‘Nature lovers’, ‘Social animals’, ‘Quiet seekers’ and ‘Activity lovers’: Participation of young adult immigrants and non-immigrants in outdoor recreation in the Netherlands

Upon arrival to Europe, young migrants are found grappling with new language demands, cultural expectations, values, and beliefs that may differ from global youth culture and their country of origin. This process of coming-of-age while on-the-move is increasingly digitally mediated. Young migrants are “connected migrants”, using smart phones and social media to maintain bonding ties with their home country while establishing new bridging relationships with peers in their country of arrival (Diminescu, 2008). Drawing on the feminist perspective of intersectionality which alerts us socio-cultural categories like age, race, nationality, migration status, gender and sexuality impact upon identification and subordination, we contend it is problematic to homogenize these experiences to all gay young adult migrants. The realities of settlement and integration starkly differ between desired migrants – such as elite expatriates and heterosexuals – and those living on the margins of Europe – forced migrants and lesbian, gay, trans, queer and intersex (LGBTQI) migrants. Drawing on 11 in-depth interviews conducted in Amsterdam, the Netherlands with gay young adult forced and voluntary migrants, this paper aims to understand how sexual identification in tandem with bonding and bridging social capital diverge and converge between the two groups all while considering the interplay between their online and offline entanglements of their worlds.

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Germanness or Rights? Second Generation Young Adults and Citizenship in Contemporary Germany

German Politics & Society ◽

10.3167/gps.2013.310204 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 31 (2) ◽

pp. 30-48 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

Daniel Williams

Keyword(s):

Young Adults ◽

Young Adult ◽

Second Generation ◽

Cultural Practices ◽

National Origin ◽

National Belonging ◽

Citizenship Status ◽

Transnational Ties ◽

And Gender ◽

Adult Immigrants

Scholarship on citizenship-in its definition as nationality or formal membership in the state-has been both the basis for evaluating and comparing national citizenships as "ethnocultural" or "civic," and used to imply the meaning of citizenship to prospective citizens, particularly immigrants and non-citizen residents. Doing so ignores a perspective on citizenship "from below," and oversimplifies the multiplicity of meanings that individuals may attach to citizenship. This article seeks to fill this gap in scholarship by examining young adult second-generation descendants of immigrants in Germany. The second generation occupies a unique position for examining the meaning of citizenship, based on the fact that they were born and grew up in Germany, and are thus more likely than adult immigrants to be able to become citizens as well as to claim national belonging to Germany. Among the varied meanings of citizenship are rights-based understandings, which are granted to some non-citizens and not others, as well as identitarian meanings which may depend on everyday cultural practices as well as national origin. Importantly, these meanings of citizenship are not arbitrary among the second generation; citizenship status and gender appear to inform understandings of citizenship, while national origin and transnational ties appear to be less significant for the meaning of citizenship.

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The effects of spiritual experience and church commitment among South Korean young adult immigrants in the United States: a mixed-methods study

Journal of Global Health Reports ◽

10.29392/001c.17608 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Chulwoo Park ◽

Mark Edberg

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

Mixed Methods ◽

Young Adult ◽

The United States ◽

Spiritual Experience ◽

Mixed Methods Study ◽

South Korean ◽

Adult Immigrants

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Heritage language development: Connecting the dots

International Journal of Bilingualism ◽

10.1177/1367006916654368 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 22 (5) ◽

pp. 530-546 ◽

Cited By ~ 18

Author(s):

Silvina Montrul

Keyword(s):

Young Adult ◽

Language Development ◽

Heritage Language ◽

Bilingual Children ◽

Structural Development ◽

Initial State ◽

Heritage Speakers ◽

Adult Immigrants ◽

Connecting The Dots ◽

Heritage Language Development

To date, the vast majority of research on the linguistic abilities of heritage speakers has focused on young adults whose heritage language is no longer developing. These adults began their journey as bilingual children acquiring the heritage language with the majority language simultaneously since birth or sequentially, as a second language. If longitudinal studies are not always feasible, linking research on the structural development of bilingual pre-school children with research on young adult heritage speakers adds a much needed perspective to understand the initial state and the end state of heritage language development. The purpose of this study is to connect the beginning of heritage language development with its ultimate attainment by comparing the expression of subjects in Spanish in 15 school-age bilingual children and 29 young adult heritage speakers, all of them simultaneous bilinguals with English as the dominant language and Spanish as the weaker language. The oral production of null and overt subjects by child and adult heritage speakers was compared to that of age-matched monolingual speakers in Mexico (20 children, 20 adults). To provide a wider context the study includes a group of 21 adult immigrants, who could also potentially influence the input to the heritage speakers. The results confirm that discourse pragmatic properties of subject expression in Spanish are vulnerable to incomplete acquisition and permanent optionality in child and adult bilingual grammars.

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