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Bonds to the homeland: Patterns and determinants of women’ transnational travel frequency among three immigrant groups in Germany
Full text linkData for this project came from a larger study funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF; reference number 01GWS068). All responsibility concerning the content is with the authors, whereas the funding source did not have any involvement other than the financial support for gathering data. We also thank the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) for making this project possible through facilitating international collaborations. Svitlana Iarmolenko was involved in conception and design; analysis and interpretation of data; drafting the article. Peter F. Titzmann was involved in conception and design; collection, analysis and interpretation of data; drafting the article. Rainer K. Silbereisen was involved in securing funding, managing data collection, and critical revisions of the article. The authors confirm that they have access to the original data on which the article reports
Hormonale Prozesse – Normative Entwicklung und Zusammenhang mit Erleben und Verhalten im Jugendalter
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Joseph Bimeler book order to Peter Kaufmann, February 14, 1845
No full textOrder of two dozen German A.B.C. books (primers) by J.M. Bimeler (by Lewis F. Birk) from Peter Kaufmann.
Led by Joseph Bimeler (sometimes spelled Bäumeler) in 1817, a group of Lutheran separatists left Germany and eventually established the small community of Zoar in Tuscarawas County, Ohio. The group formed the Society of Separatists of Zoar, in which each person donated his or her property to the community as a whole, and in exchange for their work, the society would provide for them. After decades of economic prosperity, the unity of the village declined, and by 1898 the Zoarites disbanded the society.
Peter Kaufmann was a German immigrant and intellectual. He arrived first in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1820; in 1826 he became professor of languages at the Harmony Society town of Economy, Pennsylvania. In 1827, Kaufmann led the establishment of Teutonia, a utopian community in Columbiana County, Ohio, and published its weekly titled "Teutonia: The Herald of a Better Time." Following this he moved to Canton, Ohio, where he became translator and editor of "Der Vaterlandsfreund und Geist der Zeit" under Solomon Sala. Additionally, Kaufmann wrote a number of books on education, as well as a German almanac. He was also an influential Democrat, counting President Van Buren among his friends, and knew Ralph Waldo Emerson
Immigration as an experience to knife off from delinquency. Desistance and persistence among male adolescents from the FSU
No full textZdun S. Immigration as an experience to knife off from delinquency. Desistance and persistence among male adolescents from the FSU. In: Silbereisen RK, Titzmann PF, Shavit Y, eds. The challenges of diaspora migration. Interdisciplinary perspectives on Israel and Germany. Studies in migration and diaspora. Farnham: Ashgate; 2014: 147-166
Composting of aged reed bed biosolids for beneficial reuse: a case study in New Jersey, USA
No full textReed beds with Phragmites australis (common reed) have been utilized to decrease the water, nutrient and volatile solids content of sewage sludge. An efficient disposal/reuse option was sought for reed bed biosolids accumulated over a 15 year period at a wastewater treatment facility in New Jersey, USA. The study facility had 14 reed beds, each with 1000 wet tons capacity, which were full, and so the solids needed to be removed. Because P. australis is considered an invasive species in New Jersey and several other states in the United States, disposal or reuse of solids containing this plant is regulated. Composting was examined as a potential treatment for destroying the plant’s reproductive rhizomes. The high temperatures achieved during composting were also tested to determine if regulatory criteria for pathogen reduction could be met, making the composted product suitable for unrestricted land application. Preliminary studies indicated the sludge had stabilized to the point where self-heating did not occur. Among the carbon amendments tested in the laboratory to stimulate compositing activity, Phragmites above ground biomass was determined to be most suitable. In a field test, Phragmites above ground biomass was mixed with reed bed biosolids at a 1:2 (w/w) ratio. The temperatures achieved resulted in complete mortality of Phragmites rhizomes. In laboratory tests, rhizomes placed in a drying oven at 50ºC for 24 hours, or 55ºC for 12 hours, showed 100% plant mortality. However, under field conditions pile temperatures could not be maintained long enough for the sludge to meet the USEPA 503 biosolids time-temperature pathogen rule requirements for unrestricted land application, even though sample fecal coliform counts did meet regulatory limits.Peer reviewed
The everyday life experience of violent and non-violent male adolescent immigrants from the FSU in Germany and Israel
No full textKoren C, Zdun S. The everyday life experience of violent and non-violent male adolescent immigrants from the FSU in Germany and Israel. In: Silbereisen RK, Titzmann PF, Shavit Y, eds. The challenges of diaspora migration. Interdisciplinary perspectives on Israel and Germany. Studies in Migration and Diaspora. Farnham: Ashgate; 2014: 127-146
Immigrant adolescents’ active role in family adaptation processes: the do’s and don’ts
Full text linkBackground: Recent theoretical approaches emphasize adolescents’ active skills and agency in developmental processes and propose that immigrant adolescents may be the socializing agents for their families in new environments. However, empirical research on immigrant adolescents’ active role in the family reveals some research gaps. The overarching goal of this dissertation was to investigate immigrant adolescents’ active role in family adaptation and determine how it is related to adolescent and familial psycho-socio-cultural adjustment. Specifically, to achieve this goal, I examined different forms of adolescents’ involvement in family processes as well as its associations with risks and opportunities for adolescent and family adaptation and interactions. I also aimed to identify factors that can explain differences in immigrant adolescents’ active role across families, including migration conditions and acculturative timing.
Methods: Adolescents’ active role in the family was investigated by considering two types of active youth involvement in family processes: activities by which adolescents directly support their families (termed direct adolescent influence) and ones in which adolescents’ developmental progress unintentionally provokes family reactions (termed evocative adolescent influence). To examine adolescents’ active role and its hypothesized relations and outcomes, I drew on two cross-sectional and one longitudinal data set containing parent–adolescent data from five ethnic groups (native Germans, native Swiss, German immigrants, ethnic German repatriates, Russian Jews) in three contexts (Germany, Israel, Switzerland). The data were analyzed using person-oriented, comparative, and multi-group approaches as well as structural equation modeling in Mplus and SPSS.
Results: The analyses revealed substantial levels of direct adolescent involvement in families in the form of migration-specific (i.e., brokering) and migration-unspecific support (i.e., instrumental and emotional support). In addition, adolescents who provided migration-specific support were shown to provide more direct support in families in general. Evocative adolescent influence was confirmed through relations of adolescents’ independent acculturation with family interactions. Adolescents’ active role in family processes was supported in all studies independent of ethnic group or context and in host and ethnic culture domains. Notably, the analyses revealed that adolescents’ active role can be a double-edged sword for family adjustment with both positive (e.g., self-efficacy, child disclosure) and negative (e.g., exhaustion, family hassles) adolescent and family outcomes. Further, group- (e.g., family resources) and context-characteristics (e.g., segregation) can foster adolescents’ active role in families. Finally, adolescents’ acculturative speed as well as parent-adolescent differences in acculturative timing were shown to strengthen associations of adolescents’ acculturation and family dynamics.
Conclusion: Adolescents are active agents creating their own development in multicultural societies and can contribute substantially to successful family adaptation. In this respect, this dissertation provides insights into the active and constructive roles that adolescents can adopt in families and societies and discusses implications for future research and practice
Ethnic majority and minority youth in multicultural societies
No full textEthnically/racially diverse schools and classrooms form the immediate social contexts for many children and adolescents, providing both ethnic minority and majority children with various challenges and opportunities. In multicultural societies both minority and majority group members often avoid intergroup contact since they anticipate either discrimination or intergroup anxieties respectively. This situation constitutes a barrier to the formation of inclusive social settings for youth. Yet multicultural societies can also pave the way to the development of many positive social and developmental outcomes by offering the opportunity to expand the self, develop empathy and perspective-taking skills, and promote the desire and confidence to engage in further cross-group contact. This chapter explores the extent to which children transform their multicultrual experiences into an ‘asset’ or a ‘hindrance’ and investigate underlying situational and personal factors that are crucial for successful intergroup contact within diverse societies
A new agenda for examining interethnic interactions amongst youth in diverse settings
Full text linkSocial psychological research on youth intergroup relations has primarily examined interactions between dichotomous groups through cross-sectional and self-report measures in single contexts. Such traditional approaches, however, are unable to capture the dynamic nature of intergroup relations for youth growing up in multicultural societies. In this chapter, the authors briefly review the existing literature on youth interethnic interactions. They next discuss some theoretical and methodological limitations of this research. They then review the handful of studies focused on youths’ behaviour in diverse contexts, as well as emerging research examining youth and behavioural trajectories when moving beyond the dichotomies of Black and White. They end the chapter by proposing a new research agenda which brings youth intergroup relations into context and extends theoretical boundaries by drawing on a range of innovative methods. They argue this broader approach is needed if we are to truly understand the implications of growing ethnic diversity for youth
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