The Immigrant Experience in Sweden

Non-taster is a photo essay exploring the elusive connections between the change of taste and the immigrant experience based on my story of losing taste at the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic outbreak. The world, which used to be dirty, viscous, and alive has rapidly become hygienic, distanced, and virtual. I documented the packaging and food sauce for breakfast via a series of scanned images and photographs during the second and third lockdown in London. The photos of spicy sauce and food packaging reveal the desire to reconnect with the senses. Alongside apathy, nostalgia, and homesickness, Non-taster laments the changes of the senses and desires in the post-pandemic period.

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A Cross-cultural, Trans-generational Portrait of Italian-Canadians in Adriana Monti’s Two Short Films

Italian Canadiana ◽

10.33137/ic.v34i0.37476 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 34 ◽

pp. 167-174

Author(s):

Anna Foschi Ciampolini

Keyword(s):

Gender Roles ◽

Career Choices ◽

Age Groups ◽

Cross Cultural ◽

Identity Integration ◽

Cultural Life ◽

Short Films ◽

Immigrant Experience ◽

Italian Origin ◽

Creative Role

Adriana Monti is an Italian-Canadian independent producer, feminist filmmaker and author. She started her career in Italy in the late 1970s by developing a collaborative and experimental style that allowed the women object of her research to take an active and creative role in her films. This interview centers around her two recent documentaries. Family 001 and Family 005 are two shorts exploring the lives of several influential Torontonians and Montrealers of Italian origin through a series of informal interviews with women, men and members of the same family from diverse age groups. This brings a captivating and often touching perspective of the Italian-Canadian immigrant experience. In the course of this interview, Monti explores the deeper issues of identity, integration, acculturation, shifting gender roles, generational lifestyles and career choices. She also talks about the influence/interference of government in people’s lives and in respect to creativity and cultural life.

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The Eastern European Jewish Immigrant Experience with Baseball in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century

Modern Judaism - A Journal of Jewish Ideas and Experience ◽

10.1093/mj/kjm019 ◽

2007 ◽

Vol 28 (1) ◽

pp. 79-104

Author(s):

A. O. Patterson

Keyword(s):

Twentieth Century ◽

Eastern European ◽

Jewish Immigrant ◽

Early Twentieth Century ◽

Late Nineteenth ◽

Immigrant Experience ◽

European Jewish

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Linking Self and Society: Identity and the Immigrant Experience in Two Macro-Contexts

10.31234/osf.io/tq6cz ◽

2019 ◽

Author(s):

Ylva Svensson ◽

Moin Syed

Keyword(s):

Identity Development ◽

Social Groups ◽

Narrative Approach ◽

2Nd Generation ◽

Identity Processes ◽

Societal Norms ◽

Group Belonging ◽

Immigrant Experience ◽

Societal Expectations ◽

The U.S

The purpose of this study was to compare identity processes associated with the immigrant experience in two macro-contexts, the U.S and Sweden. Using a qualitative narrative approach, we explored how immigrant and non-immigrant youth negotiate their identities in the intersection between individual selves and society, by studying how they experience deviations from societal expectations and whether such deviations were associated with alternative group belonging. The sample consisted of 59 narratives written by 1st and 2nd generation immigrants and non-immigrants (age 16-25). Results indicated that the U.S. participants were more likely to define themselves using racial and multi-ethnic categories, whereas Swedish participants relied on national labels. Additionally, U.S. participants showed clear evidence of deviations from societal norms, but also found belonging in social groups from those deviations. Swedish participants showed some deviations, but little evidence of group belonging. The findings highlight the contextual nature of identity development within an immigrant context.

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