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24 J. Soc. & Soc. Welfare 25 (1997)
Successful Adaptation of Immigrants from the Former Soviet Union to Project Renewal Neighborhoods: The Influential Factors

handle is hein.journals/jrlsasw24 and id is 379 raw text is: Successful Adaptation of Immigrants from the former Soviet Union to Project Renewal Neighborhoods: The Influential Factors HAYA ITZHAKY Bar-ilan University Migration has been an international phenomenon for centuries. The wide- spread trend toward migration in recent years has resulted in efforts to examine the factors involved in the adaptation of immigrants to life in the host country. This study examines the factors that effect immigrant adapta- tion and integration in urban neighborhoods in Israel that are undergoing a process of rehabilitation. Adaptation is defined by the variables: contact with neighbors, participation in community activities, sense of belonging to the community and well-being. These mediator and dependent variables were found to be directly effected by home and host related variables. These variables were not found to directly effect well-being. Proximity of family and ability to converse in Hebrew were found to have an indirect effect on well-being, constructed using community variables, which themselves directly effect well-being. The discussion of the findings refers both to Project Renewal for the Rehabilitation of Neighborhoods, and the role of professional community workers as planners and movers in the neighbor- hoods incorpororated in the project. Migration has been an international phenomenon for cen- turies. In recent years it has become particularly widespread (Val- court, 1993). In Israel, for example, immigration has increased in the past five years to the point that newcomers now consititute 18% of the country's population. The social changes experienced by immigrants and the process of immigrant adaptation have been studied and documented by researchers in the fields of social work, anthropology, sociology, and psychology. Research findings indicate that successful adaptation depends on quality of preparation for migration, and factors pertaining to the host Journal of Sociology and Social Welfare, September, 1997, Volume XXIV, Number 3

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