Immigration, migration, and community psychology.

Acculturation, social exclusion and resistance: Experiences of young Moroccans in Italy

“…Some researchers have highlighted some problematic assumptions underlying the either/or and linear outcomes implicit in Berry's model for how people are absorbed into a nation (Bhatia, 2002;Chirkov, 2009;Hermans & Kempen, 1998). In community psychology, Birman and Bray (2017) have argued that research and intervention into immigrant experiences should take an ecological perspective in order to understand the range of factors that influence the process. Similarly, from a liberation psychology perspective, García-Ramírez, de la Mata, Paloma, and Hernández-Plaza (2010) and Luque-Ribelles, Herrera-Sanchez, and García-Ramírez , Martin-Baro, 1994Montero, 2009;Sonn & Fisher, 2003;Sonn & Lewis, 2009) have emphasized the social ecology and the interrelatedness of people and social systems along with the dynamics of power and privilege within a society that affects individual and group experiences of settlement and acculturative integration.…”

The Acculturation of Community Psychology: Is There a Best Way?

“…However, from the person‐environment fit perspective, acculturation is not a context‐free choice, but is constrained by pressures and opportunities in immigrants’ environments. From this perspective, my research (e.g., Birman, Trickett & Buchanan, ; Salo & Birman, ), as well as others' (Oppedal, Roysamb & Sam, ; Schnittker, ), has found that there is no best acculturative style independent of context (Birman & Bray, ).…”

Contemporary immigration: Psychological perspectives on challenges and solutions.

“…Psychological theorizing and empirical research on immigration have grown in the 21st century and are now fast expanding as a specialized field (Birman & Bray, 2017;Cobb et al, 2019;Dovidio & Esses, 2001;Hernandez, 2009;Jasso, 2014;Mahalingam, 2006;Okazaki et al, 2019). In this research, attention has been given to a range of topics including the mental health of immigrants (Torres et al, 2018), the education of immigrant children (Frisby & Jimerson, 2016), immigrants and social technology (Bacigalupe & Cámara, 2012), and identity development among immigrants (Verkuyten et al, 2019).…”