Immigration, Ethnic Identity, and Assimilation: The Intergenerational Transmission of Immigrant Skills

1994 ◽  
pp. 139-154 ◽  
Author(s):  
George J. Borjas
Keyword(s):  
Ethnic Identity ◽  
Intergenerational Transmission

Fluidity in Language Beliefs:

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chryso Hadjidemetriou
Keyword(s):  
Ethnic Identity ◽  
Intergenerational Transmission ◽  
Local Varieties ◽  
Official Languages ◽  
Everyday Communication

This chapter discusses how the revitalization efforts of Kormakiti Maronite Arabic (KMA) in Cyprus may have influenced the beliefs and ideologies of the community towards its language. KMA is spoken by some members of the Kormakiti Maronite community in Cyprus, where the official languages are Greek and Turkish. However, local varieties of Greek and Turkish are used by most people in everyday communication and the use of KMA has declined, especially in terms of intergenerational transmission. The chapter begins with a sociolinguistic profile of the KMA community focusing on: (i) subjective attitudes towards KMA and its speakers, and (ii) the ethnic identity value attached to KMA. Recordings conducted since 2006, when revitalization efforts began, enabled the author to observe a slight change in some speakers’ beliefs about their language, triggered by ongoing revitalization efforts.

scholarly journals Moscow Mari: Ethnic Culture in the Internal Diaspora

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
pp. 6-21
Author(s):  
Marina Vasilevna Kutsaeva
Keyword(s):  
Ethnic Identity ◽  
Intergenerational Transmission ◽  
Urban Space ◽  
First Generation ◽  
Cultural Practices ◽  
Minority Languages ◽  
Ethnic Culture ◽  
Ethnic Language ◽  
The World ◽  
Two Generations

The article deals with the problem of maintaining and preserving Mari ethnic culture in the conditions of an internal diaspora. The purpose of the article is to identify the conditions for maintaining and to determine the prospects for preserving Moscow Maris’ ethnic culture in Moscow’s multicultural urban space. Methods. In 2019–2021, the author of the article conducted a sociolinguistic survey in the Mari diaspora of the Moscow region; the selective sample includes 106 respondents (100 respondents belong to the first generation of the Mari diaspora, six to the second). One of the aspects of the survey was to study markers of ethnic identity in two generations of the diaspora. Results. The results, obtained in the interviews, reveal that Mari culture (knowledge and observance of Mari traditions and customs) is one of the key markers of ethnic identity in the first generation (coming only third after the small homeland and the Mari language markers). Respondents in the second generation demonstrate remnant knowledge of ethnic cultural practices due to a weak intergenerational transmission of the Mari language. The author concludes that in order to preserve ethnic traditions and customs in the diaspora, it is extremely important to maintain an ethnic language; at the same time, as the world practice of revitalizing minority languages shows, ethnic culture can be viewed as a source of initiation into an ethnic language, and later become a channel for its maintenance.

Sites Unseen

2020 ◽  
pp. 211-230
Author(s):  
Jonathan E. Calvillo
Keyword(s):  
Ethnic Identity ◽  
Identity Construction ◽  
Intergenerational Transmission ◽  
Religious Salience ◽  
Significant Bearing

This chapter argues that Catholics and evangelicals ultimately contribute to distinct constructions of ethnic space and of ethnic identity, in as much as ethnic space serves as a mechanism for ethnic identity construction. For Catholics, religion shapes the boundaries of ethnicity as a retrospective, locally anchored, communally embodied identity. For evangelicals, religion shapes the boundaries of ethnicity as a future looking, regionally dispersed, voluntarily selected identity. Catholicism, the author argues, tends to contribute to a more robust sense of ethnic continuity, while evangelicalism tends to contribute to a more robust sense of religious salience. The author argues that intergenerational transmission is a matter that both traditions continue to contend with as it has significant bearing on their ethnic futures. The chapter closes by reflecting on the adaptive ethnoreligious identities being forged by later generation Latinxs in light of the materials made available by earlier generations.

Ethnic Identity and Personal Identity.

PsycCRITIQUES ◽  
1985 ◽  
Vol 30 (12) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ralph H. Turner
Keyword(s):  
Ethnic Identity ◽  
Personal Identity

What, How, and Why of Ethnic Identity: Not for Ethnics Only

1994 ◽  
Vol 39 (4) ◽  
pp. 397-398
Author(s):  
Kathryn J. Lindholm
Keyword(s):  
Ethnic Identity

Examining Ethnic Identity Through New Lenses

PsycCRITIQUES ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 60 (35) ◽  
Author(s):  
Anita Jones Thomas
Keyword(s):  
Ethnic Identity
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