Live Poster Session: https://wesleyan.zoom.us/j/91540034964
Noor Valvani
Noor is currently a junior at Wesleyan University studying as an Art History and University double-major. Based in New York City, Noor is concentrating in the Urban Studies/Design field through a sociological lens, hoping to pursue Urban Planning and Architecture in her post-graduate career. In this research project, Noor has conducted a study examining the developmental stages amongst immigrant and non-immigrant adolescents, in hopes to identify and investigate potential social and cultural structures, barriers, and systems in place that impact these communities differently.
Abstract:
Immigrant diaspora groups in the United States, particularly adolescents, are prone to experiencing a variety of culture-related stressors and trauma experiences in assimilating during developing years. With this, immigrant and native-born adolescents experience distinct acculturation and social-integration experiences. A significant aspect of young adulthood involves romantic relationships and sexual engagement, a defining social experience that holds crucial short and long-term after-effects psychologically, mentally, and physically. Sexual-health knowledge is a key aspect related to the form of engagement with sexual behavior, and with this, lack of sexual-health knowledge about contraception, reproduction, and STIs raise the likelihood of engaging in risky sexual behavior.’ As the immigrant-youth population has increasingly expanded within the United States, dynamics, understanding, and attitudes towards sexual-health are anticipated to have equally diversified amongst groups of different birth-origin backgrounds. In exploring social development between native-born and foreign-born adolescents, this study will examine if distinctions exist in level of sexual-health knowledge.
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