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

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextPublisher: Tennessee : Vanderbilt University Press, 2016Copyright date: ©2016Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (241 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780826520708
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 305.23
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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.
Summary: For the children of immigrants around the world, belonging to a community is done on their own terms.
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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.

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

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