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Showing 1 to 20 of 44 for “"Chinese immigrant"”.
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Chinese immigrant entrepreneurs in New England area
More and more Chinese immigrants came to the U.S. to start a whole new life. Some of them became entrepreneurs. This study focused on Chinese new immigrant entrepreneurs in New England area, and analyzed what factors have the most effective impact of the Chinese new immigrants to become an …
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Acculturation and Mental Health in Chinese Immigrant Youth
… perceived social support on the mental health of Chinese immigrant adolescents. Study participants included 81 first generation Chinese immigrant adolescents. Mental health was operationalized using the BASC emotional symptoms index and somatization score. As hypothesized, acculturative stress and …
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Chinese Immigrant Parental Involvement in Children’s Education: Characteristics and Challenges
… the quality and level of parental involvement in Chinese immigrant families, and the factors and challenges that exist. It will examine how language, culture, and parental educational will impact the amount that parents are involved in their children’s education, and how there may be both external …
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English Language Learners of Chinese Immigrant Families in Canadian Schools
Given the context that many Chinese immigrant families are settling in Canada, their children, as English language learners (ELLs), have encountered a variety of obstacles and barriers while studying at local schools. The purpose of this Major Research Paper (MRP) is to understand the obstacles and …
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Life under shadow: Chinese immigrant women in nineteenth- century America
… creating unusual disadvantaged conditions for Chinese immigrant women. As a weak minority in an alien and often hostile environment and as a subordinate sex in a sexist society, Chinese women suffered from double oppression of racism and sexism. In addition, the Chinese cultural values of …
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CHINESE IMMIGRANT MOTHERS’ ROLE IDENTITY AND PARENTAL INVOLVEMENT WITH YOUNG CHILDREN
Immigrant parents with young children face difficult dilemmas that stem from the challenges of navigating the different cultures of their home and of their adopting country (e.g., Hynie, 2018; Kim et al., 2001; Schwartz et al., 2010). Parents’ deliberations about how to raise their children are …
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Exploring critical issues faced by Chinese immigrant entrepreneurs in the U.K
Despite the significant contributions of Chinese immigrant entrepreneurs in the U.K. (Lin, 2015), their unique challenges and how they manage these challenges have not been well documented. Extant literature notes that facing challenges hinders acculturation, negatively affects an enterprise's …
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Identity Perception of Chinese Immigrant Youth at a Mandarin Bilingual School
… study explored identity perception of youth from Chinese backgrounds in the context of a Mandarin/English bilingual education program in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. The study was based on the theory proposed by Grosjean (2015) on bilingualism and biculturalism, together with bilingual identity …
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Challenging the Tiger Mother Stereotype? Christian Chinese Immigrant Homeschooling Mothers’ Parenting Practices
… to their personal and cultural values. Young Chinese parents tend to seek information and materials originating in the West for good parenting references because of the lack of indigenous parenting studies (Goh, 2011) and because of their higher regard for Western society (Fong, 2004; Goh, …
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Protective Factors Against Intergenerational Conflict in Chinese Immigrant Families: A Pilot Study
… gap on intergenerational conflict in 23 Chinese immigrant families. Adolescents and one of their immigrant parents completed questionnaires assessing their acculturation. Adolescents also completed family conflict and parent attachment measures. Parents provided information on the use of …
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Challenges and Opportunities of Chinese Immigrant Students with Intellectual Disabilities in Transition Services
… understand the experiences of newly immigrated Chinese students with intellectual disabilities who are in transition programs. In depth interviews were conducted with four students and their families. Quality of life, sense of self, nature of relationships, beliefs about disability, and …
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Retelling an Old Wife’s Tale: Postpartum Care of Taiwanese and Chinese Immigrant Women
<p>The focus of this dissertation is the Chinese postpartum tradition <em>zuoyuezi</em>, often translated into English as doing-the-month. Having its roots in ancient China, this set of practices has maintained its salience today in Taiwan, China, and among first generation immigrant women in the …
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Sport socialization between parents and children in Chinese immigrant families in the U.S.
… the sport socialization goals in particular, of Chinese immigrant parents? (2) What is the influence of parent-child socialization on children’s sports involvement in Chinese immigrant families? and (3) What are the perceived meanings of sport socialization in the context of the overall …
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Cultural perspectives of mental health beliefs and treatment expectations within the Chinese immigrant community
… the context of cultural perspectives within the Chinese immigrant community in the UK. Using a constructivist grounded theory methodology, intensive interviews were used to collect data from twelve participants. The participants were all first generation Chinese immigrants who had experience of …
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Mother Tongue Interference in English Language Pronunciation of the Chinese Immigrant in the United States
… a key role in cross-cultural communication. Chinese immigrants in the US will certainly encounter many difficulties in acquiring L2 proficiency. Some of these challenges are tied to 1) Chinese immigrants’ history in the US and the variety of Chinese dialects; 2) distinctions between Chinese …
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Parent-child acculturation discrepancy, parental knowledge, peer deviance, and adolescent delinquency in Chinese immigrant families
Using a longitudinal sample of Chinese immigrant families, the current study examined parent-child acculturation discrepancy as an ongoing risk factor for delinquency, through the mediating pathway of parental knowledge of the child’s daily experiences relating to child’s contact with deviant …
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PARENTING IN CHINESE IMMIGRANT MOTHERS: THE INFLUENCES OF CHINESE IDENTITY, CULTURAL AND PARENTING COGNITIONS, GRANDPARENT SUPPORT AND CHILD TEMPERAMENT
… cognitions and parenting in acculturating Chinese communities. This study explored the following research questions among acculturating Chinese mothers in the United States: 1) How parents’ sense of investment is determined by acculturation processes and its importance for parental …
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To share or not to share : a case study of six Chinese immigrant children’s sharing behaviors during social pretend play in a US preschool classroom
… theories, this dissertation investigated Chinese immigrant children’s sharing behaviors, including initiating sharing behaviors and responding to sharing requests, as well as their parents’ and teachers’ descriptions of the children’s sharing behaviors. Six Chinese immigrant children along …
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