This thesis has been an investigation of the applicability of the middleman minority theory with reference to foreign students studying in the United States.Results of the study showed that the returning students generally corresponded with the criteria of the sojourners. Non-returning students however, did not fulfill all the conditions which apply to the middleman minority group residing in the host country. It was concluded that middleman minority is not a discrete category, but falls into the end of a continuum, which starts with the sojourners. In utilizing the middleman minority theory, two factors were excluded from the theory. These were that foreign students act as middleman between the elite and the masses in a society, and that they prefer to work in liquidable occupations.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:BSU/oai:cardinalscholar.bsu.edu:handle/181298 |
| Date | January 1976 |
| Creators | Rodrigues, Sevrine Mary |
| Contributors | Gordon, Whitney H. |
| Source Sets | Ball State University |
| Detected Language | English |
| Format | 148 leaves ; 28 cm. |
| Source | Virtual Press |
| Coverage | n-us--- |
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