“I just want to build a future”: Future Time Perspectives and Case Studies of Refugee Adolescent Girls

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dc.contributor.advisorHusman, Jenefer
dc.contributor.authorDeRosia, Nicholette
dc.date.accessioned2024-08-07T22:19:15Z
dc.date.available2024-08-07T22:19:15Z
dc.date.issued2024-08-07
dc.description.abstractRefugee girls are underserved in U.S. schools and under-studied in educational and psychological research. Using a feminist intersectional lens and a case study approach, this project sought to illuminate how three high school age refugee girls expressed their intersectional identities and their Future Time Perspectives (FTP; Lewin, 1948) when describing their case studies. It also examined how their intersectional identities showed up in those expressions, and if/how those identities aligned with their learning environment. The study focused on the mismatch between individualistic and collectivist identities interwoven into the other identities of the three girls focused on in this study. FTP should include Collective Time Extension, or an understanding of extending thinking of time into the past and the future, as not just individual, but also inclusive of collective identity. Furthermore, the study interrogated the associated idea of Socioemotional Selectivity Theory (SST), which posits that as life’s perceived time gets shorter that priorities shift from achievement (academic, professional success) goals, to emotional (building relationships, spending time with loved ones) goals (Carstensen & Lang, 1996; 2002; Lang, 2017; Rohr, 2017). Rather than be on one side of a binary of identities that mismatched with the context they were in, they displayed complex capacities to hold and navigate many identities and understandings at once. The girls in this study leveraged their emotional goals and collective identities; to form and make sense of achievement goals in the individualistic systems they were a part of. Keywords: Refugee, Future Time Perspective, Intersectionality, Collective Time Extensionen_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1794/29814
dc.language.isoen_US
dc.publisherUniversity of Oregon
dc.rightsAll Rights Reserved.
dc.subjectCollective Time Extensionen_US
dc.subjectFuture Time Perspectiveen_US
dc.subjectIntersectionalityen_US
dc.subjectRefugeeen_US
dc.title“I just want to build a future”: Future Time Perspectives and Case Studies of Refugee Adolescent Girls
dc.typeElectronic Thesis or Dissertation
thesis.degree.disciplineDepartment of Education Studies
thesis.degree.grantorUniversity of Oregon
thesis.degree.leveldoctoral
thesis.degree.namePh.D.

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