Understanding Acculturation || Online Resources || Publications
Acculturation & Segmented Assimilation
This webpage focuses on acculturation and its effects on Hispanic Immigrants.
Acculturation Info
Useful website of a Finnish university on culture shock and its effects on academic performance.
In Moving to a New Country: Children and Adolescent's Adaptation (.pdf file)
Uma A. Shenoy analyzes acculturation and cultural adjustment of children and adolescents.
Stages of Cultural Adjustment
This webpage briefly describes and explains the stages and effects of cultural adjustment.
Publications
Belonging, identity and Third Culture Kids Life histories of former international school students by Fail found in Journal of Research in International Education (2004); 3: 319-338.
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Growing Up Among Worlds by David C. Pollock and Ruth E. Van Reken
Intercultural Press 1999 ISBN 1-877864-72-2
The Five Stages of Culture Shock: Critical Incidents around the World by Paul Pedersen Greenwood Press, 1995
Psychology of Culture Shock by Colleen Ward, Stephen Bochner, Adrian Furnham
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Third Culture Kids by David C. Pollock
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Unrooted Childhoods : Memoirs of Growing Up Global by Faith Eidse
You may provide this book as a bibliotherapy tool to children dealing with acculturation. Purchase it here (Amazon.com link)
Your Land, My Land : Children in the Process of Acculturation by Jacklyn Blake Clayton
The story of four children's acculturation into elementary school, as seen by the author, the teachers, the parents, and the children.
Acculturation among Portuguese Immigrants in Germany by Neto, Barro, & Schmitz
Purchase it here (Psychology & Developing Studies link)
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