Homesickness..!!
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Summaries of 2 research articles from workcited of the essay (Meaning of "Home")

My resources were basically about how homesickness would affect international students who are away from their homes and from their loved ones.

1- The first resource I got is a research that is done by Senel Poyrazli and Damian Lopez Marcos. It is called “An Exploratory Study of Perceived Discrimination and Homesickness: A Comparison of International Students and American Students.” As it shown from its title they’ve done an examination about group differences in perceived discrimination and homesickness in a sample of 439 college students, some of them are international students and some are U.S students. They’ve examined relations between homesickness, years of residency in the U.S and English proficiency. The study also shows that students who experienced hard time in school or there level is very low in English are the ones who got the higher levels of homesickness.

Citation:

Poyrazli, Senel, and Damian Lopez Marcos. "An Exploratory Study of Perceived Discrimination and Homesickness: A Comparison of International Students and American Students." The Journal of psychology 141.3 (2007): 263-80. ABI/INFORM Complete. Web. 18 Oct. 2012.

 

2- The second one is also a research that is done by Blake Hendrickson, Devan Rosen and R. Kelly Aune. It is called “An Analysis of Friendship Networks, Social Connectedness, Homesickness, and Satisfaction Levels of International Students.” The study focused on how the international students form friendships in the host country, the experience that the students get when studying abroad. And by that the study shows that individuals from the same country tend to hang out together. On the other, the study shows how having friends from the host country would possibly decrease the feeling of homesickness and social connectedness. Furthermore, A survey was given to 84 international students andto examine the relationship between friendship networks, social connectedness, homesickness, contentment, and satisfaction. The result showed that most of the international students do not have many friends from there same country, however they reported to have many friends from the host country which made them feel less homesick, satisfied, and more socially connected.

Citation:

Hendrickson, Blake, Devan Rosen, and R. K. Aune. "An Analysis of Friendship Networks, Social Connectedness, Homesickness, and Satisfaction Levels of International Students." International Journal of Intercultural Relations : IJIR 35.3 (2011): 281. ABI/INFORM Complete. Web. 18 Oct. 2012.

LGBT-Friendly College Campuses

On the Huffington Post the article describes the top 25 colleges/universities in the United States that are LGBT friendly. On the bottom of the website article there are photos of different colleges that show you information about the colleges name,tuition, and students. In the article it explains how Campus Pride also a website that has information about gay friendly LGBT colleges. It also releases on how the Campus Pride rates college campuses and how they choose the top three as Stanford University, Carleton College, and Emory University.

Pride Center

The new pride center has its own website on the CSUN webpage. The website address for the Pride Center is pride.csun.edu and in the webpage you can find resources, FAQ's, the Peer Mentor Program, CSUN Ally Program, and what the Pride center is about. The Pride center website is a great source to know where you may find the pride center, what times it opens, and other resources around campus. It can also show you who the staff is for the pride center and the peer mentor program. On the resources it shows you all the LGBT resources giving to you fro a LGBT student such as handouts, organizations, centers, L.A. sources,etc. On the Peer Mentor link it will tell you all about the peer mentoring program and how you can be a mentee, what a peer mentor does, and why to be a mentee and you can contact them if you want to either be one or have any more questions. Also, they have the CSUN Ally program which is how you can learn to be an ally for the LGBT community and have training to be an ally.

                     Foreign workers in Saudi Arabia weaken nationalization effort

This article talks about the private sector in Saudi Arabia, and how they prefer the foreign

workers than the Saudi workers, by giving some statistics. Also the article says that the labor

ministry created a new system that support nationalization in private sector. However, this

system did not work so well, because of the business owners, they do not like the idea, so they

did not help the labor ministry.    

Abdulaziz Alkhodir     

“Foreign workers in Saudi Arabia weaken nationalization effort” Al-Arabiya News: Al-Arabiya

News, 13 Aug. 2012. Web. 22 Oct. 2012.

Abdulaziz Alkhodr                     

                        Saudi addresses housing gap as home ownership deficit rises

This article talks about the difficulties that Saudi people face in order to own houses, by giving

the cost of land and the lack of bank financing. The article says that only 30% of Saudi people

who won houses, and 65% of the population is on rent. So people feel that they should be housed

because of the financial boom. The articles also suggest the Idea of the mortgage as a solution for

this problem.

“Saudi addresses housing gap as home ownership deficit rises.” Business Intelligence: Business

Intelligance Middle East, 4 Sep. 2008. Web. 22 Oct. 2012

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