...Proposal: Examining the Effects of Acculturative Stress in Immigrants Christine Kreutzer University of Central Florida Running Head: RESEARCH PROPOSAL 2 Research Proposal: Examining the Effects of Acculturative Stress in Immigrants Objective: This study proposes to examine if acculturative stress experienced by German and Japanese immigrants in the United States results in any long term effects, specifically in terms of mental illness. Stressors associated with immigration have been found to be harmful, and is especially important to examine because of ever rising rates of immigration in the United States. This proposed study will attempt to show any possible long term effects in terms of mental illness. Literature Review: Acculturation is the process by which a member belonging to one culture must adopt the behavior and beliefs of another cultural group. This process is typically experienced by minority immigrants that have to adapt to a dominant culture. This is known as acculturative stress. Acculturative stress occurs in somatic (or biological), psychological, and social forms (Lecture, 2011). Arbona, Olvera, Rodriguez, Hagan, Linares, and Wiesner (2010) looked at the acculturative stress experienced by documented and undocumented Latino immigrants in the United States. They describe acculturative stress as the mental reaction prompted by the individual’s...
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...Nearly 800,000 out of 12 million undocumented immigrants came to the USA as a child. These kids don’t have a legal document to stay in the USA. A program called the deferred action for childhood arrival which is DACA was then established in the presidency of Barack Obama. These 800,000-young people were granted a temporary protection from deportation and allowed to work and live under this program. These young talented undocumented students deserve a secondary education since, they did not choose to come to the US illegally and, they will also help to boost the economy of this country. This new policy that is called ‘DACA’ will benefit thousands of undocumented students living here in the United States that were brought...
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...California Dreaming: The California DREAM Act As young adults it is very common amongst illegal immigrants receiving an education in California to try to balance a job while paying for school tuition and dealing with everything else that comes along in life. There are many students in California who struggle with continuing to further their education especially after high school. The California Dream Act is a set of laws initially proposed in 2006 that gives students with a good standing educational background a chance to apply for full financial assistance to both public and private California colleges and Universities. The acronym DREAM stands for Development, Relief, and Education for Alien Minors and in the most basic sense, it sets out to help students who lack proper visas or immigration documentation and gives them an opportunity for an easier path towards attaining a higher education. Given an opportunity through the California DREAM Act, young undocumented immigrants are able to receive similar financial assistance to those who are documented student citizens. With the cost of attendance rising, it is difficult to go through college with out financial help. The DREAM Act does not only provide financial assistance, but it also paves a better and brighter path to become a documented citizen. If a youth was brought to California under the age of 16 and they attend college or join the military they are able to gain legal documentation. As of October 2011, when this act...
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...In modern society, humans usually have to face inevitable sources of stress in their lives. The causes of stress may arise from many factors related to physical, mental or biological. A factor that plays a complicated role with regard to stress is culture. On the one hand, culture is considered as a factor which can protect against stress, but on the other hand there is also a viewpoint that culture can make stress more likely. This essay will demonstrate that the harmful role of culture outweighs its protective rolewhen we consider culturogenic stress and culture shock. In the first part, the protective role of culture will be justified, then its harmful role will be examined in the rest of the body. Firstly, simply belonging to a group can have a significant impact on assisting people to deal with stress better. An illustration of this is the support of family and society as a motivational power and a help to individuals to cope with their problems easier, and the possibility of encountering stress will be reduced in their lives. In addition, according to the research of Brown and Harris on 458 women in London in 1978, women who do not have a happy childhood, for example lost her mother before eleven years old, are often sensitive and vulnerable, then they need to find a group and confide in others to help them cope with stress (Patten, 1991, p.267). Not only does the group provide emotional support, but can also provide spiritual support through its general values and outlook...
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...Stress Reduction and depression-Target Population Stress less! Is a program provided by the stress reduction center at West Chester University that is design for West Chester university undergraduates, to make their lives easier. These students have busy, fast paced lives. The main target market for stress less is male and female young adults ages 17 to 24. Stress less is not limited to a certain nationality, sex, racial or ethnicity, but any individual with a mental health problem. There are an increasing number of students in the age group that have reported high levels of depression due to stress. It been reported the 1 in 5 undergrads is constantly stressed. Stress less will help reduce the number high cases reported to the university. This group is in great need for a program to help them deal with the problem. Balancing classes, tests, projects, extra-curricular activities, work, and relationships and paying for college is enough to make anyone feel overwhelmed. Not only is it a problem, but it is dangerous to their general health. West Chester University is a public college located in West Chester, Pennsylvania. According to the 2011 West Chester university fact book, the university has 15,100 enrolled students both undergrads and graduates and full and part time. They all come from different states or countries. There are 85% (12,834) undergrads, 41% (5,282) of these of students are male and 59% (7,553) are females. (West Chester University Fact Book, 2011). West Chester...
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...Vision for Illegal Aliens GreciaCatu is a 2009 valedictorian at the University High School in Texas has been an exceptional student since she was 7 years old. She loved math and books and as a High School student, she received a presidential scholarship to go to Baylor University, renowned for having one of the highest turnouts of students to attend medical school after graduation. Given her potential, she could have been one of the leading scientists working towards developing a cure for cancer or on other work that would advance society. She could be all these wonderful things if she was able to accept this offer but unfortunately, she is barred from pursuing higher education because like the 1.2 million students all over the country, she is an illegal citizen. Most of the time, these children are not here by choice but because their parents brought them to the United States at a young age; it is cruel to punish these students for acts their parents committed. Furthermore, situations aforementioned can be mutually beneficial as students like Grecia would benefit as a person from gaining a higher education and the opportunities available during and after this pursuit while society would be able to enjoy the fruits of her labor as well as the taxes she would generate, to name a few. Therefore, in order to support those 1.2 million smart illegal students to continue their pursuit for higher education, a proposal was brought to the senate in 2001 called the DREAM act (Development...
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...10B 22 August 2014 The Struggles of Undocumented Students What is the dream of an Undocumented Student? The dream of an undocumented student is to pursue the American Dream of becoming someone professional and having the opportunity to help their family back in their country. What are the reasons that the government does not want undocumented students to continue pursuing an education after they graduate from High School? The government does not focus on what undocumented students dream of becoming in the future. What they do focus on are the jobs they are taking from our country. Undocumented students are being denied the privilege of attending college because they are unaware of their rights to attend college. Every year, there are many undocumented students from different countries migrating to the United States. They migrate from El Salvador, Honduras, and Guatemala in search for a better life. However, once they arrive to the United States they are faced with many obstacles that they did not know existed. Many undocumented students graduate from high schools, but only a few get the opportunity to pursue the American Dream because they do not have the right documentations. I believe the government should give undocumented student a visa in order for them to pursue their dreams. Chicanos and Latinos students are being affected by this situation because most of them end up going back to their countries. Other students end up working in low wage jobs for example, in restaurants...
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...any aspect of my life along with my college success. Even though education doesn’t always bring success, education is my responsibility because education make life easier and it can make my financially stable and ultimately bring success. Tolbert, Michelle (2012) This "Adult College Completion Tool Kit" is designed to connect state administrators and local practitioners to the strategies, resources, and technical assistance tools resulting from the Department's work. States can use this information to identify and implement state adult education leadership priorities, supported by federal "Adult Education and Family Literacy Act" ("AEFLA") funds, which encourage and support adult learners transitioning to college. The tool kit focuses on three areas: (1) Access: Academic preparation, financial resources, and other support students need to enroll in postsecondary education programs; (2) Quality: Evidence-based practices used by programs to ensure their services prepare students adequately for postsecondary education; and (3) Completion: Administrative policies and programmatic approaches to encourage student persistence in postsecondary education programs. In each chapter, strategies, resources, and tools relevant to adult education administrators and local adult education practitioners are highlighted. Each chapter also includes state and local examples illustrating how programs can improve the college transition process for their students. The tool kit concludes with a call...
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...1945 U. S. History 1865 to 1945 Immigrant Experience Presented by Sylvanus Thorpe Course HIS/125 Instructor: Thomas Wade June 16, 2013 University of Phoenix I was born in Germany in the capital city, Berlin. For the first few years of my life, I lived and grew there. At the age of six, my parents decided to move to Italy. The situation in the country was bad back then and my parents decided that it would be better for all of us to move to Poland. When we came here, we settled on an apartment. I entered kindergarten and my parents found a job. The main issue was for my parents the cultural integration that they had to go through (and I’m not referring only to the cold). The language and the way of life were very different from what they expected. But the aspect of my own immigrant experience would come obvious later on in my life. My parents didn‘t settle in a neighborhood where there were many whites. And the friends they made were from different backgrounds, but not necessarily of German. The school I went to was an International school and had students from everywhere in the world but very few from Germany. So I was never really in touch with my community. But I never thought it was a problem while growing up. I had my friends and never thought about it. But growing up later I realized that maybe my situation hard. After high school finished, I ended in a weird situation. I went to a French College but didn‘t feel in my place there. So I decided...
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...and fuller for every man, with opportunity for each according to his ability or achievement… [A] dream of social order in which each man and each woman shall be able to attain to the fullest stature of which they are innately capable, and be recognized by others for what they are, regardless of the fortuitous circumstances of birth or position.” In essence, the American Dream is the philosophy of upward mobility. It is the opportunity to make individual choices without being limited by class, religion, race, or ethnicity. Since it’s origin, this idea of the American Dream has not coincided with the American reality shown through the segregation of class, race and ethnicity, unhappiness in the home, and the failure of public education. Immigrants during the Industrial Revolution were exposed to unjust treatment and stifled growth in society, women in the 1950s faced an identity crisis spawning from the materialized idea of perfection, and at the turn of the century public education showed poor performance on the worldwide scale. The industrial revolution marked a turning point in the history of the United States of America, impacting every aspect of daily life and making America a player on the world stage. Readily available resources, technological innovations, and lowered costs of transportation led to rapid industrialization. The industrial revolution was founded on rising investment, employment and productivity in the manufacturing sector. Along with industrialization came...
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...American”(Abraham Quintanilla). In fact nobody knows how tough it is to be a Mexican American student. Historically there has been evidence that many students drop out, postpone their plans for education, or even struggle in between classes and a job to help out their families financially and parents want the best education for their children since they helped out to make that a reality. The incident that took place in Lemon Grove, California 1930 was when Alvarez went against the board of the Lemon Grove school. Students with family of Mexican descent were being placed...
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...population was bilingual. In 2013, the National Center for Education Statistics reported an increase from 1976 to 2012 in minority enrollment in college (Hispanic, Asian/Pacific Islander, Black, American Indian/Alaska native). Bilingual education has been a highly controversial topic in America. Based on the report from the National Center for Education Statistics, you would think that this type of education would be widely supported. Has our nation actually thought about the impact of bilingual education? After all, it could be the reason for the peak in college enrollment of minorities. Bilingual education should continue to be an option in the United States because of the many benefits such as: aiding non-English speakers stay on track, giving natives the opportunity to learn other languages, and helping preserve the cultures of non-natives. Bilingual education is the key to increased high school graduation and college success rates. By offering non-natives the opportunity to learn another language while learning in their native language eliminates the pass or fail, sink or swim aspect of English. When students unfamiliar with the language are put into classes without assistance, both the teacher and student are being cheated. The teacher’s performance will be judged for not being able to teach a non-English speaker the curriculum and the student will also be penalized for not understanding. Bilingual education bridges the education and knowledge gap between natives and non-natives...
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...Children of Immigrants A familiar story of the American narrative and a great theme in psychology of second generation is that the children of immigrants believe that they are the main reason for immigration of their parents who in most cases stake their hopes for future on the success of their children. Perceiving the sacrifices that are made by parents, seemingly on their behalf, not any amount of guilt toward their parents touches the children and drives their motivation to obtain a dynamic which in turn can offer the immigrant parents some level of psychological control over their offspring. Growing up in the immigrant families is usually marked by discordant acculturation, when the children’s learning of new ways and simultaneous loss of immigrant culture outstrips that of parents. When this occurs, linguistic and cultural gaps among them can exacerbate the intergenerational conflicts; make the children feel ashamed of their parents as they attempt to blend with the native friends, and lead to reversal roles, as the children take up adult roles earlier by dint of situations. All families of immigrants must contend with “stress and storm” adolescence and “generation gaps”, and the acculturation to new society. This is often a conflictive and complex process that is full of fault lines that are non-reducible to simplistic elaborations of parental pressure or peer pressure. Nevertheless, at the heart of the matter is the relation between children and their immigrant parents,...
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...personal competencies will be identified and analyzed to improve interaction with Asians American within a counseling professional setting. TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. Title Page 1 2. Abstract 2 3. Introduction 4 4. Define Asian American 5 5. Historical Antecedents 6 6. Potential Problems 7 7. Educational Reflection 8 8. Personal Competencies 8 10. Theories Identity Formation 9 11. Action Plan 10 12. References 11 13. Annotated Bibliography 12 In Espiritu (1992) as the United States becomes an increasingly diverse society, the need for understanding the psychological impact of the immigrant and second-generation experience increases. This understanding is crucial for two distinct reasons: first, it will help understand American society as it evolves and changes, and second, it will help understand ethnic communities, families, and individuals more intimately. For the fields of human services this knowledge will provide effective social services to acculturating populations (p.36). According to Lee (1996)...
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...He has experienced first hand. He has gone to prison to draw attention to those whom are in the same situation as him, wanting to become U.S citizen. He speaks upon how he didn't seem a problem in school when he received full scholarships or when he gotten accepted to a private liberal arts college. But yet he's an immigrant and immigrants are the problem in U.S. He relates his arguments with the Thomas theorem, “if immigrants deemed a problem no matter what economics or morals say we will be treated as such”. Also how is it that his family and himself are an issue but not when his parents own a restaurant, create jobs, do sales, pay taxes, anything to do with taking money they are not a problem. Marcos is bias on the side that immigrants are not a problem because that is how he feels about the situation. He wants his audience to understand that when it comes to benefit the government immigrants are no longer an issue for the moment. He seems to been trying to grasp older people in the same situation as he is, that has a full understanding of it too. As well it can be politicians to take time out and get his view. He is very logical in his argument but with pathos included he wants his audience to feel what he does but not just because of his opinion but also because he has facts. He comes off very strong and confident with acceptable...
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