“The Land of Opportunity Doesn’t Apply to Everyone”: The Immigrant Experience, Race, and Asian American Career Choices

Poon, OiYan

doi:10.1353/csd.2014.0056

“…These studies focused on either college students (e.g., Poon, 2014) or Asian American adults in the workforce (e.g., A. Yang, 2014).…”

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confidence: 99%

Annual review of Asian American Psychology, 2014.

Kim¹,

Shen²,

Hou³

et al. 2015

Asian American Journal of Psychology

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This 2014 review of Asian American psychology is the sixth review in the series. It includes 316 articles that met the inclusion criteria established by the past five annual reviews. Featured articles were derived from three sources: 137 were generated via the search term “Asian American” in PyscINFO, 111 were generated via a search for specific Asian American ethnic groups, and 32 were generated via author searches of articles that met the inclusion criteria. The top primary topic was health and health-related behaviors, the most frequently employed study design was cross-sectional, and the most studied Asian American ethnic group was Chinese. This year’s review includes information on the target population of the primary topic, the age range and developmental period of participants, and whether the study design was cross-sectional or longitudinal. It also identifies top authors and journals contributing to the 2014 annual review. These new features reveal that the most common target population of the primary topic was youths; studies most commonly included emerging adults ages 18–25; cross-sectional study design was employed more often than longitudinal design; the top contributor to the 2014 review was Stephen Chen, who authored the highest number of papers included; and the Asian American Journal of Psychology generated the highest number of publications for this review.

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“…These articles investigated factors (e.g., parental pressure and support) related to Asian Americans' career choices (Keller & Brown, 2014;Poon, 2014;F. C. Shen et al, 2014), management of family conflict regarding career choices , obstacles to leadership positions for Muslim Americans in the legal field (Kadi, 2014), and career development of Hmong American women .…”

Section: Resultsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…These studies focused on either college students (e.g., Poon, 2014) Cognition-We identified 16 articles focusing on cognition. This primary topic is similar to the subtopic cognitive processing under miscellaneous in last year's annual review (Wei et al, 2014).…”

Section: Primary Topic Summariesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Annual review of Asian American Psychology, 2013.

Wei¹,

Carrera²,

Li³

2014

Asian American Journal of Psychology

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This 2014 review of Asian American psychology is the sixth review in the series. It includes 316 articles that met the inclusion criteria established by the past five annual reviews. Featured articles were derived from three sources: 137 were generated via the search term "Asian American" in PyscINFO, 111 were generated via a search for specific Asian American ethnic groups, and 32 were generated via author searches of articles that met the inclusion criteria. The top primary topic was health and health-related behaviors, the most frequently employed study design was crosssectional, and the most studied Asian American ethnic group was Chinese. This year's review includes information on the target population of the primary topic, the age range and developmental period of participants, and whether the study design was cross-sectional or longitudinal. It also identifies top authors and journals contributing to the 2014 annual review. These new features reveal that the most common target population of the primary topic was Correspondence concerning this article should be sent to Su Yeong Kim, Department of Human Development and Family Sciences, 108 E Dean Keeton St., Stop A2702, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX 78712. su.yeong.kim@utexas.edu. HHS Public Access Author manuscriptAsian Am J Psychol. Author manuscript; available in PMC 2016 December 01. Published in final edited form as:Asian Am J Psychol. 2015 December ; 6(4): 291-332. doi:10.1037/aap0000031. Author Manuscript Author ManuscriptAuthor ManuscriptAuthor Manuscript youths; studies most commonly included emerging adults ages 18-25; cross-sectional study design was employed more often than longitudinal design; the top contributor to the 2014 review was Stephen Chen, who authored the highest number of papers included; and the Asian American Journal of Psychology generated the highest number of publications for this review. Keywords review; Asian Americans, 2014The annual review of Asian American psychology facilitates a comprehensive, year-to-year understanding of the field by summarizing the major research topics and methodology used in Asian American psychology. Comparison of multiple annual reviews reveals past, current, and emerging trends. Illuminating these trends can be informative for new and experienced scholars alike, who can utilize the reviews to synthesize past and current research. This will help them identify emerging trends in order to plan future research that will make a meaningful contribution to scholarship on Asian American psychology. The present annual review uses the format established by the past five annual reviews, with the addition of new features for future annual reviews to consider. Like past reviews, the current issue presents major trends by primary topic, methodological design, and participant characteristics (e.g., average age and ethnicity). This review contributes a developmental perspective by including age range and developmental period in our categorization of participants, and by considering cross-...

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“…A number of studies mention experiences of discrimination, economic instability and the lack of role models as typical of the career decision-making of youth of immigrant origin (Poon 2014). Findings from these studies suggest that ethnic differences in career decision-making confidence and in the perception of career-related barriers may contribute to career indecision (Lopez and Ann-Yi 2006).…”

Section: Theoretical Backgroundmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…These paradoxes or contradictions make the processes of educational choice more complex. As a number of studies identify ethnic-and gender-related barriers which may cause career indecision (Hackett and Byars 1996;Lopez and Ann-Yi 2006;Poon 2014), we focus here on the indecisiveness about upper secondary choice, as well as the indecisiveness about career aspirations. We believe that increasing the knowledge of the preconditions of educational choice, and especially its indecisiveness, helps us to improve career guidance and counselling.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Immigrant-origin youth and the indecisiveness of choice for upper secondary education in Finland

Kalalahti

¹

,

Varjo

²

,

Jahnukainen

³

2017

Journal of Youth Studies

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The educational transitions of Finnish youth of immigrant background are challenging. They confront more difficulties in a twofold manner: they have more difficulties in transitioning to upper secondary education and they seem to drop out of education more often than their Finnish-origin counterparts. This study aimed to accomplish a view of the complex intertwinement of attitudes and experiences with upper secondary education choices, gender and origin. We compared immigrant-origin students (n = 161) with Finnish-origin students (n = 156) in a survey conducted during the final year of comprehensive school. Our objectives were to analyse the variation in attitudes, experiences and aspirations concerning post-comprehensive transition in gender and origin of the youth, and to analyse the factors behind the indecisiveness of the transitions. We concluded that youth with immigrant origin in general, and boys in particular, share a contradiction we termed the 'paradox of immigrant schooling', which refers to the combination of a positivity toward education and difficulties in learning and studying. We also found an immigrant-related contradiction between determinant and quite high occupational aspirations, and uncertainty of upper secondary choices. Our outcomes indicate that the immigrant-origin youth confront the uppersecondary choices in a much more complex and multidimensional situation than their Finnish-origin counterparts.ARTICLE HISTORY

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“The Land of Opportunity Doesn’t Apply to Everyone”: The Immigrant Experience, Race, and Asian American Career Choices

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