The topic for this thesis is the package of policies referred to as “Co-development”. Co-development or Cooperation for Development comprises the actions of formal institutions at the national and regional levels as well as those of non-governmental organisations which are designed to stem immigration by fostering development in the source-country. The thesis examines co-development by comparing the migratory regimes in the European-Mediterranean Partnership and the North American Free Trade Agreement areas, focusing on Spain and the United States as host countries, Mexico, and Morocco as primarily sending - but increasingly transit and host - countries. The starting point for the thesis are the two trade oriented development programmes under way in each region - the MEDA Programme in Morocco and the Plan Puebla Panamá in Mexico-Central America. The thesis critically examines the “development-migration” nexus, particularly conventional ways of analysing the relationship between migration and development, and the way in which these models inform official policies for trade and development. The comparison draws upon a Multi-level Governance analytical framework which examines the interaction of state and non-state actors at the three main levels (Macro, Meso, and Micro) where Co-development takes places. The analysis of the multi-level interaction allows understanding the vertical or horisontal interrelation among actors in the process of co-development. Moreover, it allows a fuller understanding of the contribution of “bottom up” as much as “top down” co-development. Within this framework, the migrant emerges as a central actor - a transnational agent who is able to foster co-development by comparison with many national and international programmes.

The acculturation process is an important part of the experience that immigrant children and their families go through when adapting to live in a new country. Most studies on acculturation have included immigrant groups – mainly adults – living in North America and Europe. This thesis seeks to redress that imbalance by focussing on the acculturation attitudes and well-being of children and adolescents both in Chile and the United Kingdom (UK). A further important aspect is to examine how the discrepancies in acculturation within the family relate to children's well-being and family relationships. In this thesis, a bi-dimensional approach (both desire for culture maintenance and culture adoption/desire for contact with other groups) is used to test various hypotheses about the relationship between acculturation orientations - children's, parents' and discrepancies between the children and parents - and well-being of children. Several features characterise the research: two different receiving contexts (UK and Chile); different national origins of participants (with immigrant background and non-immigrant background); use of cross-sectional, longitudinal and qualitative methods; use of both perceived parent and actual parent scores; and the presence of social mediators and moderators (e.g., perceived discrimination, perceived peer acceptance, perceived school climate and perceived family relationship). The main findings were that, both in UK and Chile, immigrant children showed preference for maintenance of their heritage culture (CM) and establishing contact with receiving groups (DC) (or adopting the receiving culture (CA)), and that this preference was related to better well-being than other options, both concurrently and longitudinally. The acculturation discrepancies between children and parents had different consequences on well-being if they were on CM, CA or DC, depending on the measure used to calculate the discrepancies and also for immigrant and non-immigrant children. The findings are discussed in relation to the existing literature, and implications are drawn for improving psychological adjustment of immigrants and for future research that is needed.

The Mexican Revolution and WWI spurred the first large wave of Mexican migration to the United States. As a result, the 1920s and 1930s witnessed the largest cohort of children of Mexican migrants of the twentieth century. A significant percentage of these children were U.S. citizens by birth and were also granted Mexican citizenship through their parents, who generally did not seek to become U.S. citizens through naturalization. Using archival collections in Mexico and the United States, this dissertation examines the formal practices and strategies that these migrant families used to engage both U.S. and Mexican citizenship and navigate their place in both nations. It shows that the practice of citizenship was a multi-sited and transnational historical process as evidenced by an examination of two key areas in which it occurred. First, this dissertation uses education to show that Mexican parents and youth practiced Mexican citizenship from the United States. From 1924 to 1939, migrant parents and organizations, Mexican consuls, and the Secretary of Public Education established schools for migrant children in the United States. In addition, Mexicans in the United States pushed the Mexican government to create scholarships for U.S.-born youth at two Mexican universities in 1939 and 1945. Second, this dissertation provides new interpretations of repatriation by focusing on the relationship between repatriates and Mexican state, the role of the family during the Great Depression, and efforts by U.S.-born youth to claim and benefit from their status as U.S. citizens. By following migrant families across the U.S.-Mexico border, this dissertation is able to compare the ways in which migrants and U.S.-born youth engaged both the U.S. and Mexican state. Indeed, they deployed a similar set of strategies and language. For example, in both Mexico and the United States, Mexicans visited the consuls. While the consuls did not always provide Mexicans with the resources they needed, they were often important intermediaries between migrants and the state and between migrants and family members in either Mexico and the United States. In addition to visiting consul, Mexicans wrote to government officials, especially the presidents of both the Mexican and U.S. nation. Their countless letters, I show, emphasized their citizenship status, their affinity to the nation, their “Americanness” or “Mexicanness,” and their commitment to contribute to the nation. Moreover, in their letters, Mexicans echoed the nation’s patriarchal values and metaphor of the family. In constructing a transnational history of citizenship, this dissertation bridges and contributes to Chicano/a historiography, scholarship on Mexican nation building, and works on Mexican repatriation during the Great Depression. By including migrant families into the process of Mexican nation-building after the Mexican Revolution, I integrate a set of historical actors that have generally been excluded from Mexican historiography. Placing migrants and migrant children within this context contributes to Chicano/a historiography by demonstrating not only that Mexican citizenship mattered for these families, but that it was a negotiated process that included migrants and the Mexican state.

Third Culture Kids are the children of people working outside their passport countries, and who are employed by international organisations as development experts, diplomats, missionaries, journalists, international NGO and humanitarian aid workers, or UN representatives. The “third culture” they possess is the temporary, nomadic multicultural space they inhabited as children, within an expatriate community and, in some cases, international school. This culture is distinct from their parents’ homeland culture (the first culture) and from that of the country in which they spend their formative years but of which they are not native members (the second culture). The “third culture” inhabited by Third Culture Kids does not unite the first and second cultures, but rather comprises a space for their unstable integration (Knörr, 2005). This thesis explores the following question: In what ways does being a Third Culture Kid affect notions of belonging, identity and place? Through analysis of both fieldwork in an international school, and exploratory life story interviews with adult TCKs from myriad backgrounds, this work contributes to a better understanding of the experience of growing up abroad, and tracks the long term effects of this experience on the ways in which TCKs orient themselves towards belonging, identity and place. Throughout the course of this research, findings coalesce to orient TCKs as cosmopolitans, rooted in the expatriate communities of their childhoods, continuing in mobility and self-conscious “otherness” into adulthood, and moving through place as “elite vagrants”.

Chan, Hing Yuen. / Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2010. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 205-215). / Abstracts in English and Chinese. / Abstract --- p.i / Acknowledgement --- p.ii / Table of Contents --- p.iii- v / Chapter Chapter 1 --- Introduction: An Ethnographic Study of Home --- p.1 / Hong Kong Migrants in the Netherlands / Historical Background / Social Background / Fieldsite and Methodology / The CPH Elderly Club / The RCW Club / The TCS School / Methodology / Thesis Synopsis / Chapter Chapter 2 --- Literature Review --- p.23 / Locating Home in the Migratory Context / Home as Social Relations / Home as Cultural Belonging / Defining Home in the Context of Migration / Conceiving Gender in the Context of Migration / Conceiving Generation in the Context of Migration / Localization: Becoming Members of the Host Society / "Globalization, Transnationalism and Home among Migrants" / Conclusion / Chapter Chapter 3 --- Gender Matters: The Vision of Home among the First Generation Hong Kong Migrants --- p.45 / The Migration Journey of Early Hong Kong Migrants / "On Being ""Traveler-Workers""" / The Gendered Experiences of Migrants / The Gendered Consequences at and beyond Workplace / The Impact of Lineage on Visions of Home / The Kinsmen / The Married-out Daughters / Case Studies / Case 1: A Widow in Her Late 60s / Case 2: A Divorced Woman at Her 50s / Case 3: A Non-village Man / Case 4: A Typical Man from a Traditional Village Background / A Summary of the Case Studies / "Conclusion: Gender, Lineage and Home" / Chapter Chapter 4 --- Home is Where I Live: The Visions of Home among the Second Generation Migrants --- p.82 / The Characteristics of the Second Generation Migrants / Marginality of Diasporic Subjects / Being Marginal at Home and the Ancestral Homeland / """I'm a Foreigner in the Netherlands""" / """IFeel Like a Tourist at My Parents' Home""" / Dual Citizenship and Identity / Remaking Senses of Home: Three Case Studies / "Case 1: ""Home is Where My Family is Living in""" / "Case 2: ""Home is Where I Have Economic Opportunities""" / "Case 3: ""I Want to Live Away from the Muslim Migrants""" / A Summary of the Case Studies / Shifting Visions of Home: A Comparison between the First and Second / Generation Migrants / Conclusion: The Immediate Making of Home / Chapter Chapter 5 --- Establishing a Sense of Belonging to a New Home --- p.109 / Claiming Social Niche: The Indonesian Chinese Restaurants / The Community Rose from Restaurants / "Restaurants, Food and Social Niche" / Stigmatization as Strategy of Belonging / Stigmatizing Mainland Chinese Migrants / Stigmatizing Muslim Migrants / Participation in the New Home: Two Field Examples / The Multicultural Parade / The Mahjong Competition / On Cultural Citizenship: Being Members of the Host Society / The Netherlands: A Multicultural Country? / Racialization as a Social Resource / Suiting in the Popular Image of Chinese / Conclusion: Being at Home in the Host Society / Chapter Chapter 6 --- Home in Disjuncture: The Transnational Making of Home --- p.149 / Television: Consuming Connections with Hong Kong / """I Want to Watch Another Channel"": The Second Generation's Response" / Consuming Different 'Homes' under the Same Roof / The Home-Based Investments among Hong Kong Migrants / From Remittance to Investment / Investment Tactics / Investing Home / Familial Connections with Hong Kong / A Look at Filial Piety / Scene 1: A Funeral / Scene 2: A Wedding Banquet / Narratives of Filial Piety: On Being Dutiful Descendants for the Dead and Alive / Conclusion: The Multi-Faceted Meaning of Home / Chapter Chapter 7 --- Conclusion: Examining the Many Facets of Home among Hong Kong Migrants --- p.181 / "The ""Improvisation"" of Home in Different Social Contexts" / Structuration / Home and Individual roles / Home in the Local Context / Home in the Transnational Context / In Pursuit of Home: Dialogues with Current Diasporc Studies / The Territory of Diaspora / Culture as Home / A Look at Transnationalism / Concluding Remarks: Reflection on Home / Bibliography --- p.205

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This research examines the experiences, expectations and concerns of post-war Greek migrants in an interview and focus group setting. The central question of inquiry is whether Australia has been -the lucky country- for Greek migrants after approximately fifty years of living in Australia. Overall, of the total number of Greek migrants who participated in the research, 78% believe Australia is the lucky country, whereas 22% did not. Some of the overall reasons why Greeks believe Australia is not the lucky country include racism, qualifications were not initially recognised, and Greece is now perceived as being economically superior to Australia. Some of the main limitations of the present study include : the small number of subjects recruited, advertisement design, ambiguous definition of the lucky country, and the study was only concentrated in one geographical section of Sydney. Recommendations are included to assist future researchers alleviate some of the problem areas. / Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)

Thesis (M.A.)--University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1948. / Typescript. Title from title screen (viewed Mar. 22, 2007). Includes bibliographical references (leaves 126-128). Online version of the print original.

Thesis (M.A. in Security Studies (Homeland Security and Defense)--Naval Postgraduate School, December 2009. / Thesis Advisor(s): Bach, Robert; Joyce, Nola. "December 2009." Description based on title screen as viewed on January 26, 2009. Author(s) subject terms: U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), immigration, benefit, fraud, terrorism, border security, watch list, immigration reform. Includes bibliographical references (p. 83-91). Also available in print.

Thesis (M. A. in Security Studies (Homeland Security and Defense))--Naval Postgraduate School, December 2009. / Thesis Advisor(s): Kadhim, Abbas ; Shore, Zachary. "December 2009." Description based on title screen as viewed on January 27, 2010. Author(s) subject terms: Islam, Muslim, radicalization, Germany, France, United Kingdom, terrorist, home-grown, immigration, integration. Includes bibliographical references (p. 83-85). Also available in print.