Strengths and challenges of new immigrant families implications for research, education, policy, and service /
Immigration to America is an issue that often sparks intense emotional reactions--from passion and compassion to anger and even rage. Often missing from the dialogue, however, is discussion of the strengths of immigrant newcomers--the abilities and positive characteristics they bring as individuals...
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| Format: | Electronic |
| Language: | English |
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Lanham, MD :
Lexington Books,
c2009.
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Table of Contents:
- How immigration changes immigrants and how immigrants change America
- A sociological analysis of the psychosocial adaptation of Khmer refugees in Massachusetts
- Understanding the immigration experience through a life course lens: four personal stories
- Transnational families and the social construction of identity: whiteness matters
- Influence of American culture on East Indian immigrants: perception of marriage and family life
- Strong marriages in Latino culture
- Family strengths of Hmong and Somali refugees in the United States
- Migrating Latinas and the grief process
- Career and employment concerns of immigrant women
- Childcare challenges of African immigrant families: an inductive thematic analysis
- Decisions about child rearing practices in first generation Asian Indian immigrants
- Intergenerational differences in acculturation and family conflict among Korean immigrant families
- Lost boys finding their way: challenges, changes, and small victories of young Sudanese refugees in the United States
- Distant relations between migrant adult children and their older parents
- Co-residence in Chinese immigrant families
- Stress, status, and sociability: exploring residential satisfaction in the rural Midwest following rapid immigration
- Rural Latino immigrant families: hunger satisfaction in the rural Midwest following rapid immigration
- Rural Latino immigrant families: hunger, housing, and social support
- Parental stress among U.S. Mexican heritage parents: implications for culturally relevant family life education
- The impact of Latino immigrants and bicultural program coordinators on organizational philosophy and values: a case study of organizational responsiveness.