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As of 2020, Asian immigrants constitute Canada’s leading group of immigrants as well as the second largest group in the United States. Migration from Asia’s 48 countries and three special territories to the New World has helped to transform both Canada and the United States into multicultural nations in which West and East are meeting each other in creative, challenging, and historically unprecedented ways. This volume will provide the reader with a better appreciation of how diverse Asian traditions can be. Thus, the purpose of the chapters is to portray and analyze Asian American and Asian Canadian immigrant families in an integrated yet nuanced fashion, while paying special attention to their mental health and well-being.
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Chuang, S.S., Gielen, U.P. (2021). The Complexities of Asian Families from Around the World: Creating New Lives in Canada and the United States. In: Chuang, S.S., Moodley, R., Gielen, U.P., Akram-Pall, S. (eds) Asian Families in Canada and the United States. Advances in Immigrant Family Research. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-56452-0_1
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