Ayat Nashwan

• University of Jordan

•  PhD in Social Work / University of Tennessee/ Knoxville ( UTK ), United States of America

• Assistant Professor  /Sociology and Social Work  /Yarmouk University 

• Website : http://faculty.yu.edu.jo/ayat.n/SitePages/Home.aspx
•  E-mail: ayat.n(at)yu.edu.jo

 

Research Statement

My area of interest focuses on immigrant social issues, specifically the challenges faced by the increasing number of Arab immigrants to the United States. I am interested in studying the acculturation process and the acculturative stress that accompanies the adjustment of these immigrants who are increasingly coming to a new culture in significant numbers. My primary areas of research interest include social work practice with Arab American, Muslim, and Middle Eastern immigrant families and communities, across the lifespan.  My secondary area of research interest is acculturative stress among Arab American children and adolescents in United States, and the impact of social support as a buffer for acculturative stress. My dissertation title is “Acculturative Stress and Social Support among Arab Immigrant Adolescents in East Tennessee”. I am highly interested in doing research on Trauma and Traumatic events among Immigrant and refugee populations. 

Currently I am working on these research projects: expected to be done by Dec 2015.

• “Setting Research Priorities for Refugee and Immigrant Students’ Success in Education”. ( Group work ) Submitted for publication.

• “Challenges and Coping Strategies among Older Iraqi Refugee Women in East Tennessee.”  

• “The Experience of Being an Arab Immigrant Woman: A Phenomenological Investigation”