期刊名称：MediAzioni : Rivista Online di Studi Interdisciplinari su Lingue e Culture
电子版ISSN：1974-4382
出版年度：2010
期号：10
出版社：Università di Bologna sede di Forlì
摘要：In 2003, Latina/o immigrants represented 53% of 31.1 million foreign born people in the U.S. (U.S. Census Bureau 2005). Each person migrates for different reasons and motives (Suarez-Orozco and Suarez-Orozco 2001). Immigrants may be professionals, students, political refugees and/or asylum seekers, sojourners, and low-skill laborers (Baker 2002). Regardless of their motives, individuals who migrate experience an array of challenges that may interfere with their adaptation to the new culture. One of such challenges is acculturation
