The blue glass is always the hardest to find. On the beach you catch the waves bringing back the glass from forgotten tossed bottles, frosted green, clear, or mottled pale brown. But the blue glass - that's the real thing. I search for days without finding any. Sometimes there are slivers; other days, small chunks. Like a beachcomber, I comb the sands for it. I take the glass home and make some into jewellery and touchstones for people to hang on to; pour essential oils on others so the scents waft heavenward and meld together with the glass to form a bond. Words are like that. They can fuse with each other and ignite, or just quietly combine, On sunny days, I take my books with me to the beach. I toss words back and forth in my mind, like churning waves. I cobble them together, A phrase here. A sentence there. The water. The sun. The sand. The glass. The words. The paper. The Connection. I find myself enveloped in it all. The glass is from bottles tossed into the surf by unthinking people - picnickers, vacationers, those who don't have to return here and live with the remnants of their actions. Over time, the broken glass is ground and moulded by the action of the waves; the sharp edges are softened and etched by the sand and water, The sea glass is washed up on shore and picked up by beachcombers. Some recycle it for other uses like me; others just keep it as a reminder of a day at the beach. The words I sift through as I sit on the sand are measured in the sea glass. I pick each word up and look through it to see how much light shines through. What use do 1 have for it? A poem? An essay? A fragment of a sentence, for something to be said in the future? I watch the sun rest uneasily on its bed of water and slide slowly, farther down. I know the hot summer is coming to a close and I am loath to let go of the closeness I feel with nature. I live to find the blue glass, and sometimes it just happens. My search for Indian migrant women was like my quest for the blue glass. It was not an easy task. It became a process of rummaging through other people's lives, searching for fragments and relics. Eventually I was able to fit pieces together to form a mosaic of their lives in that other time, that other place. And also in this present time, in this place they now call home, Australia.

<p>This thesis examines Jews and Catholics views on immigration to the United States in the late 19th century. It is qualitative analysis of how immigrants and immigration is treated in two different magazines, The American Jewess and Catholic World. The findings are then put in the context of contemporary nativist ideas. This thesis states that both The American Jewess and Catholic World are, principally, in favor of immigration and do not want to restrict immigration at that time. Catholic World is somewhat more open to the idea ofdiscussing harder immigration laws but the overall tendency in both magazines is that immigration is not a problem to the United States. Immigrants, on the other hand, are seen as more of a problem, at least the new immigrants. Both magazines dwell upon, o some degree, the problems that this new immigration has brought. Their solution is however, not as nativists should argue, closing of the borders but rather enhanced naturalization processes. The magazines both deals with nativism, not always direct, but indirect and both of themtakes a clear stand against it.</p>

<p>Ce mémoire porte sur la situation sociale de jeunes banlieusardes françaises, racontée par elles-mêmes dans des livres écrits par de jeunes femmes auteurs des quartiers. L’étude s’appuie sur des récits de genres divers ; des rapports sociologiques, des autobiographies et un roman. Le mémoire est divisé en trois parties : La première traite de conditions de vie où les femmes écrivains parlent d’économie, habitat, école, formation et travail. La deuxième partie traite de l’identité et la situation des jeunes femmes quant aux rapports filles-garçons, positions dans la société, rapports avec la police, possibilités démocratiques et l’avenir. La troisième partie parle d’intégration, traditions, mœurs et religion.</p>

<p>Med hjälp av en enkätundersökning undersöks några av de demografiska och ekonomiska faktorer som utmärker en remittör, vilka kanaler för överföringar som används och med vilken frekvens som pengar skickas till utlandet. Data samlades in genom en enkät tillgänglig på Internet under två månaders tid under hösten 2007 och målgruppen var utlandsfödda och senare generationers invandrare i Sverige. För att nå ut till målgruppen kontaktades ett antal invandrarorganisationer och andra organisationer som organiserar utlandsfödda. Sex grupper valde att delta och antalet svarande är begränsat vilket minskar generaliseringsmöjligheterna. Det insamlade datamaterialet analyseras med hjälp av tabellanalys och regressionsanalys. Studien som är den första av sitt slag i Sverige ger ett visst stöd till att det svenska remitteringsflödet underskattas i den offentliga statistiken, att män och högutbildade remitterar i större utsträckning än kvinnor och lågutbildade, att längden på vistelsen i Sverige påverkar remitteringsbenägenheten och att remitteringarna i viss mån är behovsstyrda.</p><p>Dessutom visar studien att kostnaden för remitteringar upplevs som ett hinder mot remitteringar, kostnaden är dock inte den avgörande faktorn vid valet av överföringssätt utan att överföringen är snabb och säker. Vidare studier krävs dock för att bekräfta om de påvisade tendenserna kvarstår vid ett större stickprov.</p>

This thesis employs a narrative analysis of more than twenty-five films that are centrally concerned with immigrants and the immigrant experience. In Part One, drawing from the work of Yosefa Loshitzky, I will focus on films that feature an immigrant lead character. In Part Two, I will explore movies that filter immigration through the perspective of a native-born citizen protagonist. Important to my reading throughout this study is how we, as viewers, are situated by these stories to feel or react to the predicament of the immigrant. By examining two narrative approaches, that of the immigrant protagonist and the citizen protagonist, we can better understand how films engage larger issues of identity, belonging, and citizenship. The thesis will conclude with a close reading of Goodbye Solo. This film uniquely transcends convenient categories of immigrant narrative or Eurocentric perspective; instead it approximates Ella Shohat and Robert Stam's call for a polycentric approach to narrative in their foundational work, Unthinking Eurocentrism: Multiculturalism and the Media. / Graduation date: 2013

Color-blindness and color-consciousness are two ideologies aiming at prejudice and negative intergroup behavior reduction. Whereas color-blindness emphasizes the importance of breaking down group differences and considering everybody as an individal similar and equal to each other, color-consciousness emphasizes the recognition and appreciation of group differences. This dissertation is about the positive and negative aspects of both ideologies, as well as about their differential effects on emotions, behavior, and prejudice. Furthermore, a longitudinal study between 4 different countries analyzes the differences between minority groups and majority groups in matters of ideology preferences and of their links to prejudice. Finally, some variables are tested as useful predictors of the color-blind and color-conscious ideologies.

This dissertation investigates the ethnic labor market activities of the Latina/os. This study is important since regardless of their historical and increasing presence in the U.S., Latinos continue to find themselves disproportionately at the bottom of the social hierarchy (Saenz, Morales, and Ayala 2004). Furthermore, due to their lack of access, a significant amount of the members of this group are turning to employment in an ethnic niche. While there is no consensus as to what exactly constitutes an ethnic niche, a distinct characteristic is the co-ethnic nature of the work environments. Special focus is placed on how immigration status/nativity, gender, nativity, and skin color influences job search activities and wage differentials in the ethnic niche. While these factors have been found to impact the mainstream labor market, our knowledge of how these factors operate in a work environment with a dominant presence of co-ethnics is ambiguous. Utilizing data from the Multi-City Study of Urban Inequality (MCSUI), results show that Latina/os workers in co-ethnic niches receive fewer economic rewards than their ethnic counterparts in the general labor market. Furthermore, within the Latina/o population dark-skinned individuals are more likely to be employed in ethnic niches while the lighter-skinned are more likely to be employed in the general labor market. When examining the stratification factors of immigration/nativity status, gender, and skin color, in addition to social networks, findings show that these stratification factors operate in a similar fashion in ethnic niches as they do in more mainstream labor markets. Thus these findings question the presumably protective work environment of ethnic niches.

Color-blindness and color-consciousness are two ideologies aiming at prejudice and negative intergroup behavior reduction. Whereas color-blindness emphasizes the importance of breaking down group differences and considering everybody as an individal similar and equal to each other, color-consciousness emphasizes the recognition and appreciation of group differences. This dissertation is about the positive and negative aspects of both ideologies, as well as about their differential effects on emotions, behavior, and prejudice. Furthermore, a longitudinal study between 4 different countries analyzes the differences between minority groups and majority groups in matters of ideology preferences and of their links to prejudice. Finally, some variables are tested as useful predictors of the color-blind and color-conscious ideologies.

Med hjälp av en enkätundersökning undersöks några av de demografiska och ekonomiska faktorer som utmärker en remittör, vilka kanaler för överföringar som används och med vilken frekvens som pengar skickas till utlandet. Data samlades in genom en enkät tillgänglig på Internet under två månaders tid under hösten 2007 och målgruppen var utlandsfödda och senare generationers invandrare i Sverige. För att nå ut till målgruppen kontaktades ett antal invandrarorganisationer och andra organisationer som organiserar utlandsfödda. Sex grupper valde att delta och antalet svarande är begränsat vilket minskar generaliseringsmöjligheterna. Det insamlade datamaterialet analyseras med hjälp av tabellanalys och regressionsanalys. Studien som är den första av sitt slag i Sverige ger ett visst stöd till att det svenska remitteringsflödet underskattas i den offentliga statistiken, att män och högutbildade remitterar i större utsträckning än kvinnor och lågutbildade, att längden på vistelsen i Sverige påverkar remitteringsbenägenheten och att remitteringarna i viss mån är behovsstyrda. Dessutom visar studien att kostnaden för remitteringar upplevs som ett hinder mot remitteringar, kostnaden är dock inte den avgörande faktorn vid valet av överföringssätt utan att överföringen är snabb och säker. Vidare studier krävs dock för att bekräfta om de påvisade tendenserna kvarstår vid ett större stickprov.

Ce mémoire porte sur la situation sociale de jeunes banlieusardes françaises, racontée par elles-mêmes dans des livres écrits par de jeunes femmes auteurs des quartiers. L’étude s’appuie sur des récits de genres divers ; des rapports sociologiques, des autobiographies et un roman. Le mémoire est divisé en trois parties : La première traite de conditions de vie où les femmes écrivains parlent d’économie, habitat, école, formation et travail. La deuxième partie traite de l’identité et la situation des jeunes femmes quant aux rapports filles-garçons, positions dans la société, rapports avec la police, possibilités démocratiques et l’avenir. La troisième partie parle d’intégration, traditions, mœurs et religion.