Re/Formation and Identity

Bicultural Identity: Which Kind of Biculturalism for Whom?.- Adaptation and Identity Formation in the Israeli Diaspora.- Black Immigrant Youth's Adoption of Black English as Entry into the Black American Peer Group and Evidence of Cultural Identity Development.- Immigrant African Culture Heritage Youth Identities in Australia.- Immigrant Youth Narratives: Literacy Project.- First Year College Experiences of Latinos from Immigrant Families: Ethnic Identity as a Protective Process.- Performing a Trio in a Promised Land: Influences of Immigration and Culture on Parenting and Children's Academic Identity Development across the Lifespan.- Role-Based Identity Development in Ethnic Minority Children from Immigrant Families: The Development of Language Broker Role Identity.- "Jalos," USA: Transnational Community and Identity among California Immigrants.- Learning to Care: Work Experiences and Identity Formation among African Immigrant Care Workers.

Deborah J. Johnson, PhD, is Professor of Human Development and Family Studies and the Director of the Diversity Research Network at Michigan State University, U.S. Her research explores racially and culturally related development, parental racial socialization and coping, and cultural adjustment from early childhood through emerging adulthood, among domestic, immigrant and international children and youth. She holds a deep interest in child rights perspectives and vulnerable children globally emphasizing themes of resilience, cultural adjustment and identity transformation. In her longitudinal studies of Sudanese refugees who entered the U.S. as unaccompanied children, themes of resilience including ongoing adjustment, identity, schooling and sense of purpose have been explored extensively.  Recent research addresses gender and interpersonal violence across developmental periods. Other collaborations investigate the relations among identity and racial socialization in contextswhere social history and current public policy impact the experience of oppression. This research also includes Indigenous Australians and Roma youth. In Western Australia, Dr. Johnson has served as adjunct professor at Murdoch University, a fellow at the Telethon Institute for Child Health and Research, Research Council member for the Pindi Pindi Aboriginal Research Center and was honored with a Raine Fellowship (Australia). She has published over 70 articles, books and monographs. Her two most recent books for Springer include Fitzgerald, Johnson, Qin, Villarruel, and Norder (Eds.) (2019) Handbook of Children and Prejudice: Integrating, Research, Practice and Policy and Johnson, Agbenyiga, and Hitchcock (2013) Vulnerable Children: Global Challenges in Education, Health, Well-Being, and Child Rights. 




Susan S. Chuang, PhD, is Professor at the University of Guelph, Canada. Her research focuses on parenting and fathering of young children in various countries