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• Surviving and thriving: an integrated critical theory of chronic pain from stories of urban American Indians living with chronic pain 

  Duwe, Elise Ann Geist (2016-12-01)

  This study seeks to inform better care practices and policies for American Indians living off-reservation by discerning relationships between chronic pain and colonization and developing an integrated critical theory of ...

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• The motherhood myth: unrealistic expectations 

  Tiberghien, Nathalie (2016-12-01)

  This dissertation explores the gap between women’s expectations of motherhood before they have children and the reality of their lives as mothers, a phenomenon that I call the Motherhood Myth. My study sheds light on how ...

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• Undocuactivism: Latina/o undocuactivists fighting for change in the U.S. 

  Perez, Joanna Beatriz (2016-07-15)

  Given the increasing anti-immigrant rhetoric, sentiment, and policy advocacy, it is important to understand the development, maintenance, and power of undocuactivism, which is the mobilization of undocumented immigrants. ...

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• Sharia in the city: negotiation and construction of moral space 

  Islam, Sharif (2016-06-29)

  This dissertation is primarily concerned with how sharia is practiced by Muslims from a variety of backgrounds in Chicago's Devon Avenue and how they co-construct physical and moral spaces. More specifically, I am interested ...

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• Politics of the temporary: migrant life in urban Malaysia 

  Muniandy, Parthiban (2015-10-07)

  In this project, I look at an aspect of contemporary migration that has been largely sidelined and marginalized in mainstream debates, policy circles and research work – what happens to ‘host societies’ in the developing ...

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