Excluded and avoided: Racial microaggressions targeting Asian international students in Canada

Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 377-388

  Houshmand, Sara ^a   Spanierman, Lisa B ^a   Tafarodi, Romin W ^b  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Asian international students; Campus racial climate; Coping; Higher education; Racial microaggressions

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGGRESSION; ARTICLE; ASIAN; CANADA; COPING BEHAVIOR; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; EDUCATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTELLIGENCE; LANGUAGE; MALE; MICROAGGRESSION; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; RACE DIFFERENCE; UNDERGRADUATE STUDENT; UNIVERSITY STUDENT; UNSTRUCTURED INTERVIEW; YOUNG ADULT; ADOLESCENT; ASIA; ETHNOLOGY; INTERVIEW; PREJUDICE; PSYCHOLOGY; QUESTIONNAIRE; SOCIAL ISOLATION; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; STUDENT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGGRESSION; ASIA; CANADA; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MALE; PREJUDICE; QUESTIONNAIRES; SOCIAL ISOLATION; STUDENTS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84904700437     PISSN: 10999809     EISSN: 19390106     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0035404     Document Type: Article

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