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Bledsoe, Caroline H.; Sow, Papa – Journal of Marriage and Family, 2011
This paper examines the phenomenon of West African parents living in Europe and North America who send their older children back home: from places of high immigrant aspiration to those of hardship and privation. Drawing on a project on West African immigration to Europe and on previous field studies in Africa, we conclude that West African…
Descriptors: Field Studies, Foreign Countries, Immigrants, Parent Aspiration
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Tartakovsky, Eugene – Journal of Research on Adolescence, 2009
This paper examines the psychological well-being of high school adolescents immigrating from Russia and Ukraine to Israel without parents. Data were collected in a 3-year longitudinal study that covered the premigration through postmigration periods. Immigrant adolescents were compared with nonemigrating adolescents in Russia and Ukraine.…
Descriptors: Self Concept, Systems Approach, Adolescents, Foreign Countries