Abstract
Current, large-scale, cross-cultural migrations offer promising research targets for the study of human adaptations. The opportunities for such research, however, remain substantially unused in the mainstream of psychology. The purpose here is to provide a framework encompassing components of the migration experience to aid such research. Contextual factors in the sending and receiving societies impinge on the components of the migration experience: social networks, socioeconomic status, and culture. The components, treated as intertwining transitional experiences in migration, should be juxtaposed in research to examine their effects. Gender and age mediate the effects. The framework aims to benefit research that implicates, directly or heuristically, the experiences of persons exposed to rapid sociocultural change and the consequences of such changes in their lives.
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Sociocultural evolutionMainstreamSocioeconomic statusSociologyPsychologySocial psychologyPolitical sciencePopulation
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- 1994
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- article
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- 49
- Issue
- 8
- Pages
- 701-708
- Citations
- 190
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Lloyd H. Rogler
(1994).
International migrations: A framework for directing research..
American Psychologist
, 49
(8)
, 701-708.
https://doi.org/10.1037/0003-066x.49.8.701
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- 10.1037/0003-066x.49.8.701