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Navigating Two Worlds: Culture and Cultural Adaptation of lmmigrant and Refugee Youth in a Quebec (Canadian) Educational Context
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Navigating Two Worlds: Culture and Cultural Adaptation of lmmigrant and Refugee Youth in a Quebec (Canadian) Educational Context
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The author examines the social integration and educational experiences of teenage immigrant and refugee youth mainly from minority backgrounds in their first few years of contacts with the Quebec educational system. Using a qualitative methodology, he explains that interviews were conducted with ten youth, eight parents, four community leaders, two social service reception center workers and a school administrator together with information from focus group discussions with a number of youth and parents from the same backgrounds. The cultural and acclimating patterns that emerged in the context of school, family, peers, and community as well as the way in which the respondents negotiate, create, and maintain their identities were examined. The findings showed that culture and cultural adaptation play significant roles in the social and educational integration of immigrant and refugee children in Canadian society. They further pointed to how acculturation difficulties have led to many of these children feeling less motivated to study, losing interest in education, or dropping out of the school system altogether.
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PhD dissertation
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McGill University
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Montreal
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2006
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viii-215p.
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en
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Baffoe, Michael. “Navigating Two Worlds: Culture and Cultural Adaptation of Lmmigrant and Refugee Youth in a Quebec (Canadian) Educational Context.” PhD dissertation, McGill University, 2006. https://escholarship.mcgill.ca/concern/theses/bg257j90w.
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