Educational Mobility among the Children of Asian American Immigrants

2020 ◽  
Vol 126 (2) ◽  
pp. 260-317 ◽  
Author(s):  
Samuel H. Fishman
Keyword(s):  
Asian American ◽  
Educational Mobility ◽  
Asian American Immigrants

Immigration-related stressors and mental health problems among Asian-American Immigrants

2017 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 22
Author(s):  
Sizhe Liu ◽  
Wei Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Suicidal Ideation ◽  
Depressive Disorder ◽  
Religious Coping ◽  
Mental Health Professionals ◽  
Asian American ◽  
Limited English Proficiency ◽  
English Proficiency ◽  
Religious Involvement ◽  
Asian American Immigrants

Focusing on Asian-American immigrants in the National Latino and Asian American Study, this work examines (1) whether immigration-related stressors are associated with 12-month depressive disorder and suicidal ideation, and (2) how individual religious involvement moderates the associations. Findings from regression analyses reveal that limited English proficiency increases the risk of both 12-month depressive disorder and suicidal ideation. No significant differences in 12-month depressive disorder and suicidal ideation are found by age at immigration. Most importantly, religious coping — frequently seeking comfort from religion — buffers the negative effects of limited English proficiency on suicidal ideation. Our findings suggest the importance of individual religious involvement in helping Asian-American immigrants cope with stress associated with immigration. Mental health professionals may need to integrate religious coping mechanisms into the clinical setting to offer more effective treatments that are sensitive to individuals’ religious and spiritual needs.

Content and Intensity of Pride and Regret Among Asian American Immigrant Elders

2017 ◽  
Vol 25 (4) ◽  
pp. 309-322
Author(s):  
Othelia E. Lee ◽  
Seungah Ryu
Keyword(s):  
Older Adults ◽  
Asian American ◽  
Cultural Context ◽  
Career Aspirations ◽  
College Education ◽  
Marital Relationship ◽  
Financial Difficulty ◽  
Convenience Sample ◽  
American Immigrant ◽  
Asian American Immigrants

Pride and regret are self-conscious emotions that develop later in life and become a source of emotional struggle. This study examines the content of regret and pride among Asian American elders. Among a convenience sample of 118 Asian American older adults, the researchers examined the contents and intensities of both regret and pride felt over events in life. Across three groups of Asian American immigrants, older adults in this study reported a variety of regrets and pride in the areas of college education, marital relationship, children’s problems, career aspirations, financial difficulty, immigration, and grief or losses that they have experienced in life courses. Findings further explored culture-specific sources of self-conscious emotions, and the intensities of regrets may be strongly influenced by cultural context.

Asian Americans are People of Color, Too. . .Aren’t They? Cross-Racial Alliances and the Question of Asian American Political Identity

2004 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 19-47 ◽  
Author(s):  
Claire Jean Kim
Keyword(s):  
Asian Americans ◽  
Asian American ◽  
Political Identity ◽  
Coalition Building ◽  
Grassroots Organizations ◽  
Political Identification ◽  
Racial Background ◽  
Political Stance ◽  
American Society ◽  
Asian American Immigrants

Asian Americans are involved in cross-racial community and advocacy coalitions. The article explores the barriers and problems that people in these groups encounter, which impede their progress in sustaining impactful and influential agenda and decisions. The central problem behind this is Asian American’s ambiguous political stance, thereby making coalition partners apprehensive. Asian American’s lack of definitive political identity and how they relate to other racial background pose as a problem to coalition building. A brief look to one of the earliest Asian American immigrants to the US shows that even from the very beginning Asian Americans have occupied a highly ambiguous position in American society. Discussed is the central question of what Asian Americans are fighting for in terms of social justice. Asian Americans need to discuss their political identification and agenda as a way to sustain cross-alliances and to have a secure future in American society. Asian Americans as an internally diverse group explain the difficulty of having a unified voice representing our political stance. Two Asian American grassroots organizations with clear political identities are explored.

Why Asian Americans are Becoming Mainstream

Daedalus ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 142 (3) ◽  
pp. 65-75 ◽  
Author(s):  
Victor Nee ◽  
Hilary Holbrow
Keyword(s):  
Civil Rights ◽  
Asian Americans ◽  
Asian American ◽  
Legal Status ◽  
The United States ◽  
Asian Immigrants ◽  
Socioeconomic Attainment ◽  
Residential Communities ◽  
Asian Immigration ◽  
Asian American Immigrants

In contrast to earlier waves of immigration, the post–1965 Asian immigration to the United States has not spawned an exclusionist backlash among native whites. Rather, the new Asian immigrants and their children are rapidly gaining access to the American mainstream. Whether in integrated residential communities, in colleges and universities, or in mainstream workplaces, Asian Americans' presence is ever more the rule, not the exception. The success of so many Asian American immigrants suggests that race may not be as decisive a factor in shaping socioeconomic attainment as it was in the American past; civil rights reform has been incorporated in a more inclusive American mainstream. As a group in which those of legal status predominate, Asian Americans have enjoyed more open access to mainstream institutions, paving the way to their rapid assimilation.

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