"A Karamazov Family Reunion"

A community postal survey of minor psychiatric morbidity among Chinese women living in Dunedin was conducted. The 28-item version of the General Health Questionnaire (GHQ-28) was used as the case identification instrument. The overall rate of psychiatric morbidity of Dunedin Chinese women did not differ from their European counterparts. The sociodemographic factors found to be associated with minor psychiatric morbidity included having no children, and being either very well or very poorly educated. Among (foreign born) migrants, those who were born in China, whose reason for migration was “follow the lead of their family” or “family reunion”, had resided in NewZealand for ten years or more and spoke English infrequently tended to have higher psychiatric morbidity.

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THE FAMILY REUNION

Essays in Criticism ◽

10.1093/eic/xiii.1.106 ◽

1963 ◽

Vol XIII (1) ◽

pp. 106-106

Author(s):

RONALD GASKELL

Keyword(s):

Family Reunion ◽

The Family

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The Egyptians in Sydney

Sydney Journal ◽

10.5130/sj.v2i1.667 ◽

2009 ◽

Vol 2 (1) ◽

Author(s):

Stephanie Ho ◽

Paul Ashton

Keyword(s):

North America ◽

Family Reunion ◽

Highly Educated ◽

The Family

Although Egyptians are generally known to be a non-migrating people closely tied to their land, the late 1950s and 1960s saw waves of Egyptians leaving their homeland for Europe, North America and Australia. Migration to Australia was limited prior to this period. In 1933, there were only 500 Egyptian-born people recorded as living in Australia. This number jumped to 8,000 in 1954 and 22,000 by 1966. Today there are around 34,000 Egyptian-born people in Australia and approximately 16,500 of them (nearly 50 per cent) live in Sydney.Around three-quarters of Egyptian migrants settled in Australia before 1976. However, there were substantial numbers of 'recent arrivals' (accounting for almost 15 per cent of this group) in 1986–91. Most of these later migrants came under the family reunion scheme. Generally the Egyptian community is a highly educated one, with qualification levels that exceed those of the average Australian. Today many Egyptian migrants living in Sydney belong to the professional and managerial classes.

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Building a new life and (re)making a family

Zeitschrift für Familienforschung ◽

10.3224/zff.v31i3.03 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 31 (3-2019) ◽

pp. 287-302 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Ada Ruis

Keyword(s):

The Netherlands ◽

Life Events ◽

Family Relations ◽

Social Contexts ◽

Career Goals ◽

Central Question ◽

Family Reunion ◽

The Life Course ◽

New Situation ◽

Occupational Career

This article presents results of a qualitative analysis based on biographic narratives of three young, well-educated women from Syria. They arrived in the Netherlands between 2015 and 2017 in the context of family reunion. The central question is how young Syrian women navigate between two major projects that ask for their agency, being family and work. It is argued that both occupational career development and the building of a family are ‘agentic projects’ that aim to contribute to the establishment of a new life and to regain continuity. The analyses demonstrate that both projects are closely intertwined. Agency emerges as highly relational and intersecting with the women’s position in the life course, timing of life events, ability to adapt career goals to the new situation, and impact of social contexts on family relations.

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Applying Refugee Family Reunion Law Therapeutically

Beijing Law Review ◽

10.4236/blr.2019.105062 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 10 (05) ◽

pp. 1172-1196

Author(s):

Katy Ferris ◽

James Marson ◽

Anna Kawalek

Keyword(s):

Family Reunion

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