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Evaluating Farm Size Change As An Expression Of Preferential Alignment In The Corporate Food Regime, Rachael Carpenter

Undergraduate Research Symposium

Food system awareness is increasingly prevalent in international development and relations. In particular, the impact of food systems on climate change, and the impact of climate change on the capacity of production form a feedback loop that has the potential to have a severe impact on the future. Whether this contribution will be positive or negative hangs in the balance, but the window of opportunity for forming and implementing such policies may be closing. In many ways, this understanding of food as a fundamental force in shaping the lives of people, particularly those who will be severely impacted and face …

Student Movements, Politics, And Policy In Chile, 2001 – 2012, Leesa Rasp

Dissertations

Chile has frequently been touted as an economic miracle, the “Jaguar of Latin America”. Boasting the strongest economy in South America, due to severe neoliberal economic structural adjustments made under the dictatorship of General Augusto Pinochet, it has long been held up as the perfect exemplar of economic growth and stability, as well as the poster child for the effectiveness of neoliberal economics. After the re-establishment of democracy in 1990, political conditions improved as well; the country enjoyed a decade of stability and peace under its first two democratically-elected governments.

Yet, beginning approximately ten years after the transition to democracy, …

Barriers To Post-Secondary Success, Douglas Swanson, Najeana Henderson, Maritza Sloan

Dissertations

This study reviews factors that prior studies have identified or failed to consider as barriers to post-secondary success. The three main areas include academic success for Latinx students after high school, organizational systems and their impact on African-American students’ postsecondary readiness, and what workers think of their high school education with regards to career preparedness.

Five factors are identified as major barriers for Latinx students to continue in a higher education system. A survey of former students from Saint Louis, Missouri, and Dallas, Texas, metroplex area identified 56 Latinx students that participated in an initial survey. This led to a …

Searching For A “Home”: Examining The Experiences Of Confucian Asian College Students With Third Culture Kid Backgrounds, Yuima Mizutani

Dissertations

Third culture kids (TCKs) spend their childhood and adolescence outside of their home countries. Because of their unique backgrounds, TCKs and adult TCKs face challenges including identity development, low self-esteem, lack of connection with their home countries, posttraumatic stress disorder, depression, adjustment disorder, and others. Although the number of TCKs is increasing due to globalization, this population has been understudied. Moreover, most existing research has focused on TCKs in Western countries. Few researchers have studied Confucian Asian adult TCKs; that is, adult TCKs from China, Hong Kong, Singapore, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, and others. Confucian Asian countries have collectivistic cultures …

Accessibility To Resources For Homeless Documented Immigrant Families: A Case Study, Antaniece P. Carter

Dissertations

This study seeks to explore the experience of a homeless documented immigrant family attempting to access school and community resources. Research has shown that due to disadvantages including but not limited to lack of economic mobility, employment access, lone parent families, and cultural background, some immigrant families may face challenges accessing services (Arnold, 2004). Difficulty accessing services then can inhibit adjustment and may lead to homelessness.

The purpose of this study is to investigate the issue of homelessness as experienced by immigrants within an urban community. A case study will highlight the experience of a homeless immigrant family, as defined …

Descriptive To Substantive Representation: A Study Of Gender Quotas In The National Assembly Of Pakistan, 2002-2018, Ameena Zia

Dissertations

Women’s political representation is linked to the empowerment of women in society. In efforts to alleviate women’s disenfranchisement from the political discourse, the international development framework included gender quotas as mechanisms to facilitate an increase in the presence of women in parliaments. Existing research has examined the link between Hanna F. Pitkin’s conceptualization of descriptive representation and substantive representation with a focus on performative measures of women parliamentarians. This longitudinal study expands the scope of existing inquiry and captures the transformational change in power relations as an outcome of the increase in women members of parliaments. This research provides an …

What Is The Millenium Challenge Account And How Do The Commonwealth Of Independent States Rank, Maks Kobonbaev

UMSL Global

No abstract provided.

The Emerging Baltics - The Role Of Lithuania, Vygaudas Usackas

UMSL Global

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Humanitarian Interventions Balancing Human Rights And National Sovereignty, Danilo Turk

UMSL Global

No abstract provided.

Comparison Of Help-Seeking And Community Samples--Violence And Post-Traumatic Strss Disorder In The Cape Flats, South Africa, George J. Mccall, Barbara A. Dinan, Diana Gibson

UMSL Global

No abstract provided.

Winter Newsletter 2002, University Of Missouri-St. Louis

UMSL Global

No abstract provided.

Masses In Flight People Under Assault In Their Own Countries, Roberta Cohen

UMSL Global

No abstract provided.

Cyprus' Reunification And Membership In The European Union, Erato Kozakou-Marcoullis

UMSL Global

No abstract provided.

Spring Newsletter 2001, University Of Missouri-St. Louis

UMSL Global

No abstract provided.

Building Political Consensus And Distributing Resources, Theodora-Ismane Gizelis

UMSL Global

No abstract provided.

Aids, Poverty And Economic Development In South Africa, Umsl Global

UMSL Global

No abstract provided.

The Decline Of Bureaucrats And The Rise Of Feudal Democracy In Japan, Chikako Usui, Richard Colignon

UMSL Global

No abstract provided.

Toward A Psychoanalytic Theory Of Ethnic War - Implications Of War And Peace In Kosovo, Kosova, Filip Kovacevic

UMSL Global

No abstract provided.

Fall Newsletter 2000, University Of Missouri-St. Louis

UMSL Global

No abstract provided.

Summer Newsletter 2000, University Of Missouri-St. Louis

UMSL Global

No abstract provided.

Information Flows Between The Eurodollar Spot And Futures Markets, Yin-Wong Cheung, Hung-Gay Fung

UMSL Global

No abstract provided.

Peacemakers In Conflict - Building Transnational Frameworks For Human Security Across Global Divides, Anna Christine Snyder

UMSL Global

No abstract provided.

Hungarys Transition To Center-Right Government, Impact On Security, Ethnocultural Identity, And Economic Prospects, Laszlo K. Urban

UMSL Global

No abstract provided.

Internal And External Sources Of Romanian, Wally Bacon

UMSL Global

No abstract provided.

Summer Newsletter 1999, University Of Missouri-St. Louis

UMSL Global

No abstract provided.

Fall Newsletter 1999, University Of Missouri-St. Louis

UMSL Global

No abstract provided.

Black And White Textile, Date Unknown 1999, University Of Missouri-St. Louis

UMSL Global

No abstract provided.

Politics And Black Tuesday, Jeffrey Pickering

UMSL Global

No abstract provided.

Non-Lethal Weapons Implications For Post-Cold War Conflict, John Sislin

UMSL Global

No abstract provided.

Peace In Ireland, John Hume Hon.

UMSL Global

No abstract provided.