Publications / Research

Organizations

Education

Life Coaches (Psychological Help)

Legal Advice

For Desperate Situations

Food Around the World

Publications / Research

The Silicon Valley Cultures Project is a long-term ethnographic study of the cultures living and working in the hi-tech communities of Silicon Valley, now entering its fourteenth year. Beginning in 1991, Drs. Charles Darrah and J. A. English-Lueck, professors at San José State University, California, developed a collaborative research project that is investigating the Silicon Valley culture area. This region is a laboratory for research into high technology communities due to its robust and varied industrial base, the use of information technologies, organizational innovations, and its broad cultural diversity.

Indians Living Abroad  is a website dedicated to... well... Indians living abroad. A treasury of Indian wisdom concerning practical, day-to-day issues.

Journal E: Interviews 50 Cents: Journal E has always been dedicated to the power of human storytelling, and its latest effort is no exception. Traveling around America with a card table and a handmade sign, NPR's Alex Chadwick engages normal, everyday Americans in interviews that "reflect the daily concerns and hopes of many." (from "Yahoo Reviews")

NPR (National Public Radio), the Kaiser Family Foundation and Harvard's Kennedy School of Government surveyed more than 1,100 native-born Americans and nearly 800 immigrants on their attitudes toward immigrants and immigration. The poll found Americans' views of immigrants are less negative than they've been in years; those who have contact with immigrants are more positive. Immigrants themselves, not surprisingly, are much more positive than non-immigrants. Mexican, Central and South American immigrants differ significantly in their responses from other immigrants. Go to the website.
 

Organizations

Human Rights Watch  stands with victims and activists to prevent discrimination, to uphold political freedom, to protect people from inhumane conduct in wartime, and to bring offenders to justice. Read up on their refugees program.

From the Family Violence Prevention Fund, a special program for Immigrant Women.

The Asia Society is America's leading institution dedicated to fostering under-standing of Asia and communication between Americans and the peoples of Asia and the Pacific.

Education

The Anti-Defamation League offers an educational program called "A World of Difference".  The programs provide hands-on training to help children and adults challenge prejudice and discrimination and learn to live and work successfully and civilly in an increasingly diverse world.

Life Coaches / Psychological Help

Julia Ann Ferguson Andriessen is a writer, life coach, former expat, psychologist, and social worker who helps immigrants and transplants of all kinds with transitioning and adjusting to new cultures. She runs several websites:

www.loveimmigrants.com, targeted towards couples of mixed backgrounds in which one partner had to move to a different country to be with his/her loved one.

www.friendsacrosscultures.com, for anybody who wants to explore friendship with people from a different culture from the one they grew up in.

www.juliaferguson.com, Julia's coaching website. If you feel you need help adjusting to a new country, Julia can help you. Having lived as an expat herself, she understands the challenges.

For Desperate Situations

An anonymous former homeless person has put together www.ihatemylife.us, a website dedicated to helping people who, for one reason or another, have found themselves at the bottom of the sack. It has great resources on how to find housing, food, a place to wash, where to park your car if you need to sleep in it, and how to find a job. You may find his own story inspirational - it does happen, folks.

Legal Advice

If you need legal help, you can find many organizations with "pro bono" (free for you) legal services. A search on the internet (most public libraries have computers with Internet access) should yield a good number of such resources. In the LA area, see www.lawhelp.org.

Food Around the World

World food habits bibliography: English language resources for the study of diet and nutrition

"Job Interview" Cartoon: what happens when Mr. Naheed applies for a job in the United States

"A life without love is like a year without summer." Illustrated Swedish proverb.

From Russia: Vodka and Caviar. It's Party Time! Click here.

 
From Japan: An illustrated love story about a beautiful wife. Click here.