In this exploratory thesis project, I consider what emerging approaches we can take as social scientists to showcase and critically engage self-representations of diasporic individuals, who often lack visibility and legibility within the dominant cultural archive. Filmmaking as a social research practice can provide rich audiovisual data, physical and social access to materials for nonacademics, and opportunities to document and share subjects' comments and settings without the limitations of transcription. This is especially salient in the emerging media landscape of Web 2.0, where digital communications technology applications (such as Facebook, Skype, and Snapchat) are accessible by a global audience, and can act as tools for cultural identity production by diasporic individuals. This project documents the experiences of several first- and second-generation Bangladeshi American immigrants in relation to digital communications technology advances within the past decade, for the purposes of collecting and sharing stories of diasporic individuals, offering a venue for self-expression through empathetic interviewing and collaborative oral history methods, and contributing to the American cultural archive in the context of emerging media and academic landscapes. The full project is comprised of this text document, alongside a short documentary film containing portions of audiovisual data from interviews which can be found at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oh9puazpdrw. / Master of Science

La inserción a las tecnologías a influenciado en las vidas cotidianas de las personas, esto ha traído consigo consecuencias positivas y negativas, entre la segunda mencionada se encuentra el des perfilamiento de la identidad cultural en niños. Es por ello que este estudio tuvo como objetivo diseñar talleres de danza para fortalecer la identidad cultural en niños de cuarto grado de primaria, Se utilizará un diseño descriptivo-propositiva, bajo el enfoque cuantitativo de tipo no experimental, la muestra es de 20 estudiantes, seleccionado con un muestreo no probabilístico intencional, teniendo como resultado que más del 50% de los encuestados se encuentran en nivel bajo y muy bajo en identidad cultural. Por tanto, se proponen los talleres de danza como solución pertinente. Como resultado, tras aplicar la propuesta académica se espera lograr la mejora de la identidad cultural de todos los estudiantes participantes de los talleres y que a través de la danza conozcan y valoren su cultura. El impacto de esta investigación es científico, por lo novedoso y por dar pie a distintas investigaciones próximas, educativo al promover el desarrollo de habilidades educativas en los agentes educativos y social porque contribuye a la sociedad en general. / The insertion of technologies has influenced the daily lives of people, this has brought positive and negative consequences, among the second mentioned is the blurring of cultural identity in children. That is why this study aims to design dance workshops to improve cultural identity in fourth grade primary school children. A descriptive-propositional design will be used, under a non-experimental quantitative approach, the sample is 20 students, selected with an intentional non-probabilistic sampling, with the result that more than 50% of the respondents are at a low and very low level in cultural identity. Therefore, dance workshops are proposed as a relevant solution. As a result, after applying the academic proposal, it is expected to achieve the improvement of the cultural identity of all the students participating in the workshops and that through dance they know and value their culture. The impact of this research is scientific, because of its novelty and because it gives rise to different upcoming research, educational by promoting the development of educational skills in educational and social agents because it contributes to society in general.

This study examines the role of literature in developing intercultural awareness among year 5 pupils within the context of English Language Teaching (ELT) in Sweden. As cultural diversity in classrooms increases, this study explores how literature functions as a medium to comprehend diverse cultural narratives and enhance empathy. Employing a mixed-methods approach, including quantitative questionnaires, qualitative interviews and focus group discussions, the study evaluates both the direct and deeper impacts of multicultural literature on pupils’ intercultural awareness. Key findings indicate that literature’s effectiveness in developing intercultural awareness largely depends on appropriate text selection and its integration into teaching practices. Challenges include teachers’ difficulty in assessing pupils’ intercultural awareness, which hampers the implementation of effective educational strategies. Additionally, the results highlight the varying levels of pupils’ engagement, influenced by their own cultural backgrounds. Pupils with diverse cultural experiences tended to show greater empathy and interest in cultural narratives, whereas those less exposed to cultural diversity were more likely to be disengaged. The findings suggest that targeted selection of literature and strategic curriculum integration are essential for maximising the educational benefits of literature in promoting intercultural awareness. Furthermore, the findings highlight the importance of teacher preparedness in choosing and presenting literature that not only resonates with pupils but also enriches their learning experience, as well as further integrating the literature reading through discussions to improve the development of intercultural awareness.

Att migrera till ett land med väldigt olik kultur och samhälle än hemlandet kan utgöra en väldigt stor utmaning. Att försöka hitta sin identitet och roll i det nya samhället kan dock anses viktigt för individens välbefinnande. Det är viktigt att se hur olika faktorer kan påverka integrationsprocess för migranter för att kunna förstå de svårigheter de kan ställas inför när det gäller identitetsskapandet i det nya landet. Då migration är ett globalt och komplext fenomen och orsakerna bakom migration är många och olika. Migranter kan bli sårbara i olika skeden av sin resa. Vissa uthärdar svårigheter som kan hota deras liv och påverka deras fysiska och psykiska välbefinnande oberoende av orsaken för att lämna hemlandet. Syftet med denna kvalitativa intervjustudie var att undersöka hur unga vuxna migrantkvinnor från Mellanöstern upplever bi-kulturellt identitetsskapande. Med en socialpsykologisk ansats studerades detta genom teorier om social identitetsteori, social påverkan, konformitet, integrationsteori och bi-kulturell identitetsteori. Fem semistrukturerade intervjuer med migrantkvinnor från Mellanöstern genomfördes. Resultaten visar att migrantkvinnorna ofta upplever konflikter och svårigheter med att hitta balans i de ser sig tillhöra, vilket skapar svåra känslor och identitetskris. En del respondenter accepterar och internaliserar den här konflikten. Värderingarna som följt med ifrån hemkulturen är viktiga för deras identitet och att det är värderingarna som varit tongivande under deras bi-kulturella identitetsskapande. / Migrating to a country with a very different culture and society from the home country can be a very big challenge. However, trying to find one's identity and role in the new society can be considered important for the individual's well-being. It is important to see how different factors can affect the integration process for migrants in order to understand the difficulties they may face when it comes to identity creation in the new country. Because migration is a global and complex phenomenon and the reasons behind migration are many and varied. Migrants can become vulnerable at different stages of their journey. Some of them endures hardships that can threaten their lives and affect their physical and mental well-being regardless of the reason for leaving their home country. The purpose of this qualitative interview study was to investigate how young adult migrant women from the Middle East experience bi-cultural identity creation. With a social psychological approach, this was studied through theories of social identity theory, social influence, conformity, integration theory and bi-cultural identity theory. Five semi-structured interviews with migrant women from the Middle East were conducted. The results show that the migrant women often experience conflicts and difficulties in finding a balance in where they see themselves as belonging, which creates difficult feelings and an identity crisis. Some respondents accept and internalize this conflict. The values that followed from the home culture are important for their identity and that it is the values that set the tone during their bi-cultural identity creation.

<p>Many questions are still left unanswered regarding the period c. 450-700 AD, when hordes of Anglo-Saxon migrants landed on the British Isles and by doing so made the starting point in the foundation of England. Who were these Germanic tribes? The theories of how the migration proceeded are today many. The two major theories today concerns whether it was a question of a mass migration or a gradual migration proceeded by smaller groups of military elite. Another interesting point, well worth discussing, is the concept of cultural identity, and especially of these Anglo-Saxon migrants. How do you strengthen your identity as a newcomer in foreign country? Is this reflected in the material culture, in the way you build your houses or how you choose to bury your dead? The purpose of this essay is to shed more light on the migrants that were to become the English.</p>

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This study investigates the processes through which attendance at a community school affects the development of cultural and academic identities of Greek/Greek-Cypriot and Pakistani ethnic minority young people who live in the United Kingdom. The development of cultural and academic identities by community school students is a relatively underesearched and undertheorized area. The theoretical framework of this study draws on developments in cultural developmental theory (Valsiner, 2000a) and the dialogical self theory (Hermans, 2001 a) to understand the cultural and dialogical nature of the processes through which ethnic minority young people develop their identities in community schools. Both theories are influenced by dynamic perspectives on development and have tried to explain psychological phenomena in relation to the sociocultural context. Episodic interviews, drawings and group work were the tools for data collection and multiple perspectives (students', parents' and teachers') were investigated. This small-scale research took place in a Greek and a Pakistani community school. The pupils, both girls and boys, were adolescents aged 13 to 18 years. The findings suggest that the young people in both groups were moving towards multiple, hybrid identities through a dialogical negotiation of aspects of differences! similarities and belonging within their majority and minority communities as well as living in a multicultural society. This negotiation resulted in a multivoiced hybrid identity which emerged through a constant positioning and re-positioning within their communities and school contexts. For the participants in the Pakistani school this negotiation was a struggle shaped by issues of racism and religious discrimination. In this context, the Pakistani school mainly aimed to increase self-confidence and strengthen the students' sense of minority cultural identity, especially the religious aspect of it, whereas the Greek school mainly aimed to preserve the community's cultural identity which was considered to be threatened by assimilation. In both community schools, a strong academic identity was endorsed which had a double function -to foster the acquisition of both knowledge and skills relevant to community education and those relevant to mainstream and higher education. This study demonstrated the value of examining community schools within contrasting communities, and its findings have implications for Psychology and Education.

This reflexive documentary film explores the Alabama-Coushatta Indian Tribe of Texas and examines questions of cultural identity. The twenty-one minute film uses footage of cultural events, reservation landscape, photographs, and interviews to bring the viewer into the lives of the Alabama-Coushatta people. The written portion of this thesis details the entire processes of making the film, from the proposal stage to the post-production stage. This includes an examination of the film's evolution from using a proposed ethnographic approach to one less scientific and more personal.

A collection of three, interwoven short stories set in Japantown, San Francisco and the Topaz Internment Camp in central Utah during World War II. The pieces in this collection feature themes of cultural identity and the reconstruction of personal identity in times of change and crisis. Collection includes the stories "Moving Sale," "Evacuation," and "Resettlement."

2014年，台灣FOX頻道播出美國長青諷刺卡通《辛普森家庭》，以其台味十足的配音風格而紅極一時。台灣《辛普森家庭》揉合了在地當時流行的時事話題，與原版內容大相逕庭，卻深受台灣觀眾喜愛。然而，即使廣受歡迎，台版《辛普森家庭》也為部分觀眾所批評，認為其喪失原版樣貌，在網路上亦興起一波攻擊與護航熱議。過去研究指出，人們傾向接觸與自己相近的事物，也比較喜歡這樣的內容（Markus & Wurf, 1987; Chang, 2002, 2005, 2008a, 2011）。 據此，本研究以雜揉兩種文化的影視文化產品出發，試圖於自我一致性理論（Self Congruency Theory）版圖中加入影視消費一環。因此，本研究以「知覺影片文化」與「既存文化認同」之交互作用切入，欲了解兩者之間的關係。此外，本研究亦試圖剖析閱聽人觀影時的心理機制，加入閱聽人觀影後的認知反應（自我參照、自我－影片連結、心理距離）與情感反應（正向情緒、觀影享受），測試其對於影片態度的效果。 本研究採單因子實驗設計，以「知覺影片文化」為自變項，以「文化認同」為調節變項，兩者之交互作用項作為分析之用；此外，亦探討自我參照、自我－影片連結、心理距離、正向情緒、觀影享受等五概念對於影片態度之中介效果。研究結果指出，知覺影片文化與文化認同之交互作用並未能顯著預測影片態度，文中討論研究限制所在與未來研究建議。