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Shepard, Raynel Mary.

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Acting is not becoming: Cultural adaptation among Somali refugee youth.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Acting is not becoming: Cultural adaptation among Somali refugee youth./
Author:	Shepard, Raynel Mary.
Description:	242 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 66-01, Section: A, page: 0064.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International66-01A.
Subject:	Education, Bilingual and Multicultural. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3161646
ISBN:	0496969897

Acting is not becoming: Cultural adaptation among Somali refugee youth.
Shepard, Raynel Mary.

Acting is not becoming: Cultural adaptation among Somali refugee youth. - 242 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 66-01, Section: A, page: 0064.

Thesis (Ed.D.)--Harvard University, 2005.

Much research has been conducted on the cultural adaptation of Asians, Latinos, and Afro-Caribbeans. Little information, however, is available on the cultural adaptation of African immigrants and their children in the US context. Although Africans make up only 2.3% of the total immigrant population, an increasing number of African children are enrolling in U.S. schools. Observations concerning the adaptation of Asians, Latinos, and Afro-Caribbeans may not be readily transferable to African groups.

ISBN: 0496969897Subjects--Topical Terms:

626653
Education, Bilingual and Multicultural.

Acting is not becoming: Cultural adaptation among Somali refugee youth.
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520 $a Much research has been conducted on the cultural adaptation of Asians, Latinos, and Afro-Caribbeans. Little information, however, is available on the cultural adaptation of African immigrants and their children in the US context. Although Africans make up only 2.3% of the total immigrant population, an increasing number of African children are enrolling in U.S. schools. Observations concerning the adaptation of Asians, Latinos, and Afro-Caribbeans may not be readily transferable to African groups.
520 $a This dissertation explores the cultural adaptation of a recently arrived group of Somali youths---children of refugees---in an urban public high school in the Northeast. The study focused on the following questions: (1) How do Somali youths characterize and make meaning of their cultural adaptation? (2) What identity styles and behaviors characterize their adaptation? (3) How do family, peers, schools, and community influence the cultural adaptation and academic engagement of these Somali youth? (4) To what extent does gender differentiate the process of acculturation of the youths in this study?
520 $a Qualitative interviews with twelve Somali youths---six boys and six girls---are used, together with interviews with teachers and other adults. Individual profiles of each respondent are presented. There then follows an examination of the cultural and acculturating patterns that emerged. Finally, the study looks at the contexts of this acculturative process---school, family, peers, and community---and offers a thematic approach to examining the way the twelve respondents negotiate, create, and maintain their identities using three dyads as analytical lenses: autonomy/restriction, judgment/acceptance , and blending in/standing out.
520 $a The role of religion, the distinctive differences in gender expectations, and the extent to which the respondents adopt personae in order to conform to the host society without necessarily accepting its molds ("acting is not becoming") are some of the lessons emerging from this study. The results will be useful for educators working with "newer" immigrant groups, especially refugees, from Africa.
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