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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"First Generation Immigrant"”.
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Immigration Stress, Exposure to Traumatic Life Experiences, and Problem Drinking Among First-Generation Immigrant Latino Couples
… secondary data collected in 2009 from 104 Latino immigrant couples living in the Washington DC area. Results from the path model analysis indicated that even though men's overall immigration stress was not significantly related to their own problem drinking, emotional dimensions of immigration …
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Brown Girl Chromatography
… two cultural identities while growing up as a first generation immigrant in the United States. This creative work interrogates issues of race, class, gender, and sexuality in post-9/11 America. This collection, written as a memoir-in-verse, draws from pop cultural icons and personal experiences …
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Effects of culture brokering on individual well-being and family dynamics in a sample of immigrant young adults from Eastern Europe
… on the well-being and family dynamics of immigrant young adults from Eastern Europe. Data were collected from 197 first generation immigrant youth (M age = 22.93, SD = 2.89) from 12 different countries in Eastern Europe. The majority of the participants were female (63.5%) and had lived in …
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A family affair: African immigrant families conceptualizing and navigating college choice
… and access strategies of sub-Saharan African immigrant families in the United States. This study generates knowledge around how 1.5- and second-generation African immigrant college going students and their first-generation immigrant parents conceptualize and navigate the college choice …
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Caregiver separation, Resilience and Peer Attachment in Recently Immigrated Latinx Youth
Background: Between 32% to 85% of first-generation immigrant Latinx youth experience separation from at least one primary caregiver (Lu et al., 2020; Suarez-Orozco et al., 2002). Research unequivocally associates caregiver separation with detrimental outcomes such as an increased likelihood for …
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Exploring risk-taking and health in immigrant adolescents to Canada: A unique focus on the “healthy immigrant effect”
The Healthy Immigrant Effect (HIE) describes the phenomenon in which immigrants initially experience better health outcomes than the host population, followed by a gradual decline in health across time and generations. While the HIE has been widely documented among adults, less is known about how …
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Retelling an Old Wife’s Tale: Postpartum Care of Taiwanese and Chinese Immigrant Women
… its salience today in Taiwan, China, and among first generation immigrant women in the U.S. Women not only continue to perform <em>zuoyuezi</em> at home, many also rely on emerging forms of commodified <em></em>care. While immigrant women’s postpartum wellbeing and care has been the focus of …
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Development of a Divorce Recovery Program for Korean American Women
<p>This study is a needs assessment of first generation immigrant, separated and divorced Christian Korean-American women for the purpose of developing a divorce recovery program. A large number of divorced Korean-American women currently do not receive adequate support from their communities, …
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The Historian’s Daughter (A novel); Monsters and Memory (An essay)
… the trauma of abandonment and displacement in an immigrant family living in Australia. The accompanying essay is titled ‘Monsters and Memory’ and is an autoethnographical text which combines theoretical, experiential and embodied research to argue that the inclusion of women’s stories, …
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Continuidad y cambio en los condicionantes lingüísticos y socio-demográficos del uso del pronombre sujeto en el español de la primera generación en Nueva York
… grammar (syntax or morphology) are mostly second generation, that is, Latinos born in the United States (Flores-Ferrán 2004; Montrul 2004 ; Silva-Corvalán, 1994). Research about Spanish in the US shows that second generation speakers have different features from those of the first generation who …
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Asian immigrants’ psychological well-being: the interplay of perceived racial discrimination, group membership, and coping strategies
… of perceived racial discrimination on Asian immigrants’ psychological well-being. It investigates the moderating effects of immigrants’ group membership and coping factors. The main research hypotheses and exploratory research questions include the following: 1) Does perceived discrimination …
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Measuring early literacy behaviors: preschool-age children and first-generation Mexican immigrant parents
… of an instrument designed specifically for first generation Mexican immigrants in Colorado. The long-term objectives included establishing reliability and validity of the ELBQ for informing parent education program practices. Suggestions for further research include field tests with the ELBQ …