The Changing Face of Home

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  • ISBN-13: 9780871545169
  • Publisher: Russell Sage Foundation
  • Publication date: 8/31/2006
  • Pages: 408
  • Product dimensions: 6.00 (w) x 8.90 (h) x 1.00 (d)

Table of Contents


Contributors     x
Acknowledgments     xii
Introduction   Peggy Levitt   Mary C. Waters     1
Historical, Empirical, and Theoretical Perspectives
An Early Transnationalism? The Japanese American Second Generation of Hawaii in the Interwar Years   Reed Ueda     33
Severed or Sustained Attachments? Language, Identity, and Imagined Communities in the Post-Immigrant Generation   Ruben G. Rumhaut     43
Transnationalism and the Children of Immigrants in Contemporary New York   Philip Kasinitz   Mary C. Waters   John H. Mollenkopf   Merih Anil     96
The Ties That Change: Relations to the Ancestral Home over the Life Cycle   Peggy Levitt     123
Life Course, Generation, and Social Location as Factors Shaping Second-Generation Transnational Life   Robert C. Smith     145
The Generation of Identity: Redefining the Second Generation Within a Transnational Social Field   Georges E. Fouron   Nina Glick-Schiller     168
Questioning Some Underlying Assumptions
On Deconstructing and Reconstructing the Meaning of Immigrant Generations   Susan Eckstein     211
Second-Generation Transnationalism   Joel Perlmann     216
The Study of Transnationalism Among the Children of Immigrants: Where WeAre and Where We Should Be Headed   Michael Jones-Correa     221
Second-Generation Transnationalism, Then and Now   Nancy Foner     242
Using a Transnational Lens to Understand the Children of Immigrants
There's No Place Like "Home": Emotional Transnationalism and the Struggles of Second-Generation Filipinos   Diane L. Wolf     255
Of Blood, Belonging, and Homeland Trips: Transnationalism and Identity Among Second-Generation Chinese and Korean Americans   Nazli Kibria     295
Creating Histories for the Present: Second-Generation (Re)definitions of Chinese American Culture   Andrea Louie     312
Second-Generation West Indian Transnationalism   Milton Vickerman     341
"Viet Nam, Nuoc Toi" (Vietnam, My Country): Vietnamese Americans and Transnationalism   Yen Le Espiritu   Thorn Tran     367
Index     399
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