Based on an abridged version of the author's thesis : Paradoxes of Social capital: a multi-generational study of Moroccans in London - University of Sussex, 2006. / Title from PDF title page (viewed Mar. 31, 2009). "A Runnymede community study." "January 2009." Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1983. / Typescript. Vita. eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 242-254).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Florida State University, 2005. / Advisor: Alec G. Hargreaves, Florida State University, College of Arts and Sciences, Dept. of Modern Languages and Linguistics. Title and description from dissertation home page (viewed Jan. 24, 2006). Document formatted into pages; contains ix, 256 pages. Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--UCLA, 2009. / Vita. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 312-347).

Over the past decades, the pronounced increase of international migration has led many nations to confront themselves with the pressing issue of how to ameliorate and make more harmonious the engagement among people with different cultural backgrounds. The present thesis enters this debate focusing on the mutual relations between Italians and Moroccan immigrants living in Turin (North-West Italy). By means of this case study, this research demonstrates that the support and valorisation of cultural diversity do not damage social cohesion, as some scholars believe, but rather they may contribute to positive intergroup relations if they are well balanced by the adaptation of immigrants to the host country’s culture and by the development of a sense of belonging with the new country. In order to test my assumption I analyzed the impact of a preference for the integration strategy of acculturation (rather than assimilation or segregation) and the extent to which Moroccans and Italians share this preference. These analyses build on the distinction between acculturation in the public and in the private domain and between the concepts of culture and identity. A total of 281 respondents, of whom 136 were Moroccans and 145 Italians, participated in a questionnaire study. Both groups clearly expressed their preference for the integration strategy in the public and in the private domain, and for a dual identity, where migrants identified with both their own ethnic group and with Italy. In addition, these findings revealed that both acculturation strategies and identity patterns were predictive of intergroup relations, with the latter having the strongest impact. These findings were deepened through qualitative interviews, which aimed to explore whether for the specific context of this study the conditions were such that the dual identity could realistically develop. Results indicated that while culture diversity is encouraged and supported, Moroccans still experience a degree of discrimination. Such situation delineates a reality characterised by a ‘segmented pluralism’, that is, a reality where the recognition of cultural and ethnic differences coexist with the persistence of structural inequalities.

This dissertation examines the relationship between a clinical classification (autism) and the sociocultural and institutional contexts of its application. Historically in Morocco, as in many other global contexts, the autism label has not been widely used, and the professional disciplines typically charged with diagnosing and treating it (i.e., child psychiatry and special education) are relatively new there. Children have long been described and treated as majnun (“possessed”), mo’aq (“disabled”), hmaq (“crazy”), f shkel (“weird”) – but not typically as tawahhudi (“autistic”). Beginning in the 1980s, and then intensifying after 2000, Moroccan parent-activists have been working together with foreign and local experts to change that. Drawing on an Anglo-American neurocognitive behavioral model of autism diagnosis and treatment – in direct opposition to a French psychoanalytic one – they have been training a new cadre of experts, raising autism awareness, lobbying government agencies, and constructing an infrastructure to identify and educate children as autistic. This dissertation follows the category autism as it circulates with increasing speed and intensity across Morocco by way of nongovernmental parent associations operating special classrooms for disabled children and adolescents. It tracks the ways the category – as well as its attendant practices and concepts – reshapes local moral worlds and everyday domestic life. Drawing on philosopher Ian Hacking’s work on “making up people” and “the looping effect of human kinds” (2007), it seeks to understand how and to what extent activists and experts are making autism into a viable category, and thus a viable way to be a person in Morocco. In other words, what makes the category “stick” – or not? How does it gain traction in local worlds? How does it become alive and meaningful to Moroccan families? And in turn, how does the label autism itself – its meanings, definitions, uses, enactments – change and respond to complex processes initiated by its introduction to quotidian contexts of Moroccan social life? Through 26 months of fieldwork in family homes, a child psychiatry clinic in a public hospital, a parent-run classroom for disabled adolescents, 17 autism associations across the country, as well as several sites of vernacular healing, this dissertation provides an important ethnographic complement to Hacking’s work and extends his theoretical insights by focusing on the everyday practice of autism therapies. The first half of the dissertation examines the consequences of autism activism for the category itself. It shows how the histories of local institutions for the disabled, lexicons of disorder, and colonial encounters all shaped the prototypical image of the autistic child in Morocco. Further, it shows how novels institutional forms and mundane therapeutics practices lend the category a certain sense and vitality for parents. Drawing on life histories, it also demonstrates how the diagnosis “stick” (or become a durable identity) – or not – for a variety of economic, pragmatic, and sometimes idiosyncratic reasons. The second half of the dissertation examines the consequences of autism activism for the people involved. It shows how new styles of parenting circulate along with the category and it identifies a particular style of prosaic activism through which parents work to reframe understandings of autism by becoming experts on their own children and building “prosthetic environments” for them (Holmes 1990). Further, it situates autism activism in relation to highly publicized neoliberal development projects, showing how a complex triangulation between the Moroccan monarchy, state, and civil society creates novel expectations, aspirations, and exclusions. Through a close analysis of one family’s experience of attempting to implement autism behavioral therapies in their home, it also demonstrates the tensions internal to autism activism and examines struggles over the ethics of autism therapies. By detailing the dynamic ways in which the category autism interacts with and responds to the social, political, and institutional contexts of its application, this dissertation offers a novel perspective on international health activism and the globalization of psychiatric categories.

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Thesis (doctoral)--Universität, Bochum, 2004.

La littérature de jeunesse offre aux jeunes garçons et filles des espaces tout à la fois de reconnaissance et de différenciation, constituant ainsi un vecteur important de socialisation et de développement de l’identité culturelle. A travers la combinaison texte-image, le lecteur forge ainsi son appartenance identitaire, et questionne ses représentations de l’Autre et du monde dans sa pluralité. A l’image de la société marocaine, les éditions du troisième millénaire sont caractérisées par une grande diversité culturelle et linguistique. La jeunesse qui baignait dans une culture livresque étrangère durant le siècle dernier peut désormais trouver dans les nouvelles productions des repères en relation avec son environnement social. Cependant, les représentations véhiculées par la littérature de jeunesse posent plusieurs problèmes au niveau de la réception de ces livres et du rapport des jeunes Marocains à la lecture en raison de la pluralité, mais parfois aussi des dissonances qui peuvent exister entre les différentes approches culturelles, économiques et celles qui se dégagent – explicitement ou implicitement – des ouvrages et albums pris en considération. En choisissant d’analyser un corpus appartenant à la littérature de jeunesse marocaine et en privilégiant les catégories -certes problématiques - d’ « identité » et de « diversité » culturelles, nous avons souhaité placer cet objet d’étude au coeur d’une société où cohabitent héritage du passé et espace- monde moderne, où la richesse linguistique et le foisonnement culturel sont source d’interrogations fécondes mais peinent aussi quelquefois à trouver une réponse. / Youth literature offers young boys and girls a space for recognition and differentiation, thus constituting an important vector of socialization and cultural identity development. Through the text-image combination, the reader forges his / her identity affiliation, and questions his / her representations of the Other and the world in its plurality. As is the case of the Moroccan society, the editions of the third millennium are characterized by a great cultural and linguistic diversity. Young people who were immersed in a foreign bookish culture during the last century could find in the new productions a reference point in relation to their social environment. However, the representations vehicled by the literature of youth engender several problems not only at the level of reception of these books and in the relationship of young Moroccans to reading because of the plurality, but also sometimes at the level of the discordance and incongruity that may exist between different cultural and economic approaches, and those that emerge - explicitly or implicitly - from the works and albums taken into consideration. By choosing to analyze a corpus belonging to the Moroccan youth literature and by privileging the categories - surely problematic - of cultural "identity" and "diversity", we wanted to place this object of study at the heart of a society where the legacy of the past cohabit side by side with modern space-world, where linguistic wealth and cultural abundance are sources of fruitful questions but which also sometimes struggle to find an answer.