abstract: Nearly 11 million immigrants in the United States, three-quarters of which are Latino, lack legal authorization to live and work in the country; nonetheless, the majority of these individuals have resided in the U.S. for a decade or more and have profound social, emotional, cultural, and economic ties to the country (Passel & Cohn, 2018). Despite being deeply embedded in their communities, the dominant policy response involves increased immigration enforcement and advancing a hostile socio-political context (Gulasekaram & Ramakishnan, 2015). This policy approach comes at a great cost to immigrant and Latino communities throughout the U.S. and is largely ineffective. Accordingly, many advocates and stakeholders, including the National Association of Social Workers (2017), argue for policies that integrate “unauthorized permanent residents” (Martínez, Slack, & Martínez- Schuldt, 2018). The primary purpose of this study was to understand strategies that can be leveraged to build support for integrationist policymaking. Among a sample of U.S.-born white college students (n=708), intensive, community, and college contact with Latino immigrants and people of color were assessed; the relationships between intergroup contact and support for integrationist policymaking were examined. To better understand the contact-policy attitudes relationship, the deprovincialization hypothesis of the intergroup contact theory (Pettigrew & Tropp, 2011) and the Latino threat narrative (Chavez, 2013) were merged and tested as a serial pathway by which contact and policy attitudes may be related. Findings revealed intensive and community contact with Latino immigrants and people of color related to more support for integrationist legislation. In most cases, these effects were direct as well as indirect through the ethnocentrismthreat attitudes pathway. Ethnocentrism fully accounted for the relationships between intensive and community intergroup contact and threat attitudes. These findings have several implications for intervention. First, in the long-term struggle for immigrant integration, intergroup interaction between whites and people of color should be promoted, and the importance of casual intergroup contact should not be dismissed. Interventions that reduce social segregation are needed, as well as efforts to effectively harness the ethnic-racial diversity that presently exists. Cross-group exposure interventions that aim to overcome ethnocentric tendencies should be implemented. / Dissertation/Thesis / Doctoral Dissertation Social Work 2019

Ce mémoire porte sur le vécu scolaire des enfants marocains que reçoivent les écoles québécoises, en particulier les classes d'accueil. Il illustre notre préoccupation pour l'égalité des chances de réussite scolaire des élèves immigrants, intimement liée à la prise en compte des caractéristiques particulières de ces derniers. Cette prise en compte est d'ailleurs partie intégrante des approches constructivistes utilisées par les enseignants en milieu pluriethnique, qui supposent détenir une cormaissance de l'expérience scolaire de ces enfants. Or, nous constatons un écart entre la situation actuelle, le manque d'information sur cette expérience, et la situation souhaitable: la nécessité de la connaître pour mieux accueillir ces élèves et les accompagner judicieusement. Dans notre pratique d'enseignement, cet écart nous interpelle spécialement puisqu'il risque, à cause d'incompréhensions d'ordres, divers, de nous conduire à des jugements erronés qui se traduisent en problèmes de classification, d'orientation et d'intégration. Dans le but de faciliter l'intégration des enfants immigrants au système scolaire québécois et de soutenir leurs chances de réussite, nous avons entrepris une étude de type qualitatif, de nature exploratoire, sur le vécu scolaire d'enfants issus du Maroc, l'un des pays du globe ayant fourni le plus d'immigrants au Québec entre les armées 1998 et 2007. Pour la méthodologie, nous avons adopté le modèle systémique d'analyse de la situation pédagogique de Legendre qui a l'avantage de prendre en compte les relations entre les acteurs et leur milieu, sur la base de quatre dimensions d'analyse de la situation pédagogique: le milieu, l'agent, l'objet et le sujet. Quant aux données, nous avons procédé à une triangulation des sources documentaires, des entretiens individuels (huit) et de groupe (un), et de nos observations sur le terrain. Les résultats de notre analyse révèlent que les différences, par rapport au Québec, dans les conditions d'apprentissage et le vécu scolaire au quotidien des enfants provenant du Maroc sont effectivement susceptibles d'engendrer des attitudes envers les enseignants, la façon d'étudier et de s'exprimer, et des comportements en classe, potentiellement générateurs de quiproquos et incompréhensions. D'où l'importance confirmée de développer des moyens, tels des cours intégrés à la formation initiale de l'enseignant et à sa formation continue, pour doter les enseignants des savoirs, savoirs être et savoirs faire qui ne pourront qu'accroître leur compétence à assurer la réussite socioscolaire de tous les élèves immigrants. ______________________________________________________________________________ MOTS-CLÉS DE L’AUTEUR : Élèves immigrants, Vécu scolaire, Modèle de Legendre.

The period 2015-2020 has remained limitless in terms of missing data on crime and immigration in the Nordic countries, starting from the number of irregular and undocumented migrants and asylum seekers, continuing with the underrepresented immigrant statistics in crime. This paper consists of a complex understanding of immigration processes across the Nordic region, establishing narrow themes associated with crime and immigration. The findings of this paper presented five essential links to the criminality among the immigrant population in the Nordic countries during 2015-2020, that were compiled from the majority of the current available studies in this research field. At this point, the paper represents official data from the Nordic countries and a narrow literature review of recent studies, which depicted immigrants as more often suspected of crimes compared to the ethnic populations, assuming that it could have established a false social identity of an individual with foreign background. The reason of that supposition is explained by the findings on migrants to be overrepresented in crime, biased “immigrant beliefs” and yet evident immigrant labelling.

<p>The development that the Swedish society has experienced during the last four decades and the higher part of the population coming from foreign countries calls for a more intensive research on the situation of these groups. The purpose of this study is to find explanations of the differences in the share of immigrant politicians in Linköping and Norrköping. The starting point of the study is a model of factors assumed to affect the representation of immigrants in the municipality assemblies. The immigrant composition, the municipality organization and the view of democracy of the politicians, are all assumed to affect the civic participation. The civic participation is then assumed to affect the representation of immigrants in the municipality. The model stipulates that in a municipality with a low representation of immigrants you can expect an immigrant composition of low participating immigrant groups. Furthermore the model stipulates that in such a municipality you will also find a more participationhostile organization and politicians with a less participationfriendly view of democracy. The opposite is true for a municipality with a high level of representation of immigrants. When tested on Linköping and Norrköping the model well seemed to explain the differences in the level of representation of immigrants in the two municipalities.</p>

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published_or_final_version / abstract / toc / Educational Psychology / Master / Master of Social Sciences

published_or_final_version / abstract / toc / Educational Psychology / Master / Master of Social Sciences

published_or_final_version / Education / Master / Master of Education

En stor invandring innebär en ökad påfrestning på tandvården från individer med utländsk bakgrund. Hos individerna med utländsk bakgrund har man funnit en nedsatt oral hälsa. Att undersöka vad individer med utländsk bakgrund vet om orala sjukdomar samt vilka munhygiensvanor de har kan hjälpa till att hitta eventuella riskfaktorer till nedsatt oral hälsa. Detta hjälper tandvården att se inom vilket område man bör informera. och stärka denna grupp för att vid behålla deras orala hälsa. Syfte: Att undersöka munhygiensvanor och kunskaper kring oral hälsa hos vuxna individer med utländsk bakgrund. Frågeställning: Finns det någon skillnad mellan hur ofta män och kvinnor med borstar? Metod: Kvantitativ studie. Empirisk enkätstudie. Enkäten omfattar frågor om munhygienvanor, kunskap om karies och kunskap om parodontit. Urvalet bestod av vuxna män och kvinnor som har en utländsk bakgrund och är över 18 års ålder. Med utländsk bakgrund menas att individerna är födda utomlands och har utländska föräldrar. Studiedeltagarna befann sig på en SFI skola i Mellansverige. Resultat: Antal studiedeltagare som deltog i studien var 78, (n=36 män), (n=29 kvinnor), (n=13 som inte angav kön). Majoriteten av studiedeltagarna visade sig ha goda vanor med antalet gånger de borstar tänderna per dag, hur ofta de använder fluor och användning av orala munhygiensprodukter utöver tandborste. Studien visar även att en mindre del av studiedeltagarna känner de största riskfaktorerna för att få orala sjukdomar. Konklusion: Individer med utländsk bakgrund har goda munhygiensvanor men saknar till viss del kunskap kring orsaken till varför orala sjukdomar som karies och parodontit uppstår.

The United States is home to approximately 44.5 million immigrants and refugees, and these numbers continue to grow. To ensure a healthy immigrant and refugee population, it is important to address the unique health needs of these communities. Migrant women face many obstacles in obtaining women’s health services, including language and cultural barriers, difficulty finding childcare to attend medical appointments, and transportation difficulties. These factors are compounded by systemic difficulties in receiving health insurance coverage. Published literature describes women’s health in immigrant and refugee women living in the United States, but much of this literature either focuses on specific cultural or religious groups rather than looking at overall trends in women’s health care or does not differentiate between women’s and men’s health services in immigrant and refugee populations. Through reviewing published studies, the aim of this paper is to analyze general trends about the accessibility of women’s health services to immigrant and refugee women living in the United States. This paper will also look at specific examples of cultural and religious groups in the United States to examine the variation in women’s health preferences and issues among immigrant women of different backgrounds. Finally, this paper will explore potential ways to improve women’s health services available to immigrant and refugee women living in the United States.