scholarly journals Reinventing Cultural Identities in Diaspora: A Mother-Daughter Dyad in Tan's Narratives

2018 ◽  
Vol 32 (1) ◽  
pp. 261-272
Author(s):  
Nagendra Bahadur Bhandari
Keyword(s):  
First Generation ◽  
Second Generation ◽  
Cultural Practices ◽  
Third Space ◽  
Cultural Identities ◽  
Chinese Immigrant ◽  
Two Cultures ◽  
Host Culture ◽  
Immigrant Mothers ◽  
Second Generation Immigrants

Immigrants suffer problematic cultural identities due to their bicultural allegiances to their host and native cultures. They can not be totally free from their ‘being’, the shared cultural and historical experiences. As a result, they follow their cultural practices of native country even in their diasporic existences. At the same time, they adopt and follow the cultural practices of the host country. In fact, they are living in the cultural third space simultaneously oscillating between two cultures. In such cultural in-between’s, the first generation and the second generation immigrants undergo different experience in diaspora. In this article, Chinese American writer Amy Tan’s two fictions namely The Joy Luck Club and The Bonesetter’s Daughter are analyzed focusing on cultural identities of second generation immigrants. The second generation in these narratives is the daughters of Chinese immigrant mothers. Their relationship with their mothers unfolds their simultaneous attraction and distraction to the both native and host culture. Consequently, their cultural identities remain unstable, blurred and in the processes of transformation in the cultural third space of diaspora.  

Diasporic Subjectivities: A Study of the Second-generation Immigrant in Hiromi Goto’s Chorous of Mushrooms

2021 ◽  
Vol 34 (01) ◽  
pp. 128-139
Author(s):  
Nagendra Bahadur Bhandari
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Identity ◽  
Second Generation ◽  
Cultural Practices ◽  
Third Space ◽  
Host Culture ◽  
Cultural Negotiation ◽  
Generation Immigrant ◽  
Cultural Spaces

This article analyses the formation of the hybrid and multiple subjectivities of the second-generation immigrant Murasaki in Hiromi Goto’s Chorus of Mushrooms. In diaspora, Murasaki simultaneously vacillates in the cultural spaces of her homeland Japan and host land Canada. She follows cultural practices of both cultural spaces in her cultural negotiation in the diaspora. Her simultaneous vacillations in two cultural spaces render hybridity and multiplicities in her subjectivities that deconstruct bipolar notion of home and host culture. Moreover, her subjectivities involve in a constant process of formation and reformation undermining the notion of stability and consistency.Murasaki’s evolving subjectivity is analyzed through Stuart Hall’s notion of cultural identity and Homi Bhabha’s postulation of third space in this study.

Contesting Familial Bonds: (Af)filiative Relationships in Pakistani Anglophone Writing

2020 ◽  
Vol 18 (I) ◽  
pp. 1-11
Author(s):  
Aroosa Kanwal
Keyword(s):  
Racial Discrimination ◽  
Second Generation ◽  
Cultural Practices ◽  
Social Structures ◽  
Host Culture ◽  
Migrant Families ◽  
Familial Bonds ◽  
Pakistani Immigrants ◽  
Culture Of Origin ◽  
Pakistani Families

Following Edward Said’s theorization of filiation and affiliation, this paper maps transformative itineraries of second-generation Pakistani immigrants in Britain who negotiate their personal identities on the basis of choice and affiliation instead of filiation. I argue that, as a result of the changing relationships of migrant parents with their British-born children, either because of a clash between nostalgia for the culture of origin and the host culture, between racial discrimination or the changing social structures of multicultural Britain, familial bonds within Pakistani families in Britain are severely affected. In other words, public or “external debates” in the diaspora, that Ralph Grillo describes as migrants’ imagined cultural practices, interact with internal debates that occur within migrant families. Against this backdrop, I explore the tensions, informed by a filiation-affiliation dialectic, that exist between first and second generations and the way these affect the personal struggles of an embittered anglicized Asian second generation and dramatize the metaphorical birth of a subject outside the confines of the familial order.

One person, three identities? Examining re-politicization of ethnic, national, and Australian identities among 1.5-generation Taiwanese immigrants in Australia

2020 ◽  
pp. 144078332093415
Author(s):  
Yao-Tai Li
Keyword(s):  
First Generation ◽  
Second Generation ◽  
Identity Negotiation ◽  
Generation 1.5 ◽  
The Political ◽  
Host Society ◽  
1.5 Generation ◽  
Ethnic Chinese ◽  
Second Generation Immigrants ◽  
First And Second Generation

Immigrants of the 1.5-generation (1.5-ers) differ from first- and second-generation immigrants because they are generally better immersed in the culture of the host society than the first generation; yet, compared to the second generation, they often have to renegotiate their identities in relation to parents, colleagues at work, and people in the host society during the processes of migration. Drawing on interview data from Taiwanese 1.5-ers in Australia, this article takes a further step and points out that in addition to the identity struggle between home and host country, Taiwanese 1.5-ers also identify as ethnic Chinese (Huaren) and constantly negotiate between these three identities (Huaren, Taiwanese, and Australian). This article argues that identity negotiation and hybridization is in nature a re-politicization process in which respondents are fully aware of the political meanings and power disparities of each identity. It is also a process whereby Taiwanese 1.5-ers mobilize, downplay, and hybridize specific identities based on time and context.

First-generation immigrants feel socially excluded and have greater pro-violence attitudes than the native population in England and Wales

2016 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 46-60 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laura Bui ◽  
David P Farrington
Keyword(s):  
First Generation ◽  
Second Generation ◽  
Generational Status ◽  
Native Population ◽  
Content Type ◽  
First Generation Immigrants ◽  
Second Generation Immigrants ◽  
Negative Perceptions ◽  
Socially Excluded ◽  
Violence Attitudes

Purpose – Studies examining immigrant generational status and violence have supported differences in the prevalence of violence between these groups. The purpose of this paper is to measure relevant risk factors for violence to focus on whether negative perceptions may contribute to understanding the between-generations differences in violence. Based on the literature, it is theorised that pro-violence attitudes would be related to and be higher in second-generation immigrants than first-generation immigrants, and that negative perceptions would mediate the relationship between pro-violence attitudes and violence. Design/methodology/approach – Data to answer the study’s key questions were taken from the 2010-2011 UK citizenship survey, where only the main sample was analysed. Findings – The findings reveal that first-generation immigrants have a higher prevalence of pro-violence attitudes than the native population. Originality/value – This suggests that there is an intergenerational transmission in violent attitudes, and this is a risk factor for actual violence in second-generation immigrants.

The children and their parents: Changing spatial belongings among migrants’ generations

2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 90-99 ◽  
Author(s):  
Deniz Aşkın
Keyword(s):  
Focus Groups ◽  
Sense Of Belonging ◽  
First Generation ◽  
Second Generation ◽  
Intergenerational Relations ◽  
Host Culture ◽  
Construction Of Identity ◽  
Two Generations ◽  
Depth Interviews

Abstract   This study aims to analyze the process of changing spatial belongings of migrants’ generations. The First generation who moved out from Eastern and Southeastern of Turkey haven’t cut their communication with their hometown. On the contrary, they have built new belonging relations with the host culture. This is the exact opposite of the second generation. The second generation, who are children of the first generation, have built sense of belonging to İnegöl where they live. Also the second generation have prevented their parents from returning to their hometown. It shows that children and their parents have been living in the different worlds although they live in the same homes. This study has been conducted on migrants living in Huzur Neighborhood, İnegöl, Bursa. Empirically, I conducted in depth interviews and focus groups discussions with 30 migrants to capture the changing spatial belongings of the two generations of migrants. Keywords: Construction of Identity, Kurdish Migrants, Intergenerational relations, Turkey.

Problems of Investigation of Immigrants’ Students and their Relation to Psychopathology

2017 ◽  
Vol 41 (S1) ◽  
pp. S624-S624
Author(s):  
S. Kotrotsiou ◽  
E. Tsoumani ◽  
E. Kotrotsiou ◽  
M. Gouva ◽  
E. Dragioti ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Trait Anxiety ◽  
First Generation ◽  
Second Generation ◽  
Immigrant Students ◽  
Statistical Processing ◽  
Second Generation Immigrants ◽  
Competing Interest ◽  
Bodily Shame ◽  
Different Cultures ◽  
Orientation Test

IntroductionThe purpose of this research was to investigate the problems of first-generation immigrant students and the linkage of these problems with the psychopathology of students.ObjectivesThe sample of this study included men and women students, that were second-generation immigrants aged from 18 to > 25 years.MethodsThe research tools used were: (a) Psychopathology Scale (Symptom Checklist 90-R - SCL-90) and (b) State - Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI), (c) the orientation test life (LOT-R) d) Other As Shamer Scale (OAS), (e) Experience of Shame Scale (ESS). The statistical processing of data showedQ (a) the students immigrants have higher levels of student migrants stairways: inferior (OAS), empty (OAS), (Mistakes (OAS), Total internal shame (ESS), characterological shame (ESS), behavioral shame (ESS), bodily shame (ESS), Trait Anxiety (STAI), Somatization (SCL-90), Inter. Sensitivity (SCL-90) and Depression (SCL-90).ResultsThe results of our study found high levels of psychopathology students immigrants and students migrant and interpretative this finding is explained by the lifestyle of their parents immigrants and different cultures which have to cope and adapt and their marginalization from society and official institutions, a situation that results in their exposure to a variety of risks to their mental health.ConclusionsIn addition to increased levels of psychopathology, second generation immigrants such as students and the students in our sample suffer from violence the authorities and their fellow citizens.Disclosure of interestThe authors have not supplied their declaration of competing interest.

scholarly journals Analyzing Educational Achievement Differences between Second-Generation Immigrants: Comparing Germany and German-Speaking Switzerland

2016 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 61-91 ◽  
Author(s):  
Johannes S. Kunz
Keyword(s):  
Test Score ◽  
First Generation ◽  
Second Generation ◽  
Educational Achievement ◽  
Family Characteristics ◽  
Score Distribution ◽  
First Generation Immigrants ◽  
Second Generation Immigrants ◽  
German Speaking ◽  
The Impact

Abstract In this study, I provide evidence that the educational achievement of second- generation immigrants in German-speaking Switzerland is greater than in Germany. The impact of the first-generation immigrants’ destination decision on their offspring’s educational achievement seems to be much more important than has been recognized by the existing literature. I identify the test score gap between these students that cannot be explained by differences in individual and family characteristics. Moreover, I show how this gap evolves over the test score distribution and how the least favorably endowed students fare. My results suggest that the educational system of Switzerland, relative to the German system, enhances the performance of immigrants’ children substantially. This disparity is largest when conditioning on the language spoken at home, and prevails even when comparing only students whose parents migrated from the same country of origin.

Suicide among first-generation and second-generation immigrants in Sweden: association with labour market marginalisation and morbidity

2014 ◽  
Vol 69 (5) ◽  
pp. 467-473 ◽  
Author(s):  
Domitilla Di Thiene ◽  
K Alexanderson ◽  
P Tinghög ◽  
G La Torre ◽  
E Mittendorfer-Rutz
Keyword(s):  
Labour Market ◽  
First Generation ◽  
Second Generation ◽  
Second Generation Immigrants

scholarly journals The (South) American Dream: Mobility and Economic Outcomes of First- and Second-Generation Immigrants in Nineteenth-Century Argentina

2017 ◽  
Vol 77 (4) ◽  
pp. 971-1006 ◽  
Author(s):  
Santiago Pérez
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
First Generation ◽  
Second Generation ◽  
Occupational Status ◽  
Economic Outcomes ◽  
First Generation Immigrants ◽  
Second Generation Immigrants ◽  
Mass Migration ◽  
European Immigrants ◽  
First And Second Generation

I study the mobility and economic outcomes of European immigrants and their children in nineteenth-century Argentina, the second largest destination country during the Age of Mass Migration. I use new data linking males across censuses and passenger lists of arrivals to Buenos Aires. First-generation immigrants experienced faster occupational upgrading than natives. Occupational mobility was substantial relative to Europe; immigrants holding unskilled occupations upon arrival experienced high rates of occupational upgrading. Second-generation immigrants outperformed the sons of natives in terms of literacy, occupational status and access to property, and experienced higher rates of intergenerational mobility out of unskilled occupations.

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