Thesis (M.A.)--University of Minnesota, 1969. / Photocopy of typescript. Minneapolis : University of Minnesota, Photographic Service, 1980? Bibliograpy: leaves [113]-114.

Thesis (M.A.)--Georgia State University, 2005. / Kathryn A. Kozaitis, committee chair; Susan McCombie, Emanuela Guano, committee members. Electronic text (141 p. : col. ill.) : digital, PDF file. Description based on contents viewed July 10, 2007. Includes bibliographical references (p. 94-98).

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abstract: Approximately 89 million Americans will be age 65 and older by 2050 in the United States. This older adult population is especially vulnerable to loneliness as a result of numerous age-related risk factors including loss of social support and declining health. In addition to these common risk factors, refugee older adults may face increased loneliness as a consequence of war-related trauma, loss, and marginalized cultural values in their host country. Despite their heightened vulnerabilities to loneliness, the experiences of refugee older adults remain understudied. This is the first study aimed at understanding the loneliness experiences of community-dwelling Hmong older adults, an ethnic group resettled in the United States as refugees over 40 years ago. A constructivist grounded theory method guided by an intersectionality framework was used to address three aims: 1) to understand the concept of loneliness among community-dwelling Hmong older adults, 2) to explore the premigration, displacement, and postmigration experiences of loneliness among community-dwelling Hmong older adults, and 3) to examine how community-dwelling Hmong older adults cope with loneliness. Semi-structured individual interviews were conducted with 17 Hmong older adults age 65 and older residing in Sacramento and Fresno, California. Analysis of the data was an iterative process between coding the data, generating focused codes, and connecting the categories to establish a conceptual pattern. Participants conceptualized loneliness as a negative experience represented through physical and emotional expressions and intensity, which were influenced by an intersectional identity. Factors that influenced their experiences of loneliness in the premigration, displacement, and postmigration phase were discussed as trust, loss, aging-related issues, isolation, sense of community, access to cultural community, instability, violence, and cultural adjustments. Their narratives offered several coping mechanisms including religious and spiritual beliefs, social support, wandering, activity engagement, and control and avoidance. These findings informed a conceptual model of loneliness that incorporated an intersectional identity, influencing factors, and coping mechanisms. Overall, the results provide nuanced cultural meanings and insight into the loneliness experiences of Hmong older adults. Implications for social work research, practice, and policy suggests the need for greater culturally- and linguistically-competent services informed by Hmong older adults. / Dissertation/Thesis / Doctoral Dissertation Social Work 2019

This thesis is a description of four-word elaborate expressions in White Hmong, a Hmong-Mienh language spoken in the northern mountains of Southeast Asia. The goal of this work is to describe the behavior, characteristics, and functions of the expressions using data from the White Hmong-English Dictionary (Heimbach 1980). A native speaker helped find 318 examples of elaborate expressions in the dictionary. Elaborate expressions have previously been described as "a balanced group of four words in which the first and third element, and the second and fourth element, are either identical to each other or share a common meaning and often also a common sound" (Jarkey 2010:129). Previous work on elaborate expressions is limited to a full analysis of the Green dialect (Mortensen 2003) and a partial analysis focusing mainly on wordhood in White Hmong (White 2020). After introducing White Hmong and elaborate expressions in chapter 1, I use numerous examples to describe and support the types of concord presented in the analysis. The data is taken from the White Hmong-English Dictionary, which is composed of over 400 pages of definitions with detailed example sentences. Throughout the thesis I offer an analysis based on a previous framework of elaborate expressions depicted in the Green Hmong dialect (Mortensen 2003) to conclude that elaborate expressions offer three types of concord between their parts, namely part of speech, semantic, and phonological.

The purpose of this mixed methods research study was to investigate whether academic capital is associated with student gender, student generation status, and parental education level of Hmong American undergraduate college students. The study also examined the educational experience of Hmong American undergraduate college students to understand the barriers they faced in obtaining academic capital and how they overcame them. The study's first phase collected and analyzed survey responses from 150 Hmong American undergraduate college students. The study's second phase interviewed six students who participated in the survey from the first phase. The first phase yielded quantitative results that suggested student generation status was a significant predictor of academic capital. In addition, after gender was controlled for, the parent’s education level was not a significant predictor of academic capital. The second phase yielded qualitative results that revealed two types of themes. The first type of theme consisted of four barriers relating to acquiring academic capital, and the second type of theme included five ways participants overcame barriers. The study concluded with implications for practice based on the findings and recommendations for future research.

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Ding Lai-Ling. / Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2003. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 160-167). / Abstracts in English and Chinese. / Chapter Chapter One: --- Introduction / Chapter 1 --- The Miao History of Guizhou in China --- p.P.4-8 / Chapter 1.1 --- The socio-economic background of the Miao rural community --- p.P.8-11 / Chapter 1.2 --- Femininity of the ' feminized other' ´ؤ the Portray of the Miao women / Chapter 2 --- The concept of agency --Literature Review --- p.P.13-20 / Chapter 3 --- Methodology --- p.P.20-22 / Chapter Chapter Two: --- The Miao women's agency over the traditional drinking custom / Chapter 1 --- The traditional drinking custom in the Miao community Of Guizhou in China --- p.P.23-47 / Chapter 2 --- The acquisition of drinking habit by the Miao men And the Miao women / Chapter 2.1 --- The Perception of drinking among the Miao men of different ages --- p.P.48-50 / Chapter 2.2 --- The Miao women's agency over the traditional drinking custom / Chapter 2.2.1 --- Among the unmarried girls --- p.P.50-53 / Chapter 2.2.2 --- Among the married women --- p.P.53-58 / Chapter 3 --- Traditional drinking custom and wife battering / killing --- p.P.58-60 / Chapter 4 --- Concluding remark --- p.P.60-64 / Chapter Chapter Three : --- The Miao women's agency over the contraceptive technology / Chapter 1 --- The concepts of reproduction and body --- p.P.65-72 / Chapter 2 --- The Birth Planning Policy in the national minority regions --- p.P.72-74 / Chapter 2.1 --- Among the national minority groups in Guizhou --- p.P.74-75 / Chapter 2.2 --- Within the villages --- p.P.75-76 / Chapter 3 --- Norplant ´ؤ The contraceptive devise assigned to the Miao women --- p.P.77-81 / Chapter 4 --- The coercive use of Norplant ´ؤ a devastating challenge to the Miao women's agency --- p.P.81-86 / Chapter 4.1 --- As the economic burden levied on the Miao women --- p.P.86-90 / Chapter 4.2 --- As the health burden levied on the Miao women --- p.P.90-94 / Chapter 5 --- Concluding remark --- p.P.94-96 / Chapter Chapter Four - --- The Miao women's agency over the family violence / Chapter 1 --- Theoretical orientation of family violence-wife abuse --- p.P.97-102 / Chapter 2 --- Major dominant script of family violence and wife abuse by the Women Federation in China --- p.P.102-106 / Chapter 3 --- The gender relation within the Miao rural community of Guizhou in China --- p.P.106-113 / Chapter 3.1 --- The unequal sexual division of labor within the family --- p.P.113-121 / Chapter 3.2 --- Drinking and wife abuse in the Miao community --- p.P.121-124 / Chapter 3.3 --- Wife abuse in the Miao community - From scolding to killing --- p.P.124-130 / Chapter 3.4 --- Fro Passive to active - a coping strategies continuum --- p.P.131-139 / Chapter 4 --- Concluding remark --- p.P.139-140 / Conclusion --- p.P.141-149 / Interviewee's profile / Reference / Appendix

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Edinburgh, 1999.

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