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

by Faith G. Nibbs (Editor), Caroline B. Brettell (Editor)

Overview

For the children of immigrants around the world, belonging to a community is done on their own terms

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

Introduction
Faith Nibbs and Caroline Brettell

History and the Second Generation: Differences between Pre- and Postwar Japanese American Nisei
Takeyuki Tsuda

Organizational Leadership Spaces: Confronting Identities and Education for Leadership among Asian Youth
Caroline Brettell

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

Online Spaces: The Intra-Ethnic Consequences of Second-Generation Hmong Social Networking
Faith Nibbs

Political Spaces: The Ambivalent Experiences of Second-Generation Associations between Virtual and Real Places
Bruno Riccio

Living in Transnational Spaces: Azorean-Portuguese Descendants in Quebec
Josiane Le Gall and Ana Gherghel

Spiritual Spaces: "Boat People" Legacies and the Vietnamese American 1.5 and Second Generation
Linda Ho Peche

Educational Spaces: Representations of French Immigrant Youth in Mental Healthcare
Stephanie Larchanche

Legal Spaces: Failed Asylum-Seeking Children in the Irish Homeland
Erin Moran

Afterword
Louise Lamphere

Editorial Reviews

"Identity and the Second Generation paves the way to an acceptance of the position that does not stress assimilation, but shows how second-generation immigrant youth are forging transnational relationships and strategies that perpetuate language and cultural retention. There is much here that is relevant for immigration policy, especially since there are forces for change as well as retrenchment in both Europe and North America. First and foremost is changing the notion that the integration of immigrant communities, including the second generation, depends on assimilation rather than the possibility that dual or hybrid identities . . . can contribute to a vibrant twenty-first century nation-state."
—Louise Lamphere, from the Afterword

"This book is ready to become a central and important piece in the ongoing investigation and debates concerning migration and the children of migrants. There are really no other works that have the geographic breadth of this work."
—Jeffrey Cohen, coauthor of Cultures of Migration: The Global Nature of Contemporary Mobility

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