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International and Area Studies (IAS) Syllabi [2]
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International and Area Studies Senior Integrated Projects [29]
This collection includes Senior Integrated Projects (SIP's) completed in International and Area Studies.
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International and Area Studies 233
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The "Immigration Crisis" as a Security Threat : Biopolitical Sovereignty and the State of Exception at the US/Mexico Border
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College., 2020-11-01)Immigration has for much of the last two decades been at the forefront of political discourse in the United States. The policy created or lack thereof in response to this issue has become a defining characteristic of ... -
Maendeleo ya Wanawake: The Politicization and Co-Optation of a Women's Development Organization
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College., 1995)On December 31, 1994, I arrived in Nairobi, Kenya, to begin a three month internship with Kenya's largest women's development agency, Maendeleo ya Wanawake. I sought to view first-hand the power of women's mobilization ... -
International Adoption: Building Families Across Cultural Lines
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College., 1996)Adoption is a long and involved process. Before receiving a child, parents must wade through months of paperwork, bureaucratic red tape and waiting lists. Not all adopted children in America were born within the borders ... -
A People in Flight: Displacement of Russian Jews and Third Wave Immigration to the United States
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College., 1996)The group of Jewish immigrants discussed in this SIP has been designated as the third wave of Russian immigrants, a term which I will use to differentiate between the three distinct groups of Russian immigrants that have ... -
An American in London: My Experiences in British Parliament
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College., 1996)The following SIP is divided into three sections; a research paper, an annotated bibliography, and excerpts from my daily journal. While interning in Parliament, I conducted research on the topic of Great Britain's situation ... -
Supplier Globalization
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College., 1996-01-03)Discusses the process of supplier globalization in the Whirlpool Corporation in China and India. -
Asylum Rights in the New Europe? Analysis of policies of Western European States
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College., 1995)This paper reports on these new measures taken by European governments to curb entry into their territories and avoids examination of push-pull factors which cause forced migration, as that would be an appropriate subject of ... -
The Socio-Cultural Genesis of Cuisine: A Comparative Study of France and China
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College., 1994)Food is so naturally an expression of sharing and communication between people, something everyone on Earth appreciates as vital to life and well being. To choose food as my topic seemed only natural as well, considering ... -
International Charity Implementation: Caritas of Panama
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College., 1994)Panama offers a case study of the ramifications of neocolonialism. Panama, a nation whose ideal geographic location has continually seduced and drawn the attention of those seeking to exploit her wealth, has never, not ... -
The Evolution of 20th Century Spanish Feminism and its Reflection in Three Contemporary Novels
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College., 1996)The novels I will be analyzing are Ramona, adiós by Montserrat Roig, Carmen Martín Gaíte's The Back Room and Absent Love by Rosa Montero. Literature has reinforced stereotypes to keep genders in their place; new ways of ... -
The Predicted Economic and Social Consequences of Quebec Separation
(1996)On October 30, 1995, a referendum vote was held in Canada. The issue on which the people of Quebec voted was whether or not the province was going to separate from the rest of Canada and to become a sovereign state. The ... -
Hand Grip Strength and Perceived Feelings of Fatigue
(1996)The primary purpose of this research was to study the correlation between hand grip strength and perceived feelings of fatigue and the implications in career counseling. The main hypotheses investigate the psychological ... -
Security Assistance and U.S. Foreign Policy
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College., 1996)The purpose of this paper is to provide a greater understanding of the connection between U.S. foreign policy and the field of security assistance. In researching this paper, I have gained new insight into the importance ... -
Art and Society: A Research Internship at The Detroit Institute of Arts
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An Internship for the Labour Party: Including An Examination of The Asylum and Immigration Bill 1996
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College., 1996)During the winter quarter of the 1995-6 school year, I worked as an assistant to Stephen Timms, Member of Parliament, at the House of Commons in London. I was required to organize and respond to Mr. Timms' letters from ... -
United Airlines On-Board Service Internship
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College., 1996)Because of my fascination with the corporate world, I decided to do my Senior Project in a business setting and hopefully use my cultural and linguistic skills to help bridge several gaps on a world-wide scale. After applying ... -
The International Institute: An examination of the history, current laws and inner workings of a nonprofit immigration organization
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College., 1997)In early February of this year, after returning from foreign study in China, I applied far an internship at the International Institute of Metropolitan Detroit, an agency involved with immigration. Even though I carried ... -
The Politics and Procedures Concerning the Establishment of a Permanent International Criminal Court
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College., 1997)As part of a third generation of Holocaust Survivors, I had been made aware of Jewish genocide and other crimes against humanity from a very young age. What I did not understand as a child, and what I still have yet to ...
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