesis and others, the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (Add Health) is utilized, as it provides data about the various aspects of assimilation (e.g., country of birth, language spoken at home), routine activities (e.g., sports, clubs, and family outings), and emotional guardianship (e.g., communication of problems, expectations, and satisfaction of parental bond), which are each believed to contribute to the likelihood of being victimized.
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Liu, Chang. "How Parents Plan for the Future of Their Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders – A Comparison between Asian Immigrant population and American Born population." The Ohio State University, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1338260296.
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Bismar, Danna. "Mental Illness Stigma, Parent-Child Communication, and Help-Seeking of Young American Adults with Immigrant Parents." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2018. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1248426/.
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This study examined a mediational model of mental illness stigma, parent-child communication about mental health concerns, and help seeking attitudes/behaviors among young adults with at least one immigrant parent while considering the possible moderating effect of acculturation gap. The primary goal of this study was to examine whether the acculturation gap changed the relation between mental illness stigma and communication about personal mental health concerns with immigrant parents, which in turn could become a significant predictor of their help-seeking attitudes, as well as a barrier to seeking professional mental health services. Findings provided support to the direct and indirect effects of mental illness stigma through communication about mental health concerns on attitudes about help-seeking. The acculturation gap hypothesized to be a possible moderator for the stigma-communication about mental health concerns relationship among young adult ABCI was found to be significant for ABCI with a low mainstream culture acculturation gap. Discussion on the findings, limitations of the study, future research directions, and counseling implications are addressed.
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Chen, Victoria Wen-Chee. "Communication and conflict between American born Chinese and their immigrant parents." 1988. https://scholarworks.umass.edu/dissertations/AAI8906267.
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Conflict between American-born Chinese and their immigrant parents bears a unique configuration in terms of the interaction between the bicultural Chinese Americans and their immigrant parents. This study examined the communication patterns and conflicts in seven Chinese American families by eliciting accounts from the younger generation in an interview. The results suggest that there are incommensurate cultural logics between the parents and the children, whose socialization is embedded in disparate cultural traditions. However, the Chinese American informants did not perceive their conflicts with their parents as incommensurate. Rather, they treated conflicts as though they were incompatible or incomparable. The study also challenges the common advice to compromise given to Chinese Americans who find themselves struggling between Chinese and North American cultures within which they are simultaneously enmeshed. It is concluded that suggestions such as achieving the balance between two cultural traditions or compromising are imaginary in light of the concrete actions performed by these bicultural individuals. The notion of compromise for these Chinese Americans can be understood as reconstitution of one cultural tradition, or transformation of the extant cultural practices.
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Little, Alix Lesley. "Heritage for difference, culture for belonging: white Canadian parents’ incorporation of black children born in the United States." Thesis, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/1828/3556.
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Prospective adoptive parents in British Columbia are required by provincial law to attend workshops on parenting. Key advice given to parents wishing to adopt transnationally, transracially, or both, suggests promoting a positive identity in their children; an identity founded on feelings of belonging within their own family, as well as an acknowledgment of their background. This advice is largely influenced by the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) and Hague Convention on Protection of Children and Co-operation in Respect of Intercountry Adoption, as well as Canada's national policy of multiculturalism.
Bearing these external laws, policies, and ideologies in mind, this thesis explores how white Canadian parents who adopt black children from the United States respond to this advice. Within this thesis, I contextualize the adoption of black children from the United States by white Canadian parents in a local, national, international and global historical perspective.<br>Graduate
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Dolan, Jen H. "The intersectionality of race, adoption and parenting: How White adoptive parents of Asian born children talk about race within the family." 2012. https://scholarworks.umass.edu/dissertations/AAI3498340.
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Transracial adoption has been a controversial form of adoption since it came into vogue in the United States in the 1950s. In 1972, The National Association of Black Social Workers (NABSW) established a decree stating transracial adoption was akin to cultural genocide because they were concerned that under the tutelage of White parents, Black children would not learn the skills needed to survive in a racist society. Whereas the NABSW was looking out for the well being of domestic children of color, there was no corresponding advocate for children of color adopted internationally. Recognizing that large numbers of children are adopted from Asia, racism is still an issue for people of color and not all White people are aware of the extent that racism exists in our society, I set out to learn if and how White adoptive parents of Asian born children talk about race related issues within the context of the family. This dissertation shares the insights and experiences of White parents from nine families who adopted children from Korea and the Philippines. The goal of the study was to learn if and how White parents talk to their Asian born children about racism, how comfortable and confident they feel having those conversations and who they turn to when they need help in supporting their children around race related issues. The results indicate that before children reached adolescence, they were much more open and willing to share upsetting events with their parents. Pre-adolescent youth turned to their parents for comfort, support and guidance. During the teen years, communication between parents and children decreased thus limiting the parent’s influence about imparting wisdom about how to navigate race related situations. The final chapter offers recommendations for practice, research and policy.
Books on the topic "American born parent"
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Irish citizenship handbook: Dual citizenship for Irish-Americans documenting a parent or grandparent born in Ireland. 4th ed. Hungry Hill Press, 1996.
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Corsi, Daniele, and Cèlia Nadal Pasqual. Studi Iberici. Dialoghi dall’Italia. Fondazione Università Ca’ Foscari, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.30687/978-88-6969-505-6.
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Iberian Studies have developed in the last quarter of a century to the point of making one speak of a real Iberian Turn. Starting from the rejection of the classic scheme that places the two states (Portugal and Spain) as privileged agents of the representation of the Iberian space, the proposal of the Iberian Studies is to work on the system of historical exchanges and interferences that have shaped the cultural fabric of the peninsula, investigating both the points of connection as much as those of the fracture between its different realities (such as the Basque, Catalan and Galician ones, as well as the Castilian and Lusitanian ones). Accompanied by a “Reasoned Bibliography on Iberian Studies and Iberian Studies from Italy”, this volume examines the state of the art, with particular attention to the Italian context, in which these researches show a still unequal rooting and diffusion. A first section, dedicated to a general framework of the discipline and the exposition of theoretical issues and method problems, is followed by a second that presents critical contributions that address individual case studies. Born in part as a reaction to the so-called “crisis of Hispanism”, Iberian Studies offer themselves as an alternative to the traditional model of peninsular Hispanism, to its uninational and monolingual paradigm. They also place the emphasis on diversity and the relational aspect, looking with suspicion at every hegemonic design aimed at establishing a “centre” within a heterogeneous cultural landscape. Attentive to the phenomena of immigration and linguistic minorities, to the colonial past and relations with the Latin American world, but also to the themes of comparativism, translation, theory and the rethinking of criticism, Iberian Studies are a field in which not only debates about literature and the arts are included, but also about ideology.
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Jackson, David Paul. The ancestry and descendants of Edward Downie (1850-1921): Born in Potsdam, St. Lawrence County, New York, farmer in Haynes Township, Alcona County, Michigan : the son of Irish Catholic immigrant parents Patrick Downie and Catherine McCormick, who came to America and Upper New York State in the 1840s and lived some twenty years near Owen Sound, Grey County, Ontario, before settling in Alcona County, Michigan in the 1870s. D.P. Jackson, 1997.
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Baker, Jean H. Building America. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190696450.001.0001.
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Building America: The Life of Benjamin Henry Latrobe is a biography of America’s first professionally trained architect and engineer. Born in 1764, Latrobe was raised in Moravian communities in England and Germany. His parents expected him to follow his father and brother into the ministry, but he rebelled against the church. Moved to London, he studied architecture and engineering. In 1795 he emigrated to the United States and became part of the period’s Transatlantic Exchange. Latrobe soon was famous for his neoclassical architecture, designing important buildings, including the US Capitol and Baltimore Basilica as well as private homes. Carpenters and millwrights who built structures more cheaply and less permanently than Latrobe challenged his efforts to establish architecture as a profession. Rarely during his twenty-five years in the United States was he financially secure, and when he was, he speculated on risky ventures that lost money. He declared bankruptcy in 1817 and moved to New Orleans, the sixth American city that he lived in, hoping to recoup his finances by installing a municipal water system. He died there of yellow fever in 1820. The themes that emerge in this biography are the critical role Latrobe played in the culture of the early republic through his buildings and his genius in neoclassical design. Like the nation’s political founders, Latrobe was committed to creating an exceptional nation, expressed in his case by buildings and internal improvements. Additionally, given the extensive primary sources available for this biography, an examination of his life reveals early American attitudes toward class, family, and religion.
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Cinotto, Simone. “Sunday Dinner? You Had to Be There!”. University of Illinois Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/illinois/9780252037733.003.0002.
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This chapter examines how, during the period 1930–1940, Italian immigrants in East Harlem articulated new food-based strategies aimed at controlling the mobility of immigrant children by delaying their embrace of middle-class values. It considers how the family table became a place for negotiating generational conflicts between immigrant parents and their American-born children by expounding on the so-called generational contract, whereby children were granted much greater autonomy in public in exchange for showing allegiance to the family through regular participation in the gatherings centered on ritual food consumption that brought families together. The chapter asks why immigrants insisted on such family food rituals in exchange for relinquishing control of their children's public life, and why younger Italian Americans agreed. It shows that the Italian American family's ritual Sunday dinner was not only about eating but also about the discursive articulation of nation and ethnic identity in the diasporic private sphere.
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Cinotto, Simone. The Contested Table. University of Illinois Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/illinois/9780252037733.003.0001.
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This chapter examines the conflict over food that pitted New York-born Italians against their immigrant parents during the period 1920–1930. It begins with a discussion of how food became a symbol of both domesticity and ethnicity for Italian Americans in East Harlem by focusing on the domestic conflicts that arose between first- and second-generation Italian immigrants, and particularly the food conflicts in the immigrant home. It then explores the factors that fueled the clash of values and tastes between immigrant children and their parents, including the former's fascination for a modern popular culture that disregarded immigrant ways of life as backward and inferior, and the parents' desire to own a home—which meant mobilizing all of a family's resources, including children's paychecks—and sacrificing other investments in social mobility such as education. It also considers how food and food rituals were used in the construction of the Italian American family, with its emphasis on solidarity, strong gender roles, a commitment to work, suspicion toward abstract ideas, and an appreciation of the limits of happiness.
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Douglass, Frederick. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave. Edited by Deborah E. McDowell. Oxford University Press, 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/owc/9780199539079.001.0001.
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‘I was born in Tuckahoe. I have no accurate knowledge of my age, never having seen any authentic record containing it. By far the larger part of the slaves know as little of their ages as horses know of theirs, and it is the wish of most masters within my knowledge to keep their slaves thus ignorant.’ Thus begins the autobiography of Frederick Douglass (1818-1895) who was born into slavery in Maryland and after his escape to Massachusetts in 1838 became an ardent abolitionist and campaigner for womenߣs rights. His Narrative, which became an instant bestseller on publication in 1845, describes his life as a slave, the cruelty he suffered at the hands of his masters, his struggle to educate himself and his fight for freedom. Passionately written, often using striking biblical imagery, the Narrative came to assume epic proportions as a founding anti-slavery text in which Douglass carefully crafted both his life story and his persona. This new edition examines Douglass, the man and the myth, his complex relationship with women and the enduring power of his book. It includes extracts from Douglassߣs primary sources and examples of his writing on women's rights.
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Miller, Peggy J., and Grace E. Cho. Charisse Jackson and Her Family. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199959723.003.0010.
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Chapter 10, “Charisse Jackson and Her Family,” describes a working-class African American family with two daughters. Mrs. Jackson quit her full-time, minimum-wage job in preparation for the birth of Charisse’s sister, who was born during the study. Charisse loved to do arts and crafts projects at home and at the public library, and she was proud of the number of words she could read. Mr. and Mrs. Jackson were touched by their daughter’s spontaneous acts of empathy. Charisse had an assertive personality; she knew her own mind and could hold her own in playful banter with her mother and her friends. Her “can-do” attitude convinced her parents that she had high self-esteem, but her Head Start teachers thought she was too quiet, and her kindergarten teacher told her parents that she needed to work on overcoming her shyness and improving her self-esteem.
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Robinson, Lillian S., trans. Preface to Mihloud. University of Illinois Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/illinois/9780252039003.003.0044.
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Love—can it be strong enough to overcome clashes between civilizations and cultures? This is the question poignantly raised by this fine book written by an anonymous author.An abyss separates the two lovers. Alan, the narrator, is a very well off and very cultured American, around fifty years old; he owns an art jewelry shop in Paris and a lovely apartment across the street. Mihloud is a young Moroccan, ignorant and poor, who shares a room in Belleville with his brother and works as a laborer. However, they have some things in common. Not only is Mihloud living far away from his own country, but his father, in repudiating his first wife, also disowned him, so he bears his mother’s name. This twofold exile is very painful to him. In the United States, Alan, who had come from Poland with his parents, also felt like an exile, and his homosexuality exacerbated his solitude. He sorrowfully calls to mind “the uprooting that homosexuality causes, the desolation that is born when you realize you are different.” He tried to become part of the “gay” world,...
Book chapters on the topic "American born parent"
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Brown, Jeannette E. "Chemists Who Work in Industry." In African American Women Chemists in the Modern Era. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190615178.003.0006.
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Dr. Dorothy J. Phillips (Fig. 2.1) is a retired industrial chemist and a member of the Board of Directors of the ACS. Dorothy Jean Wingfield was born in Nashville, Tennessee on July 27, 1945, the third of eight children, five girls and three boys. She was the second girl and is very close to her older sister. Dorothy grew up in a multi- generational home as both her grandmothers often lived with them. Her father, Reverend Robert Cam Wingfield Sr., born in 1905, was a porter at the Greyhound Bus station and went to school in the evenings after he was called to the ministry. He was very active in his church as the superintendent of the Sunday school; he became a pastor after receiving an associate’s degree in theology and pastoral studies from the American Baptist Theological Seminary. Her mother, Rebecca Cooper Wingfield, occasionally did domestic work. On these occasions, Dorothy’s maternal grandmother would take care of the children. Dorothy’s mother was also very active in civic and school activities, attending the local meetings and conferences of the segregated Parent Teachers Association (PTA) called the Negro Parent Teachers Association or Colored PTA. For that reason, she was frequently at the schools to talk with her children’s teachers. She also worked on a social issue with the city to move people out of the dilapidated slum housing near the Capitol. The town built government subsidized housing to relocate people from homes which did not have indoor toilets and electricity. She was also active in her Baptist church as a Mother, or Deaconess, counseling young women, especially about her role as the minister’s wife. When Dorothy went to school in 1951, Nashville schools were segregated and African American children went to the schools in their neighborhoods. But Dorothy’s elementary, junior high, and high schools were segregated even though the family lived in a predominately white neighborhood. This was because around 1956, and after Rosa Park’s bus boycott in Montgomery, AL, her father, like other ministers, became more active in civil rights and one of his actions was to move to a predominately white neighborhood.
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Graves, Kori A. "Introduction." In A War Born Family. NYU Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.18574/nyu/9781479872329.003.0001.
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The introduction provides a brief history of the development of US domestic adoption, and African Americans’ roles in US and transnational adoption in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Since the professionalization of adoption in the United States largely evolved around the needs of birth mothers, children, and adoptive parents who were white, African Americans’ efforts to care for orphaned and displaced children through formal and informal adoptions has been underappreciated. The introduction describes the ways African Americans adopted children in the United States and, after World War II, foreign-born children of African American soldiers. This approach provides a foundation for understanding how African Americans’ participation in Korean transnational adoption was similar to their domestic adoption efforts and their efforts to adopt World War II GI children. It also suggests reasons why efforts to increase the professionalization and standardization of Korean transnational adoption reduced African Americans’ participation in this method of adoptive family formation.
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Klitzman, Robert L. "Choosing Policies." In Designing Babies, edited by Robert L. Klitzman. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780190054472.003.0018.
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The United States regulates assisted reproductive technologies far less than do other Western countries, most of which have more nationalized health insurance. US states vary widely in whether they have any laws and, if so, what. Governmental agencies (e.g., Food and Drug Administration, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) and professional organizations (e.g., American Medical Association, American Society of Reproductive Medicine) have begun addressing several areas but could potentially do more. Improved national and professional policies are needed regarding several areas, including egg and sperm donation, egg donor agencies, numbers of embryos transferred into wombs, gestational surrogacy, oversight of providers, insurance coverage, and data collection. Doctors generally perceive problems in the field but argue that industry self-regulation, rather than government policy, is adequate. Yet many providers fail to follow current guidelines and regulations. Moreover, new technologies continue to develop, including gene editing of embryos through CRISPR and mitochondrial replacement therapy (so-called three-parent babies). More data and research are crucial on current use of procedures and long-term medical and psychological follow-up of patients, egg donors, gestational surrogates, and offspring, to evaluate, for instance, the effectiveness of egg freezing and longitudinal follow-up of children born through these procedures.
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Graves, Kori A. "African American Soldiers and the Origins of Korean Transnational Adoption." In A War Born Family. NYU Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.18574/nyu/9781479872329.003.0002.
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African American soldiers took part in the child-centered humanitarian efforts that developed during the Korean War. The efforts that all soldiers made to provide food, clothing, shelter, and educations for Korean children displaced or orphaned by the war received considerable political and media attention. The black press mobilized the stories of black soldiers caring for Korean children to advance the fight for African Americans’ civil rights in the military and throughout US society. However, African American soldiers’ social and sexual relationships with Korean women revealed the ways that many black men exploited vulnerable women in war-torn countries. The children born as a result of these relationships faced punishing exclusions and ostracism because of US and Korean race and gender hierarchies that restricted the legal and social status of black men and the Korean women who associated with soldiers. These ideas would influence the development of Korean transnational adoption and African Americans’ participation in this method of family formation.
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Graves, Kori A. "The National Urban League and the Fight for US Adoption Reform." In A War Born Family. NYU Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.18574/nyu/9781479872329.003.0003.
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The National Urban League initiated its Foster Care and Adoption Project in 1953 to increase African Americans’ participation in formal adoptions. League officials encouraged reforms in US policies and practices to eliminate the economic and social obatacles that limited African Americans’ adoptions. League officials also promoted greater integration of adoption agencies’ administrative and social work staff to advance the organization’s goals of encouraging interracial cooperation in social service agencies. The outcomes of the national project were inconsistent, in part because of resistance from some white child welfare professionals and the organized efforts of white citizens’ councils to defraud and defund many League branches. The project did highlight the social and institutional barriers that affected African Americans’ domestic and transnational adoptions. This chapter foregrounds the challenges adoption agencies faced when they endeavoured to placed Korean black children with African American families. It reveals why many successful agencies had to implement, on a case-by-case basis, many of the reforms that the League had hoped would produce national, comprehensive adoption reform.
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Waters, Mary C. "Children of Immigrants in the United States." In Humanitarianism and Mass Migration. University of California Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/california/9780520297128.003.0016.
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This chapter reviews what is known about how the children of immigrants to the United States are integrating. Overall the second generation is integrating with natives, showing a great deal of progress compared to their parents levels in socioeconomic attainment. In other areas such as crime, health and family type, the children of immigrants are also converging with native born Americans, but in these three areas this makes them worse off because first generation immigrants have lower crime rates, better health and more intact families than native born Americans. While the children of immigrants suffer from racial discrimination and rising income inequality which also affects the native born, there is one area in which they face a specific barrier to their integration and well-being—legal status. Undocumented children and the citizen children of the undocumented show more psychological distress, lower educational attainment and other negative consequences stemming from their parents legal status. Universal policy solutions that address racial discrimination and income inequality are recommended. In addition, an appeal to human rights and to American shared moral values are suggested as a way forward to improve conditions for undocumented immigrants and their families and to reach a lasting solution to America’s immigration impasse.
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Rhode, Deborah L. "Barriers to Ambition across Class, Race, Ethnicity, and National Origin." In Ambition. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197538333.003.0006.
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This chapter examines barriers to ambition based on class, race, ethnicity, and national origin. It notes that many nations do a better job in delivering on the American Dream than America does. The United States has lower rates of intergenerational mobility than other comparable countries. The public radically underestimates barriers to ambition based on race, class, and ethnicity and the resource disparities in families, schools, and support structures that hobble disadvantaged youth. Americans also fail to address the racial barriers and biases that persist across class. Children of some recent immigrant groups are an exception to these patterns and have higher ambitions and achievements than children of similar backgrounds with American-born parents. But those advantages fade with each generation, and even members of “model minorities” confront disabling stereotypes and marginalization. Society pays a substantial price for the failure to address these inequalities, and the chapter closes with key reform priorities.
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Hayes-Bautista, David E. "Latinos Define “American”." In La Nueva California. University of California Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/california/9780520292529.003.0006.
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Non-Hispanic white focus-group participants rejected their parents’ Anglo-Saxon nativist definition of American and used the new nativist definition, one based on work ethic, rejection of welfare, strong families, and patriotism. In the aftermath of the pro-Proposition 187 messaging, they felt that Latinos were poor because they lacked ambition and were unpatriotic because they spoke Spanish—and hence might not be truly American. Both US-born and immigrant Latino focus-group participants felt that they were fully American, but they were aware that many non-Latinos did not think that they were, indeed, fully American.
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"Jason Miller." In Writing Appalachia, edited by Katherine Ledford and Theresa Lloyd. University Press of Kentucky, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.5810/kentucky/9780813178790.003.0066.
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Born John Anthony Miller in Long Island City, Queens, New York City, playwright and actor Jason Miller had deep connections to the anthracite coalfields of eastern Pennsylvania. The son of Irish American parents and grandson of a coal miner, Miller was reared in the Lackawana Valley. After earning a BA from the University of Scranton and studying theater at the Catholic University of America, Miller lived in New York City to pursue a career in acting and playwriting....
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Chaves, Mark. "Belief." In American Religion. Princeton University Press, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.23943/princeton/9780691146850.003.0003.
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This chapter focuses on one of the few traditional religious beliefs that truly declined in recent decades: believing that the Bible is the inerrant word of God. Generational turnover is an important part of this trend, with more recently born individuals much less likely to believe in an inerrant Bible than those born longer ago. The overall percentage of those who believe that the Bible is the literal word of God declined slowly but surely as younger generations replaced older generations who had stricter views about the Bible. Social change occurring in this way can be gradual, but still profound. The chapter also looks at the recent growth in diffuse spirituality, including the rising number of people—especially young people—who say that they are spiritual but not religious.
Conference papers on the topic "American born parent"
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Carpenter, David M. "The Last 1/3." In ASME Turbo Expo 2000: Power for Land, Sea, and Air. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2000. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/2000-gt-0009.
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The evolution of the American Jet engine owes much to the advances in early Turbosupercharger development, carried out by the General Electric Co. at the vast Riverworks plant in Lynn, Massachusetts USA. This paper will show how during World War II an engineer built a test rig to run up Turbosuperchargers that in fact was a Jet Engine. With the addition of a combustor, he had added The Last 1/3, that is, the impeller was the compressor, the exhaust turbine wheel acted as the GG turbine and with his bootstrap combustor a Jet Engine was born. All this work was done without the engineer realizing what he had accomplished. He was in fact told to stop work on the device, because unknown to him was the concurrent secret development of the Whittle Jet in another part of the Riverworks.