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Identity and the second generation : how children of immigrants find their space /

"This book explores the social worlds and spaces of experience of the children of immigrants. The driving question of the volume is: 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?"--

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Nibbs, Faith G. (Editor ), Brettell, Caroline (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Nashville, Tennessee : Vanderbilt University Press, [2016]
Temas:
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction / Faith G. Nibbs and Caroline B. Brettell
  • History and the second generation: differences between prewar and postwar Japanese American nisei / Takeyuki (Gaku) Tsuda
  • Confronting identities and educating for leadership among Asian youth / Caroline B. Brettell
  • "My friends make me who I am": the social spaces of friendship among second-generation youth / Lisa Haayen
  • "Too white and didn't belong": the intra-ethnic consequences of second-generation digital diasporas / Faith G. Nibbs
  • Political spaces: the ambivalent experiences of Italian second-generation associations / Bruno Riccio
  • Living in transnational spaces: Azorean Portuguese descendants in Quebec / Josiane Le Gall and Ana Gherghel
  • Religious spaces: "boat people" legacies and the Vietnamese American 1.5 and second generation / Linda Ho Peché
  • Health spaces: representations of French immigrant youth in mental health care / Stéphanie Larchanché
  • Legal spaces: failed asylum-seeking children in the Irish homeland / Erin Moran
  • Afterword. Spaces of identity: rejecting the hegemony of assimilation / Louise Lamphere.