Americans Abroad (eBook)

A Comparative Study of Emigrants from the United States

Bar-Ilan University, Syracuse University, University of Connecticut (Autoren)

eBook Download: PDF

2013
Springer US (Verlag)
978-1-4757-2169-0 (ISBN)

Infos

An American college student traveling around Europe on a bicycle with two friends arrived at a recent July 4th celebration in Moscow and remarked, "e;We've been traveling around Europe and Russia for almost a month now. I never thought I'd be saying this, but I never wanted to see and hear Americans so much in my life. That would be so corny back home. But here it just seems right"e; (Hartford Courant, July 5, 1989, p. A2). Apparently you can take an American out of America, but you cannot take America out of an American-and perhaps this notion applies to other migrants as well. This is a book that explores the experience of Americans abroad, specifi- cally those who are living in other countries of the developed world with a lower standard of living than that of the United States. This study compares the travels and travails of emigrants to Australia and Israel and seeks to apply a social psychological perspective to address three questions: (1) What accounts for the motivation of migrants to move? (2) What are the sources of the adjustment problems the migrants experience? (3) What explains whether the migrants re- main or return to the United States? Ideally, it would be best to devise one instrument to gather data on repre- sentative samples of Americans living in a variety of countries abroad, but such an effort is beyond the resources of most researchers-including us.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 14.3.2013
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Psychoanalyse / Tiefenpsychologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• ISBN-10: 1-4757-2169-2 / 1475721692
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4757-2169-0 / 9781475721690