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In this book Julia Vassilieva offers an innovative approach to the analysis of the psychological experience of immigration, re-examining a common view on immigration as adaptation and urging to acknowledge a powerful potential for growth inherent in this life transition. Addressing both "having" and "doing" side of personality Julia Vassilieva presents an in-depth analysis of how psychological identity bears on the construction of life tasks in post-immigration period and how these tasks become instrumental in personal development. The book is addressed to psychologists working in the areas of personality, developmental and cross-cultural psychology, undergraduate and post-graduate psychology students and everyone who is interested in the experience of immigration a phenomenon that becomes increasingly common in the twenty first century.

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Julia Vassilieva gained her BA from Moscow State University and her Professional Doctorate in Psychology from Swinburne University of Technology in Melbourne, Australia. She teaches in the School of English, Communication and Performance Studies at Monash University in Melbourne.

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