Sudanese Refugees in Australia: The Impact of Acculturation Stress

Milner, Karla; Khawaja, Nigar G.

doi:10.1375/prp.4.1.19

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“…Engall (2011) has also highlighted the need for providing culturally appropriate services for South Sudanese community members and emphasises the need for upgrading cultural literacy among professionals and social workers in the resettlement field. Using literature on refugees, Milner and Khawaja (2010) and Khawaja and Milner (2012) pointed out potential risks associated with the acculturation process for South Sudanese migrants in Australia. Their study found that in attempting acculturation, migrants may face conflicts or pressures in intergenerational relationships, gender roles, and marital relationships according to the stage that each migrant is at in this process (Whitebeach, 2014).…”

Section: Conflicted Adaptation and Acculturation Processesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Sudanese Humanitarian Migrants in Australian Refereed Journals

Wickramaarachchi¹,

Burns²

2016

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This article reviews the literature about Australian South Sudanese humanitarian migrants in refereed journals, and is underpinned by a concern for the settlement experiences of migrants and the reduced effectiveness of research which is compartmentalised into different academic disciplinary fields. Though a large volume of academic work has paid attention to many themes and issues, the present review identifies gaps in the understanding of Sudanese and South Sudanese views on family violence, economic stress, issues specific to older migrants, and perceptions of racialised policing. This article suggests the importance of bringing available knowledge from different disciplines into an accessible and crossreferenced platform to better serve southern Sudanese migrants' needs in assisting successful establishment of their new lives in Australia.

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Section: Conflicted Adaptation and Acculturation Processesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Sudanese Humanitarian Migrants in Australian Refereed Journals

Wickramaarachchi¹,

Burns²

2016

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“…For many students from African refugee backgrounds transition to the mainstream setting is associated with emotional and behavioural problems (Brown, Miller, & Mitchell, 2006;Lloyd, 2006;Milner & Khawaja, 2010;Poppitt & Frey, 2007;Ziaian, Anstiss, Antoniou, Baghurst, & Sawyer, 2012) and subsequent increases in non-conformity and aggressive behaviour (Brown et al, 2006;Gunasekera, Houghton, Glasgow, & Boyle, 2014;Hillier, 2002).…”

Section: A Comparison Of Goal Setting and Reputational Orientations Omentioning

confidence: 99%

A Comparison of Goal Setting and Reputational Orientations of African Adolescents From Refugee Backgrounds in Intensive English Centers and Mainstream Secondary School Classrooms

Gunasekera

Houghton

Glasgow

et al. 2016

Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology

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This version is available at https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/54832/ Strathprints is designed to allow users to access the research output of the University of Strathclyde. Unless otherwise explicitly stated on the manuscript, Copyright © and Moral Rights for the papers on this site are retained by the individual authors and/or other copyright owners. Please check the manuscript for details of any other licences that may have been applied. You may not engage in further distribution of the material for any profitmaking activities or any commercial gain. You may freely distribute both the url (https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/) and the content of this paper for research or private study, educational, or not-for-profit purposes without prior permission or charge.Any correspondence concerning this service should be sent to the Strathprints administrator: strathprints@strath.ac.ukThe Strathprints institutional repository (https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk) is a digital archive of University of Strathclyde research outputs. It has been developed to disseminate open access research outputs, expose data about those outputs, and enable the management and persistent access to Strathclyde's intellectual output. AFRICAN ADOLESCENTS FROM REFUGEE BACKGROUNDS AbstractWe compared the goals, reputations and behaviours of three groups: African adolescents from refugee backgrounds in Australian Intensive English Centres (IEC), African adolescents who have transitioned from an IEC into mainstream schooling, and Australian mainstream adolescents. We posit that the need for African adolescents from refugee backgrounds to identify with the dominant social group within the IEC and mainstream settings is an important factor in the goals they set, the reputations they choose, and the manner in which they pursue them. To this end, we conducted a cross sectional comparison through ReputationEnhancing Goals Theory, an approach congruent with sociocultural adaptation.Using multivariate techniques we found African adolescents in the IEC context set academic goals associated with a conforming reputation, whereas African adolescents in mainstream schooling set social goals associated with a non-conforming reputation.Australian mainstream students had an equal split between academic and social goals and conforming/non-conforming reputations. Each of the three groups indulged in behaviours congruent with the goals they set and reputation sought. A series of separate multiplemediation models revealed significant indirect effects on a number of variables via School Connectedness, Control over most important goal, and to a lesser extent Goals.It appears African adolescents in mainstream schooling are attempting to adapt to another dominant culture (i.e., mainstream peers) on transitioning from the IEC, but they face confusion about who they are and who they wish to be. The implications for adolescents from African refuge backgrounds is, that while placing them in IECs for up to two years to help them settle into the education system is laudable, ...

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“…In the Australian context specifically, it has been shown that difficulty in mastering English to a high degree is associated with a range of psychosocial impacts (see, for example, Khawaja, 2007;Milner and Khawaja, 2010;Stanaway et al, 2010). For example, studies of women who migrated from South America indicate that these migrants and their families felt that English language ability was the key to successfully adapting to their new environment (Amezquita et al, 1995;Aizpurua and Fisher, 2008).…”

Section: Linguistic Isolationmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Language is central in the ability to obtain employment and participate in education, but the need to shift to English has proven to be a challenge for this community in light of the other challenges of acculturation faced by many of its members. While it is likely that language accommodation will emerge in time, this community faces other, equally pressing issues (Milner and Khawaja, 2010).…”

Section: The Arabic Speaking Community In Melbournementioning

confidence: 99%

“…Many younger members of the community never experienced a period of normalcy in their homeland and spent their formative years as refugees in other parts of Africa or elsewhere before settling in Australia. This situation has meant that many members of the Sudanese community have longstanding health conditions that significantly impact on their well-being that include emotional problems, nutritional deficits, parasitic illness, dental conditions, and the effects of trauma (see, for example, Martin and Mak, 2006;Milner and Khawaja, 2010). For this reason, many members of the community have had occasion to interact with the health care system which has highlighted serious problems associated with language and cultural appropriateness.…”

Section: The Arabic Speaking Community In Melbournementioning

confidence: 99%

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