SOCB49H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: Young Canadians
11 Dec 2015
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2 - start of the first full-time job. The experiences and problems encountered by immigrant adolescents. Markers of childhood, adolescence and adulthood vary across sociocultural groups. Adolescence to adulthood is characterized by a search of personal autonomy and identity. Especially immigrant children because they may be caught between two different sociocultural environments. How francophone sub-saharan african youth who live in montreal have experienced the transition to adulthood. Most discriminated group in terms of job, housing, schooling and health. Building their adult identity in the new society. Keep values and norms from their place of origin. Parents perspectives and they way it affects their own integration process and that of their children. Brief overview of youth immigration in canada and montreal. First generation immigrant adolescents migrated with or soon after their parents. Almost half of the african community is single. More lone parents among the population of african origin that the whole population.
