Oh my god! You have become so Americanized”: Paradoxes of adaptation and strategic ambiguity among female immigrant faculty

YW Chen, B Lawless - Journal of International and Intercultural …, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
ABSTRACT Guided by De La Garza and Ono's differential adaptation theory, we examine
discourses from immigrant women faculty in the US academy. We utilize thematic analysis to …

Immigrant women, academic work, and agency: Negotiating identities and subjectivities with/in the ivory tower

B Lawless, YW Chen - International Journal of Diversity in …, 2015 - search.proquest.com
The authors explore first-person stories, narratives, and discourses from self-identified
immigrant women faculty members across intersecting subject positions (eg, race, class …

Framing cultural difference: Immigrant women and discourses of tradition

L Volpp - differences, 2011 - read.dukeupress.edu
This article shows how depictions of immigrant culture can limit the lives of immigrants to a
problematic battle between “tradition and modernity.” As illustrated in the portrayal of a case …

[图书][B] International students and scholars in the United States: Coming from abroad

HC Alberts, H Hazen - 2013 - Springer
An international team of academics and experienced practitioners here bring together
scholarship on academic migrants to the United States-the world's top recipient of academic …

Refugees, migrants, visitors and internally displaced persons: investigating acculturation in Academia

N Rowe, R Martin, S Knox… - … Education Research & …, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
What is the boundary of the academic space, and who can belong within it? The migration of
skilled practitioners into Academia from other workplaces brings with it the opportunity to …

Retheorizing Adaptation: Differential Adaptation and Critical Intercultural Communication

AT De La Garza, KA Ono - Journal of International and Intercultural …, 2015 - Taylor & Francis
After reviewing traditional approaches to the study of immigrant adaptation, we develop a
theory of differential adaptation, which suggests that migrants may adapt in a variety of ways …

[图书][B] Immigrant academics and cultural challenges in a global environment

FJ Kolapo - 2009 - books.google.com
This edited volume brings together the voices of different academics to illuminate the role of
culture in determining the character and quality of the social and professional lives of mobile …

Breaching the walls of academe: The case of five Afro-Caribbean immigrant women within United States institutions of higher education

TR Esnard - Multidisciplinary Journal of Gender Studies, 2019 - hipatiapress.com
While a growing tendency among researchers has been for the examination of diverse forms
of discrimination against Afro-Caribbean immigrants within the United States (US), the types …

Resilience, culture, gender and identity construction of first-year female Chinese international students in the United States

D Baolian Qin, S Liu, M Xie, Q Huang - Research in Human …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
One group of college women of color not often discussed in the literature are international
students who are constructing and negotiating their identities in a transnational context. Most …

Multicultural neoliberalism and academic labor: Experiences of female immigrant faculty in the US academy

B Lawless, YW Chen - Cultural Studies↔ Critical …, 2017 - journals.sagepub.com
In light of limited attention to immigrant faculty (aka, international faculty) in the US academy,
we analyze interview discourses with 26 female immigrant faculty members from multiple …