Publications

Publication details [#56620]

Allen, James, Laila Tingvold, Anne-Lise Middelthon and Edvard Hauff. 2012. Parents and children only? Acculturation and the influence of extended family members among Vietnamese refugees. International Journal of Intercultural Relations 36 (2) : 260–270.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

acculturation | family conversation | family role | immigrant | language and culture

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

This qualitative study shows the important impact of extended family members, especially parental siblings, on the acculturation experiences and family functioning of a small sample of Vietnamese refugee parents and their adolescent children in Norway.