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" The Evolution of Eritrean Refugee Leadership "
Araya, Thomas T.
Wylie, Ruth
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Latin Dissertation
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English
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1113837
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TLpq2392386426
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Araya, Thomas T.
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Wylie, Ruth
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The Evolution of Eritrean Refugee Leadership\ Araya, Thomas T.Wylie, Ruth
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University of Charleston - Beckley
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2020
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2020
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D.E.Lead.
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151
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There is no disputing that the world is gradually becoming socio-culturally homogeneous. The streak of homogeneity is not waning any time soon, because of the underpinnings of current events in the globe. Immigration is one of the most potent drivers of the socio-cultural change that the world is undergoing. With immigration, there is an infusion of different socio-cultural values within a specific body politic. This containment of various socio-cultural groups and forces into a specific territory is known as cultural melting pot. As different socio-cultural groups share from one cultural melting pot, they take in, give out, give up, and modify their values, with time. One of the values that the United States has consistently upheld is liberalism in leadership. Throughout the U.S., anyone, regardless of sex, religion, affiliation, ethnicity, and race, can ascend to a position of power, on the account of merit. Conversely, less developed countries are fledgling democracies and therefore do not hold a liberal view towards leadership. This means that immigrants from less developed countries come into socio-cultural conflict with the host socio-cultural environment, immediately they migrate into the U.S. This conflict is not limited to, but is pronounced in light of leadership. The import of this is that one of the litmus tests of true social change among immigrants is their adoption of liberalism and meritocracy in their view and practice of leadership. In turn, political instability, economic rundown and retrogression, ideological and religious persecution are some of the triggers of immigration. This discussion was therefore keen to shed light on the manner in which socio-cultural change has taken place among Eritrean-Americans in the state of Georgia. These Eritrean-Americans are immigrants who have come from Eritrea, a country whose cultural environment is highly patriarchal. The analysis is done with reference to the transformation of Eritrean-Refugee worldview on leadership, and the triggering factors to Eritrean-Refugee such as Eritrea's political instability, dwindling economic fortunes, forceful conscription into the military, breakdown of social order, and poor humanitarian conditions.
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African studies
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Eritrean refugees
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