Family Dynamics and the Teenage Immigrant: Creating the Self through the Parents' Image.

Assessed role played by Soviet Jewish emigre family in exacerbating dual disjunctures of immigration and adolescents. Results, based on life history interviews with five women who came from United Soviet Socialist Republic to United States as teenagers in 1970s, challenge bipolar model of adolescent immigrants and raise questions about previous findings on dysfunctional effects of enmeshed Soviet-Jewish family. (Author/NB)