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To Be an Immigrant by Kay Deaux (2006, Hardcover)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherRussell Sage Foundation
ISBN-10087154086X
ISBN-139780871540867
eBay Product ID (ePID)5038708908
Product Key Features
Number of Pages272 Pages
Publication NameTo Be an Immigrant
LanguageEnglish
SubjectEthnic Studies / General, Sociology / General, Emigration & Immigration, Social Psychology
Publication Year2006
TypeTextbook
Subject AreaSocial Science, Psychology
AuthorKay Deaux
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height1.1 in
Item Weight0 Oz
Item Length9 in
Item Width6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional
LCCN2006-042337
Dewey Edition22
IllustratedYes
Dewey Decimal304.8/73
Table Of ContentChapter 2 Setting the Stage: Policies. Demographi, and Social Representations 12 Chapter 3 Rendering the Social Context: Attitudes Toward Immigration and Immigrants 40 Chapter 4 Images and Actions: Contending with Streotypes and Discrimination 66 Chapter 5 Who Am I? The Construction of Ethnic [dentity 91 Chapter 6 Negotiating Identity: Beyond Assimilation Models 129 Chapter 7 Putting It All Together: West Indian Immigrants 168 Chapter 8 Envisioning an Agenda for a Social Psychology of Immigration 203
SynopsisImmigration is often discussed in broad, statistical terms, with a focus on how it affects labor markets, schools, and social services. But at its most basic level, immigration is a process that affects people and their identities in deeply personal ways. In To Be an Immigrant, social psychologist Kay Deaux explores the role of both social conditions and individual capacities in determining how well immigrants adapt to life in their new homelands, and makes a strong case for the relevance of social psychology in immigration studies. To Be an Immigrant looks at how immigrants are defined, shaped, and challenged by the cultural environment they encounter in their new country and offers an integrated psychological framework for studying the immigrant experience. Deaux argues that in addition to looking at macro-level factors like public policies and social conditions and micro-level issues like individual choices, immigration scholars should also study influences that occur on an intermediate level, such as interpersonal encounters. Each of these three levels of analysis is essential to understanding how immigrants adapt to a new homeland and form distinct identities. As a case study for her framework, Deaux examines West Indians, exploring their perceptions of the stereotypes they face in the United States and their feelings of connection to their new home. Though race plays a limited role in the West Indies, it becomes more relevant to migrants once they arrive in the United States, where they are primarily identified by others as black, rather than Guyanese or Jamaican. Deaux's research adds to a growing literature in social psychology on stereotype threat, which suggests that negative stereotypes about one's group can hinder an individual's performance. She finds that immigrants who have been in the United States longer and identify themselves as African American suffer from the negative effects of stereotype threat more than recent immigrants. More than a discrete event, immigration can be understood as a life-long process that continues to affect people well after they have migrated. To Be an Immigrant takes a novel approach to the study of immigration, looking at how societal influences help shape immigrants and their understanding of who they are.
LC Classification NumberJV6475.D43 2006
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