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SCHOOL: ADVISORS: COMMITTEE MEMBERS: MPACT Status: Fully Complete Title: Identity in an era of globalization and transnational migration: The discursive construction of identity of Israeli immigrant women Abstract: This dissertation explores the nature of identity constructions that occur when women undergo geographic and cultural dislocation due to immigration. It examines identity constructions from a theoretical perspective that conceptualizes identity as a discursive phenomenon. Identities, according to the discursive approach, are multiple, situational, unstable and conflictual, always in process and never complete. Individuals function in the context of multiple discourses that are available to them in a society, and identity construction occurs in relation to these discourses. This dissertation explores how Israeli women, as a particular group of immigrants to the United States, construct their identities in relation to and as a function of their engagement in the multiple discourses in their new social context. The transnational conceptual framework on migration is applied to Israeli immigrant women's identity constructions. The transnational framework considers Israeli immigrant women as part of an international migrant community whose networks, activities and patterns of life encompass both their host and home societies. The research questions posed in this study deal with identity constructions as they are revealed in the Israeli immigrant women's reports of their everyday experiences. The long interview method is used to answer the research questions. |
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