[psych-hr] Re: Seeking resources on psychological impact of migration

Ruma wrote: "I was wondering if any one knew of any articles/publications
regarding:  1.  The psychological impact of class identity and or class
status change due to migration.  AND/OR  2.  The immigrants class
mobilization process and the psychological impact this process brings
about."

Here are 8 articles on immigration, class identity, and status, published
during the last few years, that may be helpful:

"Crossing national boundaries: Social identity formation among recent
immigrant women in Australia from former Yugoslavia" by Markovic & Manderson
in *Identity* October, 2002, pages 303-316.

"Immigrating for status in late life: Effects of globalization on Filipino
American veterans" by Becker, Beyene, & Canalita in *Journal of Aging
Studies* September, 2000, pages 273-291.

"Croatians in Western Australia: Migration, language and class" by
Colic-Peister in *Journal of Sociology* June, 2002, pages 149-166.

"The impact of acculturation on immigrant children's self-perceptions,
feelings of loneliness and social status" by Leondari in *Educational &
Child Psychology* 2001, pages 35-46.

"Feminist theory and status inconsistency theory: Application to domestic
violence in Chinese immigrant families" by Yick in *Violence Against Women*
May, 2001, pages 545-562.

"Acculturation attitudes and the ethnic and host-country identification of
immigrants" by Nesdale in *Journal of Applied Social Psychology* July, 2002,
pages 1488-1507.

"Immigration and women's empowerment: Salvadorans in Los Angeles" by
Zentgraf in *Gender & Society* October, 2002, pages 625-646.

"Psychological, sociocultural, and marital adaptation of Turkish immigrant
couples in Canada" by Ataca & Berry in *International Journal of Psychology*
February, 2002, pages 13-26.

For those who are interested in the needs of immigrants who are also
refugees or asylum-seekers, I've collected links to over 100 useful
resources on one of the pages of my web site.  The links are to resources
such as:

    * major centers (e.g., Program for Torture Victims, Los Angeles;
Bellvue/NYU Program for Survivors of Torture; Berlin Center for Treatment of
Torture Victims; Canadian Centre for Victims of Torture),

    * online courses (e.g., Caring for Refugees and Survivors of Torture: An
Internet Course),

    * legal services (e.g., Lawyers Without Borders; Lawyers Committee on
Human Rights),

    * information about asylum and refuge (e.g., U.S. Asylum Network; Asylum
Law Resources; Immigration Resource Directory),

    * networks of torture survivors (e.g., Survivors of Torture
International; Torture Survivors Network),

    * human rights organizations providing information and services (e.g.,
African Rights; Amnesty International; Asian Human Rights Commission;
Coalition of International NGOs against Torture; Human Rights Hotline;
RefugeeNet),

    * guides to assessment (e.g., Health Professional's Guide to Medical and
Psychological Evaluations of Torture; Manual on Effective Investigation and
Documentation of Torture), and

    * other diverse resources.

That page of resources is at: <http://kspope.com/torvic/torture.php>.

Hope this is helpful.

Ken

Carolyn Payton's remarkable life & a quote:
<http://kspope.com/payton/index.php>

"First they came for the communists but I was not a communist so I kept
quiet.  Then they came for the socialists and the trade unionists but I was
neither, so I did not speak out.  Then they came for the Jews, but I was not
a Jew, so I did not speak out.  And when they came for me, there was no one
left to speak out for me."
--Martin Niemoller, after being released from Dachau, 1945



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