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Challenges to the Arab-American family and ACCEss
Family and gender among American Muslims : issues facing Middle Eastern immigrants and their descendants • Philadelphia • Published In 1996 • Pages: 223-240, 322
By: Aswad, Barbara C., Bilgé, Barbara.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This article discusses the history of a local Arab-American community center in Dearborn, Michigan, called the Arab Community Center for Economic and Social Services (ACCEss). The 200,000 Arab Americans in the Detroit area make it the largest concentration of people of Arab origin outside of the Arab world. ACCEss was a grassroots organization formed in 1971 to assist Arab immigrant families with their needs and problems associated with acculturation. The center has grown from assisting 125 familes with daily problems and English instruction in it's first year, to serving 62, 415 people through 42 programs in 1993-1994. The mental-health component of the center has pioneered a multi-service, bilingual, and cultural approach to mental health care. The study discusses some of the major cases, which include maritaland parental problems.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Sodalities
- Family
- Health and welfare
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Arab Americans
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 1999
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- North America
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Regional, Ethnic and Diaspora Cultures
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- essay
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Ethnologist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Ian Skoggard; 1998
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- not specified
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1971-1994
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Dearborn, Michigan, United States
- NotesAdditional notes
- Barbara C. Aswad and Nancy Adadow Gray
- Includes bibliographical references (p.238-240)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 95054109
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Arab Americans