Adjustment After Migration: A Longitudinal Study of the Process of Adjustment by Refugees to a New Environment - Brossura

Ex, J.

Brossura

ISBN 10: 9401500045 ISBN 13: 9789401500043

Casa editrice: Springer, 1966

Riassunto

People are not so firmly rooted as they used to be. The greater frequency, at least in the Western world, with which people move house can be seen from the statistics. Many migrate voluntarily, or under compulsion, to build up new existences in other parts of the country or in other parts of the world. The problems which face people who are obliged to settle elsewhere have become matters of national and international political importance. Of recent years they have also become the subjects of sociological and socio-psychological research. The psychological research of which this book gives an account took place among families who some years ago emigrated from what was then known as the Dutch East Indies to the Netherlands. Dutch is the language spoken from their youth. Born and bred in another part of the world they embarked in groups to the Nether­ lands, which they had never seen before, when the country they lived in became independent. No doubt they had a vivid image of the Netherlands. It was the Mother country; they had heard a great deal about it in the course of the simple education they had received. They were acquainted with it through pictures and through the contact, however superficial, with representatives of the ruling country. The military service which had played such an important part in the lives of the male adults had made them feel bound up with the country of the House of Orange.

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Contenuti

Design of the Investigation.- 1. Purpose of the investigation.- 2. Methods of the investigation.- § 1. Methods for the collection of data.- § 2. Methods of data analysis.- 3. Composition of the investigated group of refugees and its former position within the Indonesian community.- Results of the Investigation.- 4. Subjects talked about, how often and in what way.- 5. A framework for the description of the refugees’ way of life.- 6. Specified description of the refugees’ evaluations of his new way of life as experienced throughout the successive phases of the investigation.- § 1. The freedom to do and leave undone.- 1. Daily rhythm and occupations.- Conveniences, variation, pleasure and amusement.- 2. The cares of life (Finding employment. Improvement of one’s standard of living. The well-being of the children).- 3. The desire for a private dwelling.- § 2. Integration in a social communicative pattern.- 1. Contact with members of the family, friends and acquaintances.- 2. Differences between refugee and autochthon.- General opinion with respect to the autochthon. Information about the new environment. Hospitality. Behaviour of the children. Relations between parents and children. Treatment in shops. The doctor and the spiritual adviser. Concern about personal appearance in relation to the autochthon.- 3. Contact with people of the receiving country.- ‘Personal contact’. Need for contact with people of host country. The ways towards contact. Contact with colleagues at work. Whether a difference existed in the case of adjustment by parents and by children.- § 3. The Vegetal-Hedonistic facets of the environment.- 1. Food.- 2. Climate.- § 4. The Panoramic aspects of the environment.- 1. The people and their behaviour.- 2. Appearance of environment: buildings, furnishing and arrangement of houses, gardens, streets, shops and buildings. The scenery.- 3. Regulation of the community.- Interpretation of the Results of the Investigation.- 7. Indicators for the modality of the Course of adjustment.- § 1. Changes in proportion height of the spontaneous themes.- § 2. Changes in the evaluation level of environmental facets.- § 3. Social integration.- § 4. Modes of expression.- 1. Nuanced mode of expression.- 2. The extenuating circumstance.- 3. Hetero-social identity experience.- 8. Factors promoting or hindering adjustment.- 9. General sketch of the course of adjustment.- Conversation questions.

Dettagli dell?edizione

• Editore: Springer
• Data di pubblicazione: 1966
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 9401500045
• ISBN 13: 9789401500043
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 132
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
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