Social Support, Stress, And Adaptation Of Immigrants

knowledge concerning the adaptation of immigrant’s students to the U.S. Such problem has been caused by lack of information regarding the impact of immigration on the students who are different age brackets as well as lack of the longitudinal information regarding the post –migration adjustments.The primary aim for this study is on the behavioral, emotional as well as the academic adaptation of the immigrants adolescent and children, in view of their level of post-migration stress and the surport which

• Immigrant children endue a great deal of stress. This stress is created as a result of leaving familiar people and places and entering a new place with a different culture and language. During this process, many immigrant children struggle to re-establish themselves as they enter the United States. These children need to feel connected and accepted because these are important factors of child development. For children who do not feel connected with their peers, family, or school may have an increased

Adolescent Immigrants One of the most important factors of immigration is, in most of the times, the difficult process of acculturation. This process can be difficult as a person has to adopt the new culture and social standards. Therefore, immigrants, in general, can experience many stressors, such as discrimination, lack of financial resources, language inadequacy, disorientation, and many more. The result of all of the effect of those stressors in a person is called Acculturative Stress (Cite- Acculturative

Intercultural Communication Competence Adaptation From the theory adaptation is perceived as the process of dynamic unfolding of the natural tendency of human strive for an internal equilibrium in face of often adversarial conditions of the environment (Jackson, 2008). The theory of adaptation tries to create and enhance an understanding of the process of intercultural adaptation. However it has special focus on the effects of micro and macro levels factors on cultural adaption process. This refers

ethnic minorities which can be differ from the objective threat. Security is the feeling of safety. There are some evidence that positive ethnic identity with low level of perceived threat and high level of security lead to the better psychological adaptation (Sam & Berry, 2010). The visibility of the ethnic minority can be another factor that influences the process of acculturation too, Safdar and colleagues (2012) explained differences in Indian and Russian minorities in Canada by the fact that Russians

Several factors such as body weight, physical inactivity, cultural influences, environmental and psychosocial issues have been identified as contributing to the disparity. The United States has become a global society and is the home for immigrants needing work and a place

Immigrating to a new country is difficult. One of the largest groups of immigrants that migrate to the United States are the Hispanics. There are approximately 11.7 million immigrants in the United States as of January 2010, and the amount continues to increase at a rapid rate (Warren, 2013). On average there are approximately 300,000 Hispanic immigrants entering the United States each year (Warren, 2013). Hispanics come from all Latin America including Mexico, the islands of the Caribbean, Cuba

examining immigrant families and the parent-child relationship. The population of first and second generation immigrant children in the United States grew by 51 percent between 1995 and 2014 (Child Trends, 2014, p. 3). According to the Migration Policy Institute, about 88 percent of immigrant children are born in the U.S (U.S. Census Bureau, 2014). While some immigrant children and their families are able to adjust to the United States smoothly, there is still a huge percentage of immigrant children

Refugee and immigrant youth mentoring There are a number of influencing factors that challenge refugee and immigrant youths' acculturation process, including lack of family support, informal counseling by peers or other adults and a lack of social initiatives to address culturally unique needs of youth, especially acculturation gap between youth and parents ( Morland, Ellis, & Birnam, 2012). More recent studies on youth development concluded that facilitating youth mentoring relationship is more

homesickness, loss of social support and lack of assertiveness. Research findings suggest that due to new, challenging, and diverse demands, international students sustain high level of stress due to the adaptation process that they have to undergo. 2 This process is very complex for these students as in a very short time they have to change their attitudes, values, behaviors in the spirit of complying with the new culture and environment. International students experience more stress than the students