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| Genre/Form: | Biography Biographies Case studies |
|---|---|
| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Immigrant experiences. Madison, NJ : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press ; London ; Cranbury, NJ : Associated University Presses, ©1997 (OCoLC)605223817 Online version: Immigrant experiences. Madison, NJ : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press ; London ; Cranbury, NJ : Associated University Presses, ©1997 (OCoLC)606184346 |
| Material Type: | Biography, Internet resource |
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Paul H Elovitz; Charlotte Kahn |
| ISBN: | 0838636918 9780838636916 |
| OCLC Number: | 36191766 |
| Description: | 289 pages ; 24 cm |
| Contents: | Rediscovering the European in America : from the German boy in Italy to the man in North Carolina / Peter W. Petschauer -- The transcultural self / Nobuko Yoshizawa Meaders -- Patterns and costs of immigration / Paul H. Elovitz -- The Greek-American dance of continuity and integration / Spyros D. Orfanos -- Family secrets and lies my parents told me : the impact of immigrants on their son / Paul H. Elovitz -- Irish emigration as banishment / John T. McInerney -- The process of acculturation among Asian-Indian immigrants / Bindingnavle K. Ramanujam -- Indians in America : adaptation and the bicultural self / Alan Roland -- Becoming Hispanic, becoming American : Latin-American immigrants' journey to national identity / Héctor C. Sabelli -- The influence of Jewish culture on psychotherapy / Roberta Ann Shechter -- Four women : immigrants in cross-cultural marriages / Charlotte Kahn -- Leaving the promised land : Israeli immigrants in the United States / Danielle Knafo and Ariella Yaari -- Fleeing toward the new and yearning for the old / Olga Marlin -- Emigration without leaving home / Charlotte Kahn |
| Responsibility: | edited by Paul H. Elovitz and Charlotte Kahn. |
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Abstract:
This book gives powerful testimony to the possibilities of success, even as it attests to the psychological costs of emigration and the struggles of immigration. The necessity of creating a new cultural or national identity is a recurring theme as the authors of articles - immigrants themselves and Americans sensitive to their families' immigrant experiences - address what has become an urgent question: How can we facilitate the immigrants' passage? The U.S. culture has been forged by the influence of immigrant cultures too numerous to mention; their representatives have made recognizable, significant contributions while struggling to create a viable place for themselves in their adopted land.
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