Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1969. / eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Delaware, 2005. / Principal faculty advisor: Cathy Matson, Dept. of History. Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--State University of New York at Binghamton, Psychology Department, 2005. / Includes bibliographical references.

La migration en provenance des pays dits du « Sud », dont le Sénégal fait partie, se trouve au cœur du débat politique européen, enfermé dans des logiques de contrôle et de répression du fait de la peur d’une invasion de migrants indésirables. Cette thèse explore la migration du point de vue des migrants, leurs imaginaires, leurs perceptions et leurs expériences de la migration dans deux villes du « Nord » : Paris et New York. Elle s’appuie sur trois enquêtes de terrain, au Sénégal (196 répondants), à Paris (30) et New York (20). L’enquête sénégalaise est fondée sur un questionnaire et des entretiens qualitatifs non directifs, les enquêtes française et américaine sur des entretiens qualitatifs non directifs, ainsi que des récits de vie des Sénégalais de Dakar, Paris et New York, et des entretiens avec des responsables d’association. L’émigration apparaît essentiellement motivée par l’expérience du malaise social plus que de la pauvreté stricto sensu, le désir de réussir et de rentrer au pays s’y réintégrer dans des conditions favorables en gravissant l’échelle sociale. Mais les réalités, aussi bien étrangères que sénégalaise, rendent ce retour très problématique. Au plan des destinations, l’attrait de la France, et de Paris en particulier, a beaucoup baissé, alors que New York s’est imposée comme choix principal dans le désir d’ailleurs des candidats au départ. La préférence des Sénégalais pour les États-Unis par rapport à la France se justifie par les possibilités d’épanouissement plus avantageuses à New York qu’à Paris pour les migrants sénégalais. Il semble à ces derniers notamment que le « plafond de verre » y est plus bas qu’aux États-Unis. / Migration from developing countries finds itself trapped into a European debate over control and restrictions. Meanwhile, the migrants’ experiences in their host countries, as well as their choices and aspirations, have often been overlooked in academic research. Thus, we propose to explore migration from the migrants’ perspective, along with their imaginaries, perceptions and experience of migration in two “northern” cities: Paris and New York. Our analyses will mainly dwell on a qualitative field survey based on a questionnaire in Dakar which gathered 196 respondents. We also interviewed Senegalese migrants in Paris (30 interviewees) and in New York (20 interviewees), as well as members of Senegalese associations. As revealed in our research, rather than poverty, stricto sensu, social unease appears to be the main push factor for Senegalese migrants, because the prospect of becoming successful and the possibility to climb up the social ladder are their main motivations. As for their choice of destination, the decrease of Paris’ traditional appeal is noticeable among the Senegalese would be migrants and New York has become their first choice. The Senegalese’s preference for the United States over France could be justified by better opportunities for self-fulfillment in New York than in Paris for Senegalese migrants. The American multiculturalism, although fragmented, allows them to remain within their communities and reproduce the Senegalese social life without being stigmatized, holding on to their dream to return to their homeland, despite the hardships found in the American reality.

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New York City: A Collage of Cultures is a single-movement programmatic orchestral work that features polytonality, prallelism, sound-mass, micro-tones, polychordal rhythmic ostinato, neo-impressionism, and folk themes and anthems from sundry cultures and nationalities. The simultaneity of contextual material at one point necessitates the employment of three conductors. The composition portrays America as a "melting pot" through its busiest immigration center, itself a microcosm of diverse international elements. This is achieved by the depiction of three different settings: a boat sailing from a foreign port, bound for New York Cty; New York itself in all of its awesome fury; and a capsule image of a conglomerate of turn-of-the-century emigrants and their interaction throughout the voyage.

This thesis examines the roles played by understanding, interpretation of practices, and experience in Mormon culture when Haitians convert to Mormonism. In relationship to their previous cultural practices, this thesis explores whether Haitian converts develop one of three types of behaviors: discard old practices, retain elements of old practices, or seek to establish a balance between former and new religious practices. In-depth interviews with twelve subjects living in New York City suggest that most active converts discarded their old cultural traditions. This study suggests that only interpretation influences developing types of behavior. However, it was not expected that most converts would fit in Mormon culture. Because of this new finding, this thesis shifted to explaining why Haitians are so readily assimilated into Mormon culture.

Eight dissolution caves from the Helderberg Plateau in Schoharie County, New York were studied to investigate unusual sediment packages previously interpreted to be deposits laid down during stagnant ice-cover conditions of the Wisconsin glaciation. The sediment package, consisting of white finely laminated silts and clays are overlain by coarse gravels, in turn overlain by dark silts and clays. Analysis of 63 sediment samples was inconclusive in terms of organic content, but indicated a higher degree of fine-grained calcite material in the white clays than in the overlying units. The caves with the white clays exist only within the footprint of Glacial Lake Schoharie, with lower elevation caves containing a thicker white clay sequence, a measure of the duration of lake cover. The sediment sequence represents glacial rock flour formed under stagnant lake conditions, overlain by outwash deposits emplaced during lake termination, and more recent sediment from soil-loss deposition.