Migration - by Leonore Loeb Adler & Uwe P Gielen (Hardcover)

About the Book

Adler and Gielen developed this volume to add the voices of a prominent international group of cross-culturally oriented psychologists to the worldwide debate on migration. Contributors to the book analyze worldwide configurations of migration, fundamental psychosocial factors involved in immigration and emigration, and patterns of migration from and to 16 nations and regions around the globe.

The richly varied contributions focus on immigration to the United States from areas as varied as Mexico, the Caribbean, and Ireland, migrations in Colombia, immigrant families in Germany, Poland, and Norway, and migration from and into Japan, South Africa, Egypt, Israel, Australia, and the Phillippines. Of particular interest to scholars, students, and other researchers involved with migration, ethnic groups, and international psychology.

Book Synopsis

Adler and Gielen developed this volume to add the voices of a prominent international group of cross-culturally oriented psychologists to the worldwide debate on migration. Contributors to the book analyze worldwide configurations of migration, fundamental psychosocial factors involved in immigration and emigration, and patterns of migration from and to 16 nations and regions around the globe.

The richly varied contributions focus on immigration to the United States from areas as varied as Mexico, the Caribbean, and Ireland, migrations in Colombia, immigrant families in Germany, Poland, and Norway, and migration from and into Japan, South Africa, Egypt, Israel, Australia, and the Phillippines. Of particular interest to scholars, students, and other researchers involved with migration, ethnic groups, and international psychology.

Review Quotes

?The book is divided into regional sections (Western Hemisphere, Europe, Asia and Australia, and the Middle East and Africa), and the well-written chapters within the sections explore a variety of topics and issues on immigration and emigration--contemporary as well as historical issues. As a collection of readings, this book would be very useful in upper-level undergraduate and graduate seminars. Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above.?-Choice

?The editors should be complimented for their efforts to put together a needed collection of essays on recent migration patterns.?-Multicultural Review

"The editors should be complimented for their efforts to put together a needed collection of essays on recent migration patterns."-Multicultural Review

"The book is divided into regional sections (Western Hemisphere, Europe, Asia and Australia, and the Middle East and Africa), and the well-written chapters within the sections explore a variety of topics and issues on immigration and emigration--contemporary as well as historical issues. As a collection of readings, this book would be very useful in upper-level undergraduate and graduate seminars. Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above."-Choice

About the Author

LEONORE LOEB ADLER is Professor Emerita of Psychology and the Director of the Institute for Cross-Cultural and Cross-Ethnic Studies at Molloy College.

UWE P. GIELEN is Professor of Psychology and Director of the Institute for International and Cross-Cultural Psychology at St. Francis College, New York City.