This project examines narratives of transplanted identity-building and memory in European languages by second-generation non-European writers who choose to write their stories in European languages. The dissertation focuses on three books: La colline aux oliviers by Mehdi Lallaoui, a “Beur” (French Algerian) writer, White Teeth by British Caribbean Zadie Smith and Lipstick Jihad by Do-rageh/Iranian American Azadeh Moaveni. I argue that these three narratives use the language and memory sites of the host countries. They claim these as their own in order to recuperate events removed from historical memory by the violence of colonialism and the disruptive tide of exile and immigration. Because these children of immigrants are born and raised in the host country, they occupy a privileged position of being in-between that enables them to undertake reconciliatory mediation and assert the relevance of the colonized and imperialized experience for all its inheritors, both former colonizers and former colonized. Multiple choices eclipse the sense of dead end and rejection that characterizes literature of exile and colonization. To discuss these choices, I use Edward W. Said's concepts of filiation and affiliation. Filiation implicates the culture inherited from the parents of second-generation characters whereas affiliation points to the place of birth and upbringing. Filiation and affiliation can be seen as contradictory and antagonistic, however I choose to use these terms as complementary and reconciliatory. If previous scholars consider second-generation immigrant narratives to reproduce the sense of displacement and bitterness experienced by their parents, I propose to examine how concepts such as Maurice Halbwachs'collective memory nevertheless occupy a positive strength in the second-generation immigrant narratives where memory and reconciliation are reclaimed. / text

The present study makes use of several assumptions. It was considered that the cultural heritage of a group can be classified into two broad categories: the intrinsic culture, which includes the basic cultural traits and constitutes the core of a group's identity, and the extrinsic culture which includes the more peripheral traits. Assimilation takes place when the basic cultural traits are lost or substituted by others under conditions of culture contact. It was assumed that in order to understand the process of assimilation of a particular group of second-generation immigrants in a particular country, the basic cultural background of their parents must be taken into account. Further, it was assumed that the adults of the minority among whom the child is growing up must be placed into their historical context and their experiences as members of a particular time have to be taken into consideration. Finally, it was considered that unless the second-generation immigrants. are studies as members of a particular social network, the understanding of their course of assimilation will be incomplete. The group chosen for this research was the Ukrainian minority in Britain. Since the Ukrainians have been a minority nation in their own country without, however, losing their ethnic identity, some basic factors of their political and social history are provided as a possible explanation for this phenomenon. In addition, a summary of the social and psychological effects of the Second World War on the Ukrainian group is provided. Some of the basic social problems encountered by Ukrainians in their initial years in Britain, and their way of coping with them are described. The contemporary social structure and the distinctive Ukrainian way of organizing their ethnic life is discussed in detail. Particular attention is given to the institutions designed to promote the retention of ethnicity among young Ukrainians. Further, the extent to whtch second-generation Ukrainians adhere to their basic ethnic patterns of behaviour and the extent to which they identify themselves with their group, was stud~d inasample of children and adolescents. In addition, several hypotheses regarding the factors which promote the retention of ethnicity were tested. Among the factors found to be significantly associated with the retention of ethnicity are the following: absence of intermarriage with the natives, provision of an ethnically meaningful environment in the family, and organized ethnic education and recreation. Finally, parent-child relations, attitudes towards the ethnic group, and attitudes towards the majority were explored and studied in relation to the factors responsible for the retention of an ethnic identity.

Although being regarded as a prominent representative by other countries, the current health insurance system of Taiwan is actually faced with fierce financial bankrupt crisis. A second-generation health insurance draft is proposed by the government in 2004 to improve this financial deficit. Nevertheless, it is still not accepted by the national Legislative Yuan due to political issues. According to the report of Department of Health, there are six major problems in the current health insurance system as following:1. financial unbalanced, 2. unfair insurance fee design, 3. lack of connection between revenue and expenditure, 4. disorganized allocation of medical resources, 5. fail to disclosure the medical information to the public and 6.unreasonable payment standard. The second generation health insurance adopts the strategy that the fee for one household is dependent on the family income. The adaptive system aims at increasing insurance revenue and pressing the subsidy arrears of local government. The ultimate goal is to replace the lump sum payment approach with the service-quality based payment scheme and to reduce the payment for unreasonable medicine price. By comparing the developing progress of health insurance systems in the United Kingdom, German, Canada and the United States, this study inspected the problems of the current and second generation health insurance systems in Taiwan. Several improvement alternatives accommodate the situation of Taiwan were proposed as well. We suggested that conjunctive utilization of the principle of user charge and the income-based household fee design should be applied to increase the revenue of health insurance while maintain social fairness. Adaptive law should be modified or legislated to provide legality for the administrators to press the subsidy arrears of local government. The price of expenditure for medical service could be based on the basis suggested by the union of doctors and pharmacists. But this payment should be re-examined by experts and disclosure to civilians in order to achieve an acceptable standard. The payment procedure should be carried out using internet payment systems to save administration expenditures as well as to improve the service quality and information disclosure of health insurance.

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Immigrant businesses represent a very large percentage of SMEs in Canada. Significant attention has been given to the phenomenon of immigrant entrepreneurship and their economic contribution to developed countries. However, little is known about the social contributions of these immigrant entrepreneurs to the host country. While the values of immigrant entrepreneurs are rooted in their home culture, they continue to evolve their beliefs and values to integrate into the host country. Emerging literature also affirms that the behaviour of second generation is different from the first generation immigrants. It is known that immigrants’ small business social responsibility (SBSR) is influenced by their home context, but how the host country context influences the SBSR behaviour of different generations is rarely explored. The objective of this study is to understand how society and culture integrate to shape immigrant social responsibility behavior and contributions, with focus on comparing first and second generation. Drawing from mixed embeddedness approach and culture values lens, I theorize about the influence of home country culture and host country context on immigrants SBSR behaviour and the potential consequences of differences in embeddedness on their contributions to the host country. Drawing on 20 detailed semi-structured interviews, I find that irrespective of the differences in generation, immigrants SBSR contributions are influenced by their home culture, their network composition, and the extent to which they are embedded in the host county. At the theoretical level, the mixed embeddedness approach has been augmented by applying it in the field of SBSR. In addition, the study fills a gap by introducing second generation immigrant entrepreneurs’ in SBSR context.

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A expansão do setor sucroenergético favoreceu o desenvolvimento da tecnologia de etanol de segunda geração (2G). No entanto, este é um processo que leva à geração de altíssimos volumes de resíduos, bem como o processo de primeira geração (1G). O principal deles é a vinhaça, que também apresenta elevado potencial poluidor. Nesse contexto, vê-se, portanto, a necessidade de se dar uma finalidade adequada ao resíduo. A digestão anaeróbia se tornou uma tecnologia muito disseminada e valorizada em outros países. Isso se deve às vantagens em gestão de resíduos e na geração de energia proporcionadas por essa tecnologia. O potencial de aplicação da vinhaça para produção de biogás é enorme, dado que é um resíduo muito rico em matéria orgânica e de grande disponibilidade no Brasil. A digestão anaeróbia precisa também ser desenvolvida para o resíduo do processo de etanol 2G, pois espera-se que as características da vinhaça gerada sejam diferentes. É importante a investigação da influência que a composição da vinhaça 2G pode ter sobre o processo da digestão anaeróbia e produção de biogás, e este foi o principal objetivo deste trabalho. Para isso, realizou-se inicialmente a caracterização de vinhaça 1G e de vinhaça 2G obtidas para o experimento deste estudo. A composição das duas vinhaças apresentou as principais diferenças para as concentrações de DQO, ácidos orgânicos (sobretudo o ácido acético), compostos fenólicos e sulfato. Foram obtidas concentrações de DQO de 30.732,80 mg O2 L-1 e 19.038,13 mg O2 L-1 para vinhaça 1G e vinhaça 2G, respectivamente. As concentrações de ácido acético e compostos fenólicos totais foram, respectivamente, 88,14% e 84,10% maiores na vinhaça 2G do que na vinhaça 1G. A concentração de sulfato na vinhaça 2G foi 28,11% menor que a concentração obtida na vinhaça 1G. A avaliação de processo de produção de biogás foi realizada em dois reatores metanogênicos, um utilizando vinhaça 1G como substrato e outro, utilizando vinhaça 2G. Os processos foram monitorados segundo a produção de biogás por DQO removida, produção de ácidos orgânicos, alcalinidade, remoção de compostos fenólicos, remoção de ânions e retenção de sólidos. Os efluentes dos reatores metanogênicos também foram caracterizados segundo o teor de cátions. O processo com vinhaça 2G teve produção de biogás quatro vezes maior que o processo com vinhaça 1G. Foram obtidos valores médios de 0,32 Lbiogás DQOremov-1 para o processo com vinhaça 2G e 0,08 Lbiogás DQOremov-1 para o processo com vinhaça 1G. De acordo com o monitoramento dos processos por alcalinidade e concentração de ácidos orgânicos, o processo com vinhaça 2G também se mostrou mais eficiente do que o processo com vinhaça 1G no que diz respeito ao consumo de matéria orgânica. A remoção de compostos fenólicos totais teve eficiência média de 56,96% para o processo utilizando vinhaça 2G, enquanto que o processo com vinhaça 1G não foi capaz de removê-los. Infere-se que a elevada concentração de ácido acético na vinhaça 2G tenha contribuído para o processo de produção de biogás. A alta disponibilidade de acetato favorece a atividade metabólica de arqueas metanogênicas, o que é fundamental para o equilíbrio químico da conversão de matéria orgânica em biogás. / The Sucroenergetic sector expansion has favored the development of second generation ethanol technology. However, the process leads to the production of large amounts of residues, as well as the first generation process. The main residue is the vinasse, which is very pollutant. In this context it becomes clear the need of giving an appropriate application for vinasse. Anaerobic digestion has turned into a very disseminated and very well accepted technology in many countries, which is mainly due to its results as an efficient waste management and energy generation. Vinasse has a great potential for biogas production through anaerobic digestion, since it is a residue with high organic matter and in large availability in Brazil. Such technology has to be developed also for the residues obtained through second generation ethanol process. With a different process, it is expected that residues composition might also be different. It is important to look into the influence that second generation vinasse composition may bring to anaerobic digestion. The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of second generations vinasse composition over the biogas production process. Before experiments, first and second generation vinasses were characterized. The most remarkable differences for vinasses composition were obtained for COD concentration, organic acids concentration (specially for acetic acid), phenolic compounds and sulphate. COD concentrations were 30,732.80 mg O2 L-1 and 19,038.13 mg O2 L-1 for first generation vinasse and second generation vinasse, respectively. Acetic acid and total phenolic compounds were, respectively, 88.14% and 84.10% higher for second generation vinasse than those found for first generation vinasse. Sulphate concentration for second generation vinasse was 28.11% lower than first generation vinasse\'s concentration. Biogas production process was evaluated for two different methanogenic reactors: first generation vinasse was used as substrate for one reactor and second generation vinasse was used as substrate for the second one. Processes were monitored according to biogas production by removed COD, organic acids production, alkalinity, phenolic compounds removal, anions removal and solids retention. Both reactors had their effluents characterized by cations content. In the process carried out with second generation vinasse the biogas production was four times higher than in the process carried out with first generation vinasse. The average values were 0.08 Lbiogas CODremoved-1 and 0.32 Lbiogas CODremoved-1 for first and second generation, respectively. Considering processes monitoring by alkalinity and organic acids concentrations, the process carried out with second generation vinasse was more efficient in regards to organic matter consumption. The average efficiency for total phenolic compounds removal was 56.96% for the process using second generation as substrate. On the other hand, the process with first generation vinasse was not capable of consuming them. The results obtained in this study suggest that the high acetic acid concentration in second generation vinasse have contributed to biogas production. High acetate availability promotes archaeas metabolic activity, which is fundamental for chemical balance in converting organic matter into biogas.

A expansão do setor sucroenergético favoreceu o desenvolvimento da tecnologia de etanol de segunda geração (2G). No entanto, este é um processo que leva à geração de altíssimos volumes de resíduos, bem como o processo de primeira geração (1G). O principal deles é a vinhaça, que também apresenta elevado potencial poluidor. Nesse contexto, vê-se, portanto, a necessidade de se dar uma finalidade adequada ao resíduo. A digestão anaeróbia se tornou uma tecnologia muito disseminada e valorizada em outros países. Isso se deve às vantagens em gestão de resíduos e na geração de energia proporcionadas por essa tecnologia. O potencial de aplicação da vinhaça para produção de biogás é enorme, dado que é um resíduo muito rico em matéria orgânica e de grande disponibilidade no Brasil. A digestão anaeróbia precisa também ser desenvolvida para o resíduo do processo de etanol 2G, pois espera-se que as características da vinhaça gerada sejam diferentes. É importante a investigação da influência que a composição da vinhaça 2G pode ter sobre o processo da digestão anaeróbia e produção de biogás, e este foi o principal objetivo deste trabalho. Para isso, realizou-se inicialmente a caracterização de vinhaça 1G e de vinhaça 2G obtidas para o experimento deste estudo. A composição das duas vinhaças apresentou as principais diferenças para as concentrações de DQO, ácidos orgânicos (sobretudo o ácido acético), compostos fenólicos e sulfato. Foram obtidas concentrações de DQO de 30.732,80 mg O2 L-1 e 19.038,13 mg O2 L-1 para vinhaça 1G e vinhaça 2G, respectivamente. As concentrações de ácido acético e compostos fenólicos totais foram, respectivamente, 88,14% e 84,10% maiores na vinhaça 2G do que na vinhaça 1G. A concentração de sulfato na vinhaça 2G foi 28,11% menor que a concentração obtida na vinhaça 1G. A avaliação de processo de produção de biogás foi realizada em dois reatores metanogênicos, um utilizando vinhaça 1G como substrato e outro, utilizando vinhaça 2G. Os processos foram monitorados segundo a produção de biogás por DQO removida, produção de ácidos orgânicos, alcalinidade, remoção de compostos fenólicos, remoção de ânions e retenção de sólidos. Os efluentes dos reatores metanogênicos também foram caracterizados segundo o teor de cátions. O processo com vinhaça 2G teve produção de biogás quatro vezes maior que o processo com vinhaça 1G. Foram obtidos valores médios de 0,32 Lbiogás DQOremov-1 para o processo com vinhaça 2G e 0,08 Lbiogás DQOremov-1 para o processo com vinhaça 1G. De acordo com o monitoramento dos processos por alcalinidade e concentração de ácidos orgânicos, o processo com vinhaça 2G também se mostrou mais eficiente do que o processo com vinhaça 1G no que diz respeito ao consumo de matéria orgânica. A remoção de compostos fenólicos totais teve eficiência média de 56,96% para o processo utilizando vinhaça 2G, enquanto que o processo com vinhaça 1G não foi capaz de removê-los. Infere-se que a elevada concentração de ácido acético na vinhaça 2G tenha contribuído para o processo de produção de biogás. A alta disponibilidade de acetato favorece a atividade metabólica de arqueas metanogênicas, o que é fundamental para o equilíbrio químico da conversão de matéria orgânica em biogás. / The Sucroenergetic sector expansion has favored the development of second generation ethanol technology. However, the process leads to the production of large amounts of residues, as well as the first generation process. The main residue is the vinasse, which is very pollutant. In this context it becomes clear the need of giving an appropriate application for vinasse. Anaerobic digestion has turned into a very disseminated and very well accepted technology in many countries, which is mainly due to its results as an efficient waste management and energy generation. Vinasse has a great potential for biogas production through anaerobic digestion, since it is a residue with high organic matter and in large availability in Brazil. Such technology has to be developed also for the residues obtained through second generation ethanol process. With a different process, it is expected that residues composition might also be different. It is important to look into the influence that second generation vinasse composition may bring to anaerobic digestion. The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of second generations vinasse composition over the biogas production process. Before experiments, first and second generation vinasses were characterized. The most remarkable differences for vinasses composition were obtained for COD concentration, organic acids concentration (specially for acetic acid), phenolic compounds and sulphate. COD concentrations were 30,732.80 mg O2 L-1 and 19,038.13 mg O2 L-1 for first generation vinasse and second generation vinasse, respectively. Acetic acid and total phenolic compounds were, respectively, 88.14% and 84.10% higher for second generation vinasse than those found for first generation vinasse. Sulphate concentration for second generation vinasse was 28.11% lower than first generation vinasse\'s concentration. Biogas production process was evaluated for two different methanogenic reactors: first generation vinasse was used as substrate for one reactor and second generation vinasse was used as substrate for the second one. Processes were monitored according to biogas production by removed COD, organic acids production, alkalinity, phenolic compounds removal, anions removal and solids retention. Both reactors had their effluents characterized by cations content. In the process carried out with second generation vinasse the biogas production was four times higher than in the process carried out with first generation vinasse. The average values were 0.08 Lbiogas CODremoved-1 and 0.32 Lbiogas CODremoved-1 for first and second generation, respectively. Considering processes monitoring by alkalinity and organic acids concentrations, the process carried out with second generation vinasse was more efficient in regards to organic matter consumption. The average efficiency for total phenolic compounds removal was 56.96% for the process using second generation as substrate. On the other hand, the process with first generation vinasse was not capable of consuming them. The results obtained in this study suggest that the high acetic acid concentration in second generation vinasse have contributed to biogas production. High acetate availability promotes archaeas metabolic activity, which is fundamental for chemical balance in converting organic matter into biogas.

I denna undersökning är syftet att undersöka och analysera hur andragenerationsinvandrare beskriver skapandet av sin identitet samt hur de beskriver tillhörighet i samhället. Insamlingen av studiens data har skett via kvalitativa intervjuer genom ett bekvämlighetsurval. Studien har genomsyrats av ett hermeneutiskt synsätt. I empirin framkom det att andragenerationsinvandrare upplever svårigheter i sitt identitetsskapande samt att tillhörighet beskrivs som ett kontextuellt begrepp. Slutsatsen av studien resulterade i att majoriteten av respondenterna beskriver känslan av att vara bikulturell.