This article discusses the psychological acculturation of young visible immigrants in Western industrialized countries. The two issues to be looked at are the psychosocial milieu immigrant parents and Western host societies provide immigrant children, and visibility as a foreigner act as constraints on the child's developing ego and impede the child's integration or assimilation; and the inability to integrate or assimilate because of the psychosocial milieu produces a poorly developed "immigrant dual frame of reference' and makes the immigrant children susceptible to psychological problems, particularly conduct and identity disorders. The term "visible immigrant' is used here as a value neutral term to refer to "colored' immigrants originating from the Third World countries of Asia, Africa and South America. This group of people is often identified as nonwhite, and collectively perceived as non-Caucasian. The mainstream people of many Western industrialized countries are Caucasians, and have external features, including skin complexion, which differ distinctively from that of Third World populations. -Author

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industrialised country young people psychological acculturation cultural assimilation developing country migrants immigrants