Abstract
Adjustment into a new culture is of crucial importance for the immigrants to lead a meaningful life in that culture. The present study investigates the adjustment experiences of Bangladeshi immigrants in the Netherlands by exploring and describing the nature of psychological, socio-cultural, and economic adjustment. Participants were 14 Bangladeshi immigrants aged between 29 and 62 years who were selected through snowball sampling technique, were directly or indirectly related with restaurant business and had been residing in the Netherlands for at least five years. A qualitative approach to data collection and analysis was employed in order to get insights from the study participants. For collecting data, in-depth interviews were conducted among the study participants. Data analysis was done with the use of MAXQDA qualitative data analysis software. Examination of the interview transcripts revealed that the immigrants are psychologically happy with their well-being, as almost all of their expectations have been fulfilled despite some problems of cultural differences. Bangladeshi immigrants maintain socio-cultural relationship with the people sufficient to lead normal daily lives as they do hardly face any problem. However, there interaction with Dutch is limited. Though they are not completely happy with their busy lives in the Netherlands, they feel better here compared to Bangladesh. They are economically adjusted because of the fulfilment of their economic expectations. Several practical implications were elicited from the research including a need for programmes that promote immigrants integration with the mainstream of the Dutch society by encouraging the broadening of social relationship.J. Bangladesh Agril. Univ. 12(2): 345-350, December 2014
Highlights
Proper adjustment of the immigrants with the host society is a crucial issue and adjustment experience of these immigrants poses major challenge to politicians, practitioners, and researchers
Nature of psychological adjustment of the immigrants is explained in terms of immigrants’ feeling about well-being, feeling of being foreigner, perceived sense of discrimination, perceived cultural distance, sense of belongingness, and level of expectation and satisfaction
This study examines the nature of psychological, socio-cultural, and economic adjustment of the Bangladeshi immigrants
Summary
Proper adjustment of the immigrants with the host society is a crucial issue and adjustment experience of these immigrants poses major challenge to politicians, practitioners, and researchers. Immigration to a new country is a stressful life event that is associated with cultural shock and requires personal, economic, and social-cultural changes. Integration of immigrants, requires immigrants to adjust psychologically, socio-culturally and economically into the host society (Blunt, 2007; Moghaddas et al, 2006; and Zlobina et al, 2006). There is an increasing need to understand and identify the nature of adjustment of immigrants; whether they are adjusted or not, and how much they are adjusted in the host country. Socio-cultural adjustment along with psychological adjustment has been conceptualized as a major dimension of intercultural adjustment in the study of Zlobina et al (2006). Cultural distance adds to external adjustment problems and weakens their adjustment process in the host country
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