Idea Of Assimilation Research Articles

The Concept of Absorbent Environmental Damage in the Context of Civil Responsibility: A Practical Legal Study in the Wetlands of Iraq's Three Major Marshes

The research revolves around the idea of assimilation in the sense of assimilating and integrating contractual responsibility within the scope of tort responsibility that causes damage, which is called the first responsibility. The second responsibility is that which is arranged by the existing or competent government or that is entrusted by virtue of legal care, management, and preservation of the environmental site. The study evaluated four locations inside Iraq's southern marshes: the Hammar marsh, which has two sides, western and eastern, resulting in two sites (A and B); the third location, the so-called central marshes, which is group (C); and the fourth location, Al-Hawizeh Marsh, which is group (D). The theorical, scientific analysis is carried out within the scope of the types of assimilation between the components of the environmental site of water, air, and soil in all layers that include concentrations of heavy elements in a manner that changes the acceptable natural amount, such as soil elements, as well as pollutes the water by poisoning or harms the compositional balance of the air. These components (water, soil, and air) are tacked and determined in light of their connection to each other in the environmental site. The damage assimilation is personified by taking samples that determine the forms of pollution. The damage was shown with examples of damage in the first dimension, and the pattern of absorption in the second dimension was used to infer guilt in the second dimension.

An enlightened beauty and a natural beast. A dialogue of epochs in a fairy-tale dimension

The article analyses the dialogue happening between two historical periods inside the fairy-tale context of Beauty and the Beast: a story with its origins in the late days of the ‘gallant’ age and on the cusp of the Age of Enlightenment. A product of the conflict between the two, the fairy-tale provides ample inspiration for contemporary re-tellers of classical stories. The original work by Madame de Villeneuve centres on the idea of assimilation of a territory, its colonization and its integration into the political and economic context of the inhabited world. The same idea is taken up and reinforced by the American author M. Lackey, who considered the French original and its origination period through the concept of a national idea, in particular, the notion of the ‘hearth’. The article demonstrates how this idea, reaching its peak during the American Enlightenment, helped Lackey to transform the original’s colonization motifs and endow the classical plot with new prospects. In her ‘domestication’ of the fairy-tale world, Lackey delivers it a paradoxical blow at the end of the story, and turns de Villeneuve’s triumph of civilization into a more relevant ideal of freedom and unlimited opportunities, where the female protagonist enjoys emancipation and is invested with her rights.

The ballad of Leah and Amanda: Ritual and history at the wedding of a Jewish lesbian couple in Melbourne, Australia

At the beginning of 2014, Leah and Amanda became one of the first pairs of Jewish lesbians to have a Jewish wedding in Melbourne, Australia. Held in a secular reception venue and officiated by a Reform rabbi, this ceremony was a Jewish religious ceremony that had no relationship to the Australian state. In this ceremonial search for a ritual that would be true to themselves, would express their love, and would engage with communal and familial cultures and histories, dominant discourses of both Jewish and Australian weddings were simultaneously challenged and reinforced.In this article, utilizing oral history methodologies, I will explore some of the ways that Leah and Amanda articulated and enacted their relationships, histories and futures. In particular, I suggest that their utterances make visible the production of historically specific iterations of normativity. Through an exploration of this intimate relationship, this article thus works to come to an understanding of some of the ways in which Australian Jewish lesbian practices and ideas of assimilation, normativity and difference, come to exist. How can these relationships be both normative and transgressive, as lesbian relationships and as Jewish ones? By inquiring into the Jewish character, as well as the lesbian character, of this wedding and this intimate relationship between these two women, this article proposes an intervention into historical understandings of homonormativity.

I Am the Maker of My Image: Marvel’s No Normal and the Comic Book Muslim Woman

In 2014, the editor and writer of Ms. Marvel, Sana Amanat and G. Willow Wilson,1 created an extraordinary new superhero-a young Muslim girl Kamala Khan. She is like any other middle-class girl in New Jersey in many ways, and critics like Noah Berlatsky feel that Kamala’s story is an “assimilation fantasy” (“What Makes”). This essay argues that the story goes beyond the idea of assimilation. It shows how the comic depicts Kamala as a Pakistani-American often battling misconceptions, stereotypes, and racism. Rather than desiring assimilation, the comic book suggests that assimilation is something that each individual negotiates. This essay shows how the new Ms. Marvel series critiques the stereotypes young people like Kamala face. It makes visible her desperate wish to be an American while straddling two cultures, her negotiation of confining gender norms that exist in her home and community, and her defiance of the hegemonic norm of white, male superhero. This essay argues that the new Ms. Marvel series questions and resists American comic master narratives through Kamala’s identity crisis; it creates resistance by breaking cultural and political assumptions about South Asian Muslim women and teenagers in general, and indeed, about Islam.

“A Child of the Emerald Isle”: Ireland and the Making of James Johnson, MD

This article focuses on the physician James Johnson to examine the role Irishness played in the process of identity formation in London during the long eighteenth century. Using biographies, medical journals, and travel literature to chart the development of Johnson’s identity, this analysis suggests that the idea of assimilation is too simplistic to capture the experiences of middle-class Irish migrants in London. Unpacking the histories of Johnson’s thoughts about himself, and of the ways other writers represented him, demonstrates that Johnson could not reject his Irish past in order to satisfy his ambitions in the metropolis. Johnson’s identity formation did not progress in a linear fashion that mirrored his physical movement from Ireland to London, but was rather a struggle that moved back and forth, depending on time, place, and circumstance. By exposing the ways that Irish identity shaped Johnson’s choices, and, in turn, how those choices shaped his identity, this study raises questions about how we approach and understand the meanings of Irish identity for middle-class migrants more generally.

“Smartphone Migration” Emerging Lifestyle and Changing Habits of Indian Labor Migrants in Johannesburg

This paper aims to understand the life of Indian labor migrants in the post-migration phase. To understand the cultural aspects of labor migrants is to understand their everyday life activities. Migration for contemporary young migrants, which is the core interest of this paper, is about experiencing a new life in a new country, thinking about the present, and planning the future. Getting a job, starting a business, partnering with fellow Indian workers, or marrying a local South African—these encompass the idea of assimilation and adaptation. This paper looks at the cultural aspects of migration that drive labor migrants to South Africa, with a focus on the Indian business district in Johannesburg, Fordsburg, and the flea market area, which is a hub for South Asian businessmen and labor migrants.

Conditional Inclusion: Aborigines and Welfare Rights in Australia, 1900–47

The first old-age pensions in Australia deliberately excluded ‘Asiatics and Aborigines’. Consistent with the White Australia policy, racial exclusions defined the boundaries of political subjectivity and of who was to be included within the circle of New Protection. By the 1940s, much of this pattern of racial exclusion was being erased, with the barrier of caste removed, though Aboriginal entitlement was still restricted by conditions that reflected emerging ideas of assimilation. This article traces the obscure history of this process through the first half of the twentieth century, posing questions about its implications for our historical understandings of race and assimilation.

Internationalisation with the use of Arctic indigeneity: the case of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia), Russia

ABSTRACTOver a period of 70 years, the lifestyles and belief systems of indigenous Siberian peoples were transformed by Soviet policy, based on the idea of assimilation and homogenisation of the peoples in its territory, in compliance with the idea of a ‘people's friendship’. The fall of the Soviet Union has given people the opportunity to rebuild their identity, as well as to provide a means of cultural revival for each ethnic community. The case study of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) in northern Siberia shows a new relationship, already started during perestroika and developing between the Russian Federation and its peoples. This relationship favours the development of each people's culture within the broader context of their integration into Russian society. The issue of the instrumentalisation of indigenous peoples’ cultural and religious heritage is part of a broader picture of a global affirmation of peoples’ indigenousness. The identification of ethnic Sakha (Yakuts) with other northern peoples is a means of entering the international political arena, pushing far away the geopolitical and cultural boundaries imposed by the Russian Federation and highlighting the idea of a circumpolar civilisation.

Revenge of the Chicago School

At a conference, I once heard Richard Alba refer to assimilation as America's dirty little When I first came into the field in the late 1970s, the very idea of assimilation was suspect and under relentless attack. Books such as Nathan Glazer and Daniel P. Moynihan's 1963 Beyond the Melting Pot, Michael Novak's 1972 The Rise of the Unmeltable Ethnics, and Andrew Greeley's 1974 Ethnicity in the United States: A Preliminary Reconnaissance stressed the resilience of immigrant cultures and pointed to the remarkable persistence of ethnicity to refute assimilation theory and its supposed prediction of Anglo conformity and cultural absorption. In a series of papers published during the 1980s and 1990s, however, Alba and his colleague Victor Nee, sometimes working together and sometimes separately, kept finding results that confirmed the dirty little secret. By the end of the twentieth century, descendants of earlier European immigrants had indeed assimilated across a variety of social, economic, and cultural dimensions. Moreover, the children and grandchildren of the new immigrants from Asia, Latin America, and the Caribbean were by and in-large following suit. National origin groups differed with respect to patterns and rates of assimilation, of course; but the reality of ongoing assimilation seemed irrefutable.

Remaking the American mainstream: assimilation and contemporary immigration

In this age of multicultural democracy, the idea of assimilation - that the social distance separating immigrants and their children from the mainstream of American society closes over time - seems outdated and, in some forms, even offensive. But, as Richard Alba and Victor Nee show in their systematic treatment of assimilation, it continues to shape the immigrant experience, even though the geography of immigration has shifted from Europe to Asia, Africa and Latin America. Institutional changes, from civil rights legislation to immigration law, have provided a more favourable environment for non-white immigrants and their children than in the past. Assimilation is still driven, in claim, by the decisions of immigrants and the second generation to improve their social and material circumstances in America. But they also show that immigrants, historically and in the contemporary world, have profoundly changed American society and culture in the process of becoming Americans. Surveying a variety of domains - language, socio-economic attachments, residential patterns and inter-marriage - Alba and Nee demonstrate the continuing importance of assimilation in American life. They predict that it will blur the boundaries among the major, racially defined populations, as non-whites and Hispanics are increasingly incorporated into the mainstream.

Ethno-cultural differences and assimilation; Falashas in an Israeli immigrant absorption center

/. Introduction Social research on immigrants in Israel, especially on those of Orientar (Asian and African) origin, has been quite extensive. A large number of publications highlighting the main problems of the immigration process, adjustment and integration (or 'absorption', to use the Israeli term) and their social, cultural and psychological aspects, has accumulated into a rich store of knowledge on Israel as a new society in dynamic develop ment. Especially anthropologists have contributed much to a more detailed understanding of Israeli society in recent years (cf. Krausz 1980; Marx 1980). Still, several important aspects of the development of the Jewish state, where assimilation, or rather amalgamation, of the various (Jewish) immigrant groups is still a dominant ideal, remain unclear or have been treated insufficiently, such as, for instance, ethnic inequality and its loci, elite formation, social tensions, emerging class distinction and immi grant policies (as has been argued by, for example, Smooha 1978 and Bernstein 1980, 1981). The present study takes its cue from the increased relevance of ethnicity in Israel (Eisenstadt 1980). It will give attention to the proble matic process of the initial social accommodation1 of a group of immi grants with a different cultural and ethnic background (the Ethiopian Jews or Falashas) in an Immigrant Absorption Center and to the effect of this process on the idea of assimilation that these immigrants have. A survey of the literature (see Deshen and Handelman 1975; Cohen 1977; and Lahav 1980) reveals that Immigrant Centers have hardly received the attention of social anthropologists. These Centers never theless form a very interesting unit of investigation, as a micro-structure

Origin of calc-alkalic andesites, Nasu zone, northeastern Japan: Kuno revisited.

KUNO (1950, 1959) first identified the existence of two rock series in the Japanese volcanic arc and proposed the origin of one from the other by assimilation of granitic material. In the Nasu zone in northeastern Japan, both the tholeiitic suite with pigeonite in the groundmass and the calc-alkalic suite with hypersthene as the Ca-poor pyroxene in the groundmass have been shown to have erupted from one volcano and to have differences in major element chemistries (KAWANO and AOKI, 1960; KAWANO et al., 1961). MASUDA and AOKI (1979), using mainly trace elements, showed that the calc-alkalic suite has higher Mg, K, Co, Cr, Ni, Th, and U than the tholeiitic suite, and also that each suite had a separate fractional crystallization. A model is presented here which is intended to explain both the mineralogical and chemical differences. KUNO's idea of assimilation is considered from a different point of view; that is, calc-alkalic basaltic andesite is formed by the partial assimilation of mafic rather than granitic material by a silicic tholeiitic andesite. Changes in the chemistry, mainly in the Mg/Fe ratio in the contaminated magma, prevents the crystallization of pigeonite; a drop in temperature as KUNO suggested is not as important although lower temperatures will help. It is demonstrated how such elements as K, Th, and U, which tend to be concentrated in granitic material, can be increased in the calc-alkalic rocks by addition of mafic xenoliths. This process is offered as an alternative to magma mixing, since it is believed that the mineralogical features used to support magma mixing could be explained equally well by assimilation.