This study examined the ideologies and conditions that are creating women's vulnerability to spousal abuse in the Asian Indian community in the US. The study focused on the multiple factors involved in Asian Indian women's experiences of domestic violence in the US: their minority status, life as an immigrant, and pressures to preserve a flawless public image of their community. The data were...

Individuals invest in their own health, but children rely on parents to act on their behalf especially in the case of prenatal health. In this article, we ask, Do parents in the United States who choose to give birth allocate resources differently in the prenatal health of their sons and daughters when the sex of the child is known in advance? We pay special attention to prenatal health behavio...

Background: The question of whether immigrants have more emotional problems than their non-immigrant peers has yielded mixed results. In Norway, there has been a tendency toward immigrant youth reporting higher rates of emotional problems. In addition to studying levels of emotional problems across those with immigrant backgrounds, there is a need to investigate whether the phenomenology of the...

In this study, the authors explore English as a Second Language (ESL) placement as a measure of how schools label and process immigrant students. Using propensity score matching and data from the Adolescent Health and Academic Achievement Study and the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health, the authors estimate the effect of ESL placement on immigrant achievement. In schools with mor...

During acculturation, Asian immigrant adolescents have numerous challenges such as language barriers, cultural and ethnic differences, different school environments, discrimination experiences, and intergroup conflicts and tension. These challenges generate acculturative stress, which negatively affects the perception of health and well-being among Asian immigrant adolescents. This article expl...

This article explores how Indian and Pakistani immigrant groups from the Bay Area in North California relate to interact with one another. There is limited research on role of religion shaping sentiments distinctiveness or “groupness” among diasporic Indians Pakistanis UK America. Through conducting qualitative interviews 18 immigrants Area, I recognized three factors pertaining that were salie...

Since the early 60's, consequent to the change in the immigration laws of the United States (USA), the number of physicians entering the United States has steadily increased. In fact, from 1957 to 1965 the number of foreign medical graduates (FMG) coming to USA fluctuated at around 2,000 a year. The rise in their number began in 1966. More than 7,000 immigrant visas went to physicians in 1972 a...

Students from South Asia have the lowest graduation rates of all immigrant students attending public secondary schools in Québec’s French-language sector. This study deals with the socio-academic experience of these young people and the factors that influence them. Qualitative interviews with various stakeholders and partners in the province’s education system schools, families and communities ...