Elizabeth Chacko
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 177148 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Elizabeth Chacko |
| NOMBRES | Elizabeth |
| APELLIDO | Chacko |
| FIRMA | CHACKO E |
| AFILIACIONES | George Washington University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2430-8742 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 28 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 264 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 28 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1995 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 10 |
Elastic Borders
Coalitions of care
We Cannot Go There, They Cannot Come Here
The COVID-19 pandemic disrupted families and displaced individuals. For migrant workers, these disruptions and displacements exacerbated the state-imposed constraints on family formation. But how did high-skilled and high-wage immigrants, presumably immune from these challenges, provide care to and receive care from families during the pandemic? Based on 33 in-depth interviews with high-skilled Asian Indian immigrants in the USA during the pandem…
Caregiving and Care Receiving Among Asian Indian Immigrants in the Usa During the Covid-19 Pandemic
This study examines the intersection of wellbeing and care experienced by first-generation Asian Indian high-skilled immigrants in the USA in spaces varying from the home to the neighborhood, city, and state in sending and receiving countries during the COVID-19 pandemic. The spread of COVID-19 resulted in new stressors that affected the physical, mental, and emotional health of interviewees, but many found ways to mitigate the effects of the pan…
Impact of the Advertisements on the Social Media and Networking Sites
The term "social media advertising," abbreviated as "SMM," refers to the practice of marketing a company's goods and services via the use of social networks and social media. Users are able to communicate with one another, share information and create internet content through the use of social media websites, and promote the culture, artwork, or tone that they desire through the use of social media advertising companies, which offer a way to enga…
Impact of retail industry service innovation and employee engagement on the marketing performance of modern trade in India
Modern commerce outlets are typically preferred by conglomerates of enterprises or chains of businesses. However, the performance of these company chains is hindered by a variety of issues that together harm them. According to the findings of the current research, the marketing performance of modern retail trade in India is significantly impacted by both the introduction of new services and the management of employees. As a result, the purpose of…
Emerging precarity among international students in Singapore
In this paper, I explore precarity as experienced by international students studying in the honours college of a public university in the city–state of Singapore. Precarity for this group emanates from the intersection of their temporary migrant status, the country’s changing immigration and economic development policies and public opinion about international students in the country. Through interviews and focus group discussions, I examine the l…
(Un)settled sojourners in cities
In this Special issue, we focus on temporary migrants as an important and often overlooked demographic in urban areas around the world. We demonstrate through empirical evidence that these migrants experience oscillations in precarity over time and that these fluctuations are mediated and better understood through a sensitivity to different scales and scalar processes. Most migration policies are created by national governments that privilege cer…
Fitting In and standing out
This paper analyzes the ethno-national and racial identities adopted by and assigned to 1.5 and 2nd generation African immigrants and the transnational connections of this group using a focus group discussion and 30 semi-structured interviews with full-time undergraduates enrolled at universities in the Washington Metropolitan Area. Belonging was critical in framing identity for this group over the life course. An early emphasis on ethno-national…
Animating Place
This special feature examines and analyzes how the diverse city is animated through everyday human and more‐than‐human encounters. The five papers in the feature explore difference using diverse th
Ethiopian taxicab drivers
This paper analyzes the relative roles of cultural and structural factors in the emergence and solidification of taxi driving as an ethnic occupational niche among Ethiopian immigrants in the Washington DC metropolitan area within the wider context of globalization and immigrant integration. An ethnic occupational niche is the concentration and specialization of members of an ethnic group in a particular occupational activity. Using data from the…
Hybrid sensibilities
This paper analyzes the expression of identities of first-generation (FG) immigrants from India in private and public spaces. Focusing on high-skill upwardly mobile professionals living in the Washington metropolitan area, the study found that despite “Indian” being a primary descriptor, these FG immigrants had developed hybrid identities that included Indian and American elements, considered themselves Westernized cosmopolitans prior to their ar…
Placing immigrant identities
In this afterword to our special issue on immigrant identity and place, we explore the importance of place and context in forming immigrant identity, as well as the various ways in which immigrants make places. Discussions of immigrant adaptations often just consider reception at the national scale, whereas immigrants move into particular cities and towns. This article details some of the different ways that immigrants interact with their places,…
La Fiesta DC
In this paper, I examine how Hispanic immigrants laid claim to public spaces in the city of Washington, DC and affirmed a sense of belonging to the city and the nation through annual celebrations of a Hispanic festival, La Fiesta DC. Over its 41-year history, the festival has been held in the vastly different spaces of the Hispanic barrio and the streets adjoining the National Mall. The paper contrasts the nature, visibility and sense of belongin…
Longings and belongings
This article examines the development of the 'cultural competition' as a site for the production of multiple identities by Indian American youths on American college campuses. Through the examination of two categories of folk dance competitions (bhangra and raas-garba) at a private university in Washington, DC, we argue that these competitions appear to resist hybridity and produce rhetoric that marginalizes diasporic culture in favour of the 'pu…
Leveraging the diaspora for development
The Mixed Embeddedness of Ethnic Entrepreneurs in a New Immigrant Gateway
In this research the concept of mixed embeddedness is used to analyze how economic and political opportunity structures and the group characteristics of Ethiopian and Bolivian immigrants have affected the establishment and development of their businesses in metropolitan Washington, DC. The study relies upon interviews, focus groups, census data, and mapping to assess the entrepreneurial activities of both groups. As a relatively new immigrant des…
From brain drain to brain gain
Understanding the Geography of Pellagra in the United States
This article examines the intersection of constructs such as North and South, white and black, rich and poor, male and female in the creation of the diseased Other during the pellagra epidemic in the United States in the early twentieth century. Pellagra was a disease of poverty, caused by poor nutrition and resulting in over 100,000 deaths in the country between 1900 and 1940. Endemic in the American South, its victims were largely low-income, f…
Positionality and Praxis
This paper provides a reflexive account of conducting fieldwork as a graduate student in the Sunderban area of West Bengal state, India, in the mid‐1990s. Reflecting on my personal experiences of research in a setting that was simultaneously familiar and foreign, I use frames of positionality to understand the impact of explicit and implied power structures on the research process, the relationships between the researcher and those researched, an…
Physician accessibility
Marriage, development, and the status of women in Kerala, India
This article explores the linkages between women's status and marriage in the southern Indian state of Kerala. Widely known as a progressive region, with high levels of social development despite poor economic growth, Kerala also fares exceptionally well in terms of standard indicators of female position. However, closer scrutiny of prevailing cultural mores, particularly in relation to marriage practices and family structure, reveals a less prom…
Ethiopian Ethos and the Making of Ethnic Places in the Washington Metropolitan Area
Immigrants from Ethiopia form the largest community of peoples from Sub–Saharan Africa in the Washington metropolitan area. Like other relatively recent immigrant groups, Ethiopians are dispersed in the region. As residential proximity becomes less common, places that fashion and reflect ethnic community and that provide settings for its continuance also have changed. Although religious and secular institutions continue to play important roles in…
Subjectivities, knowledges and feminist geographies
Identity and Assimilation Among Young Ethiopian Immigrants in Metropolitan Washington
Ethiopians are a recent immigrant group in the United States, having entered the country in significant numbers during the 1980s and 1990s. This preliminary study examines the ethnic and racial identities of children of first‐generation Ethiopian immigrants living in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area. The results of twenty in‐depth interviews demonstrate that race is a much more fluid and contested form of identification than is ethnicity to…
(Un)settled sojourners in cities
In this Special issue, we focus on temporary migrants as an important and often overlooked demographic in urban areas around the world. We demonstrate through empirical evidence that these migrants experience oscillations in precarity over time and that these fluctuations are mediated and better understood through a sensitivity to different scales and scalar processes. Most migration policies are created by national governments that privilege cer…
Identity and Assimilation Among Young Ethiopian Immigrants in Metropolitan Washington
Ethiopians are a recent immigrant group in the United States, having entered the country in significant numbers during the 1980s and 1990s. This preliminary study examines the ethnic and racial identities of children of first‐generation Ethiopian immigrants living in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area. The results of twenty in‐depth interviews demonstrate that race is a much more fluid and contested form of identification than is ethnicity to…
From brain drain to brain gain
Physician accessibility
Ethiopian Ethos and the Making of Ethnic Places in the Washington Metropolitan Area
Immigrants from Ethiopia form the largest community of peoples from Sub–Saharan Africa in the Washington metropolitan area. Like other relatively recent immigrant groups, Ethiopians are dispersed in the region. As residential proximity becomes less common, places that fashion and reflect ethnic community and that provide settings for its continuance also have changed. Although religious and secular institutions continue to play important roles in…
The Mixed Embeddedness of Ethnic Entrepreneurs in a New Immigrant Gateway
In this research the concept of mixed embeddedness is used to analyze how economic and political opportunity structures and the group characteristics of Ethiopian and Bolivian immigrants have affected the establishment and development of their businesses in metropolitan Washington, DC. The study relies upon interviews, focus groups, census data, and mapping to assess the entrepreneurial activities of both groups. As a relatively new immigrant des…
Women's use of contraception in rural India
Subjectivities, knowledges and feminist geographies
Culture and therapy
Placing immigrant identities
In this afterword to our special issue on immigrant identity and place, we explore the importance of place and context in forming immigrant identity, as well as the various ways in which immigrants make places. Discussions of immigrant adaptations often just consider reception at the national scale, whereas immigrants move into particular cities and towns. This article details some of the different ways that immigrants interact with their places,…
Hybrid sensibilities
This paper analyzes the expression of identities of first-generation (FG) immigrants from India in private and public spaces. Focusing on high-skill upwardly mobile professionals living in the Washington metropolitan area, the study found that despite “Indian” being a primary descriptor, these FG immigrants had developed hybrid identities that included Indian and American elements, considered themselves Westernized cosmopolitans prior to their ar…
Longings and belongings
This article examines the development of the 'cultural competition' as a site for the production of multiple identities by Indian American youths on American college campuses. Through the examination of two categories of folk dance competitions (bhangra and raas-garba) at a private university in Washington, DC, we argue that these competitions appear to resist hybridity and produce rhetoric that marginalizes diasporic culture in favour of the 'pu…
Leveraging the diaspora for development
Marriage, development, and the status of women in Kerala, India
This article explores the linkages between women's status and marriage in the southern Indian state of Kerala. Widely known as a progressive region, with high levels of social development despite poor economic growth, Kerala also fares exceptionally well in terms of standard indicators of female position. However, closer scrutiny of prevailing cultural mores, particularly in relation to marriage practices and family structure, reveals a less prom…
Health and development
Emerging precarity among international students in Singapore
In this paper, I explore precarity as experienced by international students studying in the honours college of a public university in the city–state of Singapore. Precarity for this group emanates from the intersection of their temporary migrant status, the country’s changing immigration and economic development policies and public opinion about international students in the country. Through interviews and focus group discussions, I examine the l…
Ethiopian taxicab drivers
This paper analyzes the relative roles of cultural and structural factors in the emergence and solidification of taxi driving as an ethnic occupational niche among Ethiopian immigrants in the Washington DC metropolitan area within the wider context of globalization and immigrant integration. An ethnic occupational niche is the concentration and specialization of members of an ethnic group in a particular occupational activity. Using data from the…
We Cannot Go There, They Cannot Come Here
The COVID-19 pandemic disrupted families and displaced individuals. For migrant workers, these disruptions and displacements exacerbated the state-imposed constraints on family formation. But how did high-skilled and high-wage immigrants, presumably immune from these challenges, provide care to and receive care from families during the pandemic? Based on 33 in-depth interviews with high-skilled Asian Indian immigrants in the USA during the pandem…
Caregiving and Care Receiving Among Asian Indian Immigrants in the Usa During the Covid-19 Pandemic
This study examines the intersection of wellbeing and care experienced by first-generation Asian Indian high-skilled immigrants in the USA in spaces varying from the home to the neighborhood, city, and state in sending and receiving countries during the COVID-19 pandemic. The spread of COVID-19 resulted in new stressors that affected the physical, mental, and emotional health of interviewees, but many found ways to mitigate the effects of the pan…
Fitting In and standing out
This paper analyzes the ethno-national and racial identities adopted by and assigned to 1.5 and 2nd generation African immigrants and the transnational connections of this group using a focus group discussion and 30 semi-structured interviews with full-time undergraduates enrolled at universities in the Washington Metropolitan Area. Belonging was critical in framing identity for this group over the life course. An early emphasis on ethno-national…
Understanding the Geography of Pellagra in the United States
This article examines the intersection of constructs such as North and South, white and black, rich and poor, male and female in the creation of the diseased Other during the pellagra epidemic in the United States in the early twentieth century. Pellagra was a disease of poverty, caused by poor nutrition and resulting in over 100,000 deaths in the country between 1900 and 1940. Endemic in the American South, its victims were largely low-income, f…
Coalitions of care
La Fiesta DC
In this paper, I examine how Hispanic immigrants laid claim to public spaces in the city of Washington, DC and affirmed a sense of belonging to the city and the nation through annual celebrations of a Hispanic festival, La Fiesta DC. Over its 41-year history, the festival has been held in the vastly different spaces of the Hispanic barrio and the streets adjoining the National Mall. The paper contrasts the nature, visibility and sense of belongin…
Health and development
Women's use of contraception in rural India
Marriage, development, and the status of women in Kerala, India
This article explores the linkages between women's status and marriage in the southern Indian state of Kerala. Widely known as a progressive region, with high levels of social development despite poor economic growth, Kerala also fares exceptionally well in terms of standard indicators of female position. However, closer scrutiny of prevailing cultural mores, particularly in relation to marriage practices and family structure, reveals a less prom…
Ethiopian Ethos and the Making of Ethnic Places in the Washington Metropolitan Area
Immigrants from Ethiopia form the largest community of peoples from Sub–Saharan Africa in the Washington metropolitan area. Like other relatively recent immigrant groups, Ethiopians are dispersed in the region. As residential proximity becomes less common, places that fashion and reflect ethnic community and that provide settings for its continuance also have changed. Although religious and secular institutions continue to play important roles in…
Subjectivities, knowledges and feminist geographies
Identity and Assimilation Among Young Ethiopian Immigrants in Metropolitan Washington
Ethiopians are a recent immigrant group in the United States, having entered the country in significant numbers during the 1980s and 1990s. This preliminary study examines the ethnic and racial identities of children of first‐generation Ethiopian immigrants living in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area. The results of twenty in‐depth interviews demonstrate that race is a much more fluid and contested form of identification than is ethnicity to…
Culture and therapy
Positionality and Praxis
This paper provides a reflexive account of conducting fieldwork as a graduate student in the Sunderban area of West Bengal state, India, in the mid‐1990s. Reflecting on my personal experiences of research in a setting that was simultaneously familiar and foreign, I use frames of positionality to understand the impact of explicit and implied power structures on the research process, the relationships between the researcher and those researched, an…
Physician accessibility
Understanding the Geography of Pellagra in the United States
This article examines the intersection of constructs such as North and South, white and black, rich and poor, male and female in the creation of the diseased Other during the pellagra epidemic in the United States in the early twentieth century. Pellagra was a disease of poverty, caused by poor nutrition and resulting in over 100,000 deaths in the country between 1900 and 1940. Endemic in the American South, its victims were largely low-income, f…
From brain drain to brain gain
The Mixed Embeddedness of Ethnic Entrepreneurs in a New Immigrant Gateway
In this research the concept of mixed embeddedness is used to analyze how economic and political opportunity structures and the group characteristics of Ethiopian and Bolivian immigrants have affected the establishment and development of their businesses in metropolitan Washington, DC. The study relies upon interviews, focus groups, census data, and mapping to assess the entrepreneurial activities of both groups. As a relatively new immigrant des…
Leveraging the diaspora for development
La Fiesta DC
In this paper, I examine how Hispanic immigrants laid claim to public spaces in the city of Washington, DC and affirmed a sense of belonging to the city and the nation through annual celebrations of a Hispanic festival, La Fiesta DC. Over its 41-year history, the festival has been held in the vastly different spaces of the Hispanic barrio and the streets adjoining the National Mall. The paper contrasts the nature, visibility and sense of belongin…
Longings and belongings
This article examines the development of the 'cultural competition' as a site for the production of multiple identities by Indian American youths on American college campuses. Through the examination of two categories of folk dance competitions (bhangra and raas-garba) at a private university in Washington, DC, we argue that these competitions appear to resist hybridity and produce rhetoric that marginalizes diasporic culture in favour of the 'pu…
Ethiopian taxicab drivers
This paper analyzes the relative roles of cultural and structural factors in the emergence and solidification of taxi driving as an ethnic occupational niche among Ethiopian immigrants in the Washington DC metropolitan area within the wider context of globalization and immigrant integration. An ethnic occupational niche is the concentration and specialization of members of an ethnic group in a particular occupational activity. Using data from the…
Hybrid sensibilities
This paper analyzes the expression of identities of first-generation (FG) immigrants from India in private and public spaces. Focusing on high-skill upwardly mobile professionals living in the Washington metropolitan area, the study found that despite “Indian” being a primary descriptor, these FG immigrants had developed hybrid identities that included Indian and American elements, considered themselves Westernized cosmopolitans prior to their ar…
Placing immigrant identities
In this afterword to our special issue on immigrant identity and place, we explore the importance of place and context in forming immigrant identity, as well as the various ways in which immigrants make places. Discussions of immigrant adaptations often just consider reception at the national scale, whereas immigrants move into particular cities and towns. This article details some of the different ways that immigrants interact with their places,…
Animating Place
This special feature examines and analyzes how the diverse city is animated through everyday human and more‐than‐human encounters. The five papers in the feature explore difference using diverse th
Fitting In and standing out
This paper analyzes the ethno-national and racial identities adopted by and assigned to 1.5 and 2nd generation African immigrants and the transnational connections of this group using a focus group discussion and 30 semi-structured interviews with full-time undergraduates enrolled at universities in the Washington Metropolitan Area. Belonging was critical in framing identity for this group over the life course. An early emphasis on ethno-national…
Emerging precarity among international students in Singapore
In this paper, I explore precarity as experienced by international students studying in the honours college of a public university in the city–state of Singapore. Precarity for this group emanates from the intersection of their temporary migrant status, the country’s changing immigration and economic development policies and public opinion about international students in the country. Through interviews and focus group discussions, I examine the l…
(Un)settled sojourners in cities
In this Special issue, we focus on temporary migrants as an important and often overlooked demographic in urban areas around the world. We demonstrate through empirical evidence that these migrants experience oscillations in precarity over time and that these fluctuations are mediated and better understood through a sensitivity to different scales and scalar processes. Most migration policies are created by national governments that privilege cer…
Impact of the Advertisements on the Social Media and Networking Sites
The term "social media advertising," abbreviated as "SMM," refers to the practice of marketing a company's goods and services via the use of social networks and social media. Users are able to communicate with one another, share information and create internet content through the use of social media websites, and promote the culture, artwork, or tone that they desire through the use of social media advertising companies, which offer a way to enga…
Impact of retail industry service innovation and employee engagement on the marketing performance of modern trade in India
Modern commerce outlets are typically preferred by conglomerates of enterprises or chains of businesses. However, the performance of these company chains is hindered by a variety of issues that together harm them. According to the findings of the current research, the marketing performance of modern retail trade in India is significantly impacted by both the introduction of new services and the management of employees. As a result, the purpose of…
Caregiving and Care Receiving Among Asian Indian Immigrants in the Usa During the Covid-19 Pandemic
This study examines the intersection of wellbeing and care experienced by first-generation Asian Indian high-skilled immigrants in the USA in spaces varying from the home to the neighborhood, city, and state in sending and receiving countries during the COVID-19 pandemic. The spread of COVID-19 resulted in new stressors that affected the physical, mental, and emotional health of interviewees, but many found ways to mitigate the effects of the pan…
Sociology (17 obras) · Political science (15 obras) · Geography (13 obras) · Economic growth (11 obras) · Gender Studies (11 obras) · Immigration (11 obras) · Migration and Labor Dynamics (11 obras) · Diaspora, migration, transnational identity (9 obras) · Economics (9 obras) · Gender Studies (9 obras)