Immigrants: Acculturation, Socioeconomic Challenges and Cultural Psychology
Judy Ho (Editor)
Pepperdine University Graduate School of Education and Psychology, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Series: Immigration in the 21st Century: Political, Social and Economic Issues
BISAC: SOC007000
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Immigrants significantly contribute to the ever-expanding diversity of the populations of the countries they reside in, and they bring a wide array of cultural values, norms and practices that help to make each country unique. The immigrant experience is multidimensional, consisting of at least one and sometimes multiple geographical relocations, and the various socioeconomic, cultural and psychological challenges that are encountered en route. In this volume, the authors provide insights regarding the multidimensional immigrant experience in different countries around the world.
The heterogeneity of immigrant populations in various countries is highlighted in several chapters, and the importance of perceptions on our treatment of immigrants and how it affects the immigrants’ experience is underscored. Several contributions examine the psychological stressors immigrants face, how these stressors affect their mental health status and how to ameliorate these problems. A number of chapters discuss educational and socioeconomic policies that affect immigrants and how to improve upon them.
The common theme amongst the contributions in this volume center on how to improve upon the immigrants’ social, cultural and psychological experience, and to provide them with the tools they need to become healthy, integrated and involved members of their new host country. This volume is an important step to help inform professionals and laymen alike on how we can support our immigrant populations and help them to break down the barriers they encounter in their migration. (Imprint: Nova)
Preface pp.i-x
Chapter 1. Cognitive Behavior Therapies for Refugee Youth
(Natalia Moss and J.D. Barton, Department of Psychology, University of New Mexico, NM, USA, and others)pp.1-14
Chapter 2. Effects of Social Support, Coping Strategies, Self-Esteem, Mastery, and Religiosity on the Relationship between Stress and Depression among Korean Immigrants in the United States: Structural Equation Modeling
(Hyun-Sun Park, Department of Social Work, California State University, Northridge, CA, USA)pp.15-50
Chapter 3. Developmental Risks and Mental Health Consequences of Illegal Status for Children of Migrant Workers
(Yael Meir and Michelle Slone, School of Psychological Sciences, Tel-Aviv University, Israel)pp.51-66
Chapter 4. Migratory Stress and Mental Health in Adolescent and Young Adult Mexican Immigrants Living in the United States: Contextualizing Acculturation
(Xochitl Castañeda, Emily Felt, Cristina Martinez-Taboada, Nicte Castañeda and Telesforo Ramirez, School of Public Health, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA, and others)pp.67-84
Chapter 5. African Immigrants: Mental Health Status and Barriers in Professional Mental Health Service Use
(Judy Ho, Gimel Rogers and Kimberly Anderson, Graduate School of Education and Psychology, Pepperdine University, Los Angeles, CA, USA)
pp.85-112
Chapter 6. Destination Netherlands: History of Immigration and Immigration Policy in the Netherlands
(Masja van Meeteren, Sanne van de Pol, Rianne Dekker, Godfried Engbersen and Erik Snel, Erasmus University Rotterdam, Department of
Sociology, Rotterdam, Netherlands, and others)pp.113-170
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Chapter 7. Preservice Teachers’ Culturally Relevant Beliefs: The Impact of a Clinical Experience Tutoring Sudanese Students
(Doris Walker-Dalhouse and A. Derick Dalhouse, Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI, USA, and others)pp.171-186
Chapter 8. Smashed Mirror: Immigrant Students’ Constructions of South African Students
(Saloshna Vandeyar and Thirusellvan Vandeyar, Faculty of Education, University of Pretoria, South Africa)pp.187-206
Chapter 9. Integration of Youth Immigrants into European Labour Markets
(Gönül Oðuz, Department of Economics, Giresun University, UK)
pp.207-230
Chapter 10. A Methodological Assessment of Immigrants’ Settlement Patterns and Housing Typologies in Metropolitan Areas
(Emília Malcata Rebelo, Research Centre for Territory, Transports and Environment, Porto University, Faculty of Engineering, Portugal)
pp.231-252
Chapter 11. Collective Spaces for Intercultural Dialogue: Immigrants and the Right to Beauty
(Serena Viola, Università degli Studi di Napoli, Federico II, Napoli, Italy)pp.253-264
Chapter 12 Immigration and Education: Policy and Practices for Integration and Inclusion in the Greek Context
(Eleni Griva and Eugenia Panitsides, University of Western Macedonia- Greece, and others)pp.265-280
Index pp.281-298
