This paper applies a multi-dimensional approach to examine three different parameters of interaction between physical and social environments and their effect on migrant populations. Reactions to new physical environments are correlated to influence of climate, seasonal changes and urban pollution. The influence of cultural changes are described on the individual and family level, differentiation between reaction patterns of traditional and Westernized migrant families. Over-crowding as a precipitating factor of aggressive and violent behavior is re-examined.

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cultural anthropology central nervous system ecology Israel psychosomatics human Stress, Psychological geographic distribution Environment social structure climate Aggression family Acculturation clinical article adult Social Environment migration ethnic or racial aspects Emigration and Immigration Transients and Migrants Crowding Culture