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The present research aims to compare the psychological well-being of young Mainland Chinese immigrants and locally born students in Hong Kong and to identify factors that are associated with the psychological well-being of young immigrants. Participants, aged from 12 to 17 years, included 1,109 youngsters born in Hong Kong and 342 new immigrants from Mainland China. Factors examined in this research included individual demographic and socio-economic factors like age, gender, length of residence in the host society and the financial situation of immigrants' immediate family, as well as personal factors including immigrants' self-concept, perceived discrimination, and educational aspiration. Findings indicated that the psychological well-being of young Mainland Chinese immigrants was on the whole better than that of the locally born students. Findings also revealed that demographic factors did not have significant correlation with the psychological functioning of young immigrants, while personal factors generally correlated significantly with their psychological well-being.

This paper is a narrative analysis of young Chinese immigrants' subjective interpretation of their family reunification in Hong Kong. The major objectives of the study were to understand what family reunification actually meant to them and how it affected their subsequent adjustment. It also tried to examine the similarities and differences in the experience and interpretation of family reunification among young immigrants who had different levels of adjustment. Participants in this study included 45 immigrants, aged between 12 and 17. Research findings show that family reunification was their long-cherished wish and the main reason for their migration. It was not only their primary concern before coming to Hong Kong but also the stance from which separation with close relatives in their native place and the subsequent hardships as a new comer in the competitive host society were justified. Reunification of the family and harmonious and caring relationship among family members had been the source of comfort and support for those who had successful adjustment. However, for those who did not experience warmth and concern from family members, the disillusionment with a happy family reunification and the experience of distant or even conflictive family relationship had not only created in them a sense of alienation but also resulted in poor adjustment in the new environment.