M. Markovic et L. Manderson, Nowhere is as at home: adjustment strategies of recent immigrant women from the former Yugoslav Republics in southeast Queensland, J SOCIOL, 36(3), 2000, pp. 315-328
This paper analyses adjustment strategies of women from the former Yugoslav
Republics who have settled in Australia since 1991. The majority of these
recent immigrants have been humanitarian settlers and refugees, and this ha
s had specific implications for their adjustment strategies. In-depth inter
views were conducted during 1996-97 with 52 former Yugoslavian-born women w
ho resided in southeast Queensland. The women's assessments of their decisi
on to immigrate resulted in three adjustment strategies: (1) loss orientati
on, (2) ambivalence and (3) future orientation. Described separately, this
typology delineates only ideal types, but is predictive of the kinds of set
tlement and coping issues that are faced by individual immigrants. The adju
stment strategies are primarily affected by the women's status as independe
nt immigrants or refugees and humanitarian settlers, social capital and soc
ial constraints in the host country.