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BigFoot, Dolores Subia. "Parent training for American Indian families /." Full-text version available from OU Domain via ProQuest Digital Dissertations, 1989.
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Lin, Yan. ""Cricket is in the blood" (Re)producing Indianness: Families negotiating diasporic identity through cricket in Singapore." Thesis, University of Canterbury. Sociology and Anthropology, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10092/996.
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Diaspora invokes a way of living. Geographic displacement, either voluntary or forced, brings about heightened processes of negotiation between the past, the present and the future. Effectively, diaspora creates a space for dialogue about notions of individual subjectivity and group representation, as well as global and local belonging. These processes contribute pivotally to the identity development of diasporic people, and this plays out continually as is evident in the choices diasporic people make about the way they live. This thesis explores one aspect of the lives of elite diasporic Indian families in Singapore - cricket. The central question is how these diasporic people become 'Indian' through their participation in the sport. There are two major components - cricket and family. Firstly, I identify cricket as a site of diasporic negotiation in the lives of these Indians. I explore their practice of this activity as a physical and ideological space in and through which they negotiate their identity. In a country where cricket is not common practice, the Indian domination of the widespread 'public culture' of their country of origin reflects their intensified investment in Indianness. This results in the creation of a minoritized and largely exclusive social space. By participating in cricket, they play out their diasporic Indian identity. This is a myriad process of social construction and transformation of Indianness at individual and collective levels. Through active and concerted social labour in the cricket arena, translation of relevant Indianness into a foreign setting effectively creates a new Indian ethnicity. It is the very negotiation and mobilization of their ethnicity that facilitates the thriving of this elite Indian diaspora. The other major component in this thesis is that of the family in diaspora. This is important because most of the elite Indians moved to Singapore as nuclear family units. Decisions made and the structures of their lives take into account the impact upon the household at individual and collective levels. I explore and highlight the importance not only of families doing diaspora together, but that of the varied individual contributions of family members to cricket and how their various parts support one another's negotiation of their Indianness. Divided broadly into three categories of fathers, mothers and children (male and female), I look at their different ideals, attitudes and involvement in the sport. From my research, I found that fathers were the ideological spearhead and instigators of interest for cricket within families; mothers played support roles; and children participated for a variety of reasons. Boys played because it was deemed the natural thing for Indian boys as it is 'in their blood'. Girls on the other hand, played for a variety of different reasons which differed from their male counterparts. Their participation was a concerted effort in an attempt to get forms of Indianness that are reflected and constructed in cricket, 'into their blood'. This thesis is framed by the concept of doing Indian diaspora in Singapore. I explore the cricket arena as a key site of identity negotiation in three realms - the individual, the family, and the wider Indian network/community. This analysis seeks to highlight the importance of each realm in reinforcing and supporting one another's projects of constant and complex formation processes of Indianness.
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Micko, Karen J. "Descriptive cases of gifted Indian American students and their families." University of Toledo / OhioLINK, 2015. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=toledo1440174312.
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Harakraj, Nirvana. "Resilience in Indian families in which a member has died." Thesis, University of Zululand, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/10530/1160.
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Thesis presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for a degree of Masters of Arts in the Department of Counselling Psychology at the University of Zululand, South Africa, 2005.The present study aimed to identify those resiliency factors that enabled Indian families to transform and adapt after the loss of a family member. Using a convenience sampling method, thirty families were identified. Open-ended questions and the following measurement scales were completed by the parent and an adolescent of each selected family: a biographical questionnaire, Social Support Index, Relative and Friend Support Index, Family Problem Solving Communication Index, Family Hardiness Index, The family Attachment and Changeability Index 8, and Family Time and Routine Index. Results show that open communication between family members, religion, support of relatives and friends, problem solving communication, family hardiness, mobilization of the family to get help, redefinition of the problem, family time and routine were the resiliency factors identified in this study.
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Lagercrantz, Anna. "The Daugther in Law : Integration and Identity with in the Indian families." Thesis, Umeå universitet, Arkitekthögskolan vid Umeå universitet, 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-71535.
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Kakkar, P. (Pooja). "Cultural variations on parenting:a cross cultural analysis between Indian and Finnish families." Master's thesis, University of Oulu, 2016. http://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:oulu-201606042357.
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This study examines the cross-cultural impact on parenting orientations of Indian families raising their children in Finland. In order to study the impact of Finnish culture on Indian parenting, parenting orientations of Finnish and Indian families living in Finland were studied. The parenting practices and associated cultural values and beliefs were studied intergenerationally and cross-culturally. Hall’s (1989) Cultural Iceberg Model is used to look at the visible and invisible aspects of a culture and its relation with parenting practices. Parenting philosophies with respect to the support and encouragement in learning process, parental control, academic aspirations, gender perspective and cultural beliefs were the specified areas that were explored. Semi-structured interviews were conducted on 4 Finnish and 5 Indian parents, who have at least one child of age 7 and onward. Phenomenology was used as a qualitative research method.
The research findings show that Indian parents, who were raised in a traditional-patriarch social hierarchy in India, are raising their children in Finland by providing them partial autonomy, encouragement and support, taking active interest in their lives, promoting them to be independent and preparing them for the future. Indian parents have accepted the cultural differences of Finnish culture in their lives but the root values of Indian-ness are not comprised upon. This can be observed when their parenting practices include moral values, extra protectiveness and restricting their children on the interrelationships with the opposite sex. The acceptance of cultural differences by Indian parents are reflected in their changed methods of discipline, less hierarchical and open communication, introducing a range of hobbies to their children and making an active effort to connect to their children.
No gender biases have been noticed in the parenting practices of Indian and Finnish parents. The amount of academic pressure by parents is less as compared to India but the expectations from children to succeed and opt for a noble profession is eminent. The term ‘third culture kids’ have been used for the children of the Indian parents, who are being raised in Finnish society. The study showed cross-cultural effect on these third culture kids, who have different worldviews, than their parents and identify themselves as a global citizen rather than embracing either Indian or Finnish identity.
Parenting orientations of Finnish families depicted two-way communication, supporting children to pursue individual interests and enough liberty on children’s pathways. Their parenting and social values of individual identity has a strong impact on Indian children as well who are raised here. The strong foundation of Finnish society is based on some of the moral values like ‘Sisu’ meaning Perseverance and Dedication, Trust, Honesty and Punctuality.
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Shah, Sheetal R. "Understanding intergenerational family conflict : a case study of Hindu Asian Indian American families /." Available to subscribers only, 2009. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1967969461&sid=8&Fmt=2&clientId=1509&RQT=309&VName=PQD.
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Mehta, Pangri G. "Behind the Curtain: Cultural Cultivation, Immigrant Outsiderness, and Normalized Racism against Indian Families." Scholar Commons, 2017. http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/6899.
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This qualitative dissertation uses an Indian dance studio based in the suburbs of a mid-sized Florida city as an entry point to examine how racism impacts the local upwardly mobile Asian Indian community. Utilizing two and a half years of ethnographic data collected at the studio as a Bollywood instructor, 24 in-depth interviews with Indian immigrant parents and their children, 12 self-portraits drawn by children during their interviews, and home visits with 13 families, this project examines the strategies of accommodation and resistance that Indian families use to construct a sense of home and belonging. Applying socialization, visual research methods, critical race, and feminist scholarship to the exploration of how the local Indian immigrant community builds a sense of home and belonging within a nation whose success is a product of racial domination, this project makes four innovative and distinctive contributions to sociological research on socialization, U.S. immigration, and contemporary race relations.
In the first data chapter, I coin and develop the term cultural cultivation to describe strategic ethno-cultural socialization efforts immigrant parents use to preserve a culture ‘left behind’ (Ram 2005). Cultural cultivation adds a nuanced dimension to ethno-cultural socialization studies by demonstrating that these efforts are laborious, often regarded as women’s work, and effectively operate as an ‘added step’ to Hochschild and Machung’s (2003) work on the “second shift.” The second data chapter utilizes an innovative research technique of having children draw self-portraits. While cultural cultivation helps children develop a meaningful attachment to Indian culture, self-portraits and interview data uncovered experiences of being teased and feeling ‘left out.’ As a result, many children forged what Portes and Rumbaut (2001) call a “reactive ethnicity” as a way to cope with prejudice and discrimination and construct a sense of identity and belonging. The third data chapter examines the ways families minimized and internalized experiences of prejudice and discrimination. Rather than recognizing them as a part of structural racism, many immigrant parents regarded racial offenses as a deserved response to individual misbehaviors or inadequacies that were to be pointed out and corrected. This internalization prompted several of the interviewees to police their and their children’s actions when in the presence of non-Indians in an attempt to preemptively minimize prejudicial statements and discrimination. For the last data chapter, by revealing the enduring hardships related to socialization and assimilation, I argue that high levels of assimilation and acculturation were also commonly accompanied by what I call immigrant outsiderness, or the subjective dimensions of the migration experience which are marked by 1. Lack of cultural inclusion, 2. Lack of social inclusion, and 3. Feelings of emotional disconnect. Data demonstrate that in spite of meeting the objective benchmarks typically associated with successful structural integration, acculturation, and assimilation, the immigrant experiences of this “model minority” are bounded and characterized by cultural and social exclusion as well as an emotional disconnect. This dissertation concludes by urging both a critical exploration and integration of how Asian Indians and South Asians fit into the contemporary racial landscape beyond terms like “model minority” and “honorary white” so that we can have a more honest and complex understanding of the role racial domination plays in our everyday lives.
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Shah, Sheetal Rajendra. "Understanding Intergenerational Family Conflict: A Case Study of Hindu Asian Indian American Families." OpenSIUC, 2009. https://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/dissertations/100.
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Intergenerational family conflict is an important experience to study in Hindu Asian Indian families, given the process of acculturation that occurs for immigrant families as well as how Hindu religious beliefs influence duties towards the family (dharma). The current study was designed to understand the various factors that influence intergenerational family conflict including acculturation and religious values in Hindu Asian Indian families. This study is a qualitative group (family) interview investigation conducted in order to identify sources of intergenerational family conflict, understand the retention of cultural values within a family given the process of acculturation, understand if and how Hinduism (religious values) plays a role in intergenerational family conflict and family cohesiveness given acculturation, and find strategies families use to overcome identified sources of intergenerational family conflict. A grounded theory approach was used to study the different families (cases). Separate results for parents and siblings are presented and overall findings are discussed. A theory about understanding conflict for the Hindu Asian Indian family is presented.
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Naidoo, Suraya. "Attitudes and perceptions of marriage and divorce among Indian Muslim students." Thesis, Rhodes University, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1003077.
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This study explores the question of religion and ethnicity as a source of family diversity and ideology. An ideal-typical "traditional Muslim family ideology" was developed and tested. Eight Indian Muslim students at Rhodes University were asked about their attitudes and perceptions of marriage and family life, to determine the particular type of family ideology that these students embraced. Family-related issues such as marriage; the division of labour; gender roles; the extended family system; divorce; and polygamy were addressed. On the basis of the research results, it was found that these students largely adopted the "traditional Muslim family ideology". Religion and ethnicity were found to play an important role, in the make-up of these students' perception of marriage and family life, and a strong preference for the extended family was shown.
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Alakbarzade, V. "Defining the genetic basis of three hereditary neurological conditions in families from the Indian subcontinent." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 2016. http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/1496816/.
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Neurogenetic studies have revolutionised our understanding of the genetic and molecular basis of inherited neurological disorders, primarily as a result of the identification of single disease-causing genes. The incidence of such disorders is increased amongst populations with common shared ancestry or a high rate of consanguinity. Hence, the investigation of inherited neurological conditions in genetic isolates provides a robust opportunity to define the molecular pathogenic basis of these conditions. Neurological and neurodevelopmental disorders present important public health issues in the developing countries in the Indian subcontinent. The global burden of these disorders is worsened by the lack of targeted research funding and relevant in-country research capacity. This project, undertaken as part of a wider research study investigating inherited disorders in the Indian subcontinent, aimed to define the molecular genetic bases of three extended families with distinct neurological and neurodevelopmental disorders. In the first family with multiple individuals affected by a severe autosomal recessive form of neurodevelopmental delay with microcephaly, genetic studies identified mutation in a gene (MFSD2A), not previously associated with inherited disease, which led to a reduction of fatty acid transportation in patients homozygous for the disease-causing mutation. In the second family, genotyping identified a complex chromosomal rearrangement associated with diverse clinical outcomes including Wolf Hirschorn-, 3p deletion-, and 4p duplication syndrome, among ten chromosomally-imbalanced affected individuals. In the third family, a duplication event on chromosome 15q24 encompassing the LINGO1 gene was identified as a likely cause of dystonic tremor in affected individuals. Together these molecular discoveries provide fundamentally important biological insight into the pathogenic basis of abnormal brain growth and control of movement with the potential diagnostic and treatment applications.
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George, Sam. "Families in diaspora : a pastoral and missiological study of Asian Indian Christians in Greater Chicago." Thesis, University of Liverpool, 2013. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.722146.
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Daga, Suchi S. "Maternal Meta-Emotion and Child Socio-Emotional Functioning in Immigrant Indian and White American Families." Miami University / OhioLINK, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1355896051.
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Zechella, Anusha N. "Parenting of Children with Developmental Disorders in Asian Indian Families in the United States of America." Miami University / OhioLINK, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1407773610.
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Banford, Alyssa J. Wickrama Thulitha. "The association between marital functioning, family closeness, and tsunami related health moderation by religiosity /." Auburn, Ala, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10415/1777.
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Bollinger, Susan Marie. "FAME -Families Achieving Mathematical Excellence the process of developing a family involvement program for a Western rural middle school serving American Indian students /." Thesis, Montana State University, 2010. http://etd.lib.montana.edu/etd/2010/bollinger/BollingerS0510.pdf.
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Family is an important element in the cultural identity of this American Indian community so involving families in the education of their children is crucial. This mixed methods study documents the process of implementing a family involvement program at a rural school serving predominantly low-income families near an American Indian reservation. The results showed there is a strong sense of responsibility among the parents for the education of their children. Parents and students were found to work together to improve their learning by reviewing homework together and doing learning activities at home. Interview data stressed the importance of developing a welcoming learning environment at school and at afterschool events that is culturally sensitive. Families need to feel they are welcomed and respected. The structure of afterschool events must be flexible and familiar for continued participation. Facilitators of family involvement programs in American Indian communities need to design programs that are culturally responsive to the local tribe and community, supporting the comfort and learning of the participants, providing materials for everyone to take home, and bringing the program to the people.
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McCord, Bethany L. "Asian Indian Immigrant and White American Maternal Emotion Socialization, Child Emotion Regulation, and Child Behavior Problems." Miami University / OhioLINK, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1408012765.
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Kumar, Karunambika. "Cultural factors in housing : building a conceptual model for reference in the Indian context." Virtual Press, 1996. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/1033632.
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This paper presents a conceptual framework of important cultural values, activity patterns and environmental patterns in the home environment of a typical middle-income family in Madras a South Indian City. The position of this paper is that cultural variables should play an important part in determining the form of housing; they should be explicitly accounted for and values should be related to the different components of the built environment. This framework is intended to serve as a guide suggesting programmatic criteria for design of culturally-responsive housing. As it relates abstract values to components of the built environment, and design patterns, the framework includes descriptive graphics and images.The main body of the framework is a summary of societal and activity patterns, and elements of design. A descriptive analysis of societal and family patterns looks at the interactions between society, family and the individual. Activity patterns in and around the home with their symbolic associations are examined in detail. Implications for the home environment are drawn from the observations made in these sections. This is followed by a look at the elements of design that have been manipulated in existing house forms to create culturally appropriate environments.The concluding part of the framework presents a way in which the earlier observations can be assimilated into the design process. A sample set of environmental patterns are presented using images, with their cultural purpose, design descriptions and variants. This is followed by a matrix where family types, individual roles and activities are related to the environmental qualities and in some cases to sample environmental patterns.The research involved anthropological studies for an understanding of the cultural elements like family and kinship structure, myths and beliefs, values and priorities, etc., in the Indian context. Analysis of changing house forms in response to social and cultural changes in history, and designs of culture sensitive architects, helped to identify the environmental components that relate to specific values. Christopher Alexander's idea of `patterns' was used as a tool to translate abstract cultural criteria into recognizable environmental settings.Department of Architecture
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Hari, Amrita. "Indian hi-tech immigrants in Canada : emerging gendered divisions of labour." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2011. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:985d018c-5772-40b7-a6f3-82712ff62d96.
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In this thesis, I draw on the particular experiences of Indian hi-tech immigrants arriving in a growing Canadian technological cluster, the Waterloo Region, located in south-western Ontario. This bilateral pattern of international labour migration between India and Canada reflects both nationsʼ efforts to enhance their economic competitiveness in a global knowledge economy: India as a global exporter and Canada as an importer of knowledge professionals. The stereotypical association of Indian nationals with technology work brings both restrictions and opportunities for Indian hi-tech immigrants navigating a racialised as well as gendered technology labour market in the Waterloo Region. My main aim is to reveal a microcosm of gendered negotiations involving individual economic migrants, their skilled spouses, their employers and the welfare state, particularly in the guise of officials regulating migration and access to childcare. The complex set of individual behaviours, ideologies, attitudes and practices all contribute to the emergence and maintenance of, as well as challenges to, particular gendered divisions of productive and reproductive work among these new entrants to Canada, as they lose the significant employment, social and familial networks and supports that typically are available in India. These Indian newcomer families view their responsibilities to their family to be as significant as their engagement in the Canadian labour market, as well as the advancement of their individual careers. In practice, however, familial responsibilities remain a more significant aspect of womenʼs lives, reproducing gendered divisions of both paid and unpaid work that mirror traditional gender roles and ideologies. The labour market participation of this particular group of Indian hi-tech immigrants, and especially professional immigrant mothers, is limited by the non-recognition of foreign credentials and cultural and/or racial discrimination but perhaps to an even greater extent by the lack of sufficient provisions for reproductive work under Canadaʼs liberal welfare state.
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Dunne, Nikki. "Who cares? : Indian nurses 'on the move' and how their transnational migration for care work shapes their multigenerational relationships of familial care over time." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/31425.
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This thesis explores how migration for care work shapes Indian nurses' multigenerational relationships of familial care over time. Using qualitative research methods, it interrogates the intertwining of economic and non-economic factors underpinning the entry and continued participation of this group of women and men in the nursing field and international nursing labour markets. The thesis is broadly informed by a relational approach to care. More specifically, the thesis draws on feminist theories on care as a lens for analysing the migration of nurses from poorer regions to wealthier regions, as well as a transnational care framework to analyse the care relations that nurses maintain and sustain in the context of their migration. In paying attention to changes over the life course and participants' constructions of their future, a focus on the temporal adds to existing frameworks for theorising. Through an analysis of the nurses' personal accounts, this project examines the connections between undertaking the care of patients in British hospitals and nursing homes at the same time as caring for their own families, both in India and the UK. Drawing on in-depth qualitative interviews with 25 Indian women and men working as nurses and carers in the UK, the thesis demonstrates how nurse migration is underpinned by 1) the structural and gendered inequalities that drive migration and caregiving, as well as 2) the moral values that sustain multigenerational care between family members that 3) change over time. Firstly, the thesis highlights how the socioeconomic conditions in India, the structural demands for nurses in the British health care system, gender and racial hierarchies within the nursing field, and the colonial relationship between India and the UK create the conditions that have enabled Indian nurses to enter the British labour market. This reveals how a complex array of intersecting policy contexts on labour, migration and healthcare shape the practices of reciprocal care in the nurses' resident and transnational families. The transnational care practices that emerge out of these contexts are entangled with the nurses' insertion into the global labour market. Secondly, the thesis reveals how multidirectional and asymmetrical reciprocal care relationships between nurses and their families also underpin this form of migration. The analysis finds that culturally informed values regarding care for family is a central factor in stimulating and reproducing nurse migration. The nurses' consistently present accounts of decision-making regarding past and imagined future migrations and work in terms of caregiving and care-receiving, with familial care duties and obligations frequently mapping onto the migration opportunities engendered by nursing. This care in turn circulates between different family members, in different locations, to differing degrees, over the life course. Lastly, by drawing attention to the changes that occur over personal, migration and family life courses, temporality is identified as a central dimension of nurse migration and transnational family life. Aspirations and hopes reveal the importance of imagined futures for reproducing nurse migration and transnational family care. Focusing on this complex intersection through the personal accounts of the nurses, I argue in this thesis that migration for care work both shapes and is shaped by multigenerational relationships of familial care over time. In doing so, the analysis draws attention to the mediating factors that impact upon the ways in which this care has been exchanged over time, paying special attention to (re)negotiations of childcare and eldercare over time. By focusing on the creative and innovative ways in which the nurses navigate the obstacles to caring for family in the context of migration, the thesis contributes to the growing body of literature that questions representations of victimhood often imposed on migrant women from the global south. Examining the family care dimension of nurse migration and its changes over the life course is essential for better understanding the broader dynamics of the overseas nursing workforce and the factors influencing their arrival, settlement or departure from the UK, as well as how family relationships shape and are shaped by international migration for care work. Overall, the thesis contributes to the empirical basis for a revaluing of care that takes place within and across borders.
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Cligrow, Carrie M. "Pediatric Chronic Illness: How East Indian Children and Their Mothers Negotiate Culture and Hospitalization." Ohio University / OhioLINK, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1269884573.
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Thompson, Brenda M. "Asian-named minority groups in a British school system: A study of the education of the children of immigrants of Indian, Pakistani or Bangladeshi origin from the Indian sub-continent or East Africa in the City of Bradford." Thesis, University of Bradford, 1991. http://hdl.handle.net/10454/2814.
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This thesis was planned as an -interdisciplinary work, a possible exemplar of 'a
peace study' (see Appendix 5).
It offers an analysis of the situation of the Asian children of immigrant
families, socially and racially disadvantaged in Britain, in the Bradford school
system from the mid-1970's to 1980*, and their relative success in terms of
external examination assessment in comparison with their peers. This is seen
against the backcloth of pioneering Local Authority policies to support their
education and observations of practice in schools. The findings are generalised as
models of what is perceived by the policy-makers and practitioners to be progress
towards racial justice and peace.
It is argued that the British school system has shown limited facility to offer
equal opportunity of success to pupils in socially disadvantaged groups and that this
is borne out in an analysis of the situation of the Asian pupils in the County
Upper schools in Bradford (CB), less likely to be allocated to external
examination-orientated groups or to gain success in these than their peers. There
are indications that their potential may not be being realised. It is argued that
while language support for the bilingual child is important, account should also be
taken of a more general cultural dominance in the school system and stereotyped
low expectations from teachers which may feed racial bias in institutions.
The data show that the LEA policies, though benevolent in intention,
demonstrate institutional racism in effect. With four case studies from observations
in Bradford schools, models are developed for practice that has potential for
power-sharing and greater equity of opportunity -for pupils, involving respect for
cultural diversity and antiracist education strategies supporting and supported by
community participation in schools. It is argued that white educationists need to
listen to black clients, pupils and their parents, involving them in dialogue to
ascertain their real needs, to implement appropriate policy.
As there was a considerable lapse of time between the field work research and
writing up of this thesis, and its final presentation, an addendum (with bibliography)
reviews some of the research and literature in the fleld since 1980. This situates the field
work historically. The issues raised and discussed in the context of the 1970's are still far
from being solved. The additional work stregthens, rather than changes my original
conclusion that society is locked into a cycle of inequality. A counter-hegemony must
emerge from 'grass-roots', community initiatives with a values-base linked not to self-seeking
or confrontational power group politics but to a notion of the common good.
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Thompson, Brenda Mary. "Asian-named minority groups in a British school system : a study of the education of the children of immigrants of Indian, Pakistani or Bangladeshi origin from the Indian sub-continent or East Africa in the City of Bradford." Thesis, University of Bradford, 1991. http://hdl.handle.net/10454/2814.
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This thesis was planned as an -interdisciplinary work, a possible exemplar of 'a peace study' (see Appendix 5). It offers an analysis of the situation of the Asian children of immigrant families, socially and racially disadvantaged in Britain, in the Bradford school system from the mid-1970's to 1980*, and their relative success in terms of external examination assessment in comparison with their peers. This is seen against the backcloth of pioneering Local Authority policies to support their education and observations of practice in schools. The findings are generalised as models of what is perceived by the policy-makers and practitioners to be progress towards racial justice and peace. It is argued that the British school system has shown limited facility to offer equal opportunity of success to pupils in socially disadvantaged groups and that this is borne out in an analysis of the situation of the Asian pupils in the County Upper schools in Bradford (CB), less likely to be allocated to external examination-orientated groups or to gain success in these than their peers. There are indications that their potential may not be being realised. It is argued that while language support for the bilingual child is important, account should also be taken of a more general cultural dominance in the school system and stereotyped low expectations from teachers which may feed racial bias in institutions. The data show that the LEA policies, though benevolent in intention, demonstrate institutional racism in effect. With four case studies from observations in Bradford schools, models are developed for practice that has potential for power-sharing and greater equity of opportunity -for pupils, involving respect for cultural diversity and antiracist education strategies supporting and supported by community participation in schools. It is argued that white educationists need to listen to black clients, pupils and their parents, involving them in dialogue to ascertain their real needs, to implement appropriate policy. As there was a considerable lapse of time between the field work research and writing up of this thesis, and its final presentation, an addendum (with bibliography) reviews some of the research and literature in the fleld since 1980. This situates the field work historically. The issues raised and discussed in the context of the 1970's are still far from being solved. The additional work stregthens, rather than changes my original conclusion that society is locked into a cycle of inequality. A counter-hegemony must emerge from 'grass-roots', community initiatives with a values-base linked not to self-seeking or confrontational power group politics but to a notion of the common good.
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Natarajan, Anusha Devi. "CULTURE AND PERCEIVED PARENTING STYLE: IMPLICATIONS FOR INTERPERSONAL AND ACADEMIC FUNCTIONING IN INDIAN AND AMERICAN COLLEGE STUDENTS." Miami University / OhioLINK, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1306110491.
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Iqbal, Humera. "Parenting and child development in multi-ethnic Britain : a study of British Indian, British Pakistani and non-immigrant White families living in the UK." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2012. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/245623.
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Past research has neglected second generation onward immigrant families in Britain as they further acculturate into host society culture, as well as the experiences of majority ethnic-group families in relation to second generation immigrant families. The central focus of this study was an in-depth assessment of the similarities and differences in parenting practices, parent-child relationships, child psychological adjustment and parental social experiences in British-born Indian, Pakistani and non-immigrant White mothers with 5-7 year old children living in culturally diverse areas of the UK. This is the first in-depth comparative study focusing on normative second generation families rather than disadvantaged samples. In total, 90 mothers participated, and the study employed a multi-method approach. A range of measurement techniques including standardised interviews, questionnaires, observations of parent-child interaction and a child test were used. The study was organised according to two aspects of family life. A quantitative approach was used to investigate parenting and child adjustment. A mixed-methods approach, using both quantitative and qualitative analyses was used to examine the broader social environment of the mother and child, exploring family life in relation to surrounding cultural and contextual factors in the three ethnic groups. The children showed positive levels of adjustment, with no differences between groups. In terms of parenting, similarities were found between family types for some aspects of parenting as assessed by interview, including maternal warmth, mother-child interaction and maternal control. The differences that were identified generally reflected differences between the Pakistani and White mothers, with the Indian mothers lying between the two. For example, the British Pakistani group showed higher levels of child supervision, child-centredness, and overt discipline compared to White mothers. They were also more likely to be in an arranged marriage and less likely to confide in their partner. Regarding the observational measure of mother-child interaction, there was no difference between family types for the overall construct of mutuality. In relation to cultural and contextual factors, Pakistani mothers were more religious, compared with Indian and White mothers. Overall, both second generation Indian and Pakistani mothers showed a more bicultural identity. Qualitative analysis revealed that a range of ethnic-racial socialisation techniques for discussing race and ethnicity with children were used by mothers from all groups. Pakistani mothers remained more traditional and were most likely to use religio-cultural socialisation whereas Indian and White mothers used egalitarianism more, i.e. teaching children the importance of individual qualities as opposed to membership in their ethnic group. Indian mothers were the most positive about multiculturalism and seemed to face fewer challenges associated with diversity. Both Pakistani and White mothers experienced discrimination. White mothers felt they were still trying to adapt to increased diversity, some believing that their culture was being sidelined and under threat. It was concluded that there were many similarities in parenting practices and family life between British Indian, British Pakistani and non-immigrant White groups, with children from each group showing positive adjustment. However, although all mothers were born and raised in Britain, differences still existed indicating that ethnicity was an influential factor in parenting. The study increases understanding of the extent to which the parenting processes that have been found to be most significant for positive child development can be generalised to other ethnic groups. It also provides information on acculturation patterns in the host society and what it means to be born to second generation parents and live in a multicultural environment in the UK today. The findings have implications for theory and policy development regarding family life in different ethnic groups.
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Forde, Susan Chanderbhan. "West Indian parents', guardians', and caregivers' perceptions, understandings, and role beliefs about K-12 public schooling in the United States." [Tampa, Fla] : University of South Florida, 2008. http://purl.fcla.edu/usf/dc/et/SFE0002457.
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Choonoo, John Gerald. "A comparative analysis of inequality and poverty among urban African, coloured, and Indian families and their labor market experiences during the Apartheid years 1975-1985 /." Access Digital Full Text version, 1995. http://pocketknowledge.tc.columbia.edu/home.php/bybib/11790052.
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Thesis (Ed.D.)--Teachers College, Columbia University, 1995.Includes tables. Typescript; issued also on microfilm. Sponsor: Thomas Bailey. Dissertation Committee: Francisco Rivera-Batiz. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 201-212).
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Anthony-Stevens, Vanessa Erin. "Indigenous Students, Families and Educators Negotiating School Choice and Educational Opportunity: A Critical Ethnographic Case Study of Enduring Struggle and Educational Survivance in a Southwest Charter School." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/293532.
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This critical ethnography focuses on the practice of an Indigenous-serving charter school in Arizona and how it created space to practice culturally responsive schooling for Indigenous youth in an era of school accountability and standardizing educational reforms. Urban Native Middle School (pseudonym) opened for four years before being closed under tremendous state pressure from high-stakes testing accountability measurements. This study uses data spanning two periods of data collection: archived data collected at the time of the school's operation, and follow-up data tracking educators', parents' and students' experiences after the school's closure. Careful examination of student, educator, and parent narratives about the school during its years in operation illuminate how adults and youth co-authored a unique reterritorializing both/and discourse, building a school community of practice around connections to mainstream standardized knowledge and local Indigenous knowledges. The transformational potential of the schools both/and approach offered students access to strength-based both/and identities. The second phase of the study, which followed educators', parents', and students' into new school environments, illuminates practices of educational negotiation on the part of participants within geographies of limited educational opportunity for Native youth, both urban and rural. With four years of data collection, this study expands understanding of how Indigenous families choose among available educational environments in landscapes of limited school options and policy labels which fail to address the on-the-ground realities of schooling in Indigenous communities. For the Indigenous educators and families in this study, navigating school choice in an era of high-stakes testing reflects an enduring struggle of American Indian education with educational policy. This study's findings suggest that the transformative potential of both/and schooling has positive and wide reaching implications on the school experience of Native youth, and further illuminates the persevering practices of Indigenous educational survivance in seeking access to more equitable, culturally sustaining educational experiences. With implications for practice and policy, this anthropologic case study of an Indigenous-serving charter school considers the powerful impacts of human relationships on student learning and critiques the injustice perpetuated by snapshot accountability measurements which deny students' spaces for cultivating bridges to access imagined futures.
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Patel, Raakhee Navin. "An Ethnographic Study of Doctor-Patient Communication within Biomedicine and Its Indian Variant in Mumbai." Case Western Reserve University School of Graduate Studies / OhioLINK, 2021. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=case1619705858186443.
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Riegle, Pamela B. "An analysis of the relationships between Indiana home-school families and public-school superintendents." Virtual Press, 1998. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/1117118.
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The purpose of this study was to document relationships that exist between Indiana public-school superintendents and Indiana home-school families. The study examined if public-school superintendents' perceptions of home schooling and their perceptions of current Indiana home-school regulations influenced their relationships with home schoolers. Further, the study explored home-schooler perceptions of Indiana regulations on home schooling.For the superintendent questionnaire, the entire population of Indiana school district superintendents in office during the 1996-1997 school year was polled. Of the 297 superintendents polled, 192 responded to the initial mailing and three more to the follow-up resulting in a total of 195 responses- a return rate of 66%. The desired population for the home schoolers was all home-school families in Indiana. Based on the Indiana Department of Education estimate of 5500 home-school families registered with them, 550 questionnaires were mailed to home-school families with a 26% return rate.The following conclusions were drawn based on the findings in the study.1. Indiana public-school superintendents probably have a weaker relationship with the home-school parents in their school district than they believe. While nearly 65% of the superintendents believed they had at least a fair relationship with the home schoolers in their district, only 35.5% of the home-school parents believed their relationship with the superintendent was at least fair.2. Home schoolers desire more interaction with the public schools than they are receiving.Twenty percent of the home schoolers who did not have access to services at their local school wanted access to classes and textbooks from their local school district.3. Indiana superintendents are not knowledgeable about reasons parents choose to home school their children. Superintendents believed religion was a reason for home schooling in significantly larger numbers than the home-school parents (86% superintendents verses 55% of home-school parents). Superintendents did not recognize home-school parent concerns such as safety concerns, concerns with academics and problems with public schools.4. All Indiana public schools need a board-approved policy concerning home-schooled students in their district.5. There are children in Indiana receiving little or no education through home schooling.6. Home schoolers in the present Indiana study, for the most part, are representative of home schoolers across the United States.7. While the public perception of home schools has improved significantly in the last decade, superintendents' perceptions of home schools have changed little. Superintendents' perceptions of home schooling were virtually unchanged from the Lindley study completed in 1985. Superintendents believed home schools should have to participate in mandatory testing of students, certification of home-school teachers and should have mandatory registration with the state of Indiana.Department of Educational Leadership
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Bergeron, Cynthia. "Comprendre le patrimoine matériel autochtone dans une perspective communautaire : l'exemple de la famille Connolly de Mashteuiatsh /." Thèse, Chicoutimi : Université du Québec à Chicoutimi, 2006. http://theses.uqac.ca.
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Haque, Shahzaman. "Etude de cas sociolinguistique et ethnographique de quatre familles indiennes immigrantes en Europe : pratiques lagagières et politiques linguistiques nationales et familiales." Phd thesis, Université de Grenoble, 2012. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00840860.
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Ce travail de recherche s'inscrit dans une approche pluridisciplinaire - monographique, ethnographique et sociolinguistique avec une dimension longitudinale. Il tente de décrire de manière approfondie les pratiques linguistiques familiales de quatre familles indiennes immigrantes installées dans quatre pays européens : la France, la Suède, la Norvège et la Finlande. Cette étude cherche également à cerner les enjeux des politiques linguistiques familiales, domaine dans lequel peu de recherches ont été entreprises et qui, de ce fait, reste à développer. Par ailleurs, les idéologies et attitudes concernant les langues se traduisent dans les décisions prises par les chefs de la famille, les parents, qui privilégient l'apprentissage de telle ou telle langue, pour eux-mêmes et surtout pour les enfants. Au plan macro, la politique linguistique nationale de chacun des pays concernés par notre étude est évoquée, y compris celle de l'Inde, avec un centrage sur la politique linguistique éducative et les modalités d'enseignement des langues migrantes. Le plurilinguisme des participants est analysé avec la notion de répertoire multilingue au sein duquel les compétences langagières sont segmentées par domaine. Les notions d'espace, de contexte, de mobilité, d'échelle, de polycentralité et d'ordres d'indexicalité ont été convoquées pour pouvoir appréhender ces compétences. La transmission linguistique intergénérationnelle est abordée par le biais d'une analyse critique de la politique linguistique familiale et nationale ainsi que la question de l'incidence du legs des valeurs culturelles et linguistiques du pays d'origine (ou de son absence) sur la construction de l'identité de la deuxième génération.
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Aguirre, Berenice D. "Identifying the needs of the Purhepecha children and families: An indigenous population of immigrants from Michoacan Mexico living in the the United States." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2008. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/3400.
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The purpose of this study was to identify the needs of the Purhepecha children, also referred to as Tarascan, and their families living in the Eastern Coachella Valley located in California. A questionaire was developed by the author in order to identify the population's specific needs. Ultimatley, it is with hope that the Purhepecha people's needs will be understood as relevant to their language and culture, and make these needs public for other professionals working with this population.
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Rubinsztein, David Chaim. "Monogenic hypercholesterolemia in South Africans : familial hypercholesterolemia in Indians and familial defective apolipoprotein B-100." Doctoral thesis, University of Cape Town, 1993. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/27142.
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LDL-receptor mutations and familial defective apolipoprotein B-100 (codon 3500) (FOB), the known causes of monogenic hypercholesterolemia (MH), have similar clinical features. The nature of the mutations responsible for MH in South Africans of Indian origin was previously unknown. Similarly, the mutations in the LDL-receptor gene of a South African Black FH homozygote had also not been characterised. The aim of this thesis was to identify and analyse the LDL-receptor mutations in the Indian homozygotes NS, D, AV and AA and in the Black homozygote JL. In addition, the possible importance of FOB as a cause of MH in South Africans was also assessed. The patient NS was characterized as having two "Null" LDL-receptor alleles. His skin fibroblasts expressed no detectable LDL-receptor protein and very low levels of LDL-receptor mRNA of approximately normal size. Since NS' s LDLreceptor promoter sequence was normal, his alleles are likely to harbour exonic point mutations or minor rearrangements that cause premature stop codons. The patient D was found to be a heteroallelic homozygote. Two new point mutations in the LDL receptor, Asp₆₉ -Tyr and Glu₁₁₉-Lys, were identified. D's fibroblasts expressed about 30% of the normal surf ace complement of receptors that bound LDL poorly. This low number could at least be partially explained by their decreased stability. These mutations were not identified in any other Indian FH or hypercholesterolemic patients. Patients AV and AA were both shown to be homoallelic homozygotes for the Pro₆₆₄ -Leu mutation. This mutation was identified in 4 unrelated Muslim families of Gujerati origin suggesting that the mutation arose from this area in India. Contrary to previous reports (Knight et al. 1990, Soutar et al. 1989), neither LOL nor β-VLDL binding were shown to be affected by this mutation. These mutant receptors were rapidly degraded. Thus the disease FH in these subjects is presumably due to the low steady-state level of mature receptors that are functionally normal but exhibit accelerated turnover. The Pedi FH homozygote, JL, expressed very few LOL receptors due to decreased receptor synthesis associated with low mRNA levels and not due to enhanced degradation. One of JL's LOL receptor alleles has a 3 b.p. deletion in repeat 1 of the promoter (G. Zuilani, H. Hobbs and L.F. de Waal, personal communication). The nature of the defect in his other allele is unknown. The importance of FOB as a cause of monogenic hypercholesterolemia in the South African Indian, "Coloured" and Afrikaner populations was determined by screening hypercholesterolemic subjects with or without xanthomata. The absence of FOB in such patients, in whom the relevant common or founder South African mutations were excluded, suggested that this disorder was rarer in these groups than in North America and Europe. FOB was identified in two different families of mixed British and Afrikaner ancestry. One family contained individuals who were heterozygous for the FOB mutation, as well as the FH Afrikaner-1 and the FH Afrikaner-2 LOL-receptor mutations. In addition, 4 compound heterozygotes, who had both FOB and the FH Afrikaner-1 mutation and one individual whu inherited all 3 defects, were identified. This family allowed us to characterise the compound heterozygotes with one mutant LOLreceptor allele and FOB as having a condition that was probably intermediate in severity between the FH heterozygote and homozygote states.
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Khaizakham, Khaute. "Family renewal and the mission of the Kuki, Chin and Zomi peoples of Northeast India." Online full text .pdf document, available to Fuller patrons only, 2000. http://www.tren.com.
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Raghuram, Parvati. "Coping strategies of domestic workers : a study of three settlements in the Delhi metropolitan region, India." Thesis, University of Newcastle Upon Tyne, 1992. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.241576.
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Sousa, Emanuel Ara?jo de Macedo. "Efeitos de fungicidas alternativos em folhas de Carthamus tinctorius L. (Asteraceae), potencial esp?cie para cultivo em agricultura familiar." Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, 2015. http://repositorio.ufrn.br/handle/123456789/19854.
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O atual modelo de desenvolvimento predominante na sociedade global ? ditado por uma racionalidade econ?mica que p?e em risco meio ambiente e justi?a social. Cada vez mais se tem despertado para os riscos dessa forma de produ??o e consumo, impulsionando a busca pelo desenvolvimento sustent?vel, com uma racionalidade ambiental que concilie as atividades humanas com preserva??o da natureza e bem estar de todas as classes socioecon?micas. Um dos esfor?os nesse sentido ? a altera??o da matriz que atende ? demanda energ?tica, substituindo combust?veis f?sseis por fontes renov?veis e mais limpas, como os biocombust?veis. Carthamus tinctorius (c?rtamo) ? uma planta oleaginosa com potencial para produ??o de biodiesel, com bom rendimento e perfil qu?mico de ?leo aliados ? boa adapta??o a climas como o do semi?rido nordestino. Com fomento de pol?ticas p?blicas, o uso da esp?cie pode ser alternativa interessante ? agricultura familiar. Na agricultura em geral ? comum o uso de agrot?xicos para prevenir e combater doen?as e pragas, pr?tica n?o sustent?vel. Por isso, investiga-se o uso de subst?ncias alternativas menos danosas. Neste estudo objetivou-se avaliar se o extrato foliar de nim (Azadirachta indica) (20% m/v) e a calda bordalesa (sulfato de cobre) exercem efeitos na esp?cie do c?rtamo. Objetivou-se tamb?m verificar a aceitabilidade da cultura entre agricultores do munic?pio de Apodi-RN, tendo em vista situarem-se na regi?o-alvo para o cultivo da esp?cie, al?m da compreens?o de que seu conhecimento e disposi??o para adotar a cultura ? fundamental para a introdu??o da esp?cie e crescimento socioecon?mico associado ? sua explora??o. Al?m disso, foi elaborada uma cartilha informativa sobre o c?rtamo. No experimento em campo, os referidos fungicidas alternativos foram pulverizados em plantas cultivadas em parcelas experimentais, havendo coleta de folhas para an?lise de anatomia, cut?cula foliar e morfologia da cera epicuticular, camada protetora que faz a interface planta-ambiente. Em Apodi, 45 agricultores da Cooperativa Potiguar de Apicultura e Desenvolvimento Rural Sustent?vel (COOPAPI) passaram por entrevistas semiestruturadas, abordando tamb?m a avalia??o das esp?cies atualmente cultivadas e a percep??o do uso de agrot?xicos e alternativas sustent?veis. Ap?s compara??o por an?lise de vari?ncia, constatou-se que n?o houve diferen?a entre tratamentos no experimento, tamb?m n?o sendo observadas modifica??es anat?micas ou morfol?gicas. A aceita??o do c?rtamo entre agricultores foi ampla, com 84% dos entrevistados acreditando na perspectiva de lucratividade. O cen?rio atual, com pouca diversidade de culturas, fr?gil ante estiagens e pragas, pode explicar parcialmente essa opini?o. A cartilha elaborada foi bastante eficaz em chamar aten??o das pessoas para o potencial da esp?cie. Houve amplo reconhecimento da import?ncia dos defensivos alternativos, justificados pela seguran?a ? sa?de. Com base no aspecto avaliado nos resultados da pesquisa, os tratamentos podem ser recomendados para uso como fungicidas em c?rtamo. Com a suscetibilidade da cultura aos fungos em per?odo chuvoso, aconselha-se que sua potencial introdu??o na regi?o se concentre no semi?rido.
The currently main development model on global society is driven by an economic rationality that endangers the environment and social justice. More and more, attention to this way of production and consumption is increasing, boosting research for sustainable development, with an environmental rationality that can harmonize nature preservation and welfare of all socioeconomic classes. One of the efforts on this sense is changing the sources supplying the energy demand, replacing fossil fuels for renewable and cleaner sources, such as biofuels. Carthamus tinctorius (safflower) is an oilseed crop with potential for biodiesel production, with good oil yield and chemical profile, allied to good adaptation to climates such like the northeastern semiarid lands of Brazil. With public policies fomentation, the use of this species may be an interesting alternative for family farming. In farming in general, the use of pesticides to prevent and combat diseases and plagues is common, which is not a sustainable practice. Thus, there are researched alternative, less dangerous substances. In this study, it was aimed to assess if neem (Azadirachta indica) leaf extract (20% m/v) and Bordeaux mixture (copper sulfate) have effects on safflower. It was also aimed to verify acceptance of farmers on safflower crop in Apodi, a municipality in Rio Grande do Norte state, Brazil, in view of it being localized in the aimed region for this crop cultivation. Besides that, understanding that the farmers? knowledge and inclination to adopt the crop is fundamental for the introduction of this species and socioeconomic growth due to its exploration. In addition, a booklet with basic information on safflower was produced. In the field experiment, the fungicides were pulverized on plants cultivated in field experimental plots, with collection of leaf samples for analysis on anatomy, cuticle, and epicuticular wax morphology, the protective layer that interfaces with the surrounding ambient. In Apodi, forty-five farmers from Potiguar Cooperative of Apiculture and Sustainable Rural Development (COOPAPI) underwent semi-structured interviews, which also addressed their assessment on currently cultivated crops and perception of pesticide uses and sustainable alternatives. After comparing using analysis of variance, it was found that there was no difference between treatments in the experiment, as well as no anatomical or morphological modifications. Safflower acceptation among farmers was wide, with 84% of interviewees believing in a perspective of good incomes. The current scenario, comprised of low crop diversity, fragile in face of droughts and plagues, can partially explain this opinion. The booklet was effective in catching people attention for the species potential. There was wide acknowledgement on the importance of alternative pesticides, justified by health security. Based on the assessed parameter in the results of this research, the treatments here utilized may be recommended as fungicides for safflower. Given the crop susceptibility to fungi in heavy rainy period, it is advised that its potential introduction on the region shall be focused on semiarid areas.
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Banks, E. Sharon. "The effects of the Lincoln National Corporation Business-Assisted Summer Employment Program upon the self-concept scores and select-job retention factors of high school students from low-income families." Virtual Press, 1986. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/466395.
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The purpose of the study was to investigate the effects of the Lincoln National Corporation Business Assisted Summer Employment Program upon the self-concepts and selected job retention factors of junior and senior high school students from low income families in Fort Wayne, Indiana. Specifically, the study was designed to gather and analyze statistical data of participating B.A.S.E. students as compared to nonparticipating students.Literature regarding self-concept, business and education partnerships at both the national and state level was reviewed. Literature study revealed analysis and results of program evaluation, but limited research on program participant self-evaluation. Therefore, this study was undertaken to access the participant through a pre and posttest investigation.The sample of respondents numbered 166, but through attrition due to insufficient availability of data, the study was conducted with 154 students. All 154 students were administered the eighty-item Piers-Harris Self-Concept Children's Scale in May, 1985 and August, 1985. The (1) "yes" and "no" responses were reported, (2) grade, and (3) attendance pre an post data were reported. All data was hand scored by the author, and computed by the Ball State Computing Services Department utilizing multivariate and univariate analysis of variance tests.The responses of the participating and nonparticipating students yielded the following results:1. There was no significant difference between the mean scores of the participating and nonparticipating B.A.S.E. students based on the following variables: behavior, intelligence, anxiety, popularity, attendance, physical attributes, and happiness.2. There was a significant difference between participating and nonparticipating students based on grade point averages.3. There was a significant difference between participating and nonparticipating male students' pre and posttest mean scores based on grade point averages.4. There was a significant difference between participating and nonparticipating female students pre and posttest mean scores based on grade point averages. 5. The Lincoln National Corporation B.A.S.E. Program had benefited participants in improving the grade point average, developed a successful partnership with high schools, and fostered community growth through staff volunteerism.
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Schuch, Ilaine. "Perfil socioeconomico e alimentar das familias indigenas Kaingang de Guarita-RS." [s.n.], 2001. http://repositorio.unicamp.br/jspui/handle/REPOSIP/254937.
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Orientador: Maria Antonia Martins GaleazziDissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Faculdade de Engenharia de Alimentos
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Resumo: Este trabalho teve como objetivo caracterizar a situação alimentar de uma amostra de famílias da reserva indígena de Guarita no estado do Rio Grande do Sul. Utilizou-se a metodologia desenvolvida por Galeazzi para inquérito de consumo familiar de alimentos. Adicionalmente, fez-se um levantamento de dados socioeconômicos, demográficos, da infra-estrutura e do saneamento básico bem como a situação quanto à utilização de políticas da área da alimentação e nutrição em uma amostra de 92 famílias. Após análise descritiva das variáveis, selecionou-se aquelas que melhor poderiam explicar as diferenças entre as famílias com menor ou maior consumo de calorias, utilizando-se para tanto o teste Pearson Chi-Square, sendo que o nível de significância determinado foi de 5%. Os resultados mostram que as famílias são numerosas, formadas majoritariamente por pessoas jovens. A maioria das pessoas ocupadas desenvolvem atividades na agricultura. A Cesta Básica de alimentos não atende as necessidades nutricionais. A atividade agrícola concentra-se nos seguintes produtos: milho, feijão, mandioca e batata-doce. A análise do consumo revelou que a média de calorias consumidas é de 2.115,55. No entanto 30,4% das famílias não atingem 80% do consumo de calorias em relação às necessidades, estando estas em situação de risco nutricional. A contribuição relativa da proteína no consumo calórico total é de 10,6%, sendo esta em maior parte de origem vegetal. Quanto ao consumo de vitaminas e sais minerais, mais de 90% das famílias pesquisadas não atingem 80% de adequação em relação as necessidades de cálcio e vitamina A, sendo também insuficientes para maioria das famílias o consumo de ferro, tiamina, riboflavina, niacina e vitamina C. O consumo de sal teve uma associação significativa com a hipertensão auto-referida (significância ao nível de 1%)
Abstract: This study aimed to characterize the nutritional situation of a sample of households in the Indian reservation of Guarita in the state of Rio Grande do Sul The method was developed by Galeazzi for investigation of household consumption of food. Additionally, it was a survey of socioeconomic data, demographic, infrastructure and sanitation and the state policies on the use of the area of food and nutrition in a sample of 92 families. After descriptive analysis of the variables selected to be those that could better explain the differences between families with lower or higher consumption of calories, using the test for both Pearson Chi-Square, where the level of significance was determined by 5% . The results show that families are numerous, trained mainly by young people. Most people are employed in farming activities. The basic basket of food does not meet the nutritional needs. The agricultural activity is concentrated in the following products: corn, beans, cassava and sweet potatoes. The analysis showed that the average consumption of calories consumed is to 2115.55. However 30.4% of households do not reach 80% of the consumption of calories in relation to needs, these are at nutritional risk. The relative contribution of the protein in total calorie intake is 10.6%, being in most of plant origin. As for the consumption of vitamins and minerals, over 90% of households surveyed did not reach 80% of suitability for the needs of calcium and vitamin A, is also insufficient for most families the consumption of iron, thiamine, riboflavin, niacin and vitamin C. The consumption of salt has had a significant association with self-reported hypertension (significance at 1%)
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Haque, Shahzaman. "Etude de cas sociolinguistique et ethnographique de quatre familles indiennes immigrantes en Europe : pratiques langagières et politiques linguistiques nationales & familiales." Phd thesis, Université de Grenoble, 2012. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00739776.
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Ce travail de recherche s'inscrit dans une approche pluridisciplinaire - monographique, ethnographique et sociolinguistique avec une dimension longitudinale. Il tente de décrire de manière approfondie les pratiques langagières familiales de quatre familles indiennes immigrantes installées dans quatre pays européens : la France, la Suède, la Norvège et la Finlande. Cette étude cherche également à cerner les enjeux des politiques linguistiques familiales, domaine dans lequel peu de recherches ont été entreprises et qui, de ce fait, reste à développer. Par ailleurs, les idéologies et attitudes concernant les langues se traduisent dans les décisions prises par les chefs de la famille, les parents, qui privilégient l'apprentissage de telle ou telle langue, pour eux-mêmes et surtout pour les enfants. Au plan macro, la politique linguistique nationale de chacun des pays concernés par notre étude est évoquée, y compris celle de l'Inde, avec un centrage sur la politique linguistique éducative et les modalités d'enseignement des langues migrantes. Le plurilinguisme des participants est analysé avec la notion de répertoire multilingue au sein duquel les compétences langagières sont segmentées par domaine. Les notions d'espace, de contexte, de mobilité, d'échelle, de polycentralité et d'ordres d'indexicalité ont été convoquées pour pouvoir appréhender ces compétences. La transmission linguistique intergénérationnelle est abordée par le biais d'une analyse critique de la politique linguistique familiale et nationale ainsi que la question de l'incidence du legs des valeurs culturelles et linguistiques du pays d'origine (ou de son absence) sur la construction de l'identité de la deuxième génération. L'apport principal de cette thèse est de porter un regard sur les questions de langues en lien avec la migration qui ne s'inscrit pas dans la perspective des pays d'accueil, mais celle des migrants eux-mêmes.
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Mu¨hlan, Eberhard. "Family structures among Adivasis in India : a description and comparison of family structures and lives within the patrilineal tribe of Saoras in Orissa and the matrilineal tribe of Khasis in Meghalaya, India." Thesis, University of Wales Trinity Saint David, 2010. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.683361.
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Dixon, Pauline. "The regulation of private schools for low-income families in Andhra Pradesh, India : an Austrian economic approach." Thesis, University of Newcastle Upon Tyne, 2003. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.275410.
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Mahadevan, Mahalakshmi. "Engendering familial citizens : serial-viewing among middle-class women in urban India." Thesis, University of Westminster, 2010. https://westminsterresearch.westminster.ac.uk/item/906y1/engendering-familial-citizens-serial-viewing-among-middle-class-women-in-urban-india.
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This thesis is a study of serial viewing among women in middle-families in two Indian cities carried out in 2007. It explores women’s engagement with a new brand of serial narratives that centralizes the traditional Hindu joint family and places women at the centre of the family as nurturer and custodian of traditional values. This return to the traditional, the thesis proposes, marks a new conjunctural moment in the evolution of Indian television. This new conjunctural moment, characterized by competitive attempts among private and transnational cable and satellite television to Indianize content, the unprecedented growth of vernacular television and consequently the national circulation of traditionally inflected serials, has come to represent the feminisation of television in India. The manner in which differentially located women engage with these narratives of idealized family and womanhood suggests certain specific gendered ways in which television mediates women’s discursive access to and performance within both family and civic space. This thesis argues that the feminisation of television in India helps extend the ideal of a familial womanhood on to the civic space, limiting women’s access to alternative, oppositional forms of civic belonging and citizenship.
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Meyer, Rachel Sherry. "Intimate landscapes imagining femininity, family and home in Banaras, India /." Access restricted to users with UT Austin EID Full text (PDF) from UMI/Dissertation Abstracts International, 2001. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/utexas/fullcit?p3038190.
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Schroeder, Janina Fee [Verfasser]. "Relationship Conflicts in Changing Business Families in India and Germany : Origins, Fields, and Coping Strategies / Janina Fee Schroeder." Göttingen : Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, V&R unipress, 2017. http://d-nb.info/1140503138/34.
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Jardim, Marta Denise da Rosa 1965. "Cozinhar, adorar e fazer negocio : um estudo da familia indiana (hindu) em Moçambique." [s.n.], 2006. http://repositorio.unicamp.br/jspui/handle/REPOSIP/280079.
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Orientadores: Guita Grin Debert, Omar Ribeiro Thomaz, Tereza Cruz e SilvaTese (doutorado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Filosofia e Ciencias Humanas
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Resumo: A tese tem como temática a presença indiana (hindu) em Moçambique. Os indianos não estão ausentes dos estudos sobre o país, embora não ocupem um lugar central nas análises. Nestes estudos os indianos são tematizados em suas relações com o Estado. A família indiana (hindu) não foi objeto de estudo, embora tenha sido associada ao sistema de castas e ao hinduísmo. Nesta pesquisa, na cidade moçambicana de Inhambane, junto a aproximadamente 40 Casas hindus, observou-se que também os não indianos (hindus) urbanos consideram que a família hindu pode ser explicada por sua relação com o sistema de castas e o hinduísmo e, assim concebida, é pensada como um mecanismo que reproduz os indianos como endógamos e racistas. A tese critica a coincidência entre o discurso acadêmico e o senso comum urbano moçambicano a respeito da família indiana (hindu) por meio da descrição da dinâmica da reprodução dos seus laços familiares. Na descrição das práticas de cozinhar, adorar e fazer negócios enfatiza-se os processos que dão conta da atualização das Casas hindus em Moçambique
Abstract: This thesis has as its theme the Indian (Hindu) presence in Mozambique. This Indians are not absent in the studies about the country, although they are not central in these analysis. In these studies, the Indians are approached in their relations with the State. The Indian (Hindu) family has not been object of studies, though it has been associated with the caste system and the Hinduism. In the field-work, held in the Mozambican town of Inhambane, on approximately 40 Hindu houses, it was noticed that also the non-Indian urban population think that the Hindu family is explainable by its relation to the caste system and Hinduism and, for being conceived in this manner, it is thought of as the mechanism that reproduces the Indians population as endogamous and racist. The thesis criticizes the similarities between the scholar thinking and the common sense on the Indian (Hindu) family by describing the reproduction dynamics of their family bonds. In the description of the practices of cooking, worshiping and doing businesses, the processes that update the Hindu Houses in Mozambique are emphasized.
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Montgomery, Shirley A. "A new profile for a familiar building : a carbon-neutral public library branch in Union Township in Anderson, Indiana." Virtual Press, 2008. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/1390313.
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Buildings can be built that use no energy from external power grids. They can be essentially carbon neutral in their environmental load, and they can be built and operated at fair market values. Although this may sound like a dream of the future, the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) is working toward making that dream a reality today. The Council announced on March 26, 2006 (Environment News Service) that it is forming an alliance of global companies to ensure that by 2050 all new buildings meet these standards.1The profession of architecture, at the beginning of the 21st century, finds itself in a position where architectural philosophies and methodologies must respond to the world changing events that are impacting our planet. This creative project outlines some of the methodologies used to create a carbon-neutral public library. Within a public library, architects respond to two of the primary concerns of this young century; the global need for a clean, livable planet and the proliferation of digital media and methods that are driving globalization as we are beginning to know it.The proposed new Union Township Branch of the Anderson Public Library seemed a logical subject for this Creative Project because much of the past work of our firm and much of my personal experience involved the design of public libraries. The carbon neutral concepts evolved gradually, after much study, and the goal of this creative project is that this particular library and many other sustainable libraries in the future will benefit from the concepts and methodologies outlined here, as those new buildings approach carbon neutrality.Department of Architecture
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Palmiste, Claire. "L'adoption d'enfants autochtones par des familles blanches aux États-Unis : Origines et conséquences." Antilles-Guyane, 2009. http://www.theses.fr/2009AGUY0292.
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La spoliation des terres des tribus autochtones, l’imposition de critères pour en identifier les membres, la migration d’un grand nombre de leurs membres vers les zones urbaines et le système des pensionnats, constituèrent, selon la définition de Raphael Lemkin : « un projet coordonné de différentes actions visant la destruction des fondements essentiels de la vie de groupes nationaux dans le but de les anéantir ». Aux Etats-Unis, ces actions eurent un impact considérable sur les communautés autochtones, car elles furent privées d’un grand nombre de leurs enfants. Loin d’être seulement la résultante du colonialisme, l’adoption d’enfants autochtones s’inscrivit dans la continuité d’un génocide qui a commencé par l’expansion territoriale des Etats-Unis. Financé par le Bureau des Affaires Indiennes et orchestré par une organisation privée, la Child Welfare League of America, le Projet d’Adoption d’Indiens, qui à l’origine, devait placer 395 enfants autochtones dans les familles blanches, encouragea les agences d’adoption à en placer un plus grand nombre. En 1968, l’Association des Affaires Indiennes tira la sonnette d’alarme. Elle révéla plus tard, que les enfants autochtones étaient victimes de discriminations qui se reflétaient par leur retrait abusif de leur famille. En 1978, le Congrès vota l’Indian Child Welfare Act, afin de protéger les enfants autochtones et pour permettre, en cas de placements, qu’ils soient confiés à une famille ou à des institutions autochtones. En dépit du vote de la loi, certains États la contournent, en invoquant le concept de « la famille indienne existante », qui consiste à nier les liens du sang et à ne considérer que les liens culturelsThe removal of South-Eastern tribes, the criteria that define enrolment, urbanization and the boarding school systems represented what Rapahel Lemkin called: “a coordinated plan of different actions aiming at the destruction of essential foundations of the life of national groups, with the aim of annihilating the group themselves”. Theses actions impacted on Native communities, as they were deprived of their children. For from being the consequences of colonialism, the transracial adoption of Native children can be viewed as the continuity of a genocide that started with territorial expansion. Funded by the Bureau of Indian Affairs, and managed by the Child Welfare League of America, the Indian Adoption Project which initially purported to place 395 Native children in white families encouraged adoption agencies to carry out these adoptions nationwide. In 1968, the Association on American Indian Affairs denounced that situation, bringin evidences that Native children were discriminated owing to the per capita rate of removal. In 1978, Congress voted the Indian Child Welfare Act, in order to protect the interest of the tribes and the children. It demands that Native children be placed in their communities in priority. Some States refuse to comply with the law, putting forward the concept of the “existing family doctrine”. It suggests that cultural links are more important than blood links. Our study shows a curb in the removal of Native children from 2000-2003, but the foster care placements in Minnesota are still high. The high rate of placements could be explained by family instability
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Hall, Ronald M. "The perceived effects of membership on an Indiana public school board of education on members' families, friendships, and personal finances." Virtual Press, 1999. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/1159145.
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The purpose of the study was to determine how former Indiana public school board of education members perceived the effects of school board service on their families, friendships and finances. The primary research problem was that there were no systematically acquired descriptions of the prevalence of consequences of service on an Indiana public school board of education. Twelve research questions were presented.The study was descriptive in nature and used descriptive survey methodology. A survey containing 40 closed-ended and four open-ended questions was mailed to 433 former Indiana public school board members who served in 1995 and whose terms of service expired on or before June 30, 1996. Of the 390 deliverable surveys, 207 (53.1 %) were completed and returned. The statistical analyses of the aggregate data included the establishment of frequency counts, corresponding percentages, analysis of variances (ANOVA), and Tukey's HSD post hoc analyses. Responses from the open-ended questions were reviewed by the researcher to determine common categories based upon the content of the responses. The categories were ranked and reported based upon the frequency and corresponding percentage of the responses.Data from the study indicated that most former members of Indiana public school boards perceived that their membership on Indiana public school board had no effect on both their familial and non-familial relationships. If there was a perceived effect, it was more likely to be positive in nature than negative. In addition, most former Indiana public school board members perceived that membership on Indiana public school boards of education had no effect on the friendships/non-family relationships of their children, spouses, or significant others. If there was an effect, it was more likely positive than negative.Former Indiana school board members generally perceived that service on Indiana public school boards of education had no effect on their businesses and/or economic status. If there was an effect, it was more often negative than positive.There were essentially no differences in the perceived effects of service on a local Indiana public school board of education based upon board members' method of assuming office (election, appointment, etc.), method of leaving office (defeated in election, choosing not to seek re-election, etc.) length of school board service, gender, political experience or service as board president.A difference in the perceived effects of service on local Indiana public school boards of education was found based up the former members' occupations and the urbanization of the former members' districts.More than half of the respondents indicated that because of school board membership they occasionally or often experienced increased periods of stress, received cold or unresponsive reactions from acquaintances, and experienced interactions that they would describe as harassment. However, more than 85% of the respondents indicated feeling pride in their leadership and accomplishments, as well as the development of greater personal growth because of their service on public school boards. In addition, approximately 95% of the respondents indicated they were thanked or shown appreciation for their service on a school board.Department of Secondary, Higher, and Foundations of Education
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Jansson, Linnea, and Lovisa Bergström. "Synen på barn och barns ansvarstagande i familjen i Hathi Tiba : En kvalitativ studie om barns livssituation ur mödrars perspektiv." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Sociologiska institutionen, 2014. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-225687.
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Tidigare forskning i bland annat barndomssociologi har hävdat att barn är en grupp som måste lyftas fram och synliggöras, kanske framförallt i de länder där risken för utsatthet är hög (Wyness 2006). Även i utvecklingsekologin så nämns att barnet bör ses utifrån omgivningen och dess sammanhang (Andersson 2002). Indien är ett av dessa länder som är under utveckling men som fortfarande behöver omvärldens stöd. Syftet med vår studie är att synliggöra barnens roll i familjen i en kontext som i flera avseenden skiljer sig från det västerländska. Detta har vi undersökt i Hathi Tiba som ligger i Rajasthan, norra Indien. Vi har efterfrågat mödrars perspektiv på barns ansvarstagande i familjen och därigenom även undersökt hur mödrarna framställer sina barn i relation till barnens ansvarstagande. Studiens fokus har varit på familjen, då det oftast är familjen som ligger närmast barnet och som påverkar barnens tillvaro och vardagsliv (Andersson 2002). Vi har undersökt detta genom att vi har genomfört fem intervjuer med mödrar vars barn går i den skola där vi volontärarbetade under tre veckors tid. För att besvara våra frågeställningar har vi använt oss av en kvalitativ innehållsanalys för att analysera vårt insamlade material. De teorier som har använts i denna studie är barndomssociologin samt utvecklingsekologin. I denna undersökning har vi kommit fram till att barnen tar ett väldigt stort ansvar i yngre åldrar och att mödrarnas krav på ansvarstagande i familjen skiljer sig åt beroende på om barnet är en flicka eller pojke. Vi har även sett att dessa barns ansvarskrav i familjen skiljer sig åt i jämförelse med västerländska barns ansvarskrav i familjen. Resultatet visar på att barns ansvar skiljer sig åt beroende på vilka kulturella och ekonomiska skillnader som barnet har och beroende på olika förutsättningar och uppväxtvillkor som barnen lever under. Alla respondenterna framställde sina barn som medlemmar och resurser i familjen vilket, till skillnad från hur barnets roll i familjen oftast betraktas i en västerländsk kontext, inbegriper flera och omfattande aspekter av ansvarstagande. Barnen framställs således främst som en del i familjekonstruktionen och inte en egen individ.