It is the closing of the semester, and a bitter sweet feeling, Alex and I have sprinkled the finishing touches onto our website, “Moment in Migration, Congolese Community in Kirksville, MO.” Over the winter break, we will be giving ourselves a much-needed reprieve from school. However, COPLAC Cultural Crossroads class has been such a worthwhile […]
I am calling on Congress to TERMINATE the diversity visa lottery program that presents significant vulnerabilities to our national security. pic.twitter.com/tW4wOlI4vu — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 2, 2017 As many politicians call for the diversity visa lottery to be shut down, thousands of others are hoping to play the lottery as a ticket to […]
During my last Linguistics Practicum class period, we discussed the factors both helping and working against the Congolese in their quest to learn English, an absolute necessity for anyone who would like to be employed outside of minimum-wage, manual jobs. In regards to their educational background, it appears that the majority of the population highly […]
The following was taken from the literature review I wrote in the fall of 2016: “The definition of acculturation is contested (Faragallah et al. 2007), but according to one of the first studies of acculturation by Redfield, Linton, and Herskovits (1936), acculturation is the culture change which results from continuous, first hand contact between two […]
Wow, what a world of bureaucracy to navigate in academia. Alex & I had submitted and gained approval from the Institutional Review Board (IRB) at Truman on October 5. The next day, we decided to change our methodology in order to complement COPLAC’s vision of outward-facing research. So instead of confidentially collecting data, we decided […]
In continuing our mission of learning more about the DRC, I simply googled “The Democratic Republic of Congo.” The first few news stories were appalling. And unlike the time lapse between King Leopold of Belgium’s Reign of Terror and public knowledge in the early 1900s, we as a society have real-time access to the news […]
Slide 2) Emizet François Kisangani, and F. Scott Bobb. Historical Dictionary of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. 3rd ed. (Lanham; Toronto; Plymouth, UK: Scarecrow Press, 2010), p. 52. Slide 3) Georges Nzongola-Ntalaja. The Congo from Leopold to Kabila. (London and New York: Zed Books, 2002), p. 5. Slides 4-5) Kisangani, p. lxii. Slide 6) John […]
This project will further the explanatory project embarked by Wilcox in 2016 in a team effort of Wilcox, a Sociology student, and Vietor, an Anthropology student, in an online, long-distance learning graduate level research course (SOAN 523). This will use ethnographic methods including interviews in order to gain insight on the immigration of Congolese in […]
The “Congolese Refugee Health Profile,” published by the CDC (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) in 2014, details the migratory movements of refugees from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), both within the United States and among the DRC’s neighbors. In essence, it shows that the outpouring of asylum-seekers from the DRC is not likely […]
The article “Out of Africa, into the Heartland,” published by KTVO (Moling 2015), chronicles the stories of Richard and Celeste’s immigrations from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) to Kirksville, Missouri. In the article, Richard explains his motivation for immigration; for his family to have a better future. This consequently led them to suffer through […]
