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Para1-2
- Family ties are maintained across national boundaries.(para1)
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Immigration causes two different family life:
- Integration/bicultural
- Assimilation
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Para3-8 From general to specific
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Cultural background,social and economic circumstances,and the legal system create an integrated or bicultural family.(para3)
- example:cultural background:seeking a marital partner from the home country.
- Values:Young immigrants vs their parents;women vs men,may incorporate Western values.(para4)
- Legal system:certain cultural system May act as illegal.(para5)
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Economic circumstances shape family life:Altering traditional patterns of authority in the family.(para6)
- Husband &wife
- The elderly &The younger
- Economic viability:To find financial sponsor,switch from kinship to family in-law.(para7)
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Family or ethnic business:viewed as an optimal solution for new immigrants who have difficulty obtaining employment in nonethnic labor markets that require language fluency and other language.(para8)
- Mutual support:the children &their parents
- Economic influences in immigrated family life
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Para9
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Similarities across the ethnically diverse waves of immigrants.
- Similar motivations (economic and war dislocations)
- Common experiences:cultural differences,resulting in discrimination,exclusion and so on.
- Cultural conflicts:between generations and within one's beliefs.
- The success of immigrants.
- The similar processes of becoming part of the new country.