Dissertations / Theses: 'Sojourners'

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Torres, Maria Beatriz. "Communication Challenges and Conflicts that Sojourner Children Experience with Parents, Peers and Teachers due to Acculturation with the American Culture." Ohio University / OhioLINK, 2001. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou997192316.

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Bayliss, Lauren. "Metaphor as a Tool for Preparing Sojourners." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/32611.

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Sojourners, or people who live in a foreign country for a limited period of time, must prepare to communicate effectively in a foreign culture. Current theory suggests that sojourners learn to develop primary social interaction schemas to prepare for intercultural communication. Because sojourners may not stay in a country long enough to develop schemas, sojourners could benefit from a tool designed to help them acquire schemas for their host countries. Conceptual and situation metaphors can help sojourners gain useful insights into the cultures they prepare to face. To investigate metaphors that may assist sojourners, international students studying in the United States were interviewed to uncover the metaphors they already used to describe their experiences, as well as to see if new metaphors could be created to assist future sojourners. The conceptual and situation metaphors uncovered are discussed in within the framework of schemas.
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Lee, Eunsil. "Exploring housing satisfaction and adjustment processes of cross-cultural sojourners the case of Korean sojourners in the United States /." Diss., Connect to online resource - MSU authorized users, 2008.

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Thesis (Ph.D.)--Michigan State University. Dept. of Human Environment: Design and Management, 2008.
Title from PDF t.p. (viewed on July 2, 2009) Includes bibliographical references (p. 156-166). Also issued in print.

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錢江 and Kong James Chin. "Merchants and other sojourners: the Hokkiens overseas, 1570-1760." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1998. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B43894057.

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Chin, Kong James. "Merchants and other sojourners : the Hokkiens overseas, 1570-1760 /." Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 1998. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B20793066.

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Chen, Tsai-Wei. "Mapping Sojourners soundscapes : Listening experiences of Taipei Soujourners in London." Thesis, Goldsmiths College (University of London), 2010. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.517895.

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Fitzpatrick, John Francis. "Understanding culture shock : the adjustment of expatriate sojourners on international assignment." Thesis, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10443/3421.

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Expatriate sojourners are often described as experiencing “culture shock” when moving to and settling in a new location. This study challenges the notion of “culture” as a tangible, objective concept that causes a “shock” or a “clash” and argues that it is how individuals and groups deal with the macro socio-political context and micro-cultural situations on a day to day basis that influences how they experience their new environment. In this sense, context is seen as a multidimensional framework for social interaction and adjustment, and this study examines the role that different discourses or worldviews play in interpreting daily life in Cuba, a highly politically sensitive and insular location. Using participant observation techniques, the researcher builds up a rich ethnographic “thick-description” of the daily challenges that international sojourners face when adjusting to a new environment in a particularly challenging location, and, by drawing on accounts of how individuals see the challenges they face and what helps them adapt, describes adjustment as a multi-faceted phenomenon. What is highlighted are the various types of challenges that sojourners experience and the pressures that people and families experience in adapting to new roles in unfamiliar working and living environments. A model for sojourner adjustment is then proposed based on a study of the various social networks that expatriate groups create, and the type and level of personal and institutional resources and social support that might influence adjustment.

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Van, Den Elzen Brad L. "Ports of entry an exploration of international undergraduate sojourners' first year experiences /." Columbus, Ohio : Ohio State University, 2006. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=osu1164678550.

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Wu, Pi-Chu. "Social networks, language learning and language school student sojourners : a qualitative study." Thesis, University of Warwick, 2008. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/2132/.

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This thesis investigates individual language school student sojourners’ learning experiences in the UK. It takes into account the importance of learners learning through interaction with others in the target language community and recognises how learners’ social networks affect their language learning and use. There are many studies about students who study abroad for academic purposes and immigrant learners, but not many relating to individual language learners in private language schools. In order to fill this gap, this study focused on individual language school learners. With the intention of understanding how the social networks and language learning interact over time as part of their sojourner experience, I utilised different theoretical frameworks that have been applied to other groups of language learners and concluded that these frameworks are also applicable to private language school students. I recognised that in order to understand my participants’ learning experiences I needed to interact with them and also observe how they interacted with their social world. Therefore, formal interviews (semi-structured) and informal interviews (informal group meeting or chat) were the main methods for my study together with observation of interaction in various situations. This study identified the expectations that learners had with regard to the target language community, host families and native speakers’ attitudes towards foreign students, and the realisation that these expectations were higher than what was actually encountered. It also identified the steps the individual language learners took to overcome these disappointments and how they reconstructed their relationships with the target language and community respectively. In contrast with many previous studies which only focused on learning from native speakers, my study recognised that learners sometimes can have more interpersonal contact with their fellow students than native speakers. And consequently they benefit more from these contacts, in terms of language learning, than from native speakers. This thesis also helps language learners and language educators recognise basic theoretical frameworks which could help them evaluate the benefits and problems related to learning through interpersonal contact. And with this understanding learners will be able to facilitate their autonomous learning in the target language community.

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Tang, Yuen-man, and 鄧沅雯. "Language and identity positioning of multilingual Southeast Asian sojourners in Hong Kong." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2012. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B50162858.

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Modern transportation has given rise to and facilitated the movement and mobility of populations. While much critical attention has been drawn to the permanent migration of the mobile population, very few scholars in the field of sociolinguistics have stressed the temporary movement of the group of travelers who are subsumed under the appellation, “the sojourner”. In addition, previous research predominantly focused on non-English speakers sojourning to English-dominant countries (Haneda and Monobe, 2009; Lee, 2008; Own, 1999), thus largely neglecting the multilingual contexts in Asia. To fill this scholarly gap, small-scale research was conducted by employing two frameworks, Social Network Theory (Milroy, 1980) and Community of Practice (Wenger, 1998; Eckert & McConnell-Ginet, 1992), to examine linguistic practices and identity positioning of Southeast Asian (SEA) sojourners when they interact with Hongkongers and other sojourners. In particular, it tackles a more complex language contact situation in which two major lingua francas, namely English and Mandarin, are available. This study was conducted in a higher education dance school in Hong Kong and three SEA sojourn students were recruited. Multi-faceted identities and multiple communities of practices are found: (1) at Communal Level: Cantonese is the shared linguistic repertoire of this dance community and three SEA sojourn students form the weakest ties with local students; (2) at Group Level: both Mandarin and English are adopted and stronger ties are established with other overseas sojourn students; and (3) at Individual Level: Singapore English is the dominant code choice used among these three SEA sojourners and they are bound together by the strongest ties. Instances of trilingual code-mixing and code-switching are also found in the interaction among the sojourners and Hong Kong locals. The two theories, Social Network Theory and Community of Practice, are complementary in accounting for the social organization of multilingual communities. Ultimately, this study demonstrates the complexity of multilingual communities with the aforesaid language contact in Hong Kong as a case in point.
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Shima, Hiroshi. "Japanese Sojourners Learning English: Language Ideologies and Identity among Middle School Students." The Ohio State University, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1308231429.

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Badwan, Khawla Mohammed. "Negotiating rates of exchange : Arab academic sojourners' sociolinguistic trajectories in the UK." Thesis, University of Leeds, 2015. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/12005/.

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This doctoral project investigates the sociolinguistic trajectories of eight Arab academic sojourners in the UK. Although there is a considerable body of empirical study abroad research, this research has been criticised for its imbalance and inconsistency. Coleman (2013) asks study abroad researchers to see sojourners as ‘whole people with whole lives’ instead of fragmenting their ‘minds, bodies, and social behaviours into separate domains of inquiry’ (Kramsch, 2009, p. 2). In addition, Kinginger (2009) explains that study abroad research has been limited to North American, Cross-European and Asia-Pacific contexts. This study springs from the need to document the unheard stories of Arab academic sojourners in the UK to explore the impact of mobility and sociocultural heterogeneity on sojourners’ conceptualisations of English, perceptions of themselves as speakers of English, and on their social encounters in the UK. This qualitative, longitudinal inquiry has been conducted through in-depth interviews over a period of eight months. Research data comes from initial pair interviews conducted within one month of the participants’ arrival in the UK as well as five rounds of individual interviews, resulting in a total of 44 interviews. Thematic analysis of the dataset has featured striking commonalities in the group. The study found that participants’ perceptions of their investment in English were profoundly affected by their mobility. While they valued their investment in English as a tool to access Higher Education in the United Kingdom, their unexpected experiences of shifts in their language value made them aware of the limitations of their linguistic and social capital, thereby affecting their perceptions of their English and contributing to new conceptualisations of English. Not only did these realisations destabilise participants’ perceptions of themselves as speakers of English, but further affected their social encounters, which ultimately led to some sort of ghettoisation that significantly limited their social networks in the UK.

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Furlong, Matthew J. "Peasants, Servants, and Sojourners: Itinerant Asians in Colonial New Spain, 1571-1720." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/333213.

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This dissertation charts the social interactions, work experiences, and routes traveled by Asian workers within and between the colonial Philippines and Mexico between 1571 and 1720. Residents of early colonial Mexico called these workers chinos. Most free chinos were Filipinos, but enslaved chinos had origins all over Asia. Chinos crossed the Pacific on the Manila galleons, which sailed between the Philippines and Mexico. These ships facilitated the exchange of American products, mostly silver, for Asian products, primarily textiles. This study explores the social and spatial mobility of chinos to show how trade between and within the Americas and Asia opened a new chapter in the social history of the early modern world. This project expands the study of Latin American history in three ways. First, it analyzes the ways in which chinos, especially Filipinos, created and sustained colonial Mexico as part of a Pacific world, advancing scholarship that already celebrates Mexico as part of an Atlantic world. Next, this work develops the study of economic history by comparing the ways that chinos shaped and connected different regions of colonial Mexico by employing Southeast Asian labor organization and technology. Thirdly, this dissertation refines studies of ethnicity by considering the ways that chinos, especially free laborers, represented themselves as members of a new corporate group in colonial Mexico, and appropriated the ethnic category of "indio," originally established for indigenous people in the Americas. They used these categories to claim resources from the colonial state, to form social networks, and to create bases for collective action. This work advances the field of early modern global and world history. It analyzes the Philippines and Pacific New Spain as arenas of cross-cultural interaction, labor, migration, and production in their own right, rather than as mere commercial intermediaries mediating between East Asia and the Americas. Finally, this work considers the ways that the long history of interactions between Island Southeast Asia and the rest of Asia shaped the mobility of chinos, while also situating their trans-Pacific interactions within the institutions of the global tributary empire of the Spanish Habsburgs.

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Tattersall, Alexis Marc. "The cultural transition cycle and repatriation of Taiwanese academic sojourners in the UK." Thesis, University of Southampton, 2008. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.495793.

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Faggion, Laura. "From Sojourners to Setlers: Homes of Italian Migrants in Brisbane and their Meanings." Thesis, Griffith University, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10072/367780.

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This thesis focuses on the architecture of the domestic dwellings built by a group of twenty first-generation migrants, natives of the Veneto region in Italy. This group migrated to Australia after the Second World War and built their houses in the 1980s and 1990s in Brisbane. This thesis looks at the material realm of these houses, that is, their facades, the internal and external organisation and use of spaces, as well as at the symbolic realm that corresponds to the meanings attributed by the Veneto people to their houses in Brisbane. The project is of qualitative nature and as primary sources of data uses semi-structured interviews (1), associated when circumstances made this possible, to photo-elicitation interviews (2), and focus group discussion (3). The semi-structured interviews were conducted both in Australia with twenty first-generation Italian migrants, and in italy with another ten informants who are indigenous to the Veneto region and who built their homes their. These primary data are supplemented by secondary data in the form of photographs and drawings (4).
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Griffith School of Environment
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Hotta, Muneo. "Intercultural communication competence and intercultural adjustment of Japanese business sojourners and their spouses." PDXScholar, 1991. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/4268.

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The purpose of this thesis was to examine the relationship among intercultural communication competence, attitudes toward the U.S. culture, and linguistic skills in English for Japanese business sojourners and their spouses living in the United States.

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Syed, Mukhiar Sharifah Nadiah. "The Role of Media in Consumer Acculturation and Identity Negotiation: The Case of Malay Sojourners in the United States of America." Ohio University / OhioLINK, 2015. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1431004218.

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BELLO, K. Q. "Adaptando-se à Cultura Brasileira: Correlatos do Bem-estar de Estudantes Estrangeiros de Pós-graduação." Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo, 2015. http://repositorio.ufes.br/handle/10/9053.

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RESUMO Bello, K. Q. (2015). Adaptando-se à Cultura Brasileira: Correlatos do Bem-Estar de Estudantes Estrangeiros de Pós-Graduação. Dissertação de Mestrado. Programa de Pós-Graduação em Psicologia. Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo. Vitória, Espírito Santo. Ao considerar a mobilidade estudantil ao redor do mundo, é imprescindível aprofundar quais são os fatores que afetam o bem-estar subjetivo de estudantes em processo de adaptação, especialmente daqueles da América Latina. As dificuldades que atingem os estudantes da América Latina em seu processo de aculturação, sejam estas de maior ou menor impacto, são relacionadas à afetividade, às mudanças que acontecem com a organização social e familiar, à forma de vestir, ao tipo de alimentação, às preferências musicais e às diferentes formas de comportamento. Todas essas mudanças são significativas para os estrangeiros, seja de forma positiva ou negativa no processo de integração. Tais mudanças são refletidas hoje como uma alternativa coerente de investigação para compreender os fenômenos da cultura onde estão inseridos na expectativa de atingir uma adaptação bem sucedida na cultura de acolhida. Neste sentido, esta dissertação teve como objetivo investigar a existência da relação entre o bem-estar subjetivo e as estratégias de aculturação, as estratégias de enfrentamento e os valores humanos em pós-graduandos estrangeiros provenientes da América Latina que tem como língua o espanhol e passam por um processo adaptativo no Brasil. Para tanto, foram realizados dois estudos. No Estudo I, participaram 103 sojourners que realizavam um curso de pós-graduação em uma universidade brasileira, sendo 54 homens e 49 mulheres, provenientes de 13 países da América Latina, os quais responderam os seguintes instrumentos on-line em espanhol: questões sociodemográficas; a Escala do Índice de Aculturação; o Inventário de Estratégias de Enfrentamento; a Escala de Bem-Estar Afetivo no Trabalho; a Escala de Satisfação com a vida; e o Questionário dos Valores Básicos. Os resultados mostraram o uso principal de duas estratégias aculturativas: integração (35%), considerada como aquela que traz melhor resultados adaptativos e maior bem-estar, e marginalização (35%), considerada como aquela que dificulta o processo de adaptação e diminui o bem-estar. Com relação às estratégias de enfrentamento, foram identificadas o uso de duas estratégias principais: a resolução de problemas e o apoio social, que permitem ao estudante uma adaptação adequada no país anfitrião com diminuição do estresse. Com relação às prioridades valorativas dos estudantes, os considerados mais importantes foram os valores de existência, os suprapessoais e os interativos. Homens e mulheres diferiram com relação às estratégias de enfrentamento e à aculturação, com as mulheres apresentando maiores médias nas estratégias de apoio social, pensamento desiderativo e expressão emocional, assim como na identificação com o país de origem. As variáveis que predizem o bem-estar subjetivo de uma maneira positiva são a restruturação cognitiva, valores normativos, valores de experimentação e a aculturação com Brasil. Aquelas que o fazem negativamente são o pensamento desiderativo e os valores de existência. Para o Estudo II, foram realizadas 14 entrevistas com estudantes estrangeiros provenientes da América Latina, que estão realizando um curso de pós-graduação na Universidade Federal de Espirito Santo. Estes são 07 mulheres e 07 homens, com idades entre 25 e 35 anos, que estão no Brasil por um período mínimo de 06 meses. Para este grupo, foram observadas as estratégias aculturativas de integração e de separação. Com relação às estratégias de enfrentamento, foi identificada com maior ênfase a busca de apoio social. No que diz respeito às experiências vivenciadas, estas foram relacionadas com o idioma, busca de moradia, tramites de documentos, econômicos, e serviços de saúde. Apesar das limitações deste trabalho, ele apresenta contribuições para pesquisas multiculturais no Brasil e para a construção de conhecimento que possa auxiliar na proposição de ações e programas que promovam uma adaptação adequada para o favorecimento do bem-estar do estudante estrangeiro que busca seu aperfeiçoamento no Brasil. Palavras chave: bem-estar, América Latina, aculturação, sojourners, estratégias de enfrentamento, valores humanos básicos.

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Newman, Esther S. "Sojourners, Spies and Citizens: The Interned Latin American Japanese Civilians during World War II." Connect to resource online, 2008. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ysu1210777704.

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Al-Bundawi, Zayneb. "Sacred texts and identity construction in the Cardiff Muslim community : sojourners' narratives about 'majales'." Thesis, Cardiff University, 2018. http://orca.cf.ac.uk/117240/.

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My PhD research investigates how Shi‘i Muslim women in Cardiff participate in religious rituals and draw on religious texts in ways that help to construct their identities as diasporic Muslims. The religious rituals involved are the majales of Muharram and Safar, the first two months of the Islamic calendar, which are dedicated to commemorate the memory of Hussein, Prophet Muhammad‘s grandson and the third Shi‘i Imam according to Twelver Shi‘a. Majales (sing. majlis) are gatherings of people for the commemoration of the memory of Hussein and the battle of Karbala. Understanding the dynamics of a particular community is essential in investigating how identities are constructed within this community and by adopting an ethnographic approach this understanding and investigation are expected to be achieved. Considering the intricate relationship between the participants‘ religious practices and the ways in which sacred texts are taken up and used, an ethnographic approach would also allow me to address these two aspects equally. This is why I carried out fieldwork for four months during two successive years, 2014 and 2015. During this period I undertook participant-observation in an Islamic Centre in Cardiff and conducted interviews with Shi‘i Muslim women who participated in the rituals. The women involved in this study are female students, mostly PhD students, or spouses of male students whose stay in the United Kingdom is bound to their study, i.e. they are (academic) sojourners. The use of interviews as a method, particularly semi-structured interviews, offered the participants the opportunity to talk about their practices through a narrative mode. Deppermann (2013a: 67) indicates that ―narratives provide particularly powerful resources for positioning‖. Through narratives people take positions towards their past selves or towards others. In his seminal article ―Positioning between Structure and Performance‖, Michael Bamberg (1997a) comes up with the idea of ̳Narrative Positioning‘, in which he argues that the process of positioning happens at three different levels. De Fina and Georgakopoulou (2012: 164) argue that Bamberg‘s model of narrative positioning has been adopted in many studies that involve interviews and conversational stories because ―it affords an analytical apparatus for linking local telling choices to larger identities‖. Bamberg‘s (1997a) model is applied to the analysis of the narratives derived from interviews with these Shi‘i Muslim women. This model consists of three different yet interrelated levels, where the first level is concerned with the story world and the relations that exist among characters. The second level is concerned with the story-telling world and the interaction that takes place between the interlocutors. The moral/ social world is what the third level focuses on and how narrators define themselves in relation to the wider context, i.e. beyond the local level of interaction. The analysis has been supplemented with observations from my ethnographic work and suggests how the women use the narratives to perform complex identity work through which they orient to the symbols and core values of their ―imagined homeland‖ and draw on these to validate the diverse roles they fulfil and the practices they have adopted in the diaspora context. In talking about majales and their practices in both homeland and diaspora, participants display and reflect on the different roles they take, including being teachers, advice-givers and critics of others‘ behaviour.

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Kaye, Denise L. "International students as (un)bounded sojourners : emergent articulations of culture and identity through intercultural communication /." Available to subscribers only, 2006. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1251852791&sid=17&Fmt=2&clientId=1509&RQT=309&VName=PQD.

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Haught, Heather Michelle. "Effects of Acculturation and Prejudice on Mental and Physical Health Outcomes in Rural Chinese Sojourners." Marietta College Honors Theses / OhioLINK, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=marhonors1303917417.

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Ferreyra-Neulat, Laura. "Les étudiants-"sojourners" chinois en France : trois études sur l'acculturation, le coping et l'adaptation culturelle." Bordeaux 2, 2006. http://www.theses.fr/2006BOR21322.

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Trois études analysant : mode d'acculturation, stratégies de coping et adaptation culturelle des étudiants-sojourners chinois en France. 345 étudiants-sojourners chinois, 19-38 ans, en France depuis moins de 2 ans, inscrits dans l'enseignement supérieur. 59 étudiants chinois, 19-26 ans, vivant en Chine. Questionnaire Likert mesurant : environnement, individu, coping et adaptation culturelle; testant neuf hypothèses (p ≤. 05). La connaissance préalable du français prédit les résultats académiques indépendamment des résultats antérieurs. Les cours en anglais génèrent du stress. Le groupe utilise la séparation (mode d'acculturation), ainsi qu'un coping adaptatif qui lui serait propre. L'estime de soi prédit à 14% le bien-être psychologique, l'affiliation sociale et le stress perçu, à 44% l'adaptation culturelle. L'aide reçue de l'institution prédit une bonne adaptation, à l'inverse des plaintes psychosomatiques. D'autres recherches permettraient de développer une politique d'accueil adéquate
We studied: acculturation mode, coping strategies, cultural adaptation of Chinese student-sojourners in France. 345 Chinese students, ages 19-38, in France for less than 2 years, enrolled in higher education institutions. 59 Chinese students, ages 19-26, having never left China. Likert questionnaire measuring: environment, person, coping, cultural adaptation. 9 hypotheses were tested (p ≤. 05). Previous knowledge of French predicts better academic results regardless previous academic performance. Programs taught in English generate stress. Separation is preferred acculturation mode. Adaptive coping is used. A coping style proper to Chinese students seems relevant. Self-esteem predicts (14%) Psychological well-being; Social Affiliation, Perceived stress predict (44%) Sociocultural adaptation. Psychosomatic complaints predict bad adaptation; assistance offered by the school has positive influence. New research should encourage the development of consistent international student policy

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Takimoto, Yukari. "Sheltered ethnic identity : the effects of education on Japanese adolescent sojourners in the United States /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/7845.

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Williams, Elisabeth. ""If you wait, nothing will come" : returned Japanese student sojourners' shifting identities and perceptions of English." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/46403.

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In Japan, discourses of globalization have come in chorus with an urgency in educational policy to raise personal and national English proficiency for individual and economic success (e.g. Kobayashi, 2011; Kubota 2013; Yamagami & Tollefson, 2011). Given that “study abroad” is often perceived as the ideal environment for both language acquisition and personal growth (Kinginger, 2009), short-term sojourns abroad in English speaking countries are promoted aggressively in many Japanese contexts. While much research has been conducted regarding Japanese sojourners during their study abroad, the impacts of study abroad after returning to Japan have yet to be explored in depth. Drawing on Norton’s (2000) theoretical concepts of identity and investment, this study investigates how experiences abroad affected the current identities of Japanese university students who previously participated in short-term English-medium study abroad programs. Participants’ views on the importance of English in their lives since returning to Japan is also examined in relation to common discourses of linguistic instrumentalism. Data were collected through semi-structured qualitative interviews with six Japanese university students over three months. This study concludes that while participants were ascribed undesirable identities abroad, their abilities to exercise agency within their social worlds during their sojourns impacted their identities both abroad and in Japan. Among male participants, interviews display challenges to perceptions of personal desirability and masculinity while abroad. Furthermore, while participants who plan to use English in the future endorsed discourses of linguistic instrumentalism, a general lack of ownership over Japanese varieties of English was also observed in participant accounts. This study’s findings imply that sojourners’ shifting identities abroad have a lasting impact on how they view themselves in relation to their social world once returning to Japan. It also illustrates how common discourses surrounding English education in Japan may contribute to delegitimizing Japanese varieties of English, and how English-medium programs abroad in non-Anglophone countries may increase ownership over personal varieties of English. Lastly, this study advocates that by study abroad programs offering debriefing sessions for returned sojourners, returnees may achieve a deeper understanding of the influences of their experiences.

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Green, Lynne H. "Global Journeys| Exploring the Communication Strategies Successful Longterm Sojourners use for Cultural, Language, Identity and Family Adjustment." Thesis, Gonzaga University, 2013. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=1537573.

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With a growing number of multinational corporations sending workers into new locations, the need for knowledge about how individuals and families successfully integrate and connect to their host country is paramount. This study focuses on the phenomenological communication strategies used for cross cultural adjustment and adaptation of longterm sojourners in a new culture. Longterm sojourners who have lived for three years or longer in two host countries were interviewed to explore their communication strategies of adaptation for meaning making for themselves and for their families. Specifically, perspectives around the experience of cross culture adjustment, language acquisition, and identity shift were explored. Findings show that individuals who approach the experience with openness and non-judgmentalism find greater satisfaction with the host country. Also, those who seek to integrate and deeply embrace the new culture experience acceptance and stay for longer periods. Humor, humility, and perseverance are character traits that predict for satisfactory adjustment. The stresses on marriage and family provide a dialectic experience of strain and closeness. Implications from this study indicate that satisfied longterm sojourners have discovered ways of contending with difficulties that provide knowledge for managing this stressful adjustment. Their experience can inform the expectations of future sojourners. This study emphasizes the need for sojourners to be prepared for the challenges ahead and to engage the process with flexibility.

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Becker, Anne. "Japanese families in diaspora: child-rearing practices: a comparative study of 'stayers' and 'sojourners' in Western Australia." Thesis, Curtin University, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/2566.

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This thesis investigates and analyses the child-rearing patterns of two groups of Japanese parents living in Perth, Western Australia. The first group, the 'Stayers have migrated to Australia as a couple with the intention of making Australia their home and occasionally visiting Japan with their children. The second group, the Sojourners' are in Australia for a fixed period of time, generally 4-5 years, as a result of the company requirements expected of the husband/father. Their time in Australia is an interlude, an experience, an opportunity for the whole family.The research compares a number of case studies of families in both groups. In depth interviews following detailed questionnaires provide the data about the child-rearing practices as expressed by mothers and fathers in the two groups. Parental expectation of children's private and public behaviour, as well as their relevance to gender and age are explored.The findings from the survey suggested that the qualities held to be the most important for the Stayer group were those qualities that would be useful for their children to be successful in Australia. Qualities such as independence, assertiveness and using initiative were rated as being more desirable to develop for the children in the Stayer group than those children in the Sojourner group. Some Stayer families with older children had socialised their children to operate successfully in both cultures. The findings also suggested that the qualities held to be important for the Sojourner group were consistent with the qualities that the Japanese view as being valued for Japanese in Japan.

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Becker, Anne. "Japanese families in diaspora : child-rearing practices : a comparative study of 'stayers' and 'sojourners' in Western Australia /." Curtin University of Technology, School of Language and Intercultural Education, 2002. http://espace.library.curtin.edu.au:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=13170.

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This thesis investigates and analyses the child-rearing patterns of two groups of Japanese parents living in Perth, Western Australia. The first group, the 'Stayers have migrated to Australia as a couple with the intention of making Australia their home and occasionally visiting Japan with their children. The second group, the Sojourners' are in Australia for a fixed period of time, generally 4-5 years, as a result of the company requirements expected of the husband/father. Their time in Australia is an interlude, an experience, an opportunity for the whole family.The research compares a number of case studies of families in both groups. In depth interviews following detailed questionnaires provide the data about the child-rearing practices as expressed by mothers and fathers in the two groups. Parental expectation of children's private and public behaviour, as well as their relevance to gender and age are explored.The findings from the survey suggested that the qualities held to be the most important for the Stayer group were those qualities that would be useful for their children to be successful in Australia. Qualities such as independence, assertiveness and using initiative were rated as being more desirable to develop for the children in the Stayer group than those children in the Sojourner group. Some Stayer families with older children had socialised their children to operate successfully in both cultures. The findings also suggested that the qualities held to be important for the Sojourner group were consistent with the qualities that the Japanese view as being valued for Japanese in Japan.

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Harley, Elizabeth Anna. "An Exploratory Evaluation of Language and Culture Contact by Japanese Sojourners in a Short-term US Academic Program." PDXScholar, 1996. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/5168.

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Short-term intercultural exchange programs provide a wealth of information and experiences for participants. Participants are given the opportunity to travel out of their native country and are exposed to new languages and cultures. This case study looks at the Japanese sojourners in the Northwest/ Pacific Rim {NWPR) summer program. The purpose was to examine the language use of the Japanese sojourners throughout the course of the NWPR program. This case study sought to determine when the Japanese sojourners used English and/or Japanese, in which situations, what strategies the Japanese sojourners employed and who initiated contact with whom. All of the data was gathered from a participant observer who also employed various ethnographic methods. The Japanese sojourners were observed informally and six were interviewed formally. All four of the ESL teachers were also formally interviewed to provide as wide a range of information as possible. The results showed that the Japanese sojourners did, in general, have a positive experience in the NWPR program but they did not learn as much English and intercultural sensitivity as they could have. Although this case study was focused on the language use of the Japanese sojourners aspects of program evaluation inevitable infiltrated in.

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Bronstein, Daniel Aaron. "The formation and development of Chinese communities in Atlanta, Augusta, and Savannah, Georgia from sojourners to settlers, 1880-1965 /." Atlanta, Ga. : Georgia State University, 2008. http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/history_diss/9/.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Georgia State University, 2008.
Title from title page (Digital Archive@GSU, viewed July 20, 2010) Douglas Reynolds, committee chair; Krystyn Moon, Glenn Eskew, Hugh Hudson, committee members. Includes bibliographical references (p. 247-264).

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Bronstein, Daniel Aaron. "The Formation and Development of Chinese Communities in Atlanta, Augusta, and Savannah, Georgia: From Sojourners to Settlers, 1880-1965." Digital Archive @ GSU, 2009. http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/history_diss/9.

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The study examines the formation and development of Chinese American populations in Augusta, Savannah, and Atlanta, Georgia from the beginnings of Chinese Exclusion period through the passage of the Immigration Act of 1965. Although people of Chinese ancestry were in an ambiguous position upon their arrival in the 1880s within the black-white dyad that defined southern race relations, they were able to negotiate this system, transforming themselves from being perceived as “outsiders” before the 1940s to being treated as “honorary whites” by the late 1960s. To explore this transition, this project analyzes generational differences between immigrants and their children. Before the 1920s, the mostly Chinese immigrant male population concerned themselves with establishing viable businesses for sending remittances back to family in China and creating social institutions that helped the men cope with decades of separation from their families. The men avoided possible conflict with Jim Crow by having their businesses and residences in black or immigrant areas. Some men cultivated better relations with whites by attending Sunday schools that catered to Chinese immigrants. The mutation from “outsider” to “honorary white” status began when prosperous Chinese men started sending for wives to join them in the 1910s, thus ushering in a new pattern of planned long-term settlement in the state. Families successfully challenged the older perception by joining white churches, enrolling their children in white schools, and building social ties with white community leaders. Second generation Chinese Americans reaped the benefits of this strategy in the 1950s and 1960s by gaining access to housing in white neighborhoods, employment opportunities in white-collar occupations, and acceptance as partners in marriages with European Americans.

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Gullekson, Nicole L. "Cultural Distance, Perception of Emotional Display Rules, and Their Influence on Sojourner Adjustment." Ohio University / OhioLINK, 2007. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1186409258.

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Sun, Huijing. "Le parcours des étudiants chinois « sojourners » en France et leurs stratégies d’adaptation interculturelle : une étude exploratoire dans une approche interculturelle." Thesis, Lyon, 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017LYSE2075.

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L’objectif de cette recherche est d’exploiter l’adaptation interculturelle des étudiants-sojourners chinois en France, et plus précisément en premier lieu leur parcours personnel, en second lieu leurs stratégies en face des difficultés d’adaptation dans l’apprentissage du métier d’étudiant étranger et celui du métier d’étudiant adulte. Actuellement, plus de 30.000 étudiants chinois s’inscrivent chaque année en enseignement supérieur en France. Éloignés de leur pays natal, ils doivent s'adapter à un nouvel environnement. Du fait de leurs difficultés à communiquer dans une langue étrangère, des différences culturelles et sociales et de la pression économique, une partie des étudiants chinois rencontrent des problèmes, tant sur le plan physique que psychologique pendant leur séjour en France : difficultés dans leur adaptation à un système éducatif nouveau, dans la manière d'appréhender une culture différente (barrière de la langue, mode de vie, etc..). Du point de vue théorique nous nous situons dans une perspective historico-culturelle du psychisme, avec l’idée que les processus psychiques sont dépendants du contexte dans lesquels ils se développent, la théorie des champs conceptuels proposée par Gérard Vergnaud. Du point de vue des concepts et recherches, nous utilisons notamment Culture shock de Oberg, Courbe en U de Lysgaard, Pression-adaptation-croissance dynamique de Kim et Stratégies d’acculturation de Berry ; d’autres réflexions concernent les facteurs d’influence sur l’adaptation interculturelle et favorisent notre analyses des données. Ce travail a mis en œuvre une méthode de construction des données impliquant le croisement de plusieurs techniques de recueil des données (cross-fertilisation, Acioly-Régnier, 2010) qui combine l’observation ethnographique, le récit de vie par bande-dessinées personnalisée et l’entretien d’auto-confrontation simple. Ont ainsi été abordés divers aspects de l’adaptation des étudiants : passage du projet à la venue en France, rapport à l’enseignement et à l’administration française, vie quotidienne extra universitaire, intégration sociale, projet au-delà du séjour. Les résultats de cette recherche montrent que les étudiants-sojourners chinois s’adaptent d’autant mieux qu’ils ont des véritables stratégies pour réagir à de nouveaux contextes. Il a également été confirmé que dans leur adaptation interculturelle, les étudiants-sojourners chinois étudiés pratiquent une stratégie convertible multidimensionnelle
The objective of this research is to exploit the intercultural adaptation of the Chinese sojourners - students in France, and more exactly first of all their personal course, secondly their strategies in front of the difficulties of adaptation in the learning of the job of foreign student and that of the job of grown-up student. At present, more than 30.000 Chinese students join every year higher education in France. Taken away from their native country, they have to adapt themselves to a new environment. Because of their difficulties communicating in a foreign language, cultural and social differences and economic pressure, a part of the Chinese students meet problems, both on the plan physical and psychological during their stay in France: difficulties in their adaptation to a new education system, in the way of taking a new and different culture (language barrier, lifestyle, etc.). From the theoretical point of view we are situated in a historico-cultural prospect of the psyche, with the idea that the psychic processes are dependent on the context in which they develop (the theory of the conceptual fields was proposed by Gérard Vergnaud). From the point of view of the concepts and the searches, we use in particular Culture shock of Oberg, U Curved for Kim's dynamic Lysgaard, Pression-adaptation-croissance and Strategies of acculturation of Berry; other reflections concern the factors of influence on the intercultural adaptation and favour our data analyses. This work has implemented a method of construction of the data involving the crossing of several techniques of data collection (cross-fertilization, Acioly-Régnier, on 2010) which combines the ethnographical observation, the narrative of life by band drawn personalized and the maintenance of simple auto-confrontation. Several aspects of the adaptation of the students were approached: passage of the project in the coming in France, relationship with the education and in the French administration, the extra university everyday life, the social integration, the project beyond the stay. The results of this research show that the Chinese sojourners students adapt themselves all the better since they have real strategies to react to new contexts. It was also confirmed that in their intercultural adaptation, the Chinese sojourners students practise a multidimensional convertible strategy

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Huang, Shih-Ching. "National identity (re)construction and negotiation and cosmopolitanism in the intercultural study-abroad context : student sojourners from Taiwan in the UK." Thesis, Durham University, 2015. http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/11517/.

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This exploratory study investigates how national identity is possibly (re)constructed, negotiated, and expanded during sojourners’ study-abroad experience, focusing on the student sojourners from Taiwan in the United Kingdom. Situated within the framework of social constructionism, the study is based on an interdisciplinary foundation which draws on the fields of identities, nationalism, intercultural communication, study-abroad, education and cosmopolitanism. It involves 20 international students from Taiwan in qualitative interviews and thematic analysis guides the data analysis process. The findings revealed a number of important points. First, the factors of homeland Taiwan and its cultures, schooling, family education, family history and the study-abroad experience are found to be integral to the national identities (i.e., Taiwanese and Chinese, ROC, identities) of the sojourners from Taiwan. Secondly, in terms of identity conflict management, especially with the mainland Chinese (PRC) peers, the dominating style as a way of defending the self-face and Taiwanese identity, and the avoiding tendency (i.e., avoiding arguments over the Taiwan-China political dispute) have been reported. Overall, the boundaries of being Taiwanese are drawn and re-drawn in accordance with the on-going process of communication with Chinese (PRC) and non-Chinese (PRC) in the study-abroad context in the UK. Last, whereas Taiwanese identity becomes particularly salient, cosmopolitan belonging is also found to be strong among many participants due to the cultural diversity of the study-abroad environment, although it is also contested for some. The study contributes to the study-abroad literature in its discussion of national identities. Also, the findings offer insights for international educators to better understand the experience of students from Taiwan in the UK and for educators in Taiwan who handle pre-sojourn courses and/or training.

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Williams, Sheila Y. Guinier Clarke. "ASIAN INDIAN SOJOURNERS: AN INQUIRY INTO THE PROBASHI–“AWAY FROM HOME” EXPERIENCE OF GRADUATE STUDENTS AT A MID-WESTERN UNIVERSITY." Ohio : Ohio University, 2007. http://www.ohiolink.edu/etd/view.cgi?ohiou1188314140.

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Söldner, Tobias. "Personality, values, and cultural perceptions in the sojourner context." Doctoral thesis, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Fakultät II, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.18452/16744.

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In der vorliegenden Studie wird anhand von sechs vorwiegend studentischen Stichproben von Teilnehmern zeitlich befristeter Austauschprogramme zwischen Deutschland, Japan, und den USA („Sojourner“) der Zusammenhang zwischen Persönlichkeit, Werten, kultureller Distanz und Akkulturation untersucht. Die einleitenden Analysen zeigen, dass alle Teilnehmergruppen die Persönlichkeits- und Werteunterschiede zwischen den Bewohnern der einzelnen Länder ähnlich einschätzten. Andererseits wiesen diese direkten Einschätzungen keinerlei Übereinstimmung mit angeblichen Kulturunterschieden, wie sie sich indirekt auf Basis aggregierter Selbsteinschätzungen berechnen lassen, auf. Ebenso konnte gezeigt werden, dass zwar einige wenige Persönlichkeitseigenschaften und Werte vermutlich als „typisch“ für Sojourner im allgemeinen zu betrachten sind, im Gegensatz dazu jedoch sowohl die Ausgangswerte, als auch die Entwicklung der meisten Charakteristika während des Auslandsaufenthalts, zwischen Teilnehmern unterschiedlicher Nationalität stark variieren. Ein Vergleich von Persönlichkeits- und Werte-Selbsteinschätzungen mit entsprechenden Unterschieden zwischen Herkunfts- und Zielkultur lässt darauf schließen, dass Sojourner dazu tendieren, gezielt in Länder zu reisen, mit deren Bewohnern sie in bestimmten Merkmalen übereinstimmen, und dass die wahrgenommene Ähnlichkeit zu den Bewohnern der jeweiligen Gastgebernation nach der Rückkehr ins Herkunftsland nochmals zunimmt. Der Grad der erreichten Akkulturation während des Auslandsaufenthaltes (insbesondere jener der Zielkultur-Orientierung) ermöglichte über alle Teilnehmergruppen hinweg eine Vorhersage von Gesundheit und Lebenszufriedenheit, war jedoch nur schwach mit der Aufenthaltsdauer korreliert. Zusätzliche Varianz im Akkulturationsgrad konnte durch Persönlichkeit und Werte der Teilnehmer, sowie durch die Größe der entsprechenden Unterscheide zwischen Herkunfts- und Zielland auf Kulturebene aufgeklärt werden.
The present study examined the relationship between personality, personal values, cultural distance and acculturation in primarily academic sojourners travelling between Germany, Japan, and the US. A Preliminary analysis revealed that ratings for the culture-level personality and values differences between each culture were highly consistent across sojourner groups, but that these ratings showed no relation to alleged cultural differences as calculated from national self-rating means. Subsequent analyses discovered a small subset of personality traits and values typical for sojourners in general, while most pre-sojourn characteristics and their development abroad strongly differed across national groups. A significant trend for participants to seek out host cultures fitting their own personality and values patterns was mirrored by an increase in self-rated similarity to host culture members after the return home. The degree of acculturation (especially host culture orientation) reached throughout the sojourn significantly predicted health and life satisfaction across participant samples, but turned out to be only weakly related to the time spent in the host country. Additional variance in acculturation success was explained by participant personality, personal values, and the associated culture-level difference between host and home countries.

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Vedana, Simone Nazareth. "Viver no exterior e voltar para o Brasil : uma análise do processo de aculturação e de readaptação de consumidores brasileiros." reponame:Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UFRGS, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10183/26163.

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Cada vez mais os brasileiros, principalmente os jovens, estão se interessando pela experiência de passar um tempo morando no exterior. Como conseqüência, essa vivência no exterior pode provocar diversas mudanças na vida desses indivíduos, visto que todas as pessoas que participam de transições culturais estão sujeitas a uma variedade de experiências coletivamente rotuladas como choque cultural, adaptação, adaptação entre culturas ou aculturação. Além disso, ao retornarem para o país de origem, esses indivíduos correm o risco de passar por um choque cultural reverso e sofrer os efeitos do processo de aculturação vivenciados no exterior. Enquanto estudos sobre aculturação focam em mudança cultural como resultado de contato cultural e adaptação, o estudo da aculturação do consumidor, primeiramente, foca na adaptação cultural como manifestação no mercado. Esse é o enfoque do presente estudo, que teve, portanto, como objetivo geral identificar quais são os efeitos do processo de aculturação no consumidor brasileiro durante e após uma experiência de vida internacional. O presente estudo foi desenvolvido através de uma abordagem qualitativa. A coleta de dados foi realizada através de entrevistas em profundidade, com a utilização de um roteiro semi-estruturado, entre os meses de agosto e novembro de 2009, até o ponto em que ocorreu uma saturação teórica, chegando a 21 entrevistados. Além disso, as entrevistas foram filmadas para a realização de uma videografia, visando uma maior compreensão do comportamento desses consumidores. Entre os resultados desse estudo constatou-se que o processo de aculturação do consumidor provoca mudanças em hábitos alimentares, no processo de decisão de compra, na identidade cultural dos indivíduos, entre outros.
More and more Brazilians are becoming interested in having the experience of living abroad, especially Brazilian youth. As a result, this experience abroad can cause several changes in their lives, as all people participating in cultural transitions are subject to a variety of experiences collectively labeled as culture shock, adjustment, adaptation between cultures or acculturation. In addition, upon returning to the country of origin, these individuals are at risk of undergoing a reverse culture shock and suffer the effects of the acculturation process experienced abroad. While acculturation studies focus on cultural change as a result of cultural contact and adaptation, the study of consumer acculturation focuses primarily on cultural adaptation as a manifestation in the market. This is the focus of this study, which was therefore aimed at identifying what are the effects of the acculturation process in the Brazilian consumer during and after an experience of international life. This study was developed through a qualitative approach. Data collection was conducted through interviews, using a semi-structured script, between August and November 2009, to the point where there was a theoretical saturation, reaching 21 respondents. Moreover, the interviews were filmed for the realization of a videography, seeking a better understanding of the behavior of these consumers. Among the results of this study was revealed that the acculturation process causes changes in consumer eating habits, in the process of purchasing decision, in the cultural identity of the individuals, among others.

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Nguyen, Hoa N. "Coming In and Coming Out: Navigating the Spaces between Cultural and Sexual Identity." Diss., Virginia Tech, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/78303.

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The present study addresses three objectives: 1) to explore the experiences of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and queer (LGBQ) persons who are coming in the United States as students and coming out about their sexual orientation, 2) to explore the cultural narratives that emerge in their disclosure process, and 3) to generate ways to support LGBQ international students. Research on the disclosure process for LGBQ persons have been comprised largely of white, middle-class individuals and families. This narrative inquiry broadens our understanding of how LGBQ persons from different cultures define and experience the coming-out process, particularly in the context of moving to a different country. Twelve LGBQ international students shared their coming in, coming out stories through interviews, journals, a timeline, online forum, and picture. Narrative analysis of their stories consisted of three methods: thematic, structural, and dialogic. These findings provide directions for future research, clinical practitioners, educators, and student affairs personnel working with international students.
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Vallazza, Oscar. "Processes of nurturing and maintenance of multicultural identity in the 21st century : A qualitative study of the experience of long-term transcultural sojourners." Thesis, Linköping University, Department of Behavioural Sciences and Learning, 2010. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-59533.

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In today’s world, exposure to other cultures has become a symbol of increasing globalization processes. Many people leave their home area to embark on a voyage of discovery and learning that affects their original cultural identity.

This study explores the life experience of independent transcultural sojourners, i.e. people who freely decide to relocate to different cultural contexts after their formative years. The inquiry covers three major themes of their intercultural experience: Multicultural identity, processes of intercultural adaptation, and change and transformation ensuing from multiple intercultural relocations. The aim of this study is to show the effects of multiple intercultural experiences on the identity of transcultural sojourners, and how they dealt with relevant emerging processes of intercultural adaptation.

Following a format suggested by Seidman (1996), five respondents were asked to recount and reflect on their transcultural experience in three separate, asynchronous interviews that covered three dimensions of their intercultural experience: past, present, and reflections. The ensuing text comprised about 16,000 words and was analyzed using both a narrative and a thematic approach using a mixed typology of categories and sub-themes made up of indigenous typology stemming from relevant scholarly literature and researcher-constructed typology suggested by the researcher and the respondents.

The analysis indicates that personal factors like mindfulness, motivation, resourcefulness, and intercultural awareness strongly influence processes of Intercultural communication competence and Multicultural identity development. Contextual factors are also relevant, as they include issues of avowed and ascribed identity. The analysis also shows no specific, generalizable link between the presence of intercultural stimuli in the original cultural milieus and the decision to relocate across cultural boundaries. Furthermore, it points to a strong relation between Piagetian constructivist learning theories and the development of ICC competence. The study also indicates that independent transcultural sojourners are in a position to negotiate the level of their integration and marginality, which in turn affects the spectrum of their Intercultural communication competence.

Finally, this study indicates the limited applicability of traditional functionalist approaches to understanding and conceptualizing processes of intercultural adaptation and multicultural identity building. It also suggests the need for a shift towards a dialogical perspective informed by systems-thinking and Chaos theory.

The author would like to acknowledge the inspiration and passion for intercultural issues provided over the years by the Intercultural Insights on-line community.Seattle, summer 2010.

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Tran, Thi Hai Ly. "Sojourners in the Country of Freedom and Opportunity: The Experiences of Vietnamese Women with Non-immigrant Dependent Spouse Visas in the United States." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2021. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1617380839200548.

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Hoersting, Raquel Carvalho. "No place to call home: Cultural homelessness, self-esteem and cross-cultural identities." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2009. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc10991/.

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The study examined relations between a cross-cultural geographically mobile childhood and adult cultural identity, attachment to cross-cultural identities (CCIs) and self-esteem. CCIs are loosely defined identities (e.g., third culture kids [TCKs], military brats, missionary kids) that describe some individuals' childhood cross-cultural experience. The 475 participants spent at least two years before age 18 in a culture different from their parents' and completed an online survey including childhood cross-cultural experiences, Cultural Homelessness Criteria, Rosenberg Self-esteem Scale, and Self Label Identity Measure (SLIM) that captured strength of affirmation, belonging and commitment to any CCI. Cultural homelessness (CH) was related to lower self-esteem; higher SLIM scores was related to higher self-esteem and lower CH. TCKs reported lower self-esteem than non-TCKs and older participants experienced less CH and higher self-esteem. SLIM scores buffered the CH-self-esteem relationship, whereas a TCK CCI and having more cross-culturally experienced social networks did not.

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Gullekson, Nicole L. "Should Expatriates Really “Do as the Romans Do?” An Examination of Status and Emotional Display Rules in Intercultural Work Contexts." Ohio University / OhioLINK, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1273242833.

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Salie, Shazia. "The representations of Sojourner Truth in The Narrative of Sojourner Truth." University of the Western Cape, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/11394/7311.

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I read representations of Sojourner Truth in her Spiritual Narrative, The Narrative of Sojourner Truth with a focus on the portrayal of her unconventional character, through a close analysis of language, structure, photographs and narrative voice. Truth’s editor Olive Gilbert’s raises questions about whether the daguerreotype offers a more accurate form of representation than text. I explore the similarities and differences between visual and written portraits in representations of Truth as a unique figure. I question critical readings of Sojourner Truth’s dress in photographs as conservative, reading instead for a combination of conservative and subversive elements. I suggest that her interest in aesthetic forms such as dress and décor is symbolic of her yearning for home, her heritage, her agency, and unique taste. Her many references to her family indicate that she was more than just an empowered figure, but also one who still grieved. I read Truth’s description of domestic space as representing ambivalently, both her sense of loss, and her attempts to acquire agency. I consider how Truth attempts to recreate a sense of family and belonging through fragments of memory. In my reading of how she questions and extends conventional notions of family and community, I explore how she adapts and includes song, and quotations from the Bible in her sermons, by drawing on elements of African folktale and music. Most critics focus on Truth’s strong voice as an activist, there is little attention to the significance of spiritual solitude for her reimagining of community. I suggest that Truth offers alternative ideas of community as fluid rather than as fixed in one place. I explore how her ideas challenge the notion of nation as exclusive. I consider the genre of The Narrative by analyzing Olive Gilbert’s role as editor and writer. I propose that her role in The Narrative is a more complex one than suggested by critics, as it challenges conventional concepts of autobiography creating a conversation between two voices and lives.

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Hemstreet, Susan Elizabeth. "Sojourner Adjustment : A Diary Study." PDXScholar, 1992. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/4377.

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The focus of the ethnographic diary study is introduced and contextualized in the opening chapter with a site description. The thesis examines the diaries written during a sojourn of over two years in Japan . and proposes to answer the question, "How did the sojourner's initial maladjustment subsequently develop into satisfactory adjustment?"

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Alexander, Mariko Mizuno. "The Social Organization of High School Sojourner Experiences: At the Intersection between Corporate Transnationalism and Educational Processes." The Ohio State University, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1397576060.

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com, ssigler227@gmail, and Steven Matthew Sigler. "Renewing Societies: Interculturalism and the Creative Sojourner." Murdoch University, 2007. http://wwwlib.murdoch.edu.au/adt/browse/view/adt-MU20100203.142632.

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From their nascent beginnings during World War II to their good governance and capacity building focus under the Post-Washington Consensus of the early 21st century, international development activities have encompassed a particular world view. This world view, founded on Western historical materialism and a normative perspective, rationalizes the project as the predominate form of development assistance and the expert or volunteer as its agent. Yet this approach to development, although at times successful, has often proved to be unsustainable in the absence of international financing and expertise. Still, there is an alternative approach available when one recognizes that what the vast majority of people want is security for themselves, their families, and their lifestyles.1 From this approach, the focus of development is shifted away from what people do not have (be it material comforts, infrastructure, or good governance) and sets it on the critical roles culture, individual growth, and informal association have in community development. In this approach, human agency at the interpersonal level becomes critical in the diffusion of social, political, economic, and technological innovation and, accordingly, the decisive factor in poverty reduction. That is to say, development that can address poverty must come from within the social classes that experience it. To explore how the international development community can act on this alternative approach, this thesis provides a review of the theory, practice, and consequences of international development to the present day and, from that lead, builds a theoretical argument for the individual creative sojourner as a primary messenger of development. In addition, it presents an exploratory case study of creative sojourners in Timor-Leste and, from their ideas and insights, proposes policy considerations for an overseas apprenticeship program that would support the efforts of trades people, agriculturalists, and small entrepreneurs in improving their lives and, in the process, renewing their societies.

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Sigler, Steven M. "Renewing societies : interculturalism and the creative sojourner /." Murdoch University Digital Theses Project, 2007. http://wwwlib.murdoch.edu.au/adt/browse/view/adt-MU20100203.142632.

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Sigler, Steven. "Renewing Societies: Interculturalism and the Creative Sojourner." Thesis, Sigler, Steven (2007) Renewing Societies: Interculturalism and the Creative Sojourner. PhD thesis, Murdoch University, 2007. https://researchrepository.murdoch.edu.au/id/eprint/1691/.

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From their nascent beginnings during World War II to their good governance and capacity building focus under the Post-Washington Consensus of the early 21st century, international development activities have encompassed a particular world view. This world view, founded on Western historical materialism and a normative perspective, rationalizes “the project” as the predominate form of development assistance and the “expert” or “volunteer” as its agent. Yet this approach to development, although at times successful, has often proved to be unsustainable in the absence of international financing and expertise. Still, there is an alternative approach available when one recognizes that what the vast majority of people want is security for themselves, their families, and their lifestyles.1 From this approach, the focus of development is shifted away from what people do not have (be it material comforts, infrastructure, or good governance) and sets it on the critical roles culture, individual growth, and informal association have in community development. In this approach, human agency at the interpersonal level becomes critical in the diffusion of social, political, economic, and technological innovation and, accordingly, the decisive factor in poverty reduction. That is to say, development that can address poverty must come from within the social classes that experience it. To explore how the international development community can act on this alternative approach, this thesis provides a review of the theory, practice, and consequences of international development to the present day and, from that lead, builds a theoretical argument for the individual creative sojourner as a primary messenger of development. In addition, it presents an exploratory case study of creative sojourners in Timor-Leste and, from their ideas and insights, proposes policy considerations for an overseas apprenticeship program that would support the efforts of trades people, agriculturalists, and small entrepreneurs in improving their lives and, in the process, renewing their societies.

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Sigler, Steven. "Renewing Societies: Interculturalism and the Creative Sojourner." Sigler, Steven (2007) Renewing Societies: Interculturalism and the Creative Sojourner. PhD thesis, Murdoch University, 2007. http://researchrepository.murdoch.edu.au/1691/.

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From their nascent beginnings during World War II to their good governance and capacity building focus under the Post-Washington Consensus of the early 21st century, international development activities have encompassed a particular world view. This world view, founded on Western historical materialism and a normative perspective, rationalizes “the project” as the predominate form of development assistance and the “expert” or “volunteer” as its agent. Yet this approach to development, although at times successful, has often proved to be unsustainable in the absence of international financing and expertise. Still, there is an alternative approach available when one recognizes that what the vast majority of people want is security for themselves, their families, and their lifestyles.1 From this approach, the focus of development is shifted away from what people do not have (be it material comforts, infrastructure, or good governance) and sets it on the critical roles culture, individual growth, and informal association have in community development. In this approach, human agency at the interpersonal level becomes critical in the diffusion of social, political, economic, and technological innovation and, accordingly, the decisive factor in poverty reduction. That is to say, development that can address poverty must come from within the social classes that experience it. To explore how the international development community can act on this alternative approach, this thesis provides a review of the theory, practice, and consequences of international development to the present day and, from that lead, builds a theoretical argument for the individual creative sojourner as a primary messenger of development. In addition, it presents an exploratory case study of creative sojourners in Timor-Leste and, from their ideas and insights, proposes policy considerations for an overseas apprenticeship program that would support the efforts of trades people, agriculturalists, and small entrepreneurs in improving their lives and, in the process, renewing their societies.

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Kherais, Walaa. "Saudi Mothers' Perspectives on the Influence of Acculturation on their Childrearing Beliefs and Behaviors of their Children." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2017. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1011803/.

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There are a considerable number of Saudi Arabian students who attend U.S. schools. To date, no published studies exist that relate to the Saudi Arabian students, their families, and how they acculturate to the American society. Acculturation affects parents and children in different ways, and it can affect the way parents raise their children. Using semi–structured interviews, this study examined Saudi mothers' perspectives on acculturation to American society and how those perspectives affect their childrearing beliefs and their children's behaviors. The descriptive qualitative study acknowledges mothers' perceptions about adaptation of Saudi children to American society and if those parents observe behavioral changes in their children. The results showed there are some changes that occurred regarding parental beliefs of parents due to acculturation, but there were not any behavioral problems caused by acculturation to the American culture in the Saudi children.

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