Factors affecting immigrants' acculturation intentions: A theoretical model and its assessment among adolescent immigrants from Russia and Ukraine in Israel

International Journal of Intercultural Relations

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 83-99

  Tartakovsky, Eugene ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Acculturation strategies; Adolescent immigrants; Attitudes towards a country; Further emigration intentions; Israel; Perceived discrimination; Perceived social support; Russia; The acculturation intentions model (AIM); The theory of planned behavior; Ukraine

Indexed keywords

EID: 84857453953     PISSN: 01471767     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijintrel.2011.02.003     Document Type: Article

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