Archive for April, 2010
Recomposing Life & Career:: Exploring Effective Academic Advising for Mature Immigrant Women
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The introduction of new technologies and knowledge require the workforce to adopt new skills and competencies which can only be gained through academia. While many immigrant women prioritize family needs and postpone their own desire to fulfill aspirations for higher education and a professional career, they never give up their dreams. The paucity of relevant literature addressing this subject and my own personal life experience led to the study on academic advising… More >>
Recomposing Life & Career:: Exploring Effective Academic Advising for Mature Immigrant Women
Everyday Urban Public Space: Turkish Immigrant Women’s Perspective
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This study examines the relational construction of everyday urban public spaces by Turkish immigrant women living in Enschede (the Netherlands). It presents an extensive analysis of the relational contexts, which in turn constrain, shape, and frame their spatial behavior and patterns of use and experience of public spaces, and at the same time, elaborates how different characteristics and kinds of urban public spaces condition the use and users’ spatial interactions… More >>
Everyday Urban Public Space: Turkish Immigrant Women’s Perspective