DescriptionResearchers from the Rutgers University's Department of Sociology and from the Institute of Management and Labor Relations, produced this June, 1954, report, on how displaced persons adjust to living in a new country. The researchers studied war refugees and immigrants who worked at a factory in New Jersey. Through interviews, questionnaires, and observations, they determined the following: First, social relationships that immigrants form with each other are basic to assimilation. Second, immigrants who held high-paying and high-status jobs in their native countries are usually satisified with factory work in Amerca because it provides a stable and familiar environment. Third, work provides a common language for factory workers, no matter their varrying levels of English-speaking skills. Finally, leaning the English language both solves and creates new problems for immigrants. The researchers feel that these study results are important, and should be integrated into government and social services assmilation programs.
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