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Russian Refugee Families: Accommodating Aspirations through Education
Author(s) -
DelgadoGaitan Concha
Publication year - 1994
Publication title -
anthropology and education quarterly
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.531
H-Index - 46
eISSN - 1548-1492
pISSN - 0161-7761
DOI - 10.1525/aeq.1994.25.2.05x0906v
Subject(s) - refugee , immigration , sociology , coping (psychology) , politics , educational anthropology , gender studies , economic growth , political science , public relations , social science , educational research , law , psychology , psychiatry , economics
Historically, new immigrants to the United States have learned to conform to the new society largely through their experiences in the American educational system. The Russian refugee families in one city illustrate how this group with political‐refugee status learns coping strategies through support from community educational programs. Religious and social networks support their efforts to accommodate. New practices in new cultural settings are discussed in this article, as we observe Russian families realize some of their goals while they strive to make sense of obstacles to other aspirations.