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| The Motivations and Challenges of Acquiring U.S. Citizenship For South Sudanese Refugees in the Greater Phoenix Area When Language is a Potential Barrier | |
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| 出版年 | 2014 |
| 学位授予单位 | Johnson, Erik N. (Author), Adams, Karen (Advisor), Renaud, Claire (Committee member), James, Mark (Committee member), Arizona State University (Publisher) |
| 英文摘要 | abstract: South Sudanese refugees are among the most vulnerable immigrants to the U.S.. Many have spent years in refugee camps, experienced trauma, lost members of their families and have had minimal or no schooling or literacy prior to their arrival in the U.S. Although most South Sudanese aspire to become U.S. citizens, finally giving them a sense of belonging and participation in a land they can call their own, they constitute a group that faces great challenges in terms of their educational adaptation and English-language learning skills that would lead them to success on the U.S. citizenship examination. This dissertation reports findings from a qualitative research project involving case studies of South Sudanese students in a citizenship preparation program at a South Sudanese refugee community center in Phoenix, Arizona. It focuses on the links between the motivations of students seeking citizenship and the barriers they face in gaining it. Though the South Sudanese refugee students aspiring to become U.S. citizens face many of the same challenges as other immigrant groups, there are some factors that in combination make the participants in this study different from other groups. These include: long periods spent in refugee camps, advanced ages, war trauma, absence of intact families, no schooling or severe disruption from schooling, no first language literacy, and hybridized forms of second languages (e.g. Juba Arabic). This study reports on the motivations students have for seeking citizenship and the challenges they face in attaining it from the perspective of teachers working with those students, community leaders of the South Sudanese community, and particularly the students enrolled in the citizenship program. Dissertation/Thesis Ph.D. English 2014 |
| 英文关键词 | English as a second language Sociolinguistics Educational tests & measurements Citizenship ESL Literacy Refugees Testing |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| URL | http://hdl.handle.net/2286/R.I.25012 |
| 来源机构 | Arizona State University |
| 资源类型 | 学位论文 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.177/qdio/handle/2XILL650/248277 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | [null]. The Motivations and Challenges of Acquiring U.S. Citizenship For South Sudanese Refugees in the Greater Phoenix Area When Language is a Potential Barrier[D]. Johnson, Erik N. (Author), Adams, Karen (Advisor), Renaud, Claire (Committee member), James, Mark (Committee member), Arizona State University (Publisher),2014. |
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