Multigenerational Conflicts and New Immigrants: An Indo-American Experience

1998 ◽  
Vol 79 (4) ◽  
pp. 410-423 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gregory L. Pettys ◽  
Pallassana R. Balgopal
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Coping Strategies ◽  
The United States ◽  
Immigrant Group ◽  
Family Ties ◽  
American Experience ◽  
New Immigrants ◽  
And Coping ◽  
Depth Interviews

Indo-Americans are one the fastest growing Immigrant groups in the United States. Unlike earlier immigrant groups, this growing Immigrant group has access to technologies which make communication with family in India more practical. With this comes both maintenance of family ties as well as multigenerational conflicts. These conflicts were explored through in-depth interviews with thirty Indo-American families, including eleven grandparents residing in India. Major conflicts, the role of grandparents, and coping strategies used by these families are reported. The findings of this article have heuristic value for counselors in working with all the emerging ethnic groups in the United States.

scholarly journals There Is No Performance, There Is Just This Moment: The Role of Mindfulness Instruction in Promoting Health and Well-Being Among Students at a Highly-Ranked University in the United States

2017 ◽  
Vol 22 (4) ◽  
pp. 909-918 ◽  
Author(s):  
Deanna Kerrigan ◽  
Victoria Chau ◽  
Melissa King ◽  
Emily Holman ◽  
Alain Joffe ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Stress Reduction ◽  
Well Being ◽  
The United States ◽  
University Culture ◽  
High Level ◽  
And Coping ◽  
Depth Interviews ◽  
Health And Well Being

Mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) has been shown to improve health outcomes across populations. We explored the feasibility, acceptability, and initial effects of a pilot MBSR program at a highly-ranked university in the United States. We conducted 23 in-depth interviews with 13 students. Interviews explored stressors and coping mechanisms, experiences with MBSR, and its reported impact and potential future use. Interviews were analyzed using thematic content and narrative analyses. Results indicated that students are exposed to a very high level of constant stress related to the sheer amount of work and activities that they have and the pervasive surrounding university culture of perfectionism. MBSR offered an opportunity to step back and gain perspective on issues of balance and priorities and provided concrete techniques to counter the effects of stressors. We conclude that MBSR and mindfulness programs may contribute to more supportive university learning environments and greater health and well-being among students.

Diverse and Transnational: Chinese (PRC) Immigrants in the United States

2007 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 122-145 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xia-Huang Yin
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
The United States ◽  
Immigrant Group ◽  
Recent Immigrants ◽  
American Experience ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
Socioeconomic Diversity ◽  
American Society ◽  
The U.S

AbstractThis article studies characteristics of recent immigrants from China (PRC) in the United States, especially their socioeconomic status and networking with their native land. The unprecedented, large-scale, and highly diversified immigration from China to the U.S. since the late 1970s has not only turned the Chinese into the second largest immigrant group in American society, but has also created new opportunities for interpretation of the Chinese diasporic experience. By examining the socioeconomic diversity among PRC immigrants in their American life and the extensive networks they have established across the Pacific, the article shows how class, ethnicity, and transnationality work at cross purposes in the Chinese American experience and sheds light on the new dynamics in overseas Chinese communities in this rapidly changing era.

Edward MacDowell: Musical Nationalism and an American Tone Poet

1996 ◽  
Vol 49 (3) ◽  
pp. 528-560 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard Crawford
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Native American ◽  
The United States ◽  
American Music ◽  
Current Debate ◽  
Columbia University ◽  
American Experience ◽  
Popular Songs ◽  
Edward Macdowell

After American-born, European-trained Edward MacDowell returned to the United States in 1888 and settled in Boston, he was welcomed as the composer American music had been awaiting. Enhanced by a professorship at Columbia University (1896-1904), his fame drew him into the current debate over musical nationalism. MacDowell relished the role of American composer, using national elements to approach artistic universality. "To a Wild Rose" for piano links post-Wagnerian tonality with programmatic suggestion in a style echoed by later popular songs. And "Dirge" from the Indian Suite evokes Native American experience to ground America's independent spirit in an idealized primeval past.

Thriving, burnout, and coping strategies of early and later career counseling center psychologists in the United States

2016 ◽  
Vol 29 (4) ◽  
pp. 382-404 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wonjin Sim ◽  
Gina Zanardelli ◽  
Mary Jo Loughran ◽  
Mary Beth Mannarino ◽  
Clara E. Hill
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Coping Strategies ◽  
Career Counseling ◽  
Counseling Center ◽  
The United States ◽  
And Coping

A Qualitative Investigation of the Role of Gender in Young Women’s Dating Violence in the United States

2018 ◽  
Vol 24 (14) ◽  
pp. 1697-1717 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amy Lehrner ◽  
Nicole E. Allen
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Dating Violence ◽  
Partner Violence ◽  
The United States ◽  
Undergraduate Women ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Status ◽  
Depth Interviews ◽  
Larger Sample

The relevance of gender has been a central debate in the intimate partner violence (IPV) literature. The current qualitative study explored the role of gender in shaping the social context, meaning, and reception of young women’s IPV in the United States. A total of 36 undergraduate women were recruited from a larger sample for in-depth interviews. Emergent themes suggest that women’s violence was construed as nonequivalent to men’s violence, including the perceived triviality of women’s violence, contingencies under which women’s violence is deemed acceptable, and the status of male IPV as unacceptable. Gender was important for participants and bystanders in determining whether they interpreted behaviors as meaningful acts of violence.

Challenges and coping strategies of East Asian graduate students in the United States

2016 ◽  
Vol 60 (3) ◽  
pp. 733-749 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hyejoon Park ◽  
Meng-Jung Lee ◽  
Ga-Young Choi ◽  
Janet S Zepernick
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Graduate Students ◽  
Coping Strategies ◽  
East Asian ◽  
The United States ◽  
And Coping

DACAmented Homecomings: A Brief Return to Mexico and the Reshaping of Bounded Solidarity Among Mixed-Status Latinx Families

2019 ◽  
Vol 41 (2) ◽  
pp. 145-165
Author(s):  
Alissa Ruth ◽  
Emir Estrada
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Family Dynamics ◽  
Legal Status ◽  
The United States ◽  
Immigrant Community ◽  
Country Of Birth ◽  
Deferred Action ◽  
Mixed Status ◽  
Depth Interviews

This study builds on the intergenerational family dynamics literature among mixed legal status families. Through in-depth interviews with beneficiaries of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) who traveled to Mexico and their undocumented parents who stayed in the United States, we uncover how their journey back to their country of birth influenced their roles within their families and the immigrant community. DACA recipients experienced feelings of guilt when traveling back to Mexico and leaving their parents behind, but they adopted a new role of family ambassador and transnational mediator. Through this experience, they developed a greater empathy toward their parents’ sacrifices and reshaped their bounded solidarity with their parents and the immigrant community. As a result, they justify a movement away from personally identifying with the traditional Dreamer narrative.

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