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Wagle, Jaya. ""Homeland/Split"." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2012. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1404588/.
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Weingarten, Laura Suzanne. "Homelands in exile : three contemporary Latin American Jewish women writers create a literary homeland /." College Park, Md. : University of Maryland, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/1903/2316.
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Wagle, Jaya. "Homeland/Split." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2018. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1404588/.
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Dakin, Alana E. "Indigenous Continuance Through Homeland: An Analysis of Palestinian and Native American Literature." Ohio University Honors Tutorial College / OhioLINK, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ouhonors1340304236.
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Pohnel, Jonathan R. "State Defense Forces and their role in American homeland security." Thesis, Monterey, California: Naval Postgraduate School, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10945/45242.
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Approved for public release; distribution is unlimited<br>State Defense Forces (SDFs), or organized state militias and naval militias, have a long and distinguished history of service in the United States. These state-sanctioned organizations are substantiated and legitimized through the U.S. justice system and constitutional law. Currently, 23 states and U.S. territories have SDFs; unlike National Guard units, they cannot be federalized, which means they remain a state-level asset during emergency management operations. SDFs were utilized successfully during Hurricane Katrina, proving their value in state and federal emergency response efforts. This thesis seeks to analyze the structure and usefulness of the SDF as a volunteer emergency response organization. Second, it seeks to understand the evolution of the SDF by examining U.S. militia history. Third, it examines the disaster-relief efforts of SDFs with regard to Hurricane Katrina. SDFs provide state governors with emergency response personnel who are locally available and ready to serve in multiple capacities. Presently, state officials can promote legislation and develop a mission-flexible State Defense Force that can act as a reserve force for local law enforcement and the National Guard during natural and man-made disasters. The SDF may be the next step in the evolution of state and local emergency response in the 21st century.
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Walls, Michael D. "REDISCOVERY OF A NATIVE AMERICAN CULTURAL LANDSCAPE: THE CHICKASAW HOMELAND AT REMOVAL." UKnowledge, 2015. http://uknowledge.uky.edu/geography_etds/37.
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Little information beyond generalities exists regarding the cultural landscape of the Chickasaw Indians in their ancestral homelands prior to Removal in the late 1830s. This dissertation evaluates one possible archival source for specifics of Chickasaw land use, the field notes and survey plats compiled as part of the Public Land Survey System (PLSS). The process of original survey following land cession treaty divided the ceded area up into the familiar square-mile rectangular system of townships and ranges that extends from the Mississippi Territory westwards, in the so-called public land states.
The research compiles all cultural observations made by the surveyors within a fourteen township area (totaling 504 square miles). This study area, generally located on the west bank of Town Creek between present-day Tupelo and Pontotoc MS, was chosen to cover the traditional center of Chickasaw settlement and elements of important roads such as the Natchez Trace. The resulting catalog of observations was compared to similar features on the township plats and to other cultural resource inventories to identify patterns of inscription and possible erasure of Native American cultural activities. Geographic Information Systems (GIS) technology was used to consolidate and compare these data resources.
The PLSS survey documents provide a useful but not complete resource for identifying Chickasaw cultural presence within the study area. No consistent pattern of omission or erasure of Chickasaw activities was identified. The analysis identifies several opportunities and caveats for future researchers who might extend this analysis, including technical challenges in applying GIS technology to this data.
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Indavong, Vongchanh. "The Lao American Diaspora and its Changing Relations with the Ethnic Homeland." Ohio University / OhioLINK, 2009. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1248808797.
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Cowsert, Zachery Christian. "Confederate Borderland, Indian Homeland| Slavery, Sovereignty, and Suffering in Indian Territory." Thesis, West Virginia University, 2014. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=1554912.
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<p>This thesis explores the American Civil War in Indian Territory, focusing on how clashing visions of sovereignty within the Five Tribes—Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Creek, and Seminole—led to the one the most violent and relatively unknown chapters of the Civil War. Particular attention is paid to the first two years of the war, highlighting why the Five Tribes allied with Confederacy, and why those alliances failed over time. Chapter One examines Indian Territory as a borderland, unveiling how various actors within that borderland, including missionaries, Indian agents, white neighbors in Arkansas and Texas, and Indians themselves shaped Native American decision-making and convinced acculturated tribal elites to forge alliances with the Confederacy. These alliances, however, did not represent the sentiments of many traditionalist Indians, and anti-Confederate Creeks, Seminoles, and African-Americans gathered under the leadership of dissident Creek chief Opothleyahola. Cultural divisions within the Five Tribes, and differing visions of sovereignty in the future, threatened to undermine Indian-Confederate alliances. Chapter Two investigates the Confederacy’s 1861 winter campaign designed to quell Opothleyahola’s resistance to Confederate authority. This campaign targeted enemy soldiers and civilians alike, and following a series of three engagements Opothleyahola’s forces were decisively defeated in December. During this campaign, however, schisms with the Confederate Cherokees became apparent. In the weeks that followed, Confederate forces pursued the men, women, and children of Opothelyahola’s party as they fled north across the frozen landscape for the relative safety of Kansas. The military campaign waged in 1861, and the untold suffering heaped upon thousands of civilians that winter, exposes how a hard, violent war rapidly emerged within the Confederate borderland, complicating historians’ depiction of a war that instead grew hard over time. </p><p> Chapter Three documents the return of Federal forces to the borderland via the First Indian Expedition of 1862. Although the expedition was a military failure, the sudden presence of Union forces in the region permanently split the Cherokee tribe into warring factions. The Cherokee, Creek, and Seminole tribes spent the next three years fighting their own intra-tribal civil wars. Moreover, the appearance and retreat of Federal forces from Indian Territory created a geopolitical vacuum, which would be filled by guerrilla violence and banditry. The failure of either Confederate or Union forces to permanently secure Indian Territory left Indian homelands ripe for violence and lawlessness. The thesis concludes by evaluating the cost of the conflict. One-third of the Cherokee Nation perished during the war; nearly one-quarter of the Creek population died in the conflict. By war’s end, two-thirds of Indian Territory’s 1860 population had become refugees. Urged to war by outsiders and riven with their own intra-tribal strife, Native Americans of the Five Tribes suffered immensely during the Civil War, victims of one of the most violent, lethal, and unknown chapters in American history. </p>
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Amato, Jean M. "The representation of ancestral home and homeland in Chinese American fiction (1960s-1990s) /." view abstract or download file of text, 2005. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/uoregon/fullcit?p3181080.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Oregon, 2005.<br>Typescript. Includes vita and abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 307-317). Also available for download via the World Wide Web; free to University of Oregon users.
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Santana, Mario. "Foreigners in the homeland : the Spanish American new novel in Spain, 1962-1974 /." Lewisburg (Pa.) : London : Bucknell university press ; Associated university presses, 2000. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb37732977q.
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Hamdan, Lama. "Framing Islamophobia and Civil Liberties: American Political Discourse Post 9/11." ScholarWorks, 2019. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/7008.
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Rhetorical frames are used to support political agendas, define problems, diagnose causes, make policy judgments, and suggest solutions. Following the attacks on September 11, 2001, politicians and media pundits used Islamophobia as a fear-mongering tactic to justify public policy formation. The purpose of this study was to analyze public discourse on Islamic terrorism in arguments advocating government surveillance, restrictive immigration policies, and other erosions of U.S. constitutional protections of its citizens. This study drew on the postmodern theories of Lakoff, Lyotard, and Said to critically examine U.S. political discourse on Islam and terrorism. Three conceptual rhetorical frames were examined: Clash of Civilizations, Endangered Constitutional Protections, and Islamophobia. The key research question asked how U.S. politicians and high-profile national news commentators used biased rhetoric to frame discussions of Islam and terrorism. This qualitative study used content analysis of 44 news reports of crimes that framed these incidents as Islam-inspired terrorism. Study findings suggested that defenders of the USA PATRIOT Act used a Clash of Civilizations frame that pitted Western freedom proponents against radical Muslim fanatics in struggles for social change. U.S. policy makers and news commentators described Islamic inspired terrorism as anti-American vengeance, Jihadism, and/or anti-Semitism to control national debates and information flow. Implications of these findings suggest that an alternative Islamophobic framing can be deployed to make biases explicit, quell anxieties of and about stigmatized groups, raise the self-esteem of the vilified minorities, and decrease the risk of terrorism.
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Reents, Mark J. "Operation Noble Eagle and the use of combat air patrols for homeland defense." Thesis, Monterey, Calif. : Naval Postgraduate School, 2008. http://edocs.nps.edu/npspubs/scholarly/theses/2008/Dec/08Dec%5FReents.pdf.
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Thesis (M.A. in Security Studies (Homeland Security and Defense))--Naval Postgraduate School, December 2008.<br>Thesis Advisor(s): Moran, Daniel. "December 2008." Description based on title screen as viewed on February 2, 2009. Includes bibliographical references (p. 87-97). Also available in print.
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Habib, Jasmin. "Imagining Israel, belonging in diaspora, North American Jews' reflections on Israel as homeland, nation, and nation-state." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2000. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape2/PQDD_0035/NQ66269.pdf.
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Girit, Heck Ozge. "Representing Turkish national culture and Turkish-American identity in Chicago's Turkish festivals." Diss., University of Iowa, 2011. https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/2502.
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In my dissertation I critically analyze and evaluate how the Turkish nation and culture is `performed' and `constructed' in two Turkish Festivals in Chicago: The Chicago Turkish Festival and The Chicago Turkish World Festival. I examine what this representation suggests about the complex national and cultural identity politics the Turkish Diaspora negotiate, with both their native and adoptive countries. My study draws on theories of nationalism and transnational nationalism, as well as critical cultural studies concepts including the `tourist gaze', (cultural) `spectacle', and `internal colonialism.' Because nationality festivals are public demonstrations involving a mass audience, my dissertation investigates how representations of Turkey (visual and verbal) are dependent upon the images and narratives popular among the American audience that are targeted.
In an era of globalization, the cultural representation of Turkey in these two Turkish festivals in Chicago is used for political and commercial ends to: a) form good relations with the local U.S. state officials and to help lobby for the Turkish community in Chicago; and b) open up new means of income for local artists and entrepreneurs as well as transnational businesses that attend these festivals from Turkey and other countries. The Turkish American cultural organizations, The Turkish American Cultural Alliance (TACA) and the Turkish American Society of Chicago (TASC), that organizes these festivals, in many ways take part in nationalism from abroad (transnational nationalism) when they promote the official national discourses of the homeland and receive material and moral support from the Turkish Consulate of Chicago and the Tourism and Culture Ministry in Turkey.
My dissertation demonstrates how Turkey's representation in these festivals by the two leading Turkish American organizations have become dependent on both European Orientalist discourses of the Ottoman Era that are internalized by the Turks today, as well as the very singular and monolithic nationalist discourses of the Turkey's founding fathers. I include a historical analysis of Chicago's Turkish community, including the way it was represented at Chicago's Columbian Exposition in 1893 (Chapter 2), an ethnographic analysis of the Turkish American organizations that have organized the Turkish festivals in Chicago (Chapter 3), and a critical analysis of activities and live performances that take place at both festivals (Chapter 4 & 5). My methods of study are field note observations, interviews conducted with the festival organizers and volunteers, and surveys conducted with festival participants. My research reveals that although the two Turkish American organizations, TACA and TASC, use similar national and cultural narratives, symbols, and representations, they differ in their choice of glorifying either Ottoman history or the history of the Turkish Republic, and on the degree to which Islam constitutes Turkish culture and national identity. This serves political ends as it reflects the ongoing political debates in Turkey over what social and cultural identities make up the Turkish nation.
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Afrifah, Michelle. "Diaspora tourism and homeland development : exploring the impacts of African American tourists on the livelihoods of local traders in southern Ghana." Thesis, King's College London (University of London), 2014. https://kclpure.kcl.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/diaspora-tourism-and-homeland-development(577df549-2dac-4af2-becf-d97f1ca90096).html.
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The value of Diasporas to homeland development is a key research area in tourism development literature. The African Diaspora has been contributing to homeland development in a number of ways, but especially as tourists. Tourism research on sub-Saharan Africa has focused little on the supply side issues such as the nature and impact of African American tourists’ spending behaviour whilst holidaying in the continent. This is important because it is of great concern in tourism development literature whether vulnerable people such as local craft traders receive a livable share of visitor spending. So using the concept of Diaspora relations and homeland development as a platform, the thesis assesses the benefits of African American tourists’ expenditure on the livelihoods of local craft traders in several tourist sites in southern Ghana, whilst also examining the impacts of tour operators who manage these tourists on their expenditure patterns. The study found that though African American tourists provide a significant input into traders’ total incomes, their market alone does not provide traders with a survivable or livable income. They do not spend enough to provide the sole source of traders’ incomes. Tourist expenditure on handicrafts such as beads and fabrics, although infrequent, was nonetheless a key source of income for craftsmen and has enabled them to sustain themselves, their homes, their businesses and their families. The study also traces the commodity chain involved in the production of one particular handicraft, beaded crafts, providing insights into the global and local factors which influence who benefits from their production and trade before they reach the final point of sale to tourists. Beaded crafts are heavily patronized by Diaspora tourists. Sales from these were found not only to benefit larger scale businesses but also to reach smaller one-man businesses, helping them to sustain themselves. As the beaded craft industry is international and sources many of its beads from China as well as other sub-Saharan African markets, tourist expenditure in Ghana is also aiding bead sellers and manufacturers in neighboring African countries.
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Anderson, Leigh R. "An Assessment of Intergovernmental Relationships between Native American Tribes, the States, and the Federal Government in Homeland Security and Emergency Management Policy." The Ohio State University, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1399292073.
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Carroll, Annie. "Millennial Voting Agenda: Partisan Preferences and Party Platforms in the 2016 Presidential Election." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2017. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/942.
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I contribute to research pertaining to young voters by comparing the 2016 agenda of young people (based on existing polling) with Republican and Democratic Party platforms. By analyzing party platforms in the context of Millennial voters, this thesis attempts to determine the effectiveness to which the Democratic and Republican platforms reflect young people’s interests on three key topics: education, terrorism and homeland security, and racism. I argue that the Democratic Party’s progressive platform offers more substantial solutions to Millennial concerns than the GOP. By catering to young voter’s progressive, pro-big government, anti-racist agenda, the Democratic Party may one day bolster a formidable coalition of support for future elections.
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Burchnell, Ryan. "Dynamic personal identity and the dynamic identity grid: how theory and concept can transform information into knowledge and secure the American homeland." Thesis, Monterey, Calif. : Naval Postgraduate School, 2008. http://edocs.nps.edu/npspubs/scholarly/theses/2008/Sept/08Sep%5FBurchnell.pdf.
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Thesis (M.A. in Security Studies (Homeland Security and Defense) )--Naval Postgraduate School, September 2008.<br>Thesis Advisor(s): Strindberg, Anders ; Bergin, Richard. "September 2008." Description based on title screen as viewed on November 03, 2008. Includes bibliographical references (p. 99-110). Also available in print.
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Arunga, Marcia Tate. "Back to Africa in the 21st Century: The Cultural Reconnection Experiences of African American Women." Antioch University / OhioLINK, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=antioch149315357668899.
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Medrano, Estevan. "On the Fence." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2014. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc799492/.
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Living the vast majority of my life in an area that celebrates diversity but thrives because of illegal cross-border activities (undocumented workers, drug imports) at times the distance between the United States and Mexico is in fact as thin as the width of a fence. Though it is typical for a filmmaker to hope to present a unique take on a subject, given how I have seen the topics of immigration and the perspective of the purpose of homeland security portray, I am confident that there is an opportunity to show these issues in a more personal, less aggressive light with the use of first person accounts instead of a dependence on the most violent aspects of these topics. The main subject will give character to this agency by blurring the lines of his life as an agent and as a citizen.
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Gonzalez, Manuel. "The Question of Homeland Security in Rural America." ScholarWorks, 2016. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/2261.
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Following the issuance of the National Preparedness Guidelines in 2009 by the Department of Homeland Security, it remains unknown whether homeland security programs have been consistently implemented in the nation's rural areas. Research findings have been inconsistent and inconclusive on the degree of implementation. Two problems may result from inadequate implementation of these programs: weakened national security from the failure to protect critical infrastructure in remote areas and a threat to public safety in rural towns. The purpose of this qualitative case study was to explore and describe the reasons for possible noncompliance through purposeful interviews with 10 law enforcement officials and emergency managers in selected Midwestern rural towns. The study's theoretical foundation was based on Putnam's theory of social capital, which holds that community cohesion develops in direct relation to the adaptation of social networks that promote mutual cooperation during times of need. The research centered on the question of how rural emergency managers and law enforcement officials justified noncompliance with the National Preparedness Guidelines of 2009. The interviews and materials were transcribed and analyzed with qualitative analytic software using open, axial, and selective coding to identify themes and patterns. The study's key findings disconfirmed conclusions reported in previous studies and confirmed compliance with the Guidelines in the studied rural towns. Implications for positive social change include informing policymakers, emergency managers, law enforcement officials, and researchers. Application of social capital principles in all the nation's remote areas may enhance national security and improve rural public safety.
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Marske, Sarah L. "Plaza Fiesta a re-imagined homeland contributing to Latino identity and community /." unrestricted, 2008. http://etd.gsu.edu/theses/available/etd-07172008-150717/.
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Thesis (M.A.)--Georgia State University, 2008.<br>Title from file title page. Leonard Teel, committee chair; Gregory Gullette, Hongmei Li, Jeffrey Bennett, committee members. Electronic text (112 p. : col. ill.) : digital, PDF file. Description based on contents viewed Oct. 1, 2008. Includes bibliographical references (p. 107-112).
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Andreas, Michael D. "How should municipal police agencies participate in America's homeland security strategy?" Thesis, Monterey, Calif. : Naval Postgraduate School, 2008. http://edocs.nps.edu/npspubs/scholarly/theses/2008/Dec/08Dec%5FAndreas.pdf.
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Thesis (M.A. in Security Studies (Homeland Security and Defense))--Naval Postgraduate School, December 2008.<br>Thesis Advisor(s): Bellavita, Christopher. "December 2008." Description based on title screen as viewed on January 29, 2009. Includes bibliographical references (p. 117-119). Also available in print.
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Crews, Chris G. "Fortress of Fear and Borders of Control: How the U.S Media Constructs Mexican Immigrants as a National Security Threat." Ohio : Ohio University, 2007. http://www.ohiolink.edu/etd/view.cgi?ohiou1185568102.
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Dorson, James [Verfasser]. "Counternarrative Possibilities : Virgin Land, Homeland, and Cormac McCarthy's Westerns / James Dorson." Frankfurt am Main : Campus Verlag, 2016. http://www.campus.de/home/.
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Freed, Judson M. "No failure of imagination : examining foundational flaws in America's homeland security enterprise." Thesis, Monterey, California. Naval Postgraduate School, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10945/5599.
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CHDS State/Local<br>Approved for public release; distribution is unlimited<br>Current United States (U.S.) policy vis-aÌ -vis the nation's homeland security enterprise is built on a fatally flawed foundation. It is based on a top-down, federal-centric model rather than on a constitutional model that develops capability for resilience, response, protection and preparedness for crises. The issues leading to this flawed foundation go back to the inherent constitutional tension between the federal and state governments. Historically, when confronted by national-level crises, the federal government has based its actions and mandates on flawed metapolicy addressing all possibly related issues, rather than directing effort at solving the major crisis at hand. In so doing, the preemption of power, and the coercion through funding and regulation have been results unto themselves. The crisis that encapsulates homeland security today is as wide and amorphous as the crisis confronting America at the time of the Great Depression. Both crises involve Constitutional, social, financial, and political issues of extreme complexity. In addition, both resulted in significant expansion of federal prerogatives. This thesis seeks to examine the metapolicy behind the reaction to such severe and yet amorphous crises and to suggest courses of action that--within the bounds of existing political reality--can redirect today's homeland security enterprise in a more effective manner. The research looks at historical and legal concepts, and conducts an in-depth review of similarities between the New Deal era and the modern homeland security era.
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Laine, John Stanley. "Cultural Competence, Emergency Management, and Disaster Response and Recovery Efforts Among African Americans." ScholarWorks, 2016. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/2189.
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Natural disasters disrupt African American communities in the United States and can exacerbate the degree of poverty for individuals within these communities, necessitating greater aid from local, state, and federal governments. The purpose of this study was to investigate the role of cultural competence in disaster response serving African American communities. This research study focused on emergency manager's comprehension and education of cultural competence, what they recognized to be vital elements of a culturally competent emergency manager, and what the obstacles and components are to bring about the changes to the profession. This study used a qualitative case study design and a theoretical framework based on the Campinha-Bacote model for care for cultural competence. Study data from interviews with 15 emergency manager practitioners and African American disaster survivors were inductively coded and thematically analyzed. The study produced data regarding cultural competence, values, ethics, beliefs, and thought processes of the participants. The findings showed that the emergency managers and survivors had diverging or contrasting beliefs of the emergency managers' cultural competency levels; this difference in perception was the major theme of the study. The study also concluded that implementing the Campinha-Bacote model for Cultural Competence in the Delivery of Healthcare Services, emergency managers dramatically improve disaster response and recovery efforts not only to the African American community but other diverse minority communities as well. This study contributes to positive social change by helping U.S. emergency managers become more culturally competent and better equipped to serve diverse minority communities during a disaster.
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Stamey, Barcley W. "Domestic aerial surveillance and homeland security: should Americans fear the eye in the sky?" Thesis, Monterey, California: Naval Postgraduate School, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10945/41446.
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Approved for public release; distribution is unlimited.<br>Unmanned aircraft systems (UAS, also known as drones) are being increasingly more utilized in domestic law enforcement operations, enabling officers to maximize situational awareness from overhead while minimizing their exposure to danger. As the domestic airspace is scheduled to be fully drone integrated by 2015, growing concerns over national security and privacy issues have highlighted the capabilities and potential implications of using UAS on a national scale. This thesis examines the potential effectiveness of utilizing domestic aerial surveillance to increase homeland security while addressing how, and to what level, these programs should be federally overseen and regulated without infringing on Americans' civil liberties. This thesis argues that large-scale UAS operations by federal agencies are cost-inefficient and lack tangible results, while state and local agency operations, which employ smaller systems in more specific situations, are less expensive and more effective. Current U.S. law allows for aerial surveillance by law enforcement, but updating privacy legislation to account for modern technology should be considered. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) needs to accelerate its working relationship with the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and its UAS approval process to establish and maintain privacy safeguards to ensure the highest level of national security while minimizing civil liberty infringement.
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Vycudilík, Vojtěch. "USA and the EU Politics of Homeland Security after September 11." Master's thesis, Vysoká škola ekonomická v Praze, 2004. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-15106.
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Práce se zabývá vývojem politiky vnitřní / domácí bezpečnosti v USA po 11. září 2001 s ohledem na vývoj v Evropské unii v této oblasti. Zachycuje hlavní změny v architektuře institucí zodopovědných za domácí bezpečnost USA a sleduje vývoj legislativy spjaté s domácí bezpečností. Následně práce analyzuje vliv těchto změn na americký politický systém, na občanské svobody a na rovnováhu moci.
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Reed, Donald J. "An Examination of Tribal Nation Integration in Homeland Security National Preparedness." ScholarWorks, 2015. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/598.
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Research has established that national homeland security policy requires a whole community or all-of-nation approach to national security preparedness. What is less clear is whether all stakeholders are integrated into or benefit from this collective effort. This narrative policy analysis examined the relationship between a federally-recognized group of Native American tribal nations and homeland security national preparedness to explore whether tribal nations are effectively integrated with the collective effort for national preparedness. The theoretical framework stemmed from a convergence of social contract theory and conflict theory. Interviews (n = 21) were conducted with preparedness authorities from government agencies, and from tribal nations and nongovernmental organizations that advocate on behalf of tribal nations. Data were analyzed using Roe's narrative policy analysis technique. Results revealed areas of convergence of the government and tribal narratives on the historical disenfranchisement of tribal nations; findings also showed areas of divergence on how to better integrate tribal nations in homeland security national preparedness. The study concludes with a number of recommendations highlighting the manner in which national interests and tribal nation preparedness interests are intertwined. This study suggests that the nation's homeland security may be better served by greater inclusion of tribal nations in national preparedness efforts. The results of this study contribute to positive social change by giving voice to a heretofore disenfranchised social group, Native Americans, and by allowing them to strengthen the metanarrative of homeland security national preparedness.
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Horikawa, Naoko. "New lives in the ancestral homeland : return migration from South America to mainland Japan and Okinawa." Thesis, University of Hull, 2012. http://hydra.hull.ac.uk/resources/hull:5594.
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This work presents a study of identity formation in migrants of Japanese and Okinawan descent who relocate from countries of South America to mainland Japan and to the island prefecture of Okinawa, initially to seek economic advantage. The migrants, called Nikkeijin, are predominantly progeny of earlier migrants from Japan to South America. In a cross-generational sense, they are return migrants. The ethnographic study, based on field research conducted in two sites on the mainland and in Okinawa, compares Nikkeijin experience and attitudes as they interact with native Japanese. Because of their Japanese background, Nikkeijin benefit from privileged visa status; nonetheless, in Japan they are treated as foreigners, and their identity diversifies. Nikkeijin are found to construct simultaneous social fields in both the country of departure and the new environment. This situation may be recognized through the concept of transnationalism. I argue that Nikkeijin self-identity can be multiple and flexible, and does not necessarily coincide with social identity. An increasing and officially promoted diasporic consciousness among migrants of Okinawan descent would seem to produce a different ethnic response to any on the mainland and a greater potential for integration. My thesis should contribute to the understanding of identity in Nikkeijin return migration.
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Vycudilík, Vojtěch. "USA and the EU Policy of Homeland Security after September 11." Master's thesis, Vysoká škola ekonomická v Praze, 2006. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-259.
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Práce se zabývá vývojem politiky vnitřní / domácí bezpečnosti v USA po 11. září 2001 s ohledem na vývoj v Evropské unii v této oblasti. Zachycuje hlavní změny v architektuře institucí zodopovědných za domácí bezpečnost USA a sleduje vývoj legislativy spjaté s domácí bezpečností. Následně práce analyzuje vliv těchto změn na americký politický systém, na občanské svobody a na rovnováhu moci.
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Fleece, Richard J. "Suicide terrorism in America?: the complex social conditions of this phenomenon and the implications for homeland security." Thesis, Monterey, California. Naval Postgraduate School, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10945/27830.
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Outstanding Thesis<br>CHDS State/Local<br>Approved for public release; distribution is unlimited<br>This research applies social identity and intergroup relations theory to the phenomenon of suicide terrorism and develops a framework that can be used to better understand the threat of suicide terrorism and the implications for United States homeland security. Suicide terrorism is growing worldwide and is becoming more geographically diverse. Traditional studies of suicide terrorism tend to seek causal explanations of the phenomenon. This research uses a grounded theory approach to study the phenomenon that seeks to offer insight, enhance understanding, and provide a meaningful framework for understanding. The findings of this research recommend an alternate framework for understanding suicide terrorism based on the application of social identity theory and intergroup relations theory. Through the identification of alternative normative accounts in the choices that individuals make, this research is able to identify the complex social conditions of suicide terrorism and argues that the phenomenon is driven by powerful socio-cultural systems that prey on an individuals basic identity needs.
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Rodriguez, Cuevas Jose A. "The balloon effect and Mexican homeland security : what it means to be the weakest link in the Americas' security chain." Monterey, California. Naval Postgraduate School, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10945/10684.
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The sudden increase in crime and violence in some Mexican cities and regions has raised security concerns not only in Mexico, where President Felipe Calderon categorized these crimes as a threat to Mexican society, but also in the United States, where Homeland Secretary head Janet Napolitano referred to stemming the violence as "vital to core U.S. national interests." Mexico is concerned with the latent threat of violence spreading all over the nation, while the U.S. is trying to guard against spillover. Both governments are concerned by the increased violence and its impact on communities along the U.S.--Mexican border. Because of its geopolitical location along the southern U.S. border, Mexico is susceptible to possible undesired effects of U.S. strategies. These unintended, second-degree consequences are known as "balloon effects," after the airflow inside a balloon when constriction applied to one area sends pressure to another area in the balloon, thinning and weakening its wall. Since 2006, Mexico's strategy for countering transnational organized crime and related activities has sent the balloon effect in two directions: first, inside Mexico, where government actions have unbalanced the criminal structure, creating balloon effects inside Mexican territory; and second, within the U.S. while asking to escalate the Mexican effort to improve its anti-crime strategy with U.S. assistance has escalated conflict and led to a holistic strategy against transnational organized crime and related activities in the Americas.
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Tatla, Darshan Singh. "The politics of homeland : a study of the ethnic linkages and political mobilisation amongst Sikhs in Britain and North America." Thesis, University of Warwick, 1993. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/36072/.
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The transnational activities of migrant groups have become a major issue in recent decades. This study offers an analysis of overseas Sikhs' involvement in Punjab issues; especially concentrating on post-1984 period, when a vigorous support and mobilisation by overseas Sikhs for a 'homeland' has led to diplomatic strains between the Government of India and some of the states with large Sikh migrant population. This study concentrates upon the mobilisation among Sikh migrant groups in Canada, the United States and Great Britain -three countries which account for over three quarter of overseas Sikh population. The issue of 'homeland' among displaced minorities and migrant groups has usually been studied as a diasporic phenomenon. In a theoretical formulation preceding this study, the term diaspora and recent contributions to extend its scope to all such migrant groups who were neither forced out of their homelands nor had continuous historic connections is critically examined. Rejecting the wider definition advocated by more recent contributors to extend this term to any migrant group which maintains some connections with their land of origins, a case is made for only those migrant groups which are essentially involved in a demand for a secure and independent 'homeland' to be part of 'diaspora studies' Proceeding with migration history and experiences of Sikhs in Britain, Canada and the United States, the study explores the persistence and continuation of cultural and religious practices derived from their land of origins. Noting that neither the homeland for Sikhs was an unambiguous term till recently nor were they forced out from their homes, Sikh migrant groups provide an interesting but problematic example of transnational ethnic linkages. The next two chapters analyze the social, cultural and political links with the Punjab. The study then provides a description and analysis of Sikh mobilisation as a reaction to dramatic events in the Punjab in June 1984. The last chapter situates overseas Sikh mobilisation as a reaction to a crisis which has fermented some new elements of ethnic consciousness with consequent bearing upon the group identity and political mobilisation within overseas Sikh migrant groups. It also notes the impact of overseas Sikh mobilisation on the transnational relationship of concerned states and their respective policies towards Sikh migrant groups. This study of overseas Sikhs provides an interesting case of transnational politics where a crucial event in a migrant groups' home country could perceptibly shift their political loyalty towards an imaginary homeland, and how in the process, their land of origin becomes a 'threatened homeland' . The study thus illustrates the limitation of the existing analytical concepts dealing with the behaviour of migrant groups whose attachments to their roots are principally triggered into a virulent form of mobilisation due to a traumatic event in their religious centre. The study draws upon a wide range of sources including interviews with leading participants, and a thorough examination of ethnic Purijabi media of the United States, Canada and Great Britain. In addition it takes account of the growing body of secondary materials associated with the study of Sikhs in the Punjab.
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Tomblin, David Christian. "Managing Boundaries, Healing the Homeland: Ecological Restoration and the Revitalization of the White Mountain Apache Tribe, 1933 – 2000." Diss., Virginia Tech, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/27577.
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The main argument of this dissertation is that the White Mountain Apache Tribe's appropriation of ecological restoration played a vital role in reinstituting control over knowledge production and eco-cultural resources on the Fort Apache Indian Reservation in the second half of the twentieth century. As a corollary, I argue that the shift in knowledge production practices from a paternalistic foundation to a community-based approach resulted in positive consequences for the ecological health of the Apachean landscape and Apache culture. The democratization of science and technology on the reservation, therefore, proved paramount to the reestablishment of a relatively sustainable Apache society.
Beginning with the Indian New Deal, the White Mountain Apache slowly developed the capacity to employ ecological restoration as an eco-political tool to free themselves from a long history of Euro-American cultural oppression and natural resource exploitation. Tribal restoration projects embodied the dual political function of cultural resistance to and cultural exchange with Western-based land management organizations. Apache resistance challenged Euro-American notions of restoration, nature, and sustainability while maintaining cultural identity, reasserting cultural autonomy, and protecting tribal sovereignty. But at the same time, the Apache depended on cultural exchange with federal and state land management agencies to successfully manage their natural resources and build an ecologically knowledgeable tribal workforce.
Initially adopting a utilitarian conservation model of land management, restoration projects aided the creation of a relatively strong tribal economy. In addition, early successes with trout, elk, and forest restoration projects eventually granted the Tribe political leverage when they sought to reassume control over reservation resources from the Bureau of Indian Affairs and the Fish and Wildlife Service. Building on this foundation, Apache restoration work significantly diverged in character from the typical Euro-American restoration project by the 1990s. While striving toward self-sufficiency, the Tribe hybridized tribal cultural values with Western ecological values in their restoration efforts. These projects evolved the tripartite capacity to heal ecologically degraded reservation lands, to establish a degree of economic freedom from the federal government, and to restore cultural traditions. Having reversed their historical relationship of subjugation with government agencies, the Apache currently have almost full decision-making powers over tribal eco-cultural resources.<br>Ph. D.
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Holm, Andrea Hernandez, and Andrea Hernandez Holm. "Floating Borderlands: Chicanas and Mexicanas Moving Knowledge in the Borderlands." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/620872.
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As intolerance against Mexican Americans and Mexican migrants persists in the United States-- apparent in the passage of Arizona State Bill 1070, Arizona House Bill 2281, and multiple English-only laws-- Chicanas and Mexicanas continue to resist by sustaining relationships and knowledge through storytelling. This dissertation employs a floating borderlands framework to explore how Chicanas and Mexicanas in the United States-Mexico borderlands use storytelling in oral and written traditions to keep cultural and regional knowledge. Floating borderlands is an interdisciplinary framework that reveals survivance, that is, survival as an act of resistance, through cultural maintenance, agency, and creativity in lived experiences. Drawing upon concepts and research from disciplines that include Mexican American Studies, American Indian Studies, Gender and Women's Studies, and Education, floating borderlands reveals how storytelling helps Chicanas and Mexicanas maintain an understanding of home and homelands that facilitates resistance to obstacles such as racial and gender discrimination and challenges to their right to be in these spaces. This dissertation acknowledges multiple forms of knowledge keeping by Chicanas and Mexicanas throughout the last two centuries; recognizes intersectionality; and complicates or creates multiple layers in narratives of the U.S.-Mexico borderlands. This project is directly informed by narratives of Chicana and Mexicana life in the borderlands. It centers oral and written traditions, including my original poetry. Key words: Chicanas, Mexicanas, border, borderlands, floating borderlands, survivance, oral traditions, written traditions, home, homelands, migration, identity, cultural maintenance, poetry, story.
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Eppreh-Butet, Raphaël T. Yaovi. "La gestion de l’immigration illégale aux Etats-Unis d’Amérique et au Canada : l’amnistie comme une solution au problème de la migration irrégulière." Thesis, Paris 3, 2009. http://www.theses.fr/2009PA030090.
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Les Etats-Unis et le Canada sont confrontés au problème de l’immigration illégale. Pour endiguer le phénomène clandestin, les deux Etats ont recours à la régularisation des sans-papiers sur leur territoire en 1973 [Programme de Rectification du Statut, au Canada] et 1986 [Immigration Reform and Control Act aux Etats-Unis d’Amérique]. Quelle est la portée de la politique de régularisation et les enjeux de l’immigration aux Etats-Unis et au Canada ?<br>The United States of America [Immigration Reform and Control Act, 1986] and Canada [Adjustment of Status Program, 1973] resorted to amnesty in order to curb the growing complexities of illegal immigration. What was the impact of the legalization program, and the stakes relating to immigration in the United States and Canada ?
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Seidl, Troy H. "A perspective on American identity, anxiety, community cohesion, and homeland security from American Muslims and Americans perceived to be Muslims /." Diss., 2004. http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:3154569.
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Powers, Jillian. "Going Away to Find Home: A Comparative Study of Heritage/Homeland Tourism." Diss., 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10161/3855.
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<p>In this dissertation I explore the "homing desire" (Brah 1996:193) of American diasporas. I argue and show how identities are constructed as primordial. Specifically, I am interested in how homeland tourism, group tour experiences to ancestral homelands can be used as a "charter for new social projects" (Appadurai 1996:6) based around ancestral lands of origin and the qualities we associate with home. Therefore, this dissertation examines what happens when imagined communities (Anderson 1993) become briefly tangible.</p><p>I present analysis of participant observation and interview data from three different American populations to examine the very real desire to belong to a meaningful and worthwhile group. I map how secular college-aged American Jews, middle-class African Americans and white families with adopted Chinese daughters shape and define the imagined community through the brief face-to-face experience of the group homeland tour. </p><p>This dissertation takes the reader on tour, and analyzes the sites/sights of homeland travel, interactions between tourists, and interactions between tourists and homeland natives arguing that these experiences are consumed and interpreted to then define the individual and community's place in the social world and in the process influence domestic experiences of otherness. </p><p>Individuals engage with larger systems of organization that incorporate and implicate both the nation they reside within and the place they have chosen to visit, representing a distinctly Western and American path to imagined communities. While tourists look internationally to discover heritage and roots, I demonstrate how many expect and anticipate domestic changes and domestic acceptance of difference. In addition, tourism also facilitates global thinking, where homeland discoveries become examples of another sort of grounding in community, belonging to the cosmopolitan international global imagined. </p><p>In all these examples of empowerment and the assumed benefits of homeland explorations, we see the American, the transnational, and the global intersecting. This dissertation teases apart the multiple forms of movement occurring simultaneously that represent our contemporary moment. Therefore, I argue that this desire for rootedness and comfort that comes with knowing one's homeland reveals more about our contemporary moment and our individualistic approach to community consciousness than essential aspects of our identity and community. Homeland tours therefore provide Americans with experiences of international travel and a sense of global enlightenment, based not on heritage, but an understanding of global connectivity and power relations. </p><p>Through a comparative examination of three different engagements with homeland tourism, I examine how individuals not only tell a story to themselves about themselves, but also speak to the larger world. This dissertation therefore is a journey itself, a journey to belonging and discovery of community.</p><br>Dissertation
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Hasenstab, Robert John. "Agriculture, warfare, and tribalization in the Iroquois homeland of New York: A G.I.S. analysis of Late Woodland settlement." 1990. https://scholarworks.umass.edu/dissertations/AAI9035389.
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The evolution of Iroquoian culture coincided with the development of agriculture, warfare, and tribalization during the Late Woodland Period in the Northeast. Implicit in the currently-held in situ hypothesis is the assumption that these processes occurred endogenously, i.e., as local developments throughout the Iroquoian homeland, arising spontaneously from the adoption of maize horticulture. Two alternative hypotheses for Iroquoian social change are evaluated here; both assume that change was induced exogenously, from pressure generated from the interior of the continent, imposed on Iroquoia from the Ohio/Allegheny River drainage and the Lake Erie basin to the south and west. The three hypotheses are evaluated through an analysis of settlement in the New York Iroquoian homeland.
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SHE, CHIN-TSE, and 許經澤. "From 911 events touch on the construction of American''s DHS（The Department of Homeland Security）and R.O.C.''s anti-terrorism organizations." Thesis, 2003. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/96268814875348687557.
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碩士<br>國立臺北大學<br>公共行政暨政策學系碩士在職專班<br>91<br>As the scope of terrorism expands, places that are unlikely to be the victim of attacks have become the victims. From the September 11 attack in the U.S. to bombing in Zamboanga City of Philippines, it is apparent that the international terrorism has placed its foot in Asia. Although there is no sign of international terrorist group in Taiwan or showing that Taiwan is another target of the terrorist group, exploitation of the pivotal geographical location of Taiwan for attack base or gangway may harm the image of Taiwan in the world. Therefore, if the Taiwan government could initiate both establishment of a comprehensive anti-terrorist organization and improvement of operation, it would be able to prevent potential harm of international terrorism in Taiwan effectively.
Chapter 1 of this paper introduces the research motive, objective, methodology, scope, limitation, and reference. Chapter 2 describes the definition, types, and features of terrorism, as well as status quo and transformation of major international terrorist groups. Chapter 3 summarizes the September 11 attack in the U.S. and its impact and notice. Chapter 4 discusses the origins, organizational structures, and functions of the Department of Homeland Security in the U.S., and expounds the act of anti-terrorism employed by the U.S. and related predicaments. Chapter 5 reviews the structure of anti-terrorism organization in Taiwan, the reference to anti-terrorism laws, and strategic conducts by the organization. Chapter 6 presents suggestions to pitfalls and deficiencies of anti-terrorism in Taiwan.
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Chen, Yi-Yi, and 陳宜誼. "The consciousness of homeland in the overseas fiction of North America." Thesis, 2006. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/6g4s8q.
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碩士<br>淡江大學<br>中國文學系碩士在職專班<br>94<br>The so-called “Hua-Wien literature” was defined as Chinese Literature in broad definition. The overseas Chinese literature is a production when time keeps changing. The appearance of the overseas Chinese literature not only broadened the board of literature but also established the concept of multi- centered literature. The works of overseas fictions played a crucial part among overseas literature history, modern Chinese literature history, and Taiwanese literature history. Both of the expressions and interpretations in overseas fictions reflected the situation of that time and at the same time, showed the writers’ views of the situation. To understand the overseas fictions better, the collection and classification of the overseas fictions should be put more attention.
The thesis is introduced from two perspectives. From one side, the development of the overseas fictions of North America is introduced. At the same time, several pieces of works of the overseas fictions writers are provided. Three short fictions will be specifically analyzed and discussed. Finally, some suggestions and perspectives will be made on the current studies of overseas Chinese literature.
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Eltahawy, Nora. "Imagining sittee : constructions of homelands and grandmother narratives in Arab American literature." Thesis, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/2152/ETD-UT-2010-05-1374.
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This report examines the use of grandmother figures in the construction of imagined communities in Arab American literature. Through the lens of diaspora studies, it argues that grandmother figures become integral in the creation of an Arab American imagined community based on two main tropes: a theoretical collapse between notions of patriotism and the maternal figure (in which the homeland becomes the Motherland) and the tendency of second-generation Arab American authors to connect their immigrant grandmothers to ethnic homelands. In exploring this connection, the report argues that the creation of an Arab American imagined community is necessitated by anti-Arab racism in the United States and the need for the community’s authors to be seen in tandem with the literary traditions of other ethnic minorities in America. The report problematizes the imagined homeland by arguing that it is constructed on the basis of simplistic juxtapositions between different generations within the Arab American community, and ends by examining the anxiety that is generated when this juxtaposition and the imagined community are threatened.<br>text
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Espinosa, Gomez Fabian Alejandro. "Manuel del Socorro Rodriguez : del Reino a la República, la “archivada” felicidad de un ilustrado americano." Thèse, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/1866/18698.
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Mémoire présenté à la Faculté des arts et des sciences en vue de l’obtention du grade de M.A. (Maîtrise ès Arts) en Études Hispaniques option Langue et littérature.<br>Manuel del Socorro Rodriguez (1758-1819) est reconnu comme le père du journalisme colombien et comme partie intégrante de l'environnement des lumières dans Santafé de Bogotá. Cette recherche propose dans un premier temps un aperçu de la vie, de l’œuvre, et de l'héritage de l’auteur, en tant qu’éditeur des journaux Papel Periódico de la Ciudad de Santafé de Bogotá (1791-1797), Redactor Americano (1806-1808), Alternativo del Redactor Americano (1807-1809), Los Crepúsculos de España y de Europa (1809) et La Constitución Feliz (1810). Le document El Reino Feliz (1794) dans lequel Rodríguez a fait un rapport des maux qui affligent la société néo-grenadine sera pris en compte. L'analyse proposée s'attachera principalement à comprendre l’œuvre de Rodríguez comme l'ensemble des efforts personnels d'un citoyen de la République des Lettres, cherchant à atteindre et concrétiser un bonheur insaisissable mais nécessaire, pour sa patrie d'adoption. Cette section couvre aussi les vicissitudes rencontrées par l’auteur lors de l'exercice de ses fonctions en tant que bibliothécaire public, journaliste et loyal sujet du Roi, face au défi de concilier sa condition de catholique avec celle d’homme éclairé, son américanité avec son hispanité, son inclination pour la tradition avec sa passion pour la modernité.
Les transcriptions de 12 documents d’archive seront ensuite proposées : il s’agit de l'échange épistolaire entre Rodríguez et les agents de l'ordre monarchique espagnol. Parmi ces transcriptions on trouve 3 déjà présentées dans une recherche précédente et 9 transcriptions inédites. La lecture de ces transcriptions expose les concepts développés dans ce mémoire. Ils mettent en lumière la relation entre les idées du bibliothécaire, exprimées dans la sphère privée (quoique officielle), avec celles exposées dans ses journaux.
Enfin, le lecteur sera introduit à la notion de bonheur au XVIIIe siècle et début du XIXe. Sa réalisation était un des objectifs des Lumières et, par conséquent, plusieurs voies ont été proposées pour l’atteindre.<br>Manuel del Socorro Rodriguez (1758-1819) is recognized as the father of Colombian journalism and as a participant in the Enlightened milieu of Santafé de Bogotá. This research proposes, in a first chapter, an approach to his life, his work and his legacy, tracing his work as editor of the Papel Periódico de Santafé de Bogotá (1791-1797), the Redactor Americano (1806-1808), the Alternativo del Redactor Americano (1807-1809), Los Crepúsculos de España y de Europa (1809) and La Constitución Feliz (1810). This chapter also introduces the document El Reino Feliz (1794), in which Rodriguez produces a report on the evils afflicting the society of New Granada. The proposed analysis seeks to understand the work of Rodriguez as a set of the efforts of a citizen of the Republic of Letters to achieve an elusive happiness in his adopted homeland. This section will also deal with the vicissitudes that this lettered, public librarian, newspaper publisher and enlightened subject, lived through, facing the challenge of reconciling his Catholicism and his enlightened views, his americanity and his hispanity, his deep respect for tradition and his strong passion for modernity.
Then, we present a set of 12 transcriptions. These are excerpts from the epistolary exchange generated between Rodríguez and agents of the Spanish monarchic system. Among these transcriptions, the reader is going to find 3 already presented in a previous research and 9 unpublished transcriptions. This exercise allows the reader to see the relationship between Rodriguez’s ideas, expressed within the private sphere (although official), with those formulated in his newspapers.
Finally, the reader is introduced to the concept of happiness in the XVIIIth and early XIXth century. Happiness was a main goal of the enlightened world and numerous ideas were produced to achieve this objective.<br>Manuel del Socorro Rodríguez (1758-1819) es reconocido como padre del periodismo colombiano y como participante del entorno ilustrado de Santafé de Bogotá. Esta investigación propone, en un primer instante, una aproximación a su vida, obra y legado, rastreando su labor como editor del Papel Periódico de la Ciudad de Santafé de Bogotá (1791-1797), del Redactor Americano (1806-1808), del Alternativo del Redactor Americano (1807-1809), de Los Crepúsculos de España y de Europa (1809) y de La Constitución Feliz (1810). También se utilizará el documento El Reino Feliz (1794), en el cual Rodríguez (MdSR) produce un informe de los males que aquejan a la sociedad neogranadina. El análisis propuesto se encamina a comprender la obra de MdSR como el conjunto de esfuerzos propios de un ciudadano de la República de las Letras, tendiente a alcanzar y a concretar una felicidad esquiva pero imprescindible para su patria adoptiva. Se presentarán los esfuerzos de este letrado, bibliotecario público, periodista y vasallo leal, ante el reto de conciliar su condición de católico con la de ilustrado, su americanidad con su hispanidad, su inclinación por lo tradicional con su pasión por la modernidad.
Posteriormente se propondrá un conjunto de doce transcripciones de documentos de archivo formado por tres transcripciones elaboradas en una investigación anterior y nueve inéditas. Todas ellas se ocupan del intercambio epistolar establecido entre MdSR y estamentos del orden monárquico español, y que sirven para exponer nociones desarrolladas en este trabajo. Ellas permiten ver la relación entre las ideas del bibliotecario, expresadas dentro del ámbito de lo privado (aunque oficial), con aquellas formuladas en sus publicaciones.
Finalmente, se presenta al lector el concepto de felicidad durante el siglo XVIII y comienzos del XIX. Su consecución era una de los fines del mundo ilustrado y en consecuencia diversos caminos fueron propuestos para alcanzarla.
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Lien, Chih-Yi, and 連芝儀. "The Concept of Homeland among the Chinese Americans in Amy Tan's The Bonesetter's Daughter." Thesis, 2014. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/07444344505850993807.
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碩士<br>中國文化大學<br>英國語文學系<br>102<br>People are cultural. When a person was born, there is always a connection between self-identity and the country he or she comes from. Through globalization, many migrants move from country to country. The interaction between cultures has become more frequent. The collision in cultural identity seems unavoidable. People move to new countries to seek better life. The connection with their mother countries is still there. Therefore, the migrants try to find a new sense of belonging to the new homeland and are still bound with the original one.
This is the diaspora phenomenon caused by human migrations, which break the original connection with homeland cultural identity. When living abroad the migrants would rather bear the strong feelings of nostalgia than when returning to their homelands. This thesis would focus on the Chinese Americans’ tough living experience in Amy Tan’s novel The Bonesetter’s Daughter, aiming at analyzing the different perceptions of the new homeland, America, between the older generation of Chinese immigrants and their descendents. The differences in perceptions clearly show the changes in Chinese Americans’ cultural identity.
This study discusses the concept of homeland and cultural identities through three different generations in Amy Tan’s The Bonesetter’s Daughter. The first Chapter defines diaspora and different types of migration. In addition, it briefly introduces Amy Tan, one of the famous Asian American writers and her novel in question. The second Chapter illustrates the patterns of diaspora, contrasting the British diaspora from the west to the east and the Chinese diaspora from the east to the west. These two kinds of diaspora represent the two sides of cultural identitiy. The third Chapter analyzes the changes in concept of homeland in the three major characters. Through the different concepts of homeland, they are confronted with different difficulties of self-identity. The last Chapter is the conclusion of the study which reveals how the migrants and their descendents reconstruct their self-identity and accept who they really are and what their new homeland really is as well.
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Rezek, Tomáš. "Vliv kybernetického terorismu na americkou bezpečnostní politiku." Doctoral thesis, 2015. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-333797.
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(English) The aim of this dissertation is to answer the question of whether the U.S. security policy is influenced by the threat of cyber terrorism. The dissertation is divided into chapters that can be regarded as steps in a logical reasoning process. In the first chapter, cyber space is introduced and described to illustrate its importance and complexity. The next chapter analytically compares various definitions of terrorism, and partially rejects the initial hypothesis that cyber terrorism is not included in the general definition of terrorism. The following chapter statistically analyzes the available data on terrorist groups and terrorist attacks to empirically confirm the hypothesis that terrorism is still a real threat to American security. The analysis actually proves that the threat of terrorism has not decreased in relation to the number of terrorist groups. It also shows that the number of terrorist attacks against the U.S. targets has significantly decreased in the United States, while terrorist actions have been increasing constantly on a global level. The analysis shows that the success rate of terrorists attacks does not form a time series, and therefore each terrorist attack has to be examined individually to assess its success probability. The following analysis reviews the...
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Ryvolová, Karolína. "Komparační studie čtyř romských životních příběhů." Doctoral thesis, 2015. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-336108.
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The objective of this thesis is to do a comparative analysis of four Romany life-stories in prose from different parts of the world and identify features which may justly be called characteristic of Romany writing. The comparison of Victor Vishnevsky's Memories of a Gypsy, Mikey Walsh's Gypsy Boy and Gypsy Boy on the Run, Andrej Giňa's Paťiv. Ještě víme, co je úcta and Irena Eliášová's Naše osada yields valuable insights into how Romany writers construct their identity and to what extent their current work relates to the existing literary genres. Because of Romany studies' multidisciplinary nature, the extensive introduction lays the theoretical foundations for the analysis. I proceed from the characteristics of Romany studies in general in part 1.2 to the way it was practised during my undergraduate years in Prague as opposed to the Western tradition (part 1.3). Using a case study of the schism Romany studies are currently facing in the Czech Republic, in part 1.4 I attempt to illustrate the more general epistemological challenges the field has been grappling with between essentialist/primordialist and radical constructivist views. As there is a definite scarcity of theoretical literature conceptualising Romany writing, in part 1.5 of the introduction the existing body of work is assessed and found...