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Immigration, social relations, and mental health in a Taiwanese-American community: Gendered transnational struggles and agencies.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Immigration, social relations, and mental health in a Taiwanese-American community: Gendered transnational struggles and agencies./
Author:	Gu, Chien-Juh.
Description:	334 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 66-04, Section: A, page: 1509.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International66-04A.
Subject:	Sociology, Ethnic and Racial Studies. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3171463
ISBN:	0542081490

Immigration, social relations, and mental health in a Taiwanese-American community: Gendered transnational struggles and agencies.
Gu, Chien-Juh.

Immigration, social relations, and mental health in a Taiwanese-American community: Gendered transnational struggles and agencies. - 334 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 66-04, Section: A, page: 1509.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Michigan State University, 2004.

In the sociology of mental health, little is known about the social context of Asian Americans' emotional life, coping behavior, and gender differences in experiencing distress. Asian Americans also tend to be homogenized. In light of these oversights in the literature, I (1) examine how Taiwanese-American men and women differ in emotional life; (2) analyze how social location affects their experience of distress; and (3) adopt a structurative approach to theorize mental distress, highlighting the context within which distress is produced.

ISBN: 0542081490Subjects--Topical Terms:

1017474
Sociology, Ethnic and Racial Studies.

Immigration, social relations, and mental health in a Taiwanese-American community: Gendered transnational struggles and agencies.
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520 $a Data were gained mainly through 54 in-depth interviews and limited participant observations in the Taiwanese-American community in the Chicago metropolitan area, conducted between January 2001 and September 2001. Findings suggest that Taiwanese Americans' experience of distress is not only gendered but also transnational. Men and women encounter different situations of distress, within which transnational culture plays an important role. Men and women also take on different forms of agencies in responding to emotional struggles. In the conclusion, I propose a "process model" to theorize mental distress. I demonstrate how mental distress is a product of the confrontation between socio-cultural structure and individuals, and how personal agencies are exerted in response. As a whole, this dissertation emphasizes that transnational contexts, two key mechanisms of which include power relations and emotional transnationalism, shape Taiwanese Americans' gendered experience of distress. In the face of mental distress, men and women exert their agencies, which vary in forms and contexts, in order to resist power and reduce psychological struggles.
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