Making up for lost time:: The experience of separation and reunification among immigrant families
Making up for lost time:: The experience of separation and reunification among immigrant families
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10.1111/j.1545-5300.2002.00625.x
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发表时间：
2002-12-01
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3.9
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Louie, J
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Su책rez-Orozco, C;Todorova, ILG;Louie, J
在今天的美国，全国五分之一的儿童在移民家庭中长大。在移徙过程中，家庭经历了深刻的变化，而这些变化往往由于亲人之间的长期分离而变得复杂，不仅是与大家庭成员分离，而且与核心家庭分离。虽然许多家庭都参与了这些跨国的形式，但迄今为止，人们对这些形式的家庭分离的普遍性以及对家庭关系的影响几乎没有什么感觉。此外，这种研究通常是使用西方理论框架和家庭观点对临床人群进行的，限制了其对移民家庭的适用性。本文所提供的数据来自一项跨海岸、跨学科的研究，研究对象为来自中国、中美洲、多米尼加共和国、海地和墨西哥的385名早期青少年。这项研究的结果表明，85%的参与者与父母一方或双方长期分离。虽然家庭分离是所有原籍国群体的共同现象，但不同群体之间在分离时间长短以及青年与谁分离方面存在明显差异。提供了原产国患病率、模式和结局的描述性统计。方差分析结果表明，与父母分离的儿童比未分离的儿童更容易报告抑郁症状。此外，定性数据从青年，家长和教师的角度来看分离和团聚的经验提供的证据表明，分离的情况和背景导致各种结果。最后，我们讨论了家庭治疗师在评估和治疗移民家庭时应该考虑的衰减和复杂因素。
In the United States today, one-fifth of the nation's children are growing up in immigrant homes. In the process of migration, families undergo profound transformations that are often complicated by extended periods of separation between loved ones-not only from extended family members, but also from the nuclear family. Though many families are involved in these transnational formulations, there has heretofore been little sense of the prevalence of these forms of family separations, nor of the effects on family relations. Further, such research has generally been conducted with clinical populations using Western theoretical frameworks and perspectives of families, limiting its applicability to immigrant families. The data presented in this article are derived from a bicoastal, interdisciplinary study of 385 early adolescents originating from China, Central America, the Dominican Republic, Haiti, and Mexico. Findings from this study indicate that fully 85% of the participants had been separated from one or both parents for extended periods. While family separations are common to all country-of-origin groups, there are clear differences between groups in lengths of separations as well as people from whom the youth are separated. Descriptive statistics of country-of-origin prevalence, patterns, and outcomes are presented. Results of analyses of variance indicate that children who were separated from their parents were more likely to report depressive symptoms than children who had not been separated. Further, qualitative data from youth, parent, and teacher perspectives of the experience of separation and reunification provide evidence that the circumstances and contexts of the separations lead to a variety of outcomes. We conclude with a discussion of attenuating and complicating factors family therapists should consider in the assessment and treatment of immigrant families.