The relationship between ethnic and faith communities in the United States and domestic forces relating to a converging and diverging social contract on the one hand, and US foreign, security and military policies in national, regional and global contexts on the other hand, constitutes the key focus of this paper and the ongoing research upon which it is based. Theories related to American ethn...

the study was conducted in two settlements of ethnic communities in triyuga municipality of udayapur district, nepal. the main objective of the study was to prepare an inventory of cultivated diversity of plants and animal species by the ethnic communities in the research site and their use in farming and in sustaining the livelihoods. the study has been based on data collected through personal...

The study was conducted in two settlements of ethnic communities in Triyuga municipality of Udayapur district, Nepal. The main objective of the study was to prepare an inventory of cultivated diversity of plants and animal species by the ethnic communities in the research site and their use in farming and in sustaining the livelihoods. The study has been based on data collected through personal...

This article analyses ethnic identity on the example of Croatian ethnic communities in overseas countries, Chile and Australia, in the period from the beginning of the Homeland War and international recognition of Croatia until today. The object of this research is Croatian emigrant community and various social activities organized by Croatian organizations. The aim of this article is to discus...

1. Methodology and acknowledgements......................................................................................................1 2. Working concepts and definitions ...........................................................................................................1 2.1. Ethnic group, ethnic conservation and ethnic governance .......................................................

Abstract: This paper contributes to the emerging literature on racial and ethnic harassment by assessing the relationship between the characteristics of local communities and the propensity for outsiders to be victims of racial and ethnic hostility. Using unique data for a sample of active-duty military personnel captured in the Armed Forces Equal Opportunity Survey, we find that the racial com...

In rural Tanzania, recent major influences happen between Kiswahili and English to ethnic languages rather than ethnic languages, which had been in contact for so long, influencing each other. In this work, I report the results of investigation of lexical changes in indigenous languages that aimed at examining how ethnic communities and their languages, namely Cushitic Iraqw, Nilotic Datooga, N...

Introduces the current special issue of the journal, Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology. This special issue focuses on the topic of immigration and highlights the important within group differences often overlooked when immigrants are conceptualized as a homogeneous group. The articles in this journal consider a variety of microsystems, such as educational settings, ethnic and ga...

In 1989 the English Sports Council introduced its first policy targeting people from ethnic minority communities. This was followed in 1992 by a statement that recognised existing inequalities of opportunity in sport for people from ethnic minority communities and acknowledged a duty to work towards the elimination of racial disadvantage and discrimination in sport, and promote good race relati...

Scholars of immigration disagree about the role ethnic communities play in immigrant families' engagement in educational institutions. While some researchers argue that the concentration of disadvantaged ethnic groups may prevent meaningful engagement with schools, others argue that ethnic communities can possess resources that help immigrant families be involved in their children's schooling. ...