African Immigrants in the United States: The Challenge for Research and Practice

Kamya, Hugo

doi:10.1093/sw/42.2.154

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“…In the resettlement period of migration, network members can provide migrants with food, shelter, a job, information about contacts, information on healthcare and social services, as well as emotional support (e.g. Kamya, 1997). Indeed, as Tran (1994) and Kamya (1997) argue, the availability of a close network during resettlement is vital for sheltering the migrants from adaptational stresses, whether by serving as a social support system or by functioning as an escape hatch from psychiatric ill health.…”

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The Protective Functions of Relationships, Social Support and Self-Esteem in the Life Satisfaction of Children of Migrant Workers in Shanghai, China

Wong

Chang

et al. 2010

Int J Soc Psychiatry

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The Protective Functions of Relationships, Social Support and Self-Esteem in the Life Satisfaction of Children of Migrant Workers in Shanghai, China

Wong

Chang

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Int J Soc Psychiatry

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“…I used Patton's interview guide approach to "ensure that the same basic lines of inquiry are pursued with each person interviewed" (p. 343). To be consistent with ECCSM techniques (Gone & Alcántara, 2010), I used themes from extant literature on African and American cultural knowledge (Bellah, 1998;Bellah, Madsen, Sullivan, Swindler, & Tipton, 1986;Kamya, 1997;Lassiter, 2000) to probe into participants' socio-culturally constructed experiences and engagement with American schooling.…”

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Engaged African Refugee Youth Negotiating Schooling in America: An Inquiry into the Influence of Culture and Social Structure

Mugisha

2015

IJE

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This article explores how six ethnically diverse African refugee youth transcended constraining social structural forces and maintained high levels of academic engagement at a high school in a small Northeastern city. Using ethnographically contextualized case study methodology, this article examines the refugee youths' processes of acculturation and adaptation to American schooling. The article particularly examines the role of pre-resettlement social circumstances in refugee camps, home cultural influences, and parental scholastic expectations in shaping the participants' scholastic engagement. The findings suggest that the participants' resilience and optimism about the promise of American schooling in tandem with local community-wide support produced agency with which they transcended countervailing forces in schooling. This phenomenon is conceptualized in this article as agentic scholastic engagement.

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“…Also, churchbased health programmes for mental health among African-Americans is shown to have received increased attention as an approach to mental health management (Hankerson & Weissman, 2012). Africans are highly religious and they believe that, belonging to a religious association is a means of expressing self-identity as well as cultural identity (Kamya, 1997); which can contribute to religion-guided health seeking behaviour. The aim of this study therefore, was to explore the perceptions, attitudes and responses to symptoms/illnesses of Nigerians in the UK.…”

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An exploration of health-seeking behaviours among Nigerian Christians in the UK: towards enhanced health services utilisation

Onyigbuo

Alexis-Garsee

Akker

2016

Mental Health, Religion & Culture

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Migration of peoples from different cultures carries with it some additional acclimatisation challenges, particularly where religio-cultural differences are marked between the old and new cultures. In the UK for instance, studies show ethnic differences in healthcare utilisation, with Black Minority Ethnic groups (BME) showing significantly lower access and satisfaction with the NHS compared to their UK counterparts. This is partly because of existing evidence that individuals from various ethnic backgrounds use different cultural and religious methods as coping strategies for ill health. Nigeria has a legacy of colonisation and evangelisation, with consequences that have impacted on their health behaviours.Therefore, this study aimed to explore their experiences of health-seeking as immigrants, and identify potential barriers and facilitators to health services utilization. This is a qualitative study using interviews and focus group (FG) conducted in the English language, lasting 60 and 90 minutes respectively. Ten adult male and female participants (Interviews: n = 6, FG: n = 4) took part in the study. Data were transcribed and analysed using thematic analysis. The result revealed four main themes: Immigration challenges, Barriers to health care utilisation, Facilitators to health care utilisation, and Acculturation, with a conclusion that religious and cultural beliefs formed the basis for prevailing illness perceptions and responses to illness. The implication is that religious leaders and health providers from Nigeria can become influential in health decisions within this community, following from research evidence that patient-clinician cultural matching can influence service use and outcome.

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African Immigrants in the United States: The Challenge for Research and Practice

Cited by 79 publications

References 24 publications

The Protective Functions of Relationships, Social Support and Self-Esteem in the Life Satisfaction of Children of Migrant Workers in Shanghai, China

The Protective Functions of Relationships, Social Support and Self-Esteem in the Life Satisfaction of Children of Migrant Workers in Shanghai, China

Engaged African Refugee Youth Negotiating Schooling in America: An Inquiry into the Influence of Culture and Social Structure

An exploration of health-seeking behaviours among Nigerian Christians in the UK: towards enhanced health services utilisation

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