Factors Promoting or Hindering Adjustment

Abstract

Where the factors promoting or hindering adjustment by the refugee are concerned, the investigation reported here allows the expression of suppositions only. That these factors cannot be deduced straightforwardly from the gathered material is due to the complexity of the process of adjustment and to the viewpoint from which this process was approached methodologically. A descriptive study — as ours is — of the way in which the foreigner experiences and evaluates his new environment makes such a strict deduction impossible. One should therefore not be misled by the perhaps too positive-sounding formulation of those factors.