American University in Cairo

About: American University in Cairo is a education organization based out in Cairo, Egypt. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Population & Context (language use). The organization has 2472 authors who have published 5339 publications receiving 73741 citations.

Living transnationally: Somali diasporic women in Cairo.

Abstract: Since the Somali Civil War in 1991 there have been a large number of Somalis living in the Middle East Europe North America and Australia. An increasing number of these Somalis are living in transnational households where family members live and sometimes move back and forth in different nation-states yet these families maintain strong ties share resources and make decisions collectively about the well-being of different members. In this paper I argue that women play central roles in establishing and managing these transnational households. I examine these roles and their significance through an analysis of the activities and experiences of two groups of Somali women in Cairo within the domains of their transnational families and communities. These groups of women are: (1) refugees who have been granted or are seeking asylum from the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) office in Egypt and (2) naturalized citizens of Western countries who have relocated to Egypt and whomI will refer to as emigres. I argue that many of these women become active members of transnational households and communities to (1) resist legal economic and/or cultural "othering" of host societies and (2) renegotiate past and present identity discourses that marginalize these individuals on multiple levels that are determined by clan affiliations socio-economic conditions and gender inequalities. By using complex transnational strategies these women are engaging in new forms of activism to establish lives with more security better future opportunities and more dignity for their families and themselves. Yet their transnational family and community lives have benefits and challenges which the women experience differently because of their varied diasporic histories and their uneven access to legal and social capital. (authors)

Board Diversity and Firm Performance: Evidence from the U.K. SMEs

Abstract: This study examines the relationship between board diversity and firm performance in small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in the U.K. In particular, we investigate the role of gender and age ...

Patterns of reproductive periodicities in four species of indo-pacific echinoderms

Abstract: 1. Four species of Indo-Pacific echinoderms, the echinoidsDiadema setosum andEchinometra mathaei, the asteroidLinckia laevigata and the holothuroidHolothuria atra, are reproductively active and spawn more or less continuously, when they occur near the equator.