Getting started and getting ahead: Career dynamics of immigrants

While immigration has continued to change demographic patterns in the Unite d States and other countries, there has been little theory and research on the psychological processes underlying immigrants' adjustment to new career s. This paper models the stress immigrants' experience from the demands, op portunities, and constraints they encounter as they embark on careers in th eir host country and the role that social support plays in facilitating acc ulturation. Immigrants' intercultural effectiveness, coping skills, and car eer motivation are considered as important moderators between acculturation stress and career outcomes. Directions for future research on the career d ynamics on immigrants are discussed.