Browsing FAS Theses and Dissertations by Keyword "immigration"
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Becoming American Onstage: Broadway Narratives of Immigrant Experiences in the United States
(2014-06-06)This dissertation examines the Americanization of immigrants as a defining theme in American musical theater. It does so through studies of productions from across the past century about Irish Americans, Chinese Americans, ... -
Dangerous Encounters: Riots, Railways, and the Politics of Difference in French Public Space (1860-2012)
(2013-09-26)This dissertation builds a socio-cultural biography of Paris's Gare du Nord, Europe's largest railway station, from its transnational aims to connect Europe in the nineteenth century, to early twentieth century strikes, ... -
Disposable Subjects: Law and Child Migration to the United States, 1890s-1920s
(2022-03-17)Disposable Subjects argues that foreign-born minors at the US border found themselves increasingly at the disposal of others, first and foremost the state, from the late nineteenth century to the 1920s. It explores the ... -
Essays on the Economics of Education
(2021-04-28)This dissertation consists of three essays in the economics of education. The first essay considers the impact of charter school openings on student achievement, behavior, and demographics in the traditional public ... -
Ethnic Inequality in the Welfare State
(2023-03-14)This dissertation aims to reconcile the persistence of ethnic inequalities in expansive welfare state regimes. I argue that, in response to changes in labor demand and patterns of job polarization that have followed the ... -
Latino Identities in Context: Ethnic Cues, Immigration, and the Politics of Shared Ethnicity
(2012-10-29)This dissertation is a collection of three essays examining the relationship between immigrant political rhetoric and identity among Latinos in the United States. To achieve this task, this study uses empirical evidence ... -
Producing the Public: Architecture, Urban Planning, and Immigration in a Swedish Town, 1965 to the Present
(2013-02-26)European modernist architectural design and urban planning for suburbs have often been theorized as dystopic creation myths. These narratives focus on the unfulfilled promises of activist designers to deliver equality, ...