Immigrants' Continuing Bonds with their Native Culture

Assimilation Analysis of Three Interviews

Datos Bibliográficos

ID2394716
AutoresHani M Henry (0000-0003-1005-6051, American University in Cairo, autor de correspondencia), William B Stiles (0000-0001-7740-0609, Miami University), Mia W Biran (Miami University), James K Mosher (0000-0002-9218-8009, Miami University), Meredith Glick Brinegar (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign), Prashant Banerjee (Miami University)
Año2009
Volumen46
Número2
Páginas257-284
Fecha de publicación2009-06-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaTranscultural Psychiatry (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1363-4615 • E-ISSN: 1461-7471
EditorialSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/1363461509105816
PMID19541750
OpenAlexW2015933842
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas12
Referencias citadas27

Three case studies of immigrants to the US from China, Iraq, and Mexico were used to build a theory of acculturation in immigrants by integrating the continuing bonds model, which describes mourning in bereavement with the assimilation model, which describes psychological change in psychotherapy. Participants were interviewed about the loss of their native culture and their life in the US. One participant had not fully assimilated the loss of her native culture, but used her continuing bonds with her culture as a source of solace. Another participant used his continuing bonds with his culture as a source of solace, but these bonds had become a source of conflict with the host culture. The third participant had largely assimilated the loss of his native culture such that the voices of this culture were linked via meaning bridges with the voices of the host culture, and the continuing bonds were resources that helped him in his land of immigration

Acculturation · Assimilation (phonology · Dominant culture · Immigration · Linguistics · Participant observation · Political science · Social science · Sociology · Gender Studies · Grief, Bereavement, and Mental Health · Law · Migration, Health and Trauma · Psychology · Racial and Ethnic Identity Research · Social Psychology