Re/Formation and Identity, 1st ed. 2022 The Intersectionality of Development, Culture, and Immigration Advances in Immigrant Family Research Series

This innovative book applies contemporary and emergent theories of identity formation to timely questions of identity re/formation and development in immigrant families across diverse ethnicities and age groups. Researchers from across the globe examine the ways in which immigrants from Africa, Asia, Europe, and Latin America dynamically adjust, adapt, and resist aspects of their identities in their host countries as a form of resilience. The book provides a multidisciplinary approach to studying the multidimensional complexities of identity development and immigration and offers critical insights on the experiences of immigrant families.

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Re/Formation and Identity: The Intersectionality of Development, Culture, and Immigration is an essential resource for researchers, professors, and graduate students as well as clinicians, professionals, and policymakers in the fields of developmental, social, and cross-cultural psychology, parenting and family studies, social work, and all interrelated disciplines.

Deborah J. Johnson, PhD, is Professor of Human Development and Family Studies and the Director of the Diversity Research Network at Michigan State University, U.S. Her research explores racially and culturally related development, parental racial socialization and coping, and cultural adjustment from early childhood through emerging adulthood, among domestic, immigrant and international children and youth. She holds a deep interest in child rights perspectives and vulnerable children globally emphasizing themes of resilience, cultural adjustment and identity transformation. In her longitudinal studies of Sudanese refugees who entered the U.S. as unaccompanied children, themes of resilience including ongoing adjustment, identity, schooling and sense of purpose have been explored extensively.  Recent research addresses gender and interpersonal violence across developmental periods. Other collaborations investigate the relations among identity and racial socialization in contexts where social history and current public policy impact the experience of oppression. This research also includes Indigenous Australians and Roma youth. In Western Australia, Dr. Johnson has served as adjunct professor at Murdoch University, a fellow at the Telethon Institute for Child Health and Research, Research Council member for the Pindi Pindi Aboriginal Research Center and was honored with a Raine Fellowship (Australia). She has published over 70 articles, books and monographs. Her two most recent books for Springer include Fitzgerald, Johnson, Qin, Villarruel, and Norder (Eds.) (2019) Handbook of Children and Prejudice: Integrating, Research, Practice and Policy and Johnson, Agbenyiga, and Hitchcock (2013) Vulnerable Children: Global Challenges in Education, Health, Well-Being, and Child Rights. 

Susan S. Chuang, PhD, is Professor at the University of Guelph, Canada. Her research focuses on parenting and fathering of young children in various

Explores immigrant identity from a global perspective

Examines identity re/formation and development in immigrant families across diverse ethnicities and age groups

Focuses on immigrants from diverse age groups and cultural backgrounds