I’m an Alien in Deutschland

The Authors: Erhabor S. Idemudia is a clinical psychologist and full professor at North-West University (South Africa) and the University of Limpopo (South Africa). He earned his Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology in 1995 from the University of Ibadan (Nigeria). He has been an Alexander von Humboldt (AvH) fellow at Jacobs University Bremen.Klaus Boehnke, Professor of Social Science Methodology at Jacobs University Bremen and former Secretary-General of the International Association for Cross-Cultural Psychology (IACCP) is Vice Dean of the Bremen International Graduate School of Social Sciences (BIGSSS). He earned his Ph.D. in Psychology in 1985 from Berlin University of Technology.

• Contents: Legal, illegal, and incarcerated African immigrants in Germany – Mental health – Acculturative stress – Value preferences – Family fragmentation – German racism – Higher acculturative stress with increasing duration of stay in Germany – Structural equation modeling – ‘Economic refugees’ – Precarious job situation – Daily hassles.