Race and bicultural socialization in the Netherlands, Norway, and the United States of America in the adoptions of children from India.

Riley-Behringer, Maureen; Groza, Victor; Tieman, Wendy; Juffer, Femmie

doi:10.1037/a0035324

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“…Consistent with these qualitative studies, a handful of quantitative studies focusing on racial discrimination among internationally adopted children in Spain (Reinoso, Juffer, & Tieman, 2013), the Netherlands, Norway, and the United States (Riley-Behringer, Groza, Tieman, & Juffer, 2014) have shown the prevalence of racial discrimination, especially among nonwhite adoptees. The most compelling message of these studies is that perceived discrimination is harmful for social and psychological well-being, and that to deal with it adoptees need to develop a broad range of coping strategies to respond to the diverse situations in which they may perceive discrimination.…”

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Perceived racial/ethnic discrimination and psychological outcomes among adult international adoptees in Finland: Moderating effects of social support and sense of coherence.

Koskinen

Elovainio

Raaska

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American Journal of Orthopsychiatry

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Quantitative literature on international adoptees and racial/ethnic discrimination is lacking despite results in qualitative studies from Europe and the United States that have consistently indicated how racism constantly complicates adoptees' everyday lives. To advance the literature, the present study examined the prevalence of perceived racial/ethnic discrimination among 213 adult international adoptees in Finland (59.6% women and 40.4% men, mean age 24.1 years), and the association between perceived racial/ethnic discrimination and psychological well-being indicators, including psychological distress and sleeping problems.In addition, we examined social support and sense of coherence as moderators of the association between perceived racial/ethnic discrimination and psychological well-being. Our results showed that on average adult international adoptees perceived racial/ethnic discrimination occasionally. Hierarchical linear regression analyses indicated a significant association between perceived racial/ethnic discrimination and psychological distress and sleeping problems. Additionally, a significant two-way interaction of perceived racial/ethnic discrimination and social support indicated that the availability of social support may moderate the association between perceived racial/ethnic discrimination and psychological distress such that adoptees with high levels of social support may be protected from the Running head: PERCEIVED RACIAL/ETHNIC DISCRIMINATION 3 harmful effects of discrimination. These results highlight the meaning of social support in reducing the harmful effects of racial/ethnic discrimination on international adoptees.Finland is a Scandinavian state with one of the world's most comprehensive welfare systems, a high-quality education system, gender equality and human rights. Compared with other Nordic and most European countries, the number of people with a foreign background is still small in Finland. In 2011, the number of people of foreign origin was 257,000, about 5% of the total population of 5.4 million. By continent, 59% of all people with a foreign background were of European origin, 23% were of Asian origin, and 12% were of African

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Perceived racial/ethnic discrimination and psychological outcomes among adult international adoptees in Finland: Moderating effects of social support and sense of coherence.

Koskinen

Elovainio

Raaska

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American Journal of Orthopsychiatry

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“…Parent Role elements may be influenced by societal values and messages (E1). A cross-national study of TRA families from The Netherlands, Norway, and the United States found that US TRA families encountered the most adoption and racial discrimination; US parents also were the mostly likely to be worried about others’ negative reactions (A1) and value cultural socialization (A2) (Riley-Behringer, Groza, Tieman, & Juffer, 2014). In a study of US parents with internationally adopted children, parents of Asian and Latin American children reported higher perceived discrimination (A1) than did parents of Eastern European children; notably, in families where the phenotypic differences were more evident, parents perceived more bias (A1) (Lee & Minnesota International Adoption Project [MIAP], 2010).…”

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Unpacking complexities in ethnic–racial socialization in transracial adoptive families: A process-oriented transactional system

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Over 50% of adoptions are transracial, involving primarily White parents and children of color from different ethnic or racial backgrounds. Transracial adoptive (TRA) parents are tasked with providing ethnic–racial socialization processes (ERS) to support TRA adoptees’ ethnic–racial identity development and prepare them to cope with ethnic–racial discrimination. However, unlike nonadoptive families of color, TRA parents lack shared cultural history with adoptees and have limited experience navigating racial discrimination. Knowledge of ERS among TRA families has centered on unidirectional processes between parenting constructs, ERS processes, and children's functioning. However, ERS processes in this population have complexities and nuances that warrant more sensitive and robust conceptualization. This paper proposes a process-oriented dynamic ecological model of the system of ERS, situating transacting processes in and across multiple family levels (parent, adoptee, family) and incorporating developmental and contextual considerations. With its framing of the complexities in ERS among TRA families, the model offers three contributions: a conceptual organization of parenting constructs related to ERS, a more robust understanding of ERS processes that inform how parents provide ERS, and framing of transacting processes within and between parenting constructs, ERS processes, and children's functioning. Implications for research, policy, and practice are discussed.

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“…A last potential explanation of our findings may be related to varying post-adoption experiences of the international adoptees, including possibly different trajectories of peer-group identification and integration of adoptees from specific countries in the Netherlands. For example, some studies have focused on the intricacies of living in a multi-ethnic adoptive family or experiencing racial discrimination outside the adoptive home (e.g., Basow, Lilley, Bookwala, & Gillicuddy-DeLisi, 2008;Mohanty, 2013;Riley-Behringer, Groza, Tieman, & Juffer, 2014), but it is yet unknown whether these processes and experiences are largely similar or rather diverse for adoptees from different countries of origin.…”

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Young offenders caught in the act: A population-based cohort study comparing internationally adopted and non-adopted adolescents

Ginkel

Juffer

Bakermans‐Kranenburg

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Children and Youth Services Review

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Empirical research has shown an elevated risk for externalizing behavior problems in international adoptees. To address the extent to which this risk exists for more serious externalizing problems we compared the rates of registered criminal offending of internationally adopted adolescents with those of non-adopted adolescents in the Netherlands. In a large population-based cohort study (N = 3,758,506 including n = 10,563 international adoptees) on Dutch youth with ages up to 19 years we examined registrations in the program on juvenile crime and in the national police system from 2005 to 2013. Controlling for time lapse and background variables we found that international adoptees had been in contact with the criminal justice system more frequently than nonadoptees. However, the findings differed across region of adoption: Adoptees from South America and from Africa had been in contact with the criminal justice system most frequently (and more often than non-adoptees), whereas adoptees from China (total n = 4569) had the least contacts (and less often than non-adoptees). The percentages of criminal offending of adoptees ranged between 1.16% and 15.83% across regions of adoption (versus 10.86% in non-adoptees). The large majority of adoptees-including those from South America and Africa-were not involved in criminal acts. We hypothesize that the higher and lower risks of criminal offending found for adoptees from certain countries are associated with the varying levels of pre-adoption adversity (e.g., neglect and abuse) that the adoptees have experienced.

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Race and bicultural socialization in the Netherlands, Norway, and the United States of America in the adoptions of children from India.

Cited by 17 publications

References 70 publications

Perceived racial/ethnic discrimination and psychological outcomes among adult international adoptees in Finland: Moderating effects of social support and sense of coherence.

Perceived racial/ethnic discrimination and psychological outcomes among adult international adoptees in Finland: Moderating effects of social support and sense of coherence.

Unpacking complexities in ethnic–racial socialization in transracial adoptive families: A process-oriented transactional system

Young offenders caught in the act: A population-based cohort study comparing internationally adopted and non-adopted adolescents

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