Patterns of Cultural Adjustment Among Young Migrants to Australia

Sonderegger, Robi; Barrett, Paula M.

doi:10.1023/b:jcfs.0000022039.00578.51

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“…The foreigners residing in New Zealand for five or more years were classified as New Zealand residents. Some studies report that immigrants are acculturated as they reside in a host country for more than 3 years (e.g., Sonderegger and Barrett, 2004); however, we adopted a more conservative rule to classify fully acculturated individuals as New Zealand residents (Gentry et al, 1995).…”

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Culture, product type, and price influences on consumer purchase intention to buy personalized products online

Moon¹,

Chadee²,

Tikoo³

2008

Journal of Business Research

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With personalization, consumers can choose from various product attributes and a customized product is assembled based on their preferences. Marketers often offer personalization on websites. This paper investigates consumer purchase intentions toward personalized products in an online selling situation.The research builds and tests three hypotheses: (1) intention to purchase personalized products will be affected by individualism, uncertainty avoidance, power distance, and masculinity dimensions of a national culture; (2) consumers will be more likely to buy personalized search products than experience products; and (3) intention to buy a personalized product will not be influenced by price premiums up to some level. Results indicate that individualism is the only culture dimension to have a significant effect on purchase intention. Product type and individualism by price interaction also have a significant effect, whereas price does not. Major findings and implications are discussed.

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Culture, product type, and price influences on consumer purchase intention to buy personalized products online

Moon¹,

Chadee²,

Tikoo³

2008

Journal of Business Research

270

172

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“…They face great challenge in terms of acculturation, social adaptation and English language" (p. 1). Sonderegger, Barrett and Creed (2004) also point out that moving to a new country and learning the social norms of a new culture is a difficult process.…”

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Improving English Language and Computer Literacy Skills in an Adult Refugee Program

Rensburg¹,

Son²

2010

International Journal of Pedagogies and Learning

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The study reported in this article explores ways of improving English language proficiency and computer literacy skills of adult refugees in a community program. For the adult refugee program, two main issues were considered and addressed: (1) the teaching of English as a second language (ESL) to adults with very limited English language proficiency and (2) the development of computer literacy skills of adults with no or very little computer experience. Main teaching strategies used for this focus group were repetition, incidental learning and the use of freeware such as games and word puzzles downloaded from the Internet. By examining data collected from questionnaires, interviews and tests, the study looks at and discusses the opportunity of using the computer as an educational tool during contact sessions and participants" experience with computer-assisted language learning (CALL) activities. The results of the study indicate that the computer can be used to encourage participants in a refugee program to engage with their learning and online activities are helpful for them in improving their English language proficiency and computer literacy skills. IntroductionThere is little literature that documents specific language and literacy issues that African refugees face when they attempt to settle in Australia. Research is therefore needed to develop programs and resources to meet the educational needs of the refugee group (Brown, Miller & Mitchell, 2006). On-going civil wars in countries such as Sudan over the past two decades have resulted in major humanitarian crises (Brown, Miller & Mitchell, 2006;Menkhaus & Prendergast, 1999) There is a significant linguistic and cultural diversity among the refugees. Although Arabic is the official language of Sudan, it is spoken as a first language only in the North of Sudan. Dinka, Nuer, Shilluk, Zande and Bari are main languages of Southern Sudan (Rutter cited in Brown, Miller & Mitchell, 2006). Brown, Miller and Mitchell (2006) report that, because many Sudanese refugees have interrupted or no substantive schooling, "many of the refugees have little or no literacy in either a first or second language prior to arrival" (p. 151). In a way of responding to the literacy issue, this article describes a community program offered for adult female Sudanese refugees in a rural Queensland city and explores ways of improving the refugees" English as a second language (ESL) and computer literacy skills in the program. BackgroundMany Sudanese refugees spent several years in refugee camps in Kenya and Egypt where they had interrupted schooling and limited or no opportunity to develop their literacy skills (Hatoss & Sheely, 2009). Schweitzer, Melville, Steel and Lacherez (2006) argue, "Resettled refugees from Sudan evidenced a history of trauma ... and may constitute a particularly vulnerable group in terms of mental health outcomes. Culturally specific sequelae in terms of social isolation and acculturation may be particularly problematic for these migrants" (p. 1). It is cle...

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“…In addition, the survey shows that some of the poorest groups of immigrants, such as the Filipinos and Vietnamese, show relatively low levels of psychological distress. Sonderegger and Barrett (2004) studied 273 children from the former Yugoslavia and China. They found that children in immigrant groups from the former Yugoslavia had a greater sense of 'Australianism'.…”

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Review of the Circumstances Among Children in Immigrant Families in Australia

Katz

Redmond

2010

Child Ind Res

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Australia has always had a very high level of immigration. There were about 1.5 million children 0 to 17 years of age in immigrant families in Australia in 2001. This represented almost 33% of all children. More than a quarter of these children were in families from the most consistent countries of immigrant origin, Ireland and the United Kingdom. Another 17% were in families from other parts of Europe, while 10% were in families from New Zealand, and 3% were in families from other countries in Oceania. Compared with most other OECD countries, there is a dearth of research on children in immigrant families in Australia, and relatively limited administrative data that might allow us to compare immigrant families to other families in the general population. No recent studies track the educational, health, or employment trajectories of children in families in various immigrant groups. Research on children in immigrant families undertaken since the 1970s has been sporadic and fragmentary. None of the flagship studies on child well-being provides specific information about culturally and linguistically diverse children or children in immigrant families. There are no national studies on the involvement of these children with the child welfare, juvenile justice, or out-of-home care systems, and it is therefore not known if they are overrepresented or underrepresented. Studies tend to compare two or three ethnic or language groups, group all immigrants together, or classify immigrant children according to English-speaking or nonEnglish speaking backgrounds. Australians pride themselves on the harmony and the relative lack of racial tension in their society, but hard data on indicators of racial harmony are scarce. We examine the limited evidence base below, and supplement an analysis of census data and data from the Longitudinal Study of Australian Children (LSAC). The findings are rather paradoxical. On the one hand the research confirms the serious disadvantages in well-being that children in certain immigrant groups face, relative to the overall population. The disadvantages include poorer educational outcomes, exposure to racism, the trauma of separation from the cultural Child Ind Res (2010) 3:439-458

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Patterns of Cultural Adjustment Among Young Migrants to Australia

Cited by 39 publications

References 19 publications

Culture, product type, and price influences on consumer purchase intention to buy personalized products online

Culture, product type, and price influences on consumer purchase intention to buy personalized products online

Improving English Language and Computer Literacy Skills in an Adult Refugee Program

Review of the Circumstances Among Children in Immigrant Families in Australia

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