How to move to another country and not die from longing for the homeland

Hurray, it happened! The suitcases are packed, tickets are bought, visas are decorated, you can move. Ahead is a new world, unknown places, interesting people and adventures. These thoughts are usually accompanied by moving to another country or another city. But days and weeks pass, and the first difficulties appear. The cashier in the store asked about something incomprehensible, it is cold in the house, there are no familiar products in stores, it is difficult to figure it out in public transport, people around are seemingly unfriendly. It seems that every day a lump of problems and misunderstanding is growing, and it is unclear what to do with it.
Oksana Korzun will help to prepare in advance for cultural shock and difficulties of adaptation that can arise at a new place of residence, and will also tell you how to overcome fear and anxiety. Using the author’s advice, you can choose the right strategy for adaptation and help overcome the difficulties of emigrating to children and elderly members of your family.
The book will serve as a support for those who doubt their decision before or after moving.
In the first part of the book, Oksana Korzun gives a review of studies regarding the topic of adaptation, and explains why the experience of loss and nostalgia always come to replace the original euphoria.
In the second part, adaptation strategies used by immigrants are considered. The author explains why some choose life in a Russian-speaking environment and actively protect their homeland in Internet warriors, while others hang the flag of a new country on their balcony and cease to communicate with friends from Russia. Oksana Korzun tells how to correctly choose an adaptation strategy in order to maintain its integrity and at the same time adapt to other social and cultural conditions.
In the third part of the book, practical methods are described to cope with the difficulties of adaptation and the stress accompanying it.
Also, immigrants will share their advice, who have already passed through all the difficulties or experience them right now.
This book, written simply and accessible, will help:
- to figure out what is happening with a person in exile, where nostalgia comes from, why marriages break up and children are moving away,
- learn in advance about the possible difficulties of adaptation in the new country,
- Psychologically prepare for moving,
- alleviate stress symptoms,
- find out how real emigrants felt like, what their adaptation strategies were successful and which led to complete disappointment.
The book that you hold in your hands is not a textbook on psychology or sociology. There are no terms that understand only specialists with extensive experience. This book for ordinary people who thought about life in another country have already left or want to help their loved ones who have experienced the difficulties of moving. She will not help to decide whether to move or not, but will support in difficult moments of doubt when negative emotions prevail, teach how to cope with them faster and easier.
Most of the books and articles published on this topic are scientific research, which is unlikely to reach a non -specialist. Oksana Korzun, however, read them all to tell about the experience of adaptation in another country is simply and interesting. Completing the theory with personal experience and stories of immigrants from different countries.
Oksana Korzun is a writer and journalist who herself experienced all the difficulties of moving to another country. Now the author lives in New York