Identity and the Second Generation: How Children of Immigrants Find Their Space
Most recently, Americans have become familiar with the term "second generation" as it's applied to children of immigrants who now find themselves citizens of a nation built on the notion of assimilation. This common, worldwide experience is the topic of study in Identity and the Second Generation. These children test and explore the definition of citizenship and their cultural identity through the outlets provided by the Internet, social media, and local community support groups. All these factors complicate the ideas of boundaries and borders, of citizenship, and even of home. Indeed, the second generation is a global community and endeavors to make itself a home regardless of state or citizenship.

This book explores the social worlds of the children of immigrants. Based on rich ethnographic research, the contributors illustrate how these young people, the so-called second generation, construct and negotiate their lives. Ultimately, the driving question is profoundly important on a universal level: How do these young people construct an identity and a sense of belonging for themselves, and how do they deal with processes of inclusion and exclusion?
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Identity and the Second Generation: How Children of Immigrants Find Their Space
Most recently, Americans have become familiar with the term "second generation" as it's applied to children of immigrants who now find themselves citizens of a nation built on the notion of assimilation. This common, worldwide experience is the topic of study in Identity and the Second Generation. These children test and explore the definition of citizenship and their cultural identity through the outlets provided by the Internet, social media, and local community support groups. All these factors complicate the ideas of boundaries and borders, of citizenship, and even of home. Indeed, the second generation is a global community and endeavors to make itself a home regardless of state or citizenship.

This book explores the social worlds of the children of immigrants. Based on rich ethnographic research, the contributors illustrate how these young people, the so-called second generation, construct and negotiate their lives. Ultimately, the driving question is profoundly important on a universal level: How do these young people construct an identity and a sense of belonging for themselves, and how do they deal with processes of inclusion and exclusion?
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Identity and the Second Generation: How Children of Immigrants Find Their Space

Identity and the Second Generation: How Children of Immigrants Find Their Space

Identity and the Second Generation: How Children of Immigrants Find Their Space

Identity and the Second Generation: How Children of Immigrants Find Their Space


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Overview

Most recently, Americans have become familiar with the term "second generation" as it's applied to children of immigrants who now find themselves citizens of a nation built on the notion of assimilation. This common, worldwide experience is the topic of study in Identity and the Second Generation. These children test and explore the definition of citizenship and their cultural identity through the outlets provided by the Internet, social media, and local community support groups. All these factors complicate the ideas of boundaries and borders, of citizenship, and even of home. Indeed, the second generation is a global community and endeavors to make itself a home regardless of state or citizenship.

This book explores the social worlds of the children of immigrants. Based on rich ethnographic research, the contributors illustrate how these young people, the so-called second generation, construct and negotiate their lives. Ultimately, the driving question is profoundly important on a universal level: How do these young people construct an identity and a sense of belonging for themselves, and how do they deal with processes of inclusion and exclusion?

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780826503749
Publisher: Vanderbilt University Press
Publication date: 04/30/2021
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 240
File size: 415 KB

About the Author

Caroline B. Brettell is University Distinguished Professor of Anthropology and Ruth Collins Altshuler Director of the Dedman College Interdisciplinary Institute at Southern Methodist University. She is coeditor of Migration Theory: Talking across Disciplines.


Faith G. Nibbs is Assistant Research Professor and Director of the Forced Migration Innovation Project at Southern Methodist University. She is coeditor of Claiming Place: Hmong Women, Power, and Knowledge Production.

Table of Contents

Cover

Title Page

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. History and the Second Generation: Differences between Prewar and Postwar Japanese American Nisei

2. Confronting Identities and Educating for Leadership among Asian Youth

3. "My friends make me who I am": The Social Spaces of Friendship among Second-Generation Youth

4. "Too white and didn't belong": The Intra-ethnic Consequences of Second-Generation Digital Diasporas

5. Political Spaces: The Ambivalent Experiences of Italian Second-Generation Associations

6. Living in Transnational Spaces: Azorean Portuguese Descendants in Quebec

7. Religious Spaces: "Boat People" Legacies and the Vietnamese American 1.5 and Second Generation

8. Health Spaces: Representations of French Immigrant Youth in Mental Health Care

9. Legal Spaces: Failed Asylum-Seeking Children in the Irish Homeland

Afterword: Spaces of Identity: Rejecting the Hegemony of Assimilation

Contributors

Index

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