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Exploring Factors That Facilitate Acculturation Strategies and Academic Success of West African Immigrant Youth in Urban Schools
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Kumi-Yeboah, Alex; Brobbey, Gordon; Smith, Patriann – Education and Urban Society, 2020
Immigrant students in U.S. educational system experience challenges learning to adapt and integrate into new educational environments. Little is known, however, about factors that facilitate acculturation strategies of immigrant youth from West Africa and how they affect their academic success and challenges faced. Considering the current…
Descriptors: Acculturation, Academic Achievement, Immigrants, Urban Schools
Intellectuals from the Island.
Fishman, Joshua A. – La Monda Lingvo-Problemo, 1970
This article is the result of interviews with 20 members of the Puerto Rican intellectual elite in New York City, including singers, poets, artists, journalists, scholars and organizational leaders. One of the chief purposes of these interviews was to discover in which group of minority group intellectuals the Puerto Ricans can be placed: those…
Descriptors: Acculturation, Age Differences, Attitudes, Bilingualism
The Relationship of Maternal Behavior and Acculturation to the Quality of Attachment in Hispanic Infants Living in New York City.
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Fracasso, Maria P.; And Others – Hispanic Journal of Behavioral Sciences, 1994
Studied the relationship of parenting behavior and acculturation to the quality of attachment in 26 Puerto Rican and Dominican infants. Results revealed equal numbers of secure and insecure infants, although more boys than girls were secure. Mothers of secure infants were more sensitive and engaged in more frequent abrupt-interfering pick-ups. (KS)
Descriptors: Acculturation, Attachment Behavior, Child Rearing, Cultural Differences
Haitian Immigrants in Black America. A Sociological and Sociolinguistic Portrait.
Zephir, Flore – 1996
Identity formation among Haitian immigrants to the United States is explored in an effort to pinpoint the macro (external) and micro (internal) factors that shape the cultural identity of this particular immigrant community. The immigration experience that is revealed is one of a cultural and linguistic identity in transition. Part I presents a…
Descriptors: Acculturation, Black Culture, Blacks, Cultural Differences
Training Groups and Foreign-Born Psychiatric Medical Residents in the United States.
Greenberg, Andrea; Juthani, Nalini – Migration World Magazine, 1991
About two-thirds of all psychiatry residents are foreign-born medical graduates. Discusses the operation, content, focus, challenges, and benefits of a training group experience for the psychiatry residents at Bronx Lebanon Hospital. The goals are to aid acculturation, improve group psychotherapeutic skills, encourage self-awareness, and promote…
Descriptors: Acculturation, Cross Cultural Training, Cultural Differences, Foreign Medical Graduates
Caribbean Life in New York City: Sociocultural Dimensions.
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Sutton, Constance R., Ed.; Chaney, Elsa M., Ed. – 1987
This book comprises the following papers discussing Caribbean life in New York City: (1) The Context of Caribbean Migration (Elsa M. Chaney); (2) The Caribbeanization of New York City and the Emergence of a Transnational Socio-Cultural System (Constance R. Sutton); (3) New York City and Its People: An Historical Perspective Up to World War II…
Descriptors: Acculturation, Child Rearing, Cross Cultural Studies, Cultural Background