Summary: Adaptation Among Immigrant Families

I think ethnicity is an important concept when it comes to the stress of families and individuals. The article “Adaptation Among Immigrant Families: Resources and Barriers” explains that immigrant families experience a variety of stress such as language barriers, conflict and change in marital relationships, and lack of social support due to migration and acculturation(Bush, Abrams-Muruthi, Bohon & Kim, 2017). During my three year study in the United States, I have experienced a lot of stressors mentioned above. I have learned English since elementary school, but when I came here, I still felt nervous about using English. I didn’t understand a lot of slangs and jokes, so during the hang out with local students, I was the person that always …show more content…
Otherwise, she would feel exhausted because she couldn’t even go to the grocery store by herself, which means she couldn’t fit in the traditional role as a mother and wife. Another example is the story of my friend’s family. Her parents have been immigrated here for 30 years, and they live in the Chinese community, which belongs to ethnic community. The article “Adaptation Among Immigrant Families: Resources and Barriers” points out that “ethnic communities— that is, neighborhoods populated primarily by individuals and families from the same culture.” The ethnic enclaves, which is the extreme form of ethnic community, support new immigrant families with a lot of resources and help them cope with prejudice and discrimination (Bush et al., 2017). However, because of people live in the Chinese community, so they barely practice English or take English classes. Thus, my friends’ parents still ask my friend to make phone call for them because they feel embarrassed that if they couldn’t respond properly by using English. Also, they never the community because they are afraid being discriminated by others because of their poor