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Author Odera, Lilian, 1976-

Title Kenyan Immigrants in the United States : Acculturation, Coping Strategies, and Mental Health.

Publication Info. El Paso : LFB Scholarly Pub. LLC, 2010.

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Description 1 online resource (196 pages).
Series The New Americans: Recent Immigration and American Society
New Americans (LFB Scholarly Publishing LLC)
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.
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.
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Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Subject Kenyan Americans -- Cultural assimilation.
Kenyan Americans -- Mental health.
Kenyan Americans -- Psychology.
Immigrants -- United States.
HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- General.
Other Form: Print version: Odera, Lilian. Kenyan Immigrants in the United States : Acculturation, Coping Strategies, and Mental Health. El Paso : LFB Scholarly Publishing LLC, ©2010 9781593324131
ISBN 9781593326517 (ebook)
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