Cultural Bereavement And Cultural Identity Article Analysis

Migration, Cultural Bereavement and Cultural Identity

The central topic of the Migration, Cultural Bereavement, and Cultural Identity article is about how different cultural, racial and ethnic backgrounds reacted during the process of migration. Because this movement had been going on for decades, Dinesh Bhugara and Matthew A Becker had decided to investigate different aspects of how do migrants react after deciding to take the journey for a new beginning? These are some of the questions the were raised about migration, and with the help of many psychologists and biologists from different universities all over the world, hopefully some of the questions can be answered like, what are the three stages of migration? What are the

While reading it, I was able to picture my road to America. Because of so many facts in the article, I am able to understand why things happened the way they did. Starting with the pre-migration stage when my parents played to lottery for a visa to the United States. I remember that day like it was yesterday. The mailman brought us biggest envelope that I have ever seen. My parents opened it and told me if I wanted to go the America. My only answer was, “only if I can bring my dog”. A long process of medical physicals and selling everything we had, knowing that we will not return. Next was the migration stage, my favorite because we got to fly in an airplane for the first time. Landing at O’Hare and seeing so many different strange faces was a little scary. The post-migration stage was the most difficult, especially for my dad. He suffered with anxiety and depression because of the culture shock. He had a hard time finding a job because of the language barrier and lack of confidence. As time went on we started settling down, but my father never got acclimated to the new culture. Twenty years later, because of this article I am able to look back and understand why some things happened the way they