Contextualizing Immigrant and Refugee Resilience
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This book offers a comprehensive overview of resilience across immigrant and refugee populations. It examines immigrant and refugee strengths and challenges and explores what these experiences can impart about the psychology of human resilience. Chapters review culture functions and how they can be used as a resource to promote resilience. In addition, chapters provide evidence-based approaches to foster and build resilience. Finally, the book provides policy recommendations on how to promote the well-being of immigrant and refugee families.
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This book offers a comprehensive overview of resilience across immigrant and refugee populations. It examines immigrant and refugee strengths and challenges and explores what these experiences can impart about the psychology of human resilience. Chapters review culture functions and how they can be used as a resource to promote resilience. In addition, chapters provide evidence-based approaches to foster and build resilience. Finally, the book provides policy recommendations on how to promote the well-being of immigrant and refugee families.

Topics featured in this book include:

Methods of cultural adaptation and acculturation by immigrant youth.Educational outcomes of immigrant youth in a European context.Positive adjustment among internal migrants.Experiences of Syrian and Iraqian asylum seekers.Preventive interventions for immigrant youth.Fostering cross-cultural friendships with the ViSC Anti-Bullying Program.

Contextualizing Immigrant and Refugee Resilience is a must-have resource for researchers, professors, graduate students as well as clinicians, professionals, and policymakers in the fields of developmental, social, and cross-cultural psychology, parenting and family studies, social work, and all interrelated disciplines.

Autorenporträt
Derya Güngör is a social and cross-cultural psychologist with research interests spanning from cultural differences in self-identity and parenting styles to psychology of acculturation and migration. She received her PhD in Social Psychology from Ankara University in Turkey and worked as a researcher and lecturer in Turkey (psychology departments of Ankara University and Yasar University), Belgium (Center for Social and Cultural Psychology at the University of Leuven), the Netherlands (European Research Center for Migration and Ethnic Relations -ERCOMER- in Utrecht University) and the USA (Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development). In 2007, she was awarded a 3-year Marie Curie Outgoing International Fellowship by European Commission 6th Framework Programme for the project "Parenting in migration". From 2015 to 2018, she worked as an associate professor of social psychology in Yasar University in Turkey. Dr. Güngör continues her studies as a research affiliate at the Center for Social and Cultural Psychology at the University of Leuven and serves in the editorial boards of international journals, including Self and Identity and International Journal of Intercultural Relations. Dagmar Strohmeier is professor at the University of Applied Sciences Upper Austria, Linz in Austria and professor II at the Norwegian Centre for Learning Environment and Behavioural Research in Education at the University of Stavanger in Norway. She received a PhD (2006) the venia legendi in Psychology (2014) from the University of Vienna in Austria. She studies peer relations in children and youth with a cross-cultural and cross-national perspective and a special focus on immigrant youth. She has developed, implemented and evaluated a program to foster social and intercultural competences in schools (ViSC program) that has been implemented in Austria, Cyprus, Romania, Turkey and Kosovo. She was the principle investigatorof the EU funded project "Europe 2038" and examined young people's engagement with the European Union in seven countries (www.europe2038.eu). Her research was awarded by the University of Applied Sciences in 2011 (Researcher of the Year) and the Bank Austria Main Award for the Support of Innovative Research in 2009. Her teaching was awarded by the Köck Stiftung in 2010. She is president elect of the European Association for Developmental Psychology.