Migration and adjustment factors influencing adjustment process of international migration

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encounters in attempting to predict the process of overseas adjustment of individuals.

However, the nature of the adjustment process for individuals crossing cultural boundaries has not been adequately described in past research.

That is due to the fact that, there is an increase in difficulties surrounding the adjustment of the immigrants in the host countries.

Thus, there is a scarcity of studies on this subject, despite its utmost importance to the adjustment of immigrants.

This article reviews research on the factors influencing cross-cultural adjustment.

It deals with the many socio-cultural factors affecting the adjustment process of immigrants, and raises a series of theoretical issues to be considered in future research.

In addition, the study addresses various definitions related to this issue and previous studies concerning the topic of cross-cultural adjustment are presented.