Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-29T13:31:15Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Karina Midori Ishimori.pdf: 960025 bytes, checksum: b914c91f0bb1c18cb88d9c6fc436e314 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2006-03-09 / Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico / The purpose of this paper (research) is to analyze how one feels and what it means to be of Asian descent in Brazil for adolescents who are unhappy with their phenotypic characteristics. The fundamental phenotype of having "slanted eyes" denounces one as a foreigner in Brazil aside from the fact that one is indeed Brazilian. In his daily life, the Nikkei adolescent is often reminded of his ethnicity by the majority of the population: he is called Japanese. It is assumed that there is a duality for being and feeling Brazilian or Japanese and this experience, made clear through the physical features (characteristics), incites thoughts that must be more deeply understood. To do so, the history of the Japanese immigration to Brazil was reconstructed until currently to contextualize the conditions (reasons) that made them migrate, the conditions that they found upon arrival, the ancestral culture that was carried with them, and how today they act within Brazilian society. Next, the concepts of ethnic and national identity of Asian adolescent descent in Brazil and the difficulty in establishing a bigger or smaller pattern of integration of such people in the social reality of Brazil were exposed. After that, it was also contextualized the body today, the importance of physical characteristics as a means to differentiate individuals in Brazil, and finally the body in historical and dialectal materialism. The methodological and theoretical suppositions of this research are from socio-historical psychology that is based in the cultural-historical psychology of Vigotski. The data was collected in a private elementary and junior high school that primarily serves the Japanese community in São Paulo. In the first phase, the method used was a questionnaire given to junior high students in their 2nd or 3rd year to get to know the students and then select them. The second phase was comprised of interviews with two Nikkei adolescents who belong to the third generation of Japanese migrants and are between 16 and 17 years old. The analysis of the interviews allowed for the identification of the movement and process of the subjective construction of these adolescents in their bicultural experiences. In this regard, it became clear that they live with a constant feeling of not belonging to neither the Occidental nor the Oriental worlds, which is closely related to the way they define (use) their own bodies. / Este trabalho teve como objetivo analisar os sentidos e significados do ter e ser um corpo oriental em adolescentes nipo-brasileiros insatisfeitos com suas características fenotípicas. A fenotipia fundamental de possuir olhos puxados o denuncia como estrangeiro no Brasil apesar de ser brasileiro por direito. O adolescente nikkei em seu cotidiano é sempre lembrado de sua etnia pela maioria da população: ele é chamado de japonês . Parte-se do pressuposto de que há uma vivência dual de ser e sentir-se brasileiro ou japonês e essa experiência evidenciada pelas características corporais sugere reflexões a serem conhecidas de maneira aprofundada. Para tanto, foi reconstruída a história da imigração japonesa para o Brasil até os dias atuais para poder contextualizar as condições que os fizeram migrar, assim como as condições encontradas, a cultura ancestral que os nikkeis carregam, e como hoje eles circulam na sociedade brasileira. Em seguida, foram expostos os conceitos de identidade étnica e nacional de adolescentes nipo-brasileiros e a dificuldade em se estabelecer um padrão de maior ou menor integração destes na realidade social brasileira. Depois disso, também se contextualizou o corpo na atualidade, a importância das características corporais como forma de diferenciação entre indivíduos no Brasil e, finalmente, a corporeidade no materialismo histórico e dialético. Os pressupostos teóricos-metodológicos deste trabalho são da Psicologia Sócio-Histórica que toma como base a Psicologia Histórico-Cultural de Vigotski. A coleta de dados foi realizada em uma escola particular de ensino fundamental e médio que atende principalmente a comunidade japonesa de São Paulo. O método utilizado foi composto numa primeira fase pela aplicação de um questionário em estudantes do 2° e 3° anos do ensino médio para um conhecimento inicial visando a seleção dos sujeitos. A segunda fase se caracterizou por entrevistas semi-abertas com duas adolescentes nikkeis, pertencentes à terceira geração de japoneses entre 16 e 17 anos. A análise das entrevistas permitiu identificar o movimento e processo de construção subjetiva destas adolescentes em suas experiências da biculturalidade. Nesse sentido, percebeu-se que elas vivem um constante sentimento de não pertencimento em relação ao mundo ocidental e oriental que estão intrinsecamente relacionadas na maneira como significam seus próprios corpos.

La communauté latino-américaine représente la troisième minorité visible en importance au Québec. Malgré tout, les recherches concernant les jeunes issus de l’immigration latino-américaine sont peu nombreuses. Ces personnes, qui sont nées au Québec, mais dont au moins un des parents est originaire de l’Amérique latine, gèrent de multiples identités culturelles. Elles négocient constamment des significations et des repères culturels, passant de ceux qui sont propres au Québec à ceux de la culture du pays d’origine de leurs parents. Étant donné que les frontières entre ces différentes identités culturelles ne sont pas toujours clairement définies, il était pertinent d’analyser les interactions des jeunes pour mieux saisir leurs expériences. Cette étude repose donc sur deux théories qui supposent que la communication est inhérente au processus de construction identitaire : le positioning de Davies et Harré ainsi que la mise en scène de la vie quotidienne d’Ervin Goffman. La présente recherche a privilégié les expériences personnelles de trois jeunes issus de l’immigration, celles de leurs parents et celles de leurs amis. La méthodologie utilisée reposait sur des entrevues individuelles avec les jeunes, sur l’analyse de photos ainsi que sur deux rencontres de groupe dirigées : la première réunissait les jeunes et un de leurs parents; la deuxième réunissait les jeunes et un(e) ami(e) de leur choix. Cette étude a constaté que les jeunes issus de l’immigration possédaient des identités culturelles hybrides. De plus, ils ne pouvaient contrôler la perception que les autres avaient de leurs identités culturelles, car certains éléments de celles-ci étaient négociés, voire imposés lors des interactions. Ainsi, ce mémoire contribue à la littérature sur le positioning en expliquant comment ces jeunes se positionnent devant les autres afin que plusieurs identités culturelles coexistent chez eux, tout spécialement dans une ville multiculturelle comme Montréal. / The Latin American community constitutes the third largest visible minority in Quebec. Despite its importance, research regarding youth of Latin American origin is limited. These young people, who were born in Quebec, but who have at least one parent from Latin America, must juggle multiple cultural identities. They are constantly negotiating cultural meanings and references from Quebec, as well as from their parents’ culture of origin. Given that the boundaries between these different cultural identities are not always clear, their interactions needed to be analyzed to better understand their experiences, hence I mobilized two theories that underscore the role of communication within identity construction: Davies and Harré’s theory of positioning, as well as Erving Goffman’s theory of the presentation of self in everyday life. This research focused on the personal experiences of three young people of Latin American immigrant background, those of their parents and those of their friends. To do so, methodology consisted of photo analysis and individual interviews with the young people, as well as two focus groups: first, with the young people and one of their parents, and second, with the young people and a friend of their choice. This study revealed that youth of immigrant background have hybrid cultural identities. Moreover, the young people were not able to forge their own unique cultural identities, because some aspects of their cultural identities were negotiated and even imposed during interaction with others. As this thesis offers a rich portrait of how these young people positioned themselves both front- and back-stage, this paper also contributes to the literature on positioning and empirically shows how several, sometimes contradictory cultural identities can co-exist in youth of immigrant background in a multicultural city like Montreal. / La comunidad latinoamericana representa la tercera minoría visible más importante en Quebec. Pese a su importancia, las investigaciones con relación a los jóvenes de descendencia latinoamericana son limitadas. Estos jóvenes, nacidos en Quebec pero que poseen al menos un padre o madre nacido(a) en Latinoamérica, deben manejar múltiples identidades culturales. Por ello, deben acomodar diferentes significados y referencias culturales de Quebec, así como de la cultura de origen de sus padres. Debido a que las fronteras entre dichas identidades culturales no son siempre evidentes, las interacciones de estos jóvenes fueron analizadas a fin de comprender mejor sus experiencias. Por ello, abordé dos teorías que ven la comunicación como una parte esencial del proceso de construcción de las identidades: la teoría del positioning de Davies y Harré, así como la teoría de la presentación de la persona en la vida cotidiana, de Erving Goffman. Esta investigación se enfocó en las experiencias personales de tres jóvenes de descendencia latinoamericana, sus padres y sus amigos. En este sentido, la metodología estuvo compuesta por entrevistas individuales con los jóvenes, análisis de fotografías y dos grupos focales: el primero, con los jóvenes y uno de sus padres; el segundo, con los jóvenes y un(a) amigo(a) de su elección. La investigación reveló que los jóvenes de descendencia latinoamericana poseían identidades culturales híbridas. Asimismo, que no podían forjar sus propias identidades culturales, debido a que algunos de los elementos que las conforman eran negociados y hasta impuestos por los demás mediante las interacciones. Por tanto, esta tesis contribuye a la literatura sobre la teoría del positioning, ya que explica cómo estos jóvenes se posicionan delante de los demás a fin de permitir que múltiples identidades culturales puedan coexistir en su interior, especialmente en una ciudad tan multicultural como Montreal.

French Canadian playwright Joseph Armand Leclaire (1888-1931) was very well known and respected in his time. Although he wrote over thirty plays, lyrics to several songs and an abundance of political poems, most of his work has been lost and Leclaire himself seems to have been forgotten. Several of his plays were produced at the time they were written, including his 1916 play La petite maîtresse de l'école (later published in 1929 as Le petit maître d'école), but none have been presented postumously nor have any been translated. This M. F. A. thesis presents the first ever translation and adpatation of Leclaire's play, titled in English as The Little Schoolmaster. The first half of the thesis provide historical context for the play's significance, as well as information about Armand Leclaire and the changes he made to his own work between the original 1916 version and the 1929 published version. The thesis then analyses the creative acts of translation and adaptation, proposing a new model of translation for a linguistically rich audience. Through this new model of translation-adaptation for a bilingual spectrum, the thesis concludes by demonstrating that dramaturgy can serve as a dynamic instrument for communities to engage in the exploration of bilingual and bicultural identity.

Mexican Goodbye is a collection of poetry that interrogates the dichotomy of a family fractured in conjunction with a speaker's coming of age. The collection reckons with divorce and the subsequent dissolution of the speaker's Mexican American family. Individual poems deal with sisterhood, daughterhood, Chicanismo, grief, the intergenerational impact of the immigrant experience, and inherited trauma. The titular poem illustrates the typical Mexican goodbye, a Latine despedida which can last hours, extended by continued chisme and prolonged conversation. It is this cultural phenomenon that the collection endeavors to encapsulate by lingering in narrative, listing childhood experiences, and allowing the speaker to yearn to return and remain in the past. Ultimately, the speaker desires to linger in the farewell.

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Literature indicates that inclusion of deaf children in mainstream schools is a complex process and that it has eluded many deaf practitioners and education systems for a very long time. New research is, however, pointing to the potential for sign bilingual education as a viable strategy for improving inclusivity of deaf children in mainstream settings. The purpose of the current study was, therefore, to interrogate how sign bilingual education was used as a strategy for inclusion of deaf children in Zimbabwe. The study was premised on Cummins Linguistic Interdependence theory and adopted the mixed methods paradigm which is informed by the philosophy of pragmatism. The sequential explanatory design was utilized and participants were selected using random sampling for the quantitative phase and purposive sampling for the qualitative phase. Questionnaires, face-to-face and focus group interviews (FGIs) were used to elicit data from participants. These data were presented on SPSS generated graphs and analysed using frequency counts, percentages and inferential statistics based on the analysis of Spearman’s Rank Order Correlation Coefficient at 5% level of significance (p=0.005). Consequently, qualitative data were presented as summaries and direct quotes and analysed using thematic and content analyses. The results revealed that the conception, hence the practice of sign bilingual was limited and had challenges, but that it had the greatest potential benefits for inclusion of deaf children in mainstream schools in Zimbabwe. On these bases, the study recommended training of teachers and parents as well as staff development of the teachers and school administrators. The study also recommended adoption of best practices such as early exposure, co-teaching, co-enrolment, multi-stakeholder participation, turning special schools into resource centers for sign bilingual education and inclusion and embracing ICT. A further recommendation pointed to review of policy in line with best practices. Ultimately, the study proposed a framework for sign bilingual education as a strategy for inclusion of deaf children in mainstream schools in Zimbabwe. / Inclusive Education / Ph. D. (Inclusive Education)