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This volume is a gateway to advanced theorizing and research on identity formation and the continual transactional process of adjustment and reformation, through the lens of evolving immigration, race, and cultural experiences. The chapters are unique explorations into the many facets of this process and the incredible journeys of first- and second-generation youth and their families. Each of the 17 chapters contributes to the story of innovation, new considerations, and challenges to current perspectives on immigrant identity development, intersectionality, and change. Specifically, the sections include: (1) acculturation, multidimensional identity, and family socialization processes, (2) language, language role identity, and literacy, (3) transnational place and identity: resistant reformation, (4) identity as a protective factor: coping with depression, distress, and adjustment stress, and (5) positive youth and emerging adult development.
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Johnson, D.J., Chuang, S.S., Glozman, J. (2022). Identity Formation and Re-Formation: Resistance, Growth, and Emerging Pathways for Immigrant Youth and their Families. In: Johnson, D.J., Chuang, S.S., Glozman, J. (eds) Re/Formation and Identity. Advances in Immigrant Family Research. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-86426-2_1
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