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Portlandia's Other Children : Refugee Communities in Urban Life

Creator:

Kubein, Adele M.

Abstract:

This research analyzes the relations of ethnic refugee communities and particularly their businesses to gentrification and community vitality in a neighborhood in Portland, Oregon. The data indicates that gentrification is not a linear process of displacement of African Americans by Whites seeking affordable housing and new frontiers, but rather is...

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Dissertation
Cultural analysis of the Karakuwa fishing community in Japan and Fishermen's reforestation movement

Creator:

Takahashi, Tokiko

Abstract:

Based on the author's ethnographic research at the Karakuwa fishing community in Japan, this thesis explains a cultural process of the local people's synthesis of the values they place on nature and their everyday behavior in a modern industrial world. Explicated by ethnographic narrative, this study focuses on a revitalization...

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Masters Thesis
Interpretations of reality : cross-cultural encounters of Asian students with healthcare at Oregon State University

Creator:

Barclay, Julie Hanson

Abstract:

Enrollments of international students have increased dramatically in the last several decades. The delivery of health care to these students has become a topic of study for college health care providers and medical researchers across the country. The purpose of this study was to explore how Asian international students cope...

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Masters Thesis

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students contained only one reference to statistical data---on mental illness among French students