When Asian immigrant women speak

Immigrant women from 5 ethnic-cultural communities (Korean, Hong Kong Chinese, Mainland Chinese, Taiwanese, and Vietnamese) in Toronto, Ontario, Canada participated in a focus group study (13 focus groups of 102 participants) of Asian immigrant women's conceptions of mental health. Their responses challenge the predominant conceptualizations of mental health in North America, the popular characterization of Asian culture as collectivistic, and the stereotypic image of Asian women as defining themselves in family relations. In trying to live a life they desire and to quest for a better state of well-being, these women have asserted their agency to articulate multiple strategies of being

Acculturation · Agency (philosophy) · Asian Indian · China · Collectivism · Ethnic group · Focus group · Geography · Immigration · Mainland · Mainland China · Mental health · Political science · Psychiatry · Social science · Sociology · Vietnamese · Anthropology · Gender Studies · Medicine · Migration, Health and Trauma · Psychology · Racial and Ethnic Identity Research · Religion, Spirituality, and Psychology · Gerontology

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