http://hdl.handle.net/10125/2157 Tue, 21 May 2013 18:28:37 GMT 2013-05-21T18:28:37Z http://hdl.handle.net/10125/20904 Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Hawaii at Manoa, 2008.; Clearly, the AWG is a tool for agricultural women. It helps women develop their occupations, increases family income and enhances the quality of life of families and communities. This study shows that almost all NAWGs achieve remarkable successes but not all of them could maintain their successes. The study finds that the internal and external participants of the NAWGs are one of the important elements that could affect the organization especially the leaders of the groups.; Thailand is an agricultural country where many women participate in agricultural practice. They work in the fields and also generate other sources of income to support their families. This research deals with the Agricultural Women Groups (AWGs) that have reflected the influence of local, global, world system changes within a policy over the 30 year period and the National Agricultural Women Groups (NAWGs) are quite popular among the AWGs. The dissertation examines the factors associated with the successes of the Agricultural Women's Groups (AWGs) over the past 30 years and considers how those factors have assisted the AWGs in accommodating to the changes that have occurred in rural Thailand during that time. This study investigates the NAWGs in Thailand which had a total of 24 NAWGs throughout the country from 1982 to 2006. The study applies observation, Participatory Action Research (PAR), archival records, face to face in-depth interview and telephone-long interview. In addition, the respondents are the leader, committee, members, people working for the NAWGs, the DOAE's officers working with each group, a total of 176 respondents. The paper attempts to use the organizational theory and the open systems perspectives, to explain the future of the AWGs and find the leadership perspective of the NAWGs.; Includes bibliographical references (leaves 212-221).; Also available by subscription via World Wide Web; 221 leaves, bound 29 cm Tue, 01 Jan 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/10125/20904 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z Chinnasri, Oranutda http://hdl.handle.net/10125/20903 Thesis (M.A.)--University of Hawaii at Manoa, 2008.; Includes bibliographical references (leaves 116-121).; vii, 121 leaves, bound 29 cm Tue, 01 Jan 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/10125/20903 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z Yamashiro, Rinda http://hdl.handle.net/10125/20902 Thesis (M.A.)--University of Hawaii at Manoa, 2008.; Includes bibliographical references (leaves 104-110).; ix, 110 leaves, bound 29 cm Tue, 01 Jan 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/10125/20902 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z Hamajima, Yuki http://hdl.handle.net/10125/20901 Thesis (M.A.)--University of Hawaii at Manoa, 2007.; Includes bibliographical references (leaves 323-331).; xx, 331 leaves, bound 29 cm Mon, 01 Jan 2007 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/10125/20901 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z Williamson, Deborah http://hdl.handle.net/10125/20900 Thesis (M.A.)--University of Hawaii at Manoa, 2007.; Includes bibliographical references (leaves 109-115).; vii, 115 leaves, bound 29 cm Mon, 01 Jan 2007 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/10125/20900 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z Hsu, Yun-Han http://hdl.handle.net/10125/20899 Thesis (M.A.)--University of Hawaii at Manoa, 2007.; Includes bibliographical references (leaves 73-78).; vii, 78 leaves, bound 29 cm Mon, 01 Jan 2007 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/10125/20899 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z Ahn, Mihyang http://hdl.handle.net/10125/20898 Thesis (M.A.)--University of Hawaii at Manoa, 2007.; Includes bibliographical references (leaves 59-63).; v, 63 leaves, bound 29 cm Mon, 01 Jan 2007 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/10125/20898 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z Adler, Corey http://hdl.handle.net/10125/20897 Thesis (M.A.)--University of Hawaii at Manoa, 2007.; Includes bibliographical references (leaves 100-106).; iv, 106 leaves, bound 29 cm Mon, 01 Jan 2007 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/10125/20897 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z Urbanc, Klemen http://hdl.handle.net/10125/20896 Thesis (M.A.)--University of Hawaii at Manoa, 2007.; Includes bibliographical references (leaves 82-86).; xi, 86 leaves, bound ill., maps 29 cm Mon, 01 Jan 2007 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/10125/20896 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z Selinaswati http://hdl.handle.net/10125/20895 Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Hawaii at Manoa, 2008.; Japanese American migration to Japan is a specific type of transnational movement: that of an ethnic group to its ancestral homeland. As a framework for comparatively discussing multiple constructions of Japaneseness in the United States and Japan, to flesh out the complexities of Japanese American "ethnic return" experiences in Japan, I theorize "Japanese" as what I call a heterogeneous global ethnic group---an ethnic group that spans national borders and is internally diverse. This concept is similar to the notion of diaspora in some ways but can enable a discussion of Japanese American migration to Japan that diaspora cannot.; This dissertation examines how Japanese Americans reconstruct their racial and ethnic identities through migration to Japan. Using a transnational framework, I show how identity constructions in Japan emerge from a combination of new experiences interacting with people in Japan, and past experiences in the United States that continue to shape self-perceptions. I use the case of Japanese Americans in Japan to reconsider how the concepts of race and ethnicity can be used to develop a comparative framework for discussing global constructions of race and ethnicity. My findings are based on three years of ethnographic fieldwork in Japan, including 50 qualitative interviews with Japanese Americans living in the Tokyo area.; Three types of identity formations among Americans of Japanese ancestry in Japan can be discerned. First, Japanese Americans from the U.S. continent who can phenotypically blend into Japanese society tend to reconstruct what I term "racialized national identities" as "Japanese Americans" in Japan. Second, ethnic Japanese from Hawai'i reconstruct "Hawai'i" identities while in Japan. Finally, mixed race Japanese Americans must grapple with the category of "hafu," which is gaining increasing social recognition in Japan.; Includes bibliographical references (leaves xxx-xxx).; Also available by subscription via World Wide Web; 281 leaves, bound 29 cm Tue, 01 Jan 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/10125/20895 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z Yamashiro, Jane Hisa http://hdl.handle.net/10125/20894 Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Hawaii at Manoa, 2008.; In twenty-first century Japan, crime control has become an increasingly pertinent and decisive factor in the politics of immigration. The convergence of immigration law enforcement and crime control is the product of two transformations in Japanese society at the turn of the century: changes in the immigration field changes in policing and the perception of crime. Through this process, immigration law enforcement and crime control have come to intersect in multiple ways. In terms of law enforcement, the police became an active participant specifically in immigration law enforcement. At the same time, in the area of law-making, more restrictive immigration laws were implemented in the name of crime control.; My arguments are three-fold: (1) immigration politics are shaped by interactions among actors who represent different principles in immigration that are conditioned by larger social contexts outside of the immigration field; (2) law enforcement actors logically associate migrants and crimes in multiple ways, and the occupational habitus of law enforcers interprets the structural marginality of migrants as signs of criminality; and (3) the convergence of immigration control and crime control undermines the capacity of migrant-support activists and, thus isolates migrants from informal support.; This dissertation investigates causes and consequences of the convergence of immigration law enforcement and crime control. By examining Japan as a case, it argues that structural marginalization and the symbolic criminalization of migrants interactively take place at the intersection of two forms of control.; Includes bibliographical references (leaves xxx-xxx).; Also available by subscription via World Wide Web; 230 leaves, bound 29 cm Tue, 01 Jan 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/10125/20894 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z Yamamoto, Ryoko http://hdl.handle.net/10125/20893 Thesis (M.A.)--University of Hawaii at Manoa, 2008.; Includes bibliographical references (leaves 96-103).; vii, 114 leaves, bound 29 cm Tue, 01 Jan 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/10125/20893 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z Uehara, Kozue http://hdl.handle.net/10125/20381 Thesis (M.A.)--University of Hawaii at Manoa, 2008. Thu, 01 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/10125/20381 2008-05-01T00:00:00Z Strom, Ida F http://hdl.handle.net/10125/20380 Thesis (M.A.)--University of Hawaii at Manoa, 2008. Fri, 01 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/10125/20380 2008-08-01T00:00:00Z Niu, Xuan http://hdl.handle.net/10125/11961 Typescript.; Bibliography: leaves 270-285.; xvii, 285 leaves ill., maps Thu, 01 Jan 1976 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/10125/11961 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Hong, Sa-wŏn http://hdl.handle.net/10125/11960 Typescript.; Bibliography: leaves 316-327.; xii, 327 leaves ill Tue, 01 Jan 1974 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/10125/11960 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Oh, In-hwan http://hdl.handle.net/10125/11959 Typescript.; Bibliography: leaves [333]-339.; Microfiche.; xx, 339 leaves ill., maps Thu, 01 Jan 1976 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/10125/11959 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Sundaram, Chitra http://hdl.handle.net/10125/11958 Typescript.; Bibliography: leaves 155-161.; Microfiche.; ix, 161 leaves ill Thu, 01 Jan 1976 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/10125/11958 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Perry, Paul Edward http://hdl.handle.net/10125/11957 Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Hawaii at Manoa, 2005.; Includes bibliographical references (leaves 315-327).; Also available by subscription via World Wide Web; vii, 327 leaves, bound 29 cm Sat, 01 Jan 2005 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/10125/11957 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z De Nike, Moira http://hdl.handle.net/10125/11956 Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Hawaii at Manoa, 2004.; Includes bibliographical references (leaves 172-201).; Also available by subscription via World Wide Web; xii, 201 leaves, bound ill. 29 cm Thu, 01 Jan 2004 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/10125/11956 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z Waitzfelder, Beth E