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JOURNAL OF IMMIGRANT & REFUGEE STUDIES
Volume 21, Issue 3, Pages 518-535Publisher
ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
DOI: 10.1080/15562948.2021.1995923
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Immigrants' health; social support; sense of community; life satisfaction; psychological distress
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This article analyzes whether migrants' distress factors are reduced and life satisfaction increased by the sense of community and support from friendship or family networks. The study found significant effects of length of residence, employment status, and support from immigrant friends on migrants' well-being.
This article analyzes whether migrants' distress factors are reduced, and life satisfaction increased by the sense of community and support from friendship or family networks, with age and length of residence serving as co-variables. Host country, gender, migration (economic/non-economic), employment (employed/unemployed) and legal status (regulated/unregulated) were all treated as moderating variables. We tested this theoretical model in two samples of African immigrants residing in Palermo (Italy) and Malaga (Spain), confirming the predictive capacity of the independent variables. Interesting results emerged relating to the effects of length of residence, employment status and support from immigrant friends.
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