The Challenges of Integration : Acculturative Stress among Korean and Japanese Canadians
- 주제(키워드) Acculturation , homesickness , discrimination , Korean Canadians , Japanese Canadians , immigration , acculturative stress , visible minority , international students , Korean studies
- 발행기관 고려대학교 국제대학원
- 지도교수 한정선
- 발행년도 2019
- 학위수여년월 2019. 2
- 유형 Text
- 학위구분 석사
- 학과 국제대학원 한국학과
- 원문페이지 56 p
- 실제URI http://www.dcollection.net/handler/korea/000000083908
- UCI I804:11009-000000083908
- DOI 10.23186/korea.000000083908.11009.0000930
- 본문언어 영어
- 제출원본 000045977333
초록/요약
This study aims to contribute to the field of Asian Canadian studies by researching the acculturative stress of Korean and Japanese Canadians. It also seeks to uncover possible issues, which are largely unnoticed by the majority, in integrating East Asian into the Canadian population. While acculturative stress can be made up of multiple combinations of indicators, this study is attempted to discover what are the significant variables between perceived discrimination, perceived hate, homesickness, stress due to change, fear, and guilt. To do so, an online survey was filled by 55 individuals of Korean and Japanese origins in their twenties living in Canada’s three main cities, Montreal, Toronto, and Vancouver. By using a factor analysis, it was discovered that in both population groups, perceived discrimination (34.09 percent of the variation for Koreans, and 44.31 percent for Japanese), homesickness (28.58 percent for Koreans, 26.93 percent for Japanese), and perceived hate (18.02 percent, and 12.9 percent respectively) were the variables who were found to be responsible for the highest variation of acculturative stress in members of the studied sample. Furthermore, their coefficients showed that perceived discrimination was the highest out of all the variables with 9.8882 for Koreans and 9.527707 for Japanese. The studied literature and the results of this thesis shows that the Canadian government, and other organizations, could push for more awareness of issues lived by Asian immigrants and improve their situation.
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Ⅰ. Introduction 1
Ⅱ. Literature review 6
2.1 History of Asian immigration and discrimination in Canada 6
2.1.1 Portrait of Korean immigration to Canada 9
2.1.2 Portrait of Japanese immigration to Canada 12
2.2 Acculturative stress 13
2.2.1 Perceived Discrimination 15
2.2.2 Perceived Hate 19
2.2.3 Homesickness 20
2.2.4 Fear 21
2.2.5 Guilt 21
2.3.6 Stress due to change 21
Ⅲ. Hypothesis 22
Ⅳ. Methodology 25
4.1 Research Problem 25
4.2 Survey Building 26
4.3 Analysis Process 28
4.4 Potential limitations and encountered problems 29
V. Analysis and Discussion 32
5.1 Demographic overview 32
5.2 Testing 33
5.3 Discussion 37
VI. Conclusion 41
Bibliography 43
