Research Article
Mehmet F Bastug
AM J QUALITATIVE RES, Volume 4, Issue 1, pp. 1-15
ABSTRACT
The Turkish diaspora is growing rapidly in North America. Despite the vast number of studies investigated social integration and the identity construction of Turkish immigrants in European countries, Turkish communities in the United States and Canada attracted lesser attention in the academic literature. This paper seeks to understand the identity formation and acculturation attitudes of Turks and their perceptions of rejection and acceptance from their respective societies in a post 9/11 context through interviews with Turkish opinion/community leaders living in the United States and Canada.
Keywords: Acculturation, Identity Formation, Islamophobia, Turkish Diaspora, Turkish-Americans, Turkish-Canadians.
Research Article
Arthur G. Vasquez, Alejandro Rodriguez, Jiwon Suh, Maria Martinez-Cosio
AM J QUALITATIVE RES, Volume 4, Issue 1, pp. 16-37
ABSTRACT
reduced with modifications and planning to the physical environment by making involvement in criminal activity more difficult to complete by increasing the visibility of the offender thereby raising the risk of being caught. A new type of criminal opportunity has evolved in the 21st Century with the introduction and explosion of direct e-commerce opportunities with online and app advertisements to buy and sell items through such venues as Craigslist, OfferUp, Letgo, and Facebook Marketplace. This new crime is defined as an ‘appointment robbery’. Using interviews of 12 active robbers from a metropolitan area in Texas, this study explored whether or not offenders were deterred from participating in criminal behavior due to the implementation of CPTED strategies. Results from this study suggest that offenders reported that territoriality, natural surveillance, activity support, and access control did serve as deterrents during the decision to commit a robbery. The study examined the original CPTED theory as posited by Jeffery in 1971. The study found support for the original four CPTED strategies.
Keywords: Appointment Robbery, Crime Prevention, Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design, Qualitative, Robbery
Research Article
Ifeoluwa Theophilus Akinsola
AM J QUALITATIVE RES, Volume 4, Issue 1, pp. 38-48
ABSTRACT
Multilingualism and multi-ethnicity realities in Nigeria informed the existence of regional Nigerian films (Yoruba, Hausa and Igbo films as majors), apart from English Nollywood films. These regional Nollywoods mainly portray the experiences and lives of people of their regional affiliates and are mostly patronised by indigenes of the regions. As such, this study investigated if such ethnic mindset matters in Nollywood reception preferences among Nigerian undergraduates that are proficient in English and at least two major Nigerian languages. The study, guided by two research questions, adopted the qualitative research design. Fifteen (15) multilingual undergraduate students of the University of Ibadan were purposively selected for a semi-structured interview. The interviews were recorded, transcribed and thematically analysed. Findings revealed that the selected multilingual Nigerian undergraduates, despite their linguistic reality, showed preferences for Nollywood produced in English and/or pidgin above regional ones produced in indigenous languages. The reasons for this, emanating from the sub-themes, were far from ethnicity. Ethnicity, therefore, does not influence Nollywood reception preferences among undergraduates. On this basis, recommendations were made on how Nollywood could be better improved to showcase the nature of Nigeria’s unity in diversity.
Keywords: Ethnic Mindset, Multi-ethnicity, Multilingualism, Nollywood, Nollywood Reception.
Research Article
Elin A. Björling, Narayan Singh
AM J QUALITATIVE RES, Volume 4, Issue 1, pp. 49-68
ABSTRACT
Mindfulness-Based Interventions (MBIs) have been shown to be successful in treating mood disorders in adolescents. However, the application of MBI treatments for non-clinical populations may be a missed opportunity. Globally, headache affects 54 percent of school-age girls, and headaches are often correlated with poor mental health. In order to better understand the internal experience of teen girls with headaches, we conducted a modified grounded theory exploring two adolescent samples totaling 39 girls (ages 13-18). This study led to a theory of Pandemonium versus Paralysis - a cycling between feeling “cluttered,” or “unable to think” and feeling “dead” or “incapable of functioning.” This theory illustrated the teens’ internal experience of managing their stress and headaches. We then confirmed our theory within existing literature, current media, and anecdotal experience. We propose that teens oscillating between the polarities of pandemonium versus paralysis would greatly benefit from building their awareness through evidence-based therapies such as mindfulness-based stress reduction which may in turn reduce their headaches.
Keywords: Adolescence, Grounded Theory, Headache, Perceived Stress.
Research Article
Hafza Girdap
AM J QUALITATIVE RES, Volume 4, Issue 1, pp. 69-84
ABSTRACT
The overall purpose of this study is to explore human rights ramifications in the recent context of Turkey, the forced migration journeys of intellectuals from the country after the failed coup attempt in 2016, their experiences of seeking legal status, and other immigration issues in Europe and the USA focusing on integration and adaptation issues. As a qualitative research conducted through interviews, this paper analyzes implementation of international human rights laws in Turkey by scrutinizing the political practices and their influences on the targeted individuals/groups particularly after the 2016 coup attempt. The findings in this paper will help researchers studying this specific era in Turkey’s historical context in terms of human rights obtain a comprehensive insight through lived and shared experiences of persecuted people.
Keywords: Turkey, Human Rights, Conflict, Dislocation, Freedom of Speech.
Research Article
Gulbahar H. Beckett, Masaki Kobayashi
AM J QUALITATIVE RES, Volume 4, Issue 1, pp. 85-106
ABSTRACT
This yearlong ethnographic project on how a researcher’s presence shaped and was shaped by the research context responds to increasing calls for studies of collaborative research on the complex process of gaining entry to research site and maintaining research relationship. Analysis of 70 research journals, audio- and video-recording (interviews and class activities), nine excerpts from student exams, and interviews of 16 students and research assistants in two undergraduate credit courses for Japanese exchange students indicate that conducting a successful ethnographic research study in a multicultural and multilingual setting is a potentially complex process that requires continuous negotiation and renegotiation of relationships, roles, and identities. It is a process that affords potential resources and fraught with dilemmas involving research, same-L1 students, and English-only Discourse in a multilingual community. Findings of the study should benefit researchers communities, particularly graduate students, in their understanding of the principles and procedures of successful collaboration of researchers with teachers, students, teaching assistants, and administrators.
Keywords: Collaboration and Reflexivity, Ecological Perspective, Ethnographic Research, Meta-study, Multicultural and Multilingual Community.