| Description |
xvi, 379 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
1. Cultural psychology of immigrants : an introduction / Ramaswami Mahalingam -- 2. Whither thou goest : an evolutionary perspective on migration / Bobbi S. Low -- 3. Assimilation or transnationalism? : conceptual models of the immigrant experience in America / Silvia Pedraza -- 4. The dialectic of recognition and displacement in a globalized world / E. Valentine Daniel -- 5. Transnational ties and mental health / Eleanor J. Murphy -- 6. A two-level approach to anti-immigrant prejudice and discrimination / Thomas F. Pettigrew -- 7. The role of prejudice in the discounting of immigrant skills / Victoria M. Esses, Joerg Dietz and Arjun Bhardwaj -- 8. Black immigrants to the United States : confronting and constructing ethnicity and race / Teceta Thomas Tormala and Kay Deaux -- 9. Cultural psychology and marginality : an explorative study of indian diaspora / Ramaswami Mahalingam, Cheri Philip and Sundari Balan -- 10. Racing transatlantic passages : James Baldwin's African "America" and immigrant studies / Magdalena J. Zaborowska -- 11. Model minority and marital violence : South Asian immigrants in the United States / Margaret Abraham -- 12. Refugees and gendered citizenship / Patricia R. Pessar -- 13. Gender, sexuality, language, and migration / Oliva M. Espin -- 14. Cultural psychology of gender and immigration / Ramaswami Mahalingam and Jana Haritatos -- 15. Conceptual and research considerations in the determinants of child outcomes among English-speaking Caribbean immigrants in the United States : a cultural-ecological approach / Jaipaul L. Roopnarine and Ambika Krishnakumar -- 16. On the development of identity : perspectives from immigrant families / Karen Kisiel Dion -- 17. Negotiating culture and ethnicity : intergenerational relations in Chinese immigrant families in the United States / Min Zhou -- 18. Acculturation or negotiation? : what Japanese academic migrants teach us about family processes and gendered experiences of cultural adaptation / Izumi Sakamoto |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes |
| Subject |
Immigrants -- Psychology.
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Emigration and immigration -- Psychological aspects.
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Ethnopsychology.
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Identity (Psychology) -- Social aspects.
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Assimilation (Sociology)
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Culture and globalization.
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| Author |
Mahalingam, Ram.
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| LC no. |
2005044675 |
| ISBN |
0805853146 cloth alkaline paper |
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0805853154 paperback alkaline paper |
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