naa a22 4500 510809510 CHVBK 20180411083435.0 cr unu---uuuuu 180411e20130501xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s12134-012-0240-x doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s12134-012-0240-x Transitions to Adulthood Among First Generation Sub-Saharan African Immigrant Adolescents in Canada: Evidence from a Qualitative Study in Montreal [Elektronische Daten] [Nathalie Mondain, Solène Lardoux] In industrialized societies, a large number of studies have addressed the various patterns of adolescent transitions to adulthood. While most studies on migration have examined aspects of migrants' integration into host societies, few researches, however, have dealt with the intersection of these two topics—the experiences and problems encountered by immigrant adolescents. This research focuses on the transition to adulthood among sub-Saharan African youth who live in Montreal, Canada. This group is still poorly known in Canada, and the few studies that exist on sub-Saharan Africans in Canada showed that they are among the most discriminated groups socially and economically. Both immigrant youth and their parents/families' experience a transition to adapt to a new place, and these respective experiences may affect their relationships. Our research objectives are to examine the conditions in which African immigrant adolescents experience their transition to adulthood and to assess whether the gaps between the two perspectives are purely generational or are partly specific to this group. The data are based on qualitative focus group discussions and individual interviews conducted in Montreal in 2005-2007 among first generation immigrants from sub-Saharan Africa and a control group of native Canadians (whose parents were also born in Canada), men and women between age 12 and 18 and young adults aged 18 to 29. Our results show that in all cases the question of becoming responsible, making one's own decision is central. What varies is the process through which the young people become responsible. Springer Science+Business Media B.V., 2012 Migration nationallicence African immigrant youth nationallicence Transition to adulthood nationallicence Immigrant family nationallicence Mondain Nathalie Department of Sociology and Anthropology, University of Ottawa, 55 Laurier East, K1N 6N5, Ottawa, ON, Canada aut Lardoux Solène Département de Démographie, Université de Montréal, C.P. 6128, succursale Centre-ville, H3C 3J7, Montréal, QC, Canada aut Journal of International Migration and Integration Springer Netherlands 14/2(2013-05-01), 307-326 1488-3473 14:2<307 2013 14 12134 https://doi.org/10.1007/s12134-012-0240-x text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s12134-012-0240-x text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Mondain Nathalie Department of Sociology and Anthropology, University of Ottawa, 55 Laurier East, K1N 6N5, Ottawa, ON, Canada aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Lardoux Solène Département de Démographie, Université de Montréal, C.P. 6128, succursale Centre-ville, H3C 3J7, Montréal, QC, Canada aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Journal of International Migration and Integration Springer Netherlands 14/2(2013-05-01), 307-326 1488-3473 14:2<307 2013 14 12134 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer