Perceptions of Bosnians in St. Louis

Perceptions and attitudes towards immigrants shape their adaptation and acculturation experiences. For immigrant youth, these perceptions also influence their developing sense of self and how they navigate different social contexts. Considering the growing diversity of immigrants and their places of settlement in the U.S., however, the empirical focus on native Whites’ perceptions of immigrant newcomers does not adequately reflect the range of potential in-group/out-group configurations. We know very little, for instance, about native minorities’ perceptions of White newcomers in different receiving contexts. The experience of Bosnian youth in St. Louis provides a unique case for examining perceptions of White newcomers in a nontraditional immigrant gateway, characterized by a sharp racial binary in its native population. Data for the present study includes i) qualitative interviews with 62 s-generation Bosnian youth and ii) a quantitative survey of non-Bosnian adult residents in St. Louis. Results show that overall, St. Louisians have positive views of Bosnians. This finding is complicated, however, by somewhat less favorable perceptions among Blacks than among Whites and the fact that most respondents indicated limited contact with Bosnians. In their interviews, Bosnian youth revealed that they use subtle cues such as mannerisms and shared cultural knowledge that are largely invisible to natives, to differentiate between groups. While our findings indicate that Bosnian youth may simply pass as Whites in their daily interactions with non-Bosnians, the results raise important questions about the extent to which these perceptions influence actual social networks and socialization patterns.     

Coping with cultural differences in healthcare: Chinese immigrant mothers’ health information sharing via WeChat

Immigrants face the challenge of obtaining culturally specific health information and adapting to a new healthcare system. Through qualitative content analysis, this study explores how Chinese immigrant mothers use the ethnic social media—WeChat to engage in health information sharing and coping with cultural differences in healthcare between the U.S. and China. Based on the data collected from one WeChat group in a metropolitan city in the northeastern U.S., Chinese immigrant mothers frequently discuss the topics of “doctors and hospitals,” “insurance and cost,” “medicine and treatment,” and “alternative health care.” They constantly compare Chinese health care beliefs and practices with western ones. They adopt various acculturation strategies to manage the cultural differences in healthcare beliefs, practices, and systems. We call for future research to further examine immigrants’ health information sharing via social media and consider acculturation as coping strategies or processes in the health communication context.     

一类无界的不相容工件族分批排序加权总完工时间问题

考虑极小化加权总完工时间的一类无界的不相容工件族分批排序问题,给出了最优排序的性质和算法,并加以证明．对工件有k个到达时间的情形,给出了一个复杂性为D（2^k-1nlogn）的启发式算法．     

近世闽南“海内外两头家”女性财产继承模式

明、清时期,闽南人从福建到台湾乃至东南亚开垦或贸易,通常是男性只身前往。他们在海外乏人照顾,结果在他乡又成立一个家庭,形成海外与家乡“两头家”的情况。涉及财产管控、资源分配这类迫切需要解决的现实问题,民间形成一套明确的书面规定,在民事上也有约定俗成的习惯法。本文依据张士箱家族契约文书与吧城华人《公案簿》,阐述近世闽南“海内外两头家”的女性财产继承模式。     

高校辅导员开展家校合作教育初探

辅导员作为大学生思想政治教育第一线的工作者,在具体学生工作中,经常碰到一些复杂而棘手的问题.伴着环境的变化、教育理念的发展、家庭教育的不足、实际工作的需要等问题,有必要通过一些措施来吸引家长的参与和支持.     

德意志帝国时期移民迁入政策初探

德意志帝国时期,德国的跨国移民趋势发生了根本逆转,从典型的移民迁出国转向移民迁入国。然而,德意志帝国缺乏一个统一的国家意义上的移民迁入政策。帝国时期的移民迁入政策事实上是各邦移民迁入政策的总和。面对外来移民的大量涌入,普鲁士制定了严格的移民控制与防御政策,其他各邦也有自己独立的移民迁入政策。尽管帝国各邦的移民迁入政策迥异。但在拒绝成为移民国家上是基本一致的。     

一般拓扑学中的一些问题及解答

列举林寿及其合作者于1988年至2009年在发表的论文或出版的著作中提出的138个拓扑学问题的解答情况,其中已解决的问题48个,未解决的问题90个.     

关于唐代固始移民史的研究取向

鉴于唐代固始移民史的研究现状,本文提出延伸性和精细化研究取向,据此确立唐代固始移民史的独特价值和应有地位。所谓延伸性研究,就是将固始移民入闽迁台视为一个整体,用整体史观书写唐代固始移民通史,完成固始移民入闽迁台的史实重建,进而考察唐代固始移民对福建社会的直接影响和对台湾社会的间接影响;精细化研究,包括史实重建和对相关历史文化现象的厘清,意在将唐代固始移民史研究引向深入。     

Moral spaces,the struggle for an intergenerational environmental ethics and the social ecology of families: an ‘other’ form of environmental education

‘Green families’ in Australia were studied so as to shed light on how a more durable, everyday environmental ethic and ecopolitic might slowly be enacted in the intimacy of the home ‘place’ over an extended period of time in rapidly changing socio‐cultural‐ecological conditions. Of particular interest to this study of the green household, or postmodern oikos, was how its proximal ‘moral spaces’ have been nurtured intergenerationally by family members from within the broader global climate of what Zygmunt Bauman refers to as the ‘moral lag’ of postmodernity. Three layers of interpretive findings about the social ecology and family dynamics of this oikos are presented in an effort to provide detailed understandings about families’ eco being, dwelling and becoming. Implications for education for the environment can be gleaned from the ‘best’ ecopedagogical practices found in the home that are ‘other’ than those occurring in the formal education sector. This study adds to the theorizations of ‘social ecology’, ‘experiential education’, ‘ecopedagogy’ and, more generally, the notion of an everyday ‘ecocentrism’, while providing some clues for how environmental education in schools might mirror pedagogical aspects of the postmodern oikos.