C ultural P s y c h o l o g y I o f m m i g r a n t s Edited by Ramaswami Mahalingam Culturad Psychology of Immigrants This page intentionally left blank Cultural Psychology of Immigrants Edited by Ramaswami Mahalingam University of Michigan O Routledge Taylor & Francis Grou NEW YORK AND LONDON Copyright © 2006 by Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form, by photostat, microform, retrieval system, or any other means, without prior written permission of the publisher. First published by Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc., Publishers 10 Industrial Avenue Mahwah, New Jersey 07430 This edition published 2011 by Routledge 711 Third Avenue, New York, NY 10017, USA 2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon, 0X14 4RN Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business Cover design by Tomai Maridou Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Cultural psychology of immigrants / edited by Ramaswami Mahalingam p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-8058-5314-6 (cloth : alk. paper) ISBN 0-8058-5315-4 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1. Immigrants—Psychology. 2. Emigration and immigra­ tion—Psychological aspects. 5. Assimilation (Sociology) 6. Culture and globalization. I. Mahalingam, Ram JV6225.C85 2006 305.0'06912—dc22 2005044675 CIP To my school teachers Vijaya, Kalyani, Subbulakshmi, Chandra, Padma, Dalsi, Venkatraman, Rarichankunju, Natarajan, Ramaswami & students Cheri, Eleanor, Hiro, Jan, Jana, Jennifer, Joel, Mandy, Mark, Melita, Ravishankar, 81 Sundari This page intentionally left blank Contents Preface xi Contributors xv 1 Cultural Psychology of Immigrants: An Introduction 1 Ramaswami Mahalingam Part I: Immigration, Globalization, and Transnationalism: Theoretical Perspectives 2 Whither Thou Goest: 15 An Evolutionary Perspective on Migration Bobbi S. Low 3 Assimilation or Transnationalism? Conceptual 33 Models of the Immigrant Experience in America Silvia Pedraza 4 The Dialectic of Recognition and Displacement 55 in a Globalized World E. Valentine Daniel 5 Transnational Ties and Mental Health 79 Eleanor J. Murphy vii viii CONTENTS Part II: Immigration and Race 6 A Two-Level Approach to Anti-Immigrant 95 Prejudice and Discrimination Thomas F. Pettigrew 7 The Role of Prejudice in the Discounting 113 of Immigrant Skills Victoria M. Esses, Joerg Dietz, and Arjun Bhardwaj 8 Black Immigrants to the United States: 131 Confronting and Constructing Ethnicity and Race Teceta Thomas Tormala and Kay Deaux 9 Cultural Psychology and Marginality: 151 An Explorative Study of Indian Diaspora Ramaswami Mahalingam, Cheri Philip, and Sundari Balan Part III: Immigration, Self, Gender, and Narratives 10 Racing Transatlantic Passages: James Baldwin’s 169 African “America” and Immigrant Studies Magdalena J. Zaborowska 11 Model Minority and Marital Violence: 197 South Asian Immigrants in the United States Margaret Abraham 12 Refugees and Gendered Citizenship 217 Patricia R. Pessar 13 Gender, Sexuality, Language, and Migration 241 Oliva M. Espin 14 Cultural Psychology of Gender and Immigration 259 Ramaswami Mahalingam and Jana Haritatos CONTENTS Part IV: Immigration and Family- 15 Conceptual and Research Considerations 277 in the Determinants of Child Outcomes Among English-Speaking Caribbean Immigrants in the United States: A Cultural-Ecological Approach Jaipaul L. Roopnarine and Ambika Krishnakumar 16 On the Development of Identity: 299 Perspectives From Immigrant Families Karen Kisiel Dion 17 Negotiating Culture and Ethnicity: 315 Intergenerational Relations in Chinese Immigrant Families in the United States Min Zhou 18 Acculturation or Negotiation? What Japanese 337 Academic Migrants Teach Us About Family Processes and Gendered Experiences of Cultural Adaptation Izumi Sakamoto Author Index 365 Subject Index 375