Kenyan immigrants in the United States : acculturation, coping strategies, and mental health / Lilian Odera.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Odera, Lilian, 1976-

Series:

New Americans (LFB Scholarly Publishing LLC)

The new Americans : recent immigration and American society

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Kenyan Americans--Cultural assimilation.

Kenyan Americans.

Kenyan Americans--Mental health.

Kenyan Americans--Psychology.

Immigrants--United States.

Immigrants.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (196 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

El Paso [Tex.] : LFB Scholarly Pub. LLC, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Odera's work yields rich data on Kenyan immigrants and reveals a highly educated group of foreign-born individuals. She adapts a multidimensional conceptual framework that combines both the stress-and-coping model of acculturation proposed by Berry (1980) and the sociocultural model proposed by Ward and Rana-Deuba (1999); both of which govern the relationship between acculturation and mental health. Findings indicate that Kenyan immigrants' acculturation is determined by their gender, age, immigration status, duration of stay in the United States as well as their ties to Kenya. Acculturative s

Contents:

CONTENTS; Tables and Figures; Acknowledgements; Chapter 1: Introduction; Chapter 2: History of Kenyan Immigrants; Chapter 3: Immigration Models: Kenyans' Patterns of Adaptations; Chapter 4 : Acculturative Stressors Among Kenyans; Chapter 5: Coping with Acculturative Stressors: Social Supportand Religious Coping Styles; Chapter 6: Mental Health of Kenyan Immigrants; Chapter 7: Conclusion: The Advent of New Immigrants; References; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781593326517

1593326513

OCLC:

818819068