Tag: academic article

Ancestral Home: Chinese Immigration

This academic article is about a study on Chinese mothers who immigrate to the United States. The study specifically tackles the acculturation and parenting styles that Chinese mothers use with their children once they have arrived to the United States. The study also examines the mother’s psychological well-being and their ethnic identity resolution. For example, the article states, “This study highlighted the importance of examining interplay between ethnic identity and acculturation in promoting the psychological well-being and positive parenting of Chinese immigrant mothers in the United States.”

I found this article to be a bit surprising and very informative. The reasoning behind why I thought the article was surprising was because I was surprised to even be able to find a study on Chinese immigration. I was also surprised that many Chinese mothers do acculturate towards the mainstream American culture, ethnic identity, and parenting styles. Overall, Chinese immigrant mothers have a greater appeal towards participation in the American culture. This in turn led the mothers to have a positive psychological well being.

Vu, Kathy T. T., et al. “Mediating and Moderating Processes in the Associations between Chinese Immigrant Mothers’ Acculturation and Parenting Styles in the United States.” Asian American Journal of Psychology, Mar. 2019. EBSCOhost, doi:10.1037/aap0000150.

Academic Article: Polish Happiness

I am german and polish, but I like to relate more to my polish side, so I found an article about Polish migration that compared the happiness of those who migrated and those who stayed where they were. When people leave their home permanently, it is often for a better life, but is that what they are getting? Thing that is often looked at to mean more happiness and a better life, is money, health, social status, etc. There was a study showing that most people who migrated in the Eastern European countries were happier, with the exception those who migrated from Poland who were actually less happy than those who stayed. This article goes on to explain how the controlled experiment worked, the results, and the conclusions before continuing into discussions about the topic.

I found it interesting the results were so apparent that the others did feel happier, but the Polish migrants were basically unaffected. I was a bit confused by what exactly may be effecting them this way, they had charts showing “determinants of happiness” and how it effected them, but they were harder for me to understand. I also wonder how true this is for everyone and who exactly they talked to for the research. Especially after reading a book like Americanah where it was obvious the migrants in that book were not happy. This article also has no strong emotional words to sway perspective and opinions it was instead straight facts and evidence which was nice.

Bartram, David. “Happiness and ‘Economic Migration’: A Comparison of Eastern European Migrants and Stayers.” OUP Academic, Oxford University Press, 24 June 2013, academic.oup.com/migration/article/1/2/156/991931?searchresult=1.