Conceptual and Methodological Approaches to Navigating Immigrant Ecologies

✍ Scribed by Hui Chu, Barbara Thelamour

Publisher: Springer International Publishing;Springer
Year: 2021
Tongue: English
Leaves: 253
Series: Advances in Immigrant Family Research
Edition: 1st ed.
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

This bookcompiles a series of empirical and conceptual chapters based on Bronfenbrenner’s ecological theory as the framework for understanding the overlapping and intersecting contexts that influence different populations of migrants in the United States and Canada. According to Bronfenbrenner’s model, individuals engage in activities and relationships that directly impact them, including families, schools, and jobs (microsystems), the interrelations among microsystems like family-school (mesosystems), contexts that have an impact on the individual through indirect influences (exosystems), and the overarching cultural milieus in which members share values, beliefs, and lifestyles (macrosystems). Within this edited volume, family, school, work, media, policies, culture, and sociohistorical contexts are examined to understand their influence on immigrant groups. This edited volume also considers immigrants across development and ethnic groups to provide a comprehensive resource on the issues that currently affect immigrant groups.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter ....Pages i-x
Introduction: Contextualizing Immigration Using Bioecological Systems Theory (Hui Chu, Barbara Thelamour)....Pages 1-9
“Location, Location, Location”: Contextualizing Chinese Families in Four Geolocations (Susan S. Chuang, Ching-Yu Huang, Xuan Li, April Chiung-Tao Shen, Meihua Zhu, Agnes Ng et al.)....Pages 11-25
Front Matter ....Pages 27-27
Using an Ecological Framework to Contextualize the Bicultural Experiences and Identity of Asian Indian Immigrant Mothers and Their Children (Stacey P. Raj, Suchi S. Daga, Vaishali V. Raval)....Pages 29-46
Identity and Belonging: The Role of the Mesosystem in the Adaptation of Russian-Speaking Immigrant Youth in Canada (Jenny Glozman, Susan S. Chuang)....Pages 47-65
The Ecology of Dating Preferences Among Asian American Adolescents in Emerging Immigrant Communities (Michele Chan, Lisa Kiang)....Pages 67-88
Social Representations of Blackness in America: Stereotypes About Black Immigrants and Black Americans (Teceta Thomas Tormala, Reycine Mc Kenzie)....Pages 89-106
A Mixed-Methods Examination of Acculturation and African Immigrants’ Perceptions of Black American Culture (Barbara Thelamour)....Pages 107-127
Front Matter ....Pages 129-129
Korean American Youth and Their Mothers: Intergenerational Differences and Consequences (Hui Chu, Christia Spears Brown)....Pages 131-154
“How Do We Raise Chinese Kids Here?”: A Qualitative Study on the Cultural Translation of Immigrant Chinese Parents in the Midwestern US Context (Sherry C. Wang, Vicki L. Plano Clark, Susan K. Fan)....Pages 155-176
A Tale of Two Cultures: Nigerian Immigrant Parents Navigating a New Cultural Paradigm (Chinwe Onwujuba, Olena Nesteruk)....Pages 177-196
Front Matter ....Pages 197-197
Demand and Direct Involvement: Chinese American and European American Preschoolers’ Perceptions of Parental Involvement in Children’s Schooling (Yoko Yamamoto, Jin Li, Hanna Bao, Wendy Suh)....Pages 199-218
Neighborhood Experiences of Immigrant Families with Young Children in the United States (Elizabeth A. Shuey, Tama Leventhal)....Pages 219-238
Back Matter ....Pages 239-250

✦ Subjects

Psychology; Psychology, general; Cross Cultural Psychology; Migration

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