Julia Meredith Hess
Biographic Data
| ID | 5712354 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Julia Meredith Hess |
| GIVEN NAMES | Julia Meredith |
| FAMILY NAME | Hess |
| SIGNATURE | HESS J M |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, USA |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 26 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 26 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 26 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Immigrant Wellbeing Project Study Protocol
The goal of the Immigrant Wellbeing Project (IWP) study is to test a transdisciplinary ecological approach to reducing Latinx immigrants’ mental health disparities by adapting and integrating a multilevel community-based advocacy, learning, and social support intervention into existing efforts at four community partner organizations that focus on mental health, education, legal issues, and community mobilization for Spanish-speaking immigrants. T…
Is cultural appropriateness culturally specific? Intersectional insights from a community‐based participatory mental health intervention study conducted with diverse cultural groups
Growing evidence supports the importance of culturally appropriate mental health interventions, yet it is not always feasible to develop culturally grounded interventions or adapt existing interventions for each cultural group. In addition, these approaches do not recognize the multiple intersecting aspects of culture and identity that individuals, families, and communities possess. Thus, an essential question is whether culturally appropriate me…
Planned adaptation and implementation of the Community Guide recommendations for increasing physical activity in rural community settings
Background: The purpose of this paper is to report on the implementation of an evidence-based model, VIVA, which was developed to translate physical activity (PA) recommendations to rural environments and was scaled-up to 12 rural communities across New Mexico. Our longitudinal qualitative research describes processes of planned adaptation in the rural context with an exploration of inner and outer context adaptations that consider important impl…
Expanding Social Network Conceptualization, Measurement, and Theory
With forcible displacement at unprecedented levels and only expected to increase as conflict, economic inequities, and climate change escalate, it is critical to understand the ways in which social networks of migrants are disrupted and reconstituted in new contexts. This requires critical examination and expansion of existing social network conceptualization, measurement, and theory that considers transnational movement and experiences to ensure…
A Mixed-method Study of the Effects of Post-migration Economic Stressors on the Mental Health of Recently Resettled Refugees
After years of emphasis on pre-migration trauma as the major determinant of refugee mental health, researchers have begun to explore the effects of post-migration stressors on refugees’ distress. However, few studies have brought together refugees’ emic understandings of the effects of economic stressors on their mental health with quantitative data sets to further explore the salience of stress processes as an explanatory mechanism. In qualitati…
Perceptions of water and sugar-sweetened beverage consumption habits among teens, parents and teachers in the rural south-western USA
Objective The present research aimed to describe perceptions and behaviours around the consumption of water and sugar-sweetened beverages (SSB) by youths. Design A formative, qualitative study which conducted four focus groups. Transcripts were analysed and themes related to reasons youths drink SSB and water, and conversely do not drink SSB and water, were analysed to reveal thematic clusters around sensory factors, environment and policy, acces…
Tibet in Agony
A 3-Component Approach Incorporating Focus Groups in Strategic Planning for Sexual Violence Prevention
Sexual violence is of special concern in New Mexico because of the presence of large priority populations in which its prevalence is high. This article describes a 3-component approach to developing a strategic plan to prevent sexual violence in the state that consisted of an advisory group, subject matter experts, and focus groups from geographically and demographically diverse communities. Both common and community-specific themes emerged from …
Creating New Futures
Creating New Futures: Settling Children and Youth from Refugee BackgroundsEdited by Mary CrockSydney: Federation, 2015, pp. 313
We're Still in a Struggle
As part of a community/university collaborative effort to promote the mental health and well-being of Diné (Navajo) youth, we explored the relevance of addressing historical trauma and current structural stressors, and of building on individual and community strengths through healing and social transformation at multiple levels. Qualitative analyses of 74 ethnographic interviews with 37 Diné youth, parents, and grandparents suggested that a focus…
Arrested Histories
Tibet in Diaspora
This chapter aims to locate Tibet in terms of its geography, its strategic political and geographic position, and its history. It traces the paths of the Tibetan diaspora, addressing the center to which the diaspora constantly refers. It looks briefly at how Tibet has been referred to in the Western imagination in a geographical and political sense and highlights the relationship between Tibet and the United States prior to the flight of the Dala…
A New Home in Diaspora
This chapter examines how the 1,000 members of the TUSRP were welcomed in the United States. It focuses on the initial stages of resettlement, before family reunification, specifically the years 1992–1996. It notes that the same concerns of culture loss and change, politics, and economics arose again, but this time filtered through particular U.S. national interests at the time—anxiety over immigration and its attendant economic “burdens” and an …
Tibetans in India
This chapter examines the ways in which Tibetans conceive of culture and Tibetanness and how these are highlighted by the anxiety and excitement caused by increasing numbers of people choosing to go abroad. It highlights the distinction between “newcomers,” or recently arrived refugees from Tibet, and Tibetans born in exile, and their reasons for migration, and for staying in India. The chapter argues that such an examination helps in understandi…
Introduction
This chapter presents the main topics of the book, looking at the articulation of Tibetanness among stateless Tibetans in India and how this might be changing among those Tibetans who have resettled in the United States and are becoming U.S. citizens. It also describes the methodology for the book's multisited ethnographic research. The discussion provides a background of Tibetan identity in a globalizing world, an account that rethinks diasporic…
Conclusion
This chapter examines the state of Tibetans in the new world, arguing that they have a wider audience now and a broader array of tactics, and are acutely sensitive to the available discourses and their currency in global politics. With Tibetans' adoption of new technology, and their willingness to engage with Western, Chinese, and their own exilic discourses about Tibet and its relationship to China and the world, this chapter suggests that peopl…
“Tibetanness” Where There Is No Tibet
This chapter explores how Tibetan exiles formally frame the elements important to exile discourse. It argues that as stateless refugees, Tibetans must creatively wield well-worn concepts of “culture,” “nation,” and “modernity” in a world still ordered by nation-states. The discussion frames for the reader the way these ideas have been developed by the Dalai Lama, the government-in-exile, and other elites in Tibetan exile culture. This formalized …
Statelessness and the State
This chapter examines the processes by which Tibetans become U.S. citizens. It attempts to show how the state subjugates its members, while also showing the ways in which the state fails to subjugate its people. The analysis shows how U.S. Tibetans understand their own experiences, mobilize resistance, and negotiate with the state in ways that forge new subjectivities. This chapter explores the ways in which individual actors resist and negotiate…
Refugees to Citizens, Tibetans, and the State
This chapter starts by presenting the story of the flight of Ugyen Trinley Dorjee, the Karmapa, from Tibet to India and the subsequent problems his status as a refugee posed for the Indian government. The case of the Karmapa highlights various difficulties posed for the Indian and Chinese states by the facts of Tibetans' stateless status and presence. The chapter then traces the contours of the Tibetan diaspora in particular, examining the way va…
India, New Mexico, and the Specter of Tibet
This chapter explores the contours of the Tibetan diaspora, specifically those diasporic sites—the actual places where diasporic Tibetans live—where the research for this book was conducted. The chapter explicitly compares these sites along the primary axes that structure many of the chapters of the book, such as culture, politics, and economics—the areas many Tibetans referred to when talking about the impact of the expansion of the diaspora on …
“Culture Is Your Base Camp”
This chapter examines the work of cultural preservation by Tibetans in Santa Fe and the fulfillment of their ambassadorial role. It highlights new forms of Tibetanness that are emerging as the diaspora expands and a new generation of Tibetan youth comes of age. Focusing from the time period after family reunification, it discusses parental concerns that arose after the arrival of spouses and children, and the shift to cultural preservation and ed…
Immigrant Ambassadors
The Tibetan diaspora began fifty years ago when the current Dalai Lama fled Lhasa and established a government-in-exile in India. For those fifty years, the vast majority of Tibetans have kept their stateless refugee status in India and Nepal as a reminder to themselves and the world that Tibet is under Chinese occupation and that they are committed to returning someday. In the 1990s, the U.S. Congress passed legislation that allowed 1,000 Tibeta…
Immigrant Ambassadors
The Tibetan diaspora began fifty years ago when the current Dalai Lama fled Lhasa and established a government-in-exile in India. For those fifty years, the vast majority of Tibetans have kept their stateless refugee status in India and Nepal as a reminder to themselves and the world that Tibet is under Chinese occupation and that they are committed to returning someday. In the 1990s, the U.S. Congress passed legislation that allowed 1,000 Tibeta…
Diasporas. Stéphane Dufoix , William Rodarmor
High Frontiers
Immigrant Ambassadors
The Tibetan diaspora began fifty years ago when the current Dalai Lama fled Lhasa and established a government-in-exile in India. For those fifty years, the vast majority of Tibetans have kept their stateless refugee status in India and Nepal as a reminder to themselves and the world that Tibet is under Chinese occupation and that they are committed to returning someday. In the 1990s, the U.S. Congress passed legislation that allowed 1,000 Tibeta…
We're Still in a Struggle
As part of a community/university collaborative effort to promote the mental health and well-being of Diné (Navajo) youth, we explored the relevance of addressing historical trauma and current structural stressors, and of building on individual and community strengths through healing and social transformation at multiple levels. Qualitative analyses of 74 ethnographic interviews with 37 Diné youth, parents, and grandparents suggested that a focus…
Immigrant Ambassadors
The Tibetan diaspora began fifty years ago when the current Dalai Lama fled Lhasa and established a government-in-exile in India. For those fifty years, the vast majority of Tibetans have kept their stateless refugee status in India and Nepal as a reminder to themselves and the world that Tibet is under Chinese occupation and that they are committed to returning someday. In the 1990s, the U.S. Congress passed legislation that allowed 1,000 Tibeta…
Coming Home? Refugees, Migrants, and Those Who Stayed behind . Lynellyn D. Long , Ellen Oxfeld
High Frontiers
Tibet in Diaspora
This chapter aims to locate Tibet in terms of its geography, its strategic political and geographic position, and its history. It traces the paths of the Tibetan diaspora, addressing the center to which the diaspora constantly refers. It looks briefly at how Tibet has been referred to in the Western imagination in a geographical and political sense and highlights the relationship between Tibet and the United States prior to the flight of the Dala…
A New Home in Diaspora
This chapter examines how the 1,000 members of the TUSRP were welcomed in the United States. It focuses on the initial stages of resettlement, before family reunification, specifically the years 1992–1996. It notes that the same concerns of culture loss and change, politics, and economics arose again, but this time filtered through particular U.S. national interests at the time—anxiety over immigration and its attendant economic “burdens” and an …
Tibetans in India
This chapter examines the ways in which Tibetans conceive of culture and Tibetanness and how these are highlighted by the anxiety and excitement caused by increasing numbers of people choosing to go abroad. It highlights the distinction between “newcomers,” or recently arrived refugees from Tibet, and Tibetans born in exile, and their reasons for migration, and for staying in India. The chapter argues that such an examination helps in understandi…
Introduction
This chapter presents the main topics of the book, looking at the articulation of Tibetanness among stateless Tibetans in India and how this might be changing among those Tibetans who have resettled in the United States and are becoming U.S. citizens. It also describes the methodology for the book's multisited ethnographic research. The discussion provides a background of Tibetan identity in a globalizing world, an account that rethinks diasporic…
Conclusion
This chapter examines the state of Tibetans in the new world, arguing that they have a wider audience now and a broader array of tactics, and are acutely sensitive to the available discourses and their currency in global politics. With Tibetans' adoption of new technology, and their willingness to engage with Western, Chinese, and their own exilic discourses about Tibet and its relationship to China and the world, this chapter suggests that peopl…
“Tibetanness” Where There Is No Tibet
This chapter explores how Tibetan exiles formally frame the elements important to exile discourse. It argues that as stateless refugees, Tibetans must creatively wield well-worn concepts of “culture,” “nation,” and “modernity” in a world still ordered by nation-states. The discussion frames for the reader the way these ideas have been developed by the Dalai Lama, the government-in-exile, and other elites in Tibetan exile culture. This formalized …
Statelessness and the State
This chapter examines the processes by which Tibetans become U.S. citizens. It attempts to show how the state subjugates its members, while also showing the ways in which the state fails to subjugate its people. The analysis shows how U.S. Tibetans understand their own experiences, mobilize resistance, and negotiate with the state in ways that forge new subjectivities. This chapter explores the ways in which individual actors resist and negotiate…
Refugees to Citizens, Tibetans, and the State
This chapter starts by presenting the story of the flight of Ugyen Trinley Dorjee, the Karmapa, from Tibet to India and the subsequent problems his status as a refugee posed for the Indian government. The case of the Karmapa highlights various difficulties posed for the Indian and Chinese states by the facts of Tibetans' stateless status and presence. The chapter then traces the contours of the Tibetan diaspora in particular, examining the way va…
India, New Mexico, and the Specter of Tibet
This chapter explores the contours of the Tibetan diaspora, specifically those diasporic sites—the actual places where diasporic Tibetans live—where the research for this book was conducted. The chapter explicitly compares these sites along the primary axes that structure many of the chapters of the book, such as culture, politics, and economics—the areas many Tibetans referred to when talking about the impact of the expansion of the diaspora on …
“Culture Is Your Base Camp”
This chapter examines the work of cultural preservation by Tibetans in Santa Fe and the fulfillment of their ambassadorial role. It highlights new forms of Tibetanness that are emerging as the diaspora expands and a new generation of Tibetan youth comes of age. Focusing from the time period after family reunification, it discusses parental concerns that arose after the arrival of spouses and children, and the shift to cultural preservation and ed…
Immigrant Ambassadors
The Tibetan diaspora began fifty years ago when the current Dalai Lama fled Lhasa and established a government-in-exile in India. For those fifty years, the vast majority of Tibetans have kept their stateless refugee status in India and Nepal as a reminder to themselves and the world that Tibet is under Chinese occupation and that they are committed to returning someday. In the 1990s, the U.S. Congress passed legislation that allowed 1,000 Tibeta…
Immigrant Ambassadors
The Tibetan diaspora began fifty years ago when the current Dalai Lama fled Lhasa and established a government-in-exile in India. For those fifty years, the vast majority of Tibetans have kept their stateless refugee status in India and Nepal as a reminder to themselves and the world that Tibet is under Chinese occupation and that they are committed to returning someday. In the 1990s, the U.S. Congress passed legislation that allowed 1,000 Tibeta…
Diasporas. Stéphane Dufoix , William Rodarmor
Arrested Histories
We're Still in a Struggle
As part of a community/university collaborative effort to promote the mental health and well-being of Diné (Navajo) youth, we explored the relevance of addressing historical trauma and current structural stressors, and of building on individual and community strengths through healing and social transformation at multiple levels. Qualitative analyses of 74 ethnographic interviews with 37 Diné youth, parents, and grandparents suggested that a focus…
A 3-Component Approach Incorporating Focus Groups in Strategic Planning for Sexual Violence Prevention
Sexual violence is of special concern in New Mexico because of the presence of large priority populations in which its prevalence is high. This article describes a 3-component approach to developing a strategic plan to prevent sexual violence in the state that consisted of an advisory group, subject matter experts, and focus groups from geographically and demographically diverse communities. Both common and community-specific themes emerged from …
Creating New Futures
Creating New Futures: Settling Children and Youth from Refugee BackgroundsEdited by Mary CrockSydney: Federation, 2015, pp. 313
Tibet in Agony
Perceptions of water and sugar-sweetened beverage consumption habits among teens, parents and teachers in the rural south-western USA
Objective The present research aimed to describe perceptions and behaviours around the consumption of water and sugar-sweetened beverages (SSB) by youths. Design A formative, qualitative study which conducted four focus groups. Transcripts were analysed and themes related to reasons youths drink SSB and water, and conversely do not drink SSB and water, were analysed to reveal thematic clusters around sensory factors, environment and policy, acces…
A Mixed-method Study of the Effects of Post-migration Economic Stressors on the Mental Health of Recently Resettled Refugees
After years of emphasis on pre-migration trauma as the major determinant of refugee mental health, researchers have begun to explore the effects of post-migration stressors on refugees’ distress. However, few studies have brought together refugees’ emic understandings of the effects of economic stressors on their mental health with quantitative data sets to further explore the salience of stress processes as an explanatory mechanism. In qualitati…
Planned adaptation and implementation of the Community Guide recommendations for increasing physical activity in rural community settings
Background: The purpose of this paper is to report on the implementation of an evidence-based model, VIVA, which was developed to translate physical activity (PA) recommendations to rural environments and was scaled-up to 12 rural communities across New Mexico. Our longitudinal qualitative research describes processes of planned adaptation in the rural context with an exploration of inner and outer context adaptations that consider important impl…
Expanding Social Network Conceptualization, Measurement, and Theory
With forcible displacement at unprecedented levels and only expected to increase as conflict, economic inequities, and climate change escalate, it is critical to understand the ways in which social networks of migrants are disrupted and reconstituted in new contexts. This requires critical examination and expansion of existing social network conceptualization, measurement, and theory that considers transnational movement and experiences to ensure…
Immigrant Wellbeing Project Study Protocol
The goal of the Immigrant Wellbeing Project (IWP) study is to test a transdisciplinary ecological approach to reducing Latinx immigrants’ mental health disparities by adapting and integrating a multilevel community-based advocacy, learning, and social support intervention into existing efforts at four community partner organizations that focus on mental health, education, legal issues, and community mobilization for Spanish-speaking immigrants. T…
Sociology (16 works) · History (13 works) · Political science (12 works) · Asian Geopolitics and Ethnography (9 works) · Computer Science (8 works) · Geography (8 works) · Psychology (8 works) · China's Ethnic Minorities and Relations (7 works) · Gender Studies (6 works) · Law (6 works)