Description
The immigration process changes personal narratives and professional trajectories and challenges identities and individual beliefs. Yet there is currently limited research on European women immigrants' transitions in the United States. This study examines personal and professional trajectories, in the United States, of Eastern European immigrant (EEI) women with prior educational attainment in their country of origin. This study examines the following issues: personal/social learning, developmental and professional experiences prior to and post migration, and social lives after the women's arrival in the United States. The study discusses the results of in-depth interviews with eight EEI women living in Arizona and California and recounts these women's life stories, gathered through open-ended questions that focused on areas of their personal and professional lives, such as childhood, marriage, immigration, education, family relations, socio-economic status, employment, child- rearing, and other significant life events. These areas impacted the women's creation of personal beliefs and their ability to develop new identities in the United States. The study examines EEI women's identity constructions within their life trajectory narratives.
Details
Title
- Identity and professional trajectories of Eastern European immigrant women in the United States
Contributors
- Ellis, Kateryna A (Author)
- Arzubiaga, Angela (Thesis advisor)
- Nakagawa, Kathryn (Committee member)
- Kozleski, Elizabeth B. (Committee member)
- Arizona State University (Publisher)
Date Created
The date the item was original created (prior to any relationship with the ASU Digital Repositories.)
2014
Subjects
- Evolution & development
- Women's Studies
- East European Studies
- developmental and professional experiences prior to and post migration
- Eastern European . .
- Women immigrants
- Personal narratives
- personal/social learning
- Professional Trajectories
- Women immigrants--United States--Interviews.
- Women immigrants
- East European Americans--Interviews.
- East European Americans
- Women immigrants--United States--Social conditions.
- Women immigrants
- East European Americans--Social conditions.
- East European Americans
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Note
- thesisPartial requirement for: Ph.D., Arizona State University, 2014
- bibliographyIncludes bibliographical references (p. 149-170)
- Field of study: Educational psychology
Citation and reuse
Statement of Responsibility
by Kateryna A. Ellis