Books in the Advances in Immigrant Family Research series

This book compiles a series of empirical and conceptual chapters based on Bronfenbrenner's ecological theory as the framework for understanding the overlapping and intersecting contexts that influence different populations of migrants in the United States and Canada.

This innovative book applies contemporary and emergent theories of identity formation to timely questions of identity re/formation and development in immigrant families across diverse ethnicities and age groups. Researchers from across the globe examine the ways in which immigrants from Africa, Asia, Europe, and Latin America dynamically adjust, adapt, and resist aspects of their identities in their host countries as a form of resilience. The book provides a multidisciplinary approach to studying the multidimensional complexities of identity development and immigration and offers critical insights on the experiences of immigrant families. Key areas of coverage include: Factors that affect identity formation, readjustment, and maintenance, including individual differences and social environments. Influences of intersecting immigrant ecologies such as family, community, and complex multidimensions of culture on identity development. Current identity theories and their effectiveness at addressing issues of ethnicity, culture, and immigration. Research challenges to studying various forms of identity. Re/Formation and Identity: The Intersectionality of Development, Culture, and Immigration is an essential resource for researchers, professors, and graduate students as well as clinicians, professionals, and policymakers in the fields of developmental, social, and cross-cultural psychology, parenting and family studies, social work, and all interrelated disciplines.

Chapter 1: Contextualizing Immigrant and Refugee Resilience: Cultural and Acculturation Perspectives.- Part 1: Integrative Theoretical Perspectives to Immigrant Youth Resilience.- Chapter 2: Immigrant youth resilience: Integrating Developmental and Cultural Perspectives.- Chapter 3: Developmental Tasks and Immigrant Adolescent''s Adaptation.- Chapter 4: Why do some Immigrant Children and Youth do Well in School Whereas Others Fail? Current State of Knowledge and Directions for Future Research.- Part 2: Theoretically Informed Empirical Perspectives to Immigrant and Refugee Resilience.- Chapter 5: Receiving Population Appraisal as Potential Risk or Resilience for Immigrant Adaptation: The Threat-Benefit Model.- Chapter 6:  The Role of Discrimination, Acculturation, and Ethnic Identity in Predicting Psychosocial Functioning of Turkish Immigrant Youth.- Chapter 7: Positive Adjustment Among Internal Migrants: Acculturative Risks and Resources.- Chapter 8: The Role of Hope to Construct a New Life: Experiences of Syrian and Iraqian Asylum Seekers.- Chapter 9: Conceptualizing Refugee Resilience Across Multiple Contexts.- Part 3: Promotive and Preventive Approaches.- Chapter 10: Using Basic and Applied Research on Risk and Resilience to Inform Preventive Interventions for Immigrant Youth.- Chapter 11: Inclusion in Multicultural Classrooms in Norwegian Schools: A Resilience Perspective.- Chapter 12:  Fostering Cross-Cultural Friendships with the ViSC Anti-Bullying Program. 

* focuses on immigrant children and youth in the family context;* challenges long-held assumptions about parenting and immigrant families;* bridges the knowledge gap between immigrant and non-immigrant family studies;* describes innovative methodologies for studying immigrant family relationships;