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Bangladeshi Families

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Asian Families in Canada and the United States

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This paper presents an overview of changing patterns of family relations, family norms and values, and socio-cultural lives of Bangladeshi immigrant families in new socio-cultural settings in the United States and Canada. The paper specifically focuses on a brief immigration history, basic demographic information, acculturation and identity issues, family relations, gender roles and family systems, educational achievement, career development, income, and health and well-being of Bangladeshi families in North America. Ideas and information that are presented may be useful to researchers, professionals, and practitioners who are working on family problems including parent-child conflicts, generation gaps in acculturation, cultural alienation, and cultural adaptation of Bangladeshi families in the United States and Canada.

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    Abdul Khaleque

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  2. University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada

    Roy Moodley

  3. St. Francis College, Brooklyn, NY, USA

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    Saadia Akram-Pall

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Khaleque, A. (2021). Bangladeshi Families. 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_8

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