Asian American and Pacific Islander Families : Resiliency and Life-span Socialization in a Cultural Context
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A sian American and Pacific Islanders protective factors and resiliency processes across (AAPIs) are often portrayed as a AAPI ethnic groups (Yee, Huang, & Lew, 1998). resilient "model minority." AAPI indiIn this chapter, we highlight how AAPI families viduals have been described as being well eduprovide protection and diminish risk for family cated and financially stable; valuing hard work members as they traverse developmental mileand family ties; and exhibiting positive social stones and cope with challenges over the life behaviors. This positive characterization overcourse. Specifically, we (a) provide a family looks the difficult life circumstances that some resilience conceptual framework for understandAAPI individuals experience and downplays ing risk and protective factors in AAPI families, the very real needs of those who are vulnerable (b) discuss how AAPI cultures promote family to experiences of discrimination, trauma, or interdependence as a basis for family protective poverty. An examination of the evidence reveals or risk factors, (c) outline key demographic varigreat variation in the prevalence of risk and ables that serve as risk and protective factors for
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