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Anti-Asian racism is part of historical anti-Asian undercurrents in America, but shame is frequently a barrier for Asian Americans seeking help for mental health needs. AAPI clients may not resonate with clinical strategies unattuned to the complexities of bicultural identity or social location. Using interview data from 30 second and 1.5-generation Chinese* Americans, a theoretical model of Bicultural Identity Negotiation and Shame Resilience for Chinese* Americans is proposed. Findings indicate that social location strongly influences the meaning and experience of  identity-based shame, and that identity resilience is facilitated by “third space” processes of critical consciousness, community, and creative agency.

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In my paper, I draw upon the empirical literatures on arranged marriages among Muslim immigrants in the U.S. and U.K. to provide a multidimensional model of the marital formation process that 1) challenges the binary between arranged and love marriage and 2) proposes how trust operates as a general mechanism to explain both micro-level personal, interpersonal, and institutional negotiations around different marriage models as well as macro-level shifts in marital practices over time.

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The goal of this study consists in linking 3 different literatures, the theory of Change of Values (Inglehart and Welzel, 2005) the Second Demographic transition theory (Lesthaeghe and Van de Kaa, 1986), and the legacies of historical family systems. The current demographic changes, that originated the theory of second demographic transition, have been mainly explained by alluding at the ideational change, centered their attention in the loosening of the grip of tradition and increasing the importance of individual autonomy and self-expression. But these theories present problems when attempting to explain the differences in trajectories of countries. I propose to approach this problem by using the theories about the pre-industrial family in Europe of Hajnal (1982) and Todd (1995). I will conduct a longitudinal multilevel analysis to test if the historical family traits can explain the different patterns of development of changes of family dynamics (cohabitation prior marriage) and values.