Immigration and Acculturation: Mourning, Adaptation, and the Next Generation

Author writes eloquently about psychology of immigration and acculturation.

Who in their right mind would publish an ebook without a table of contents? This is completely useless, and I will not purchase it. Just take a look at the sample you can get for free. I have learned my lesson with ordering Kindle books.

Akhtar here distills a lifetime's experience as a child of immigrants, a child immigrant, as a parent of children of immigrants, as a grandparent. As a psychoanalyst he writes of the experience of others, and shares experiences of colleagues who have enabled other lives shared by the experience of immigration. The advantages are acknowledged alongside the pain of separation, longing for return to the motherland, shame of not belonging, loss of the protecting 'waking screen', anxieties of assimilation and success, fears of disappointing pioneers... He acknowledges a host of fellow travellers and theorists and includes a filmography and bibliography.