Exploring The Horizontal Acquisition Of Transnational Identity In Intercultural Relationships In Toronto

Identity Shift ◽

Generation Immigrant ◽

The World ◽

Constructivist Perspective ◽

International Migrants ◽

Identity Shifts ◽

Horizontal Acquisition

While identity shift in the context of migration has been studied in depth, questions of identity in those who have close, love-based relationships with international migrants or descendants of migrants remain underrepresented in the literature. Theoretically framing the research in a cultural studies and constructivist perspective, this study explores the extent to which individuals in intercultural relationships take on components of their partners’ transnational identities and how this process occurs. Interviews were conducted with seven individuals in intercultural relationships with first or second-generation immigrant partners. They explored how an individual’s identity shifts in the context of their relationship to reflect their partner’s transnational identity. The findings demonstrate that individuals embrace components of their partner’s transnational identity through discussion and interaction with both their partner and their partner’s family, suggesting that non-migrant individuals with no familial ties to another region in the world can also engage in transnationalism.

Exploring The Horizontal Acquisition Of Transnational Identity In Intercultural Relationships In Toronto

10.32920/ryerson.14656131 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Emma Jankowski

Keyword(s):

Transnational Identity ◽

Identity Shift ◽

Generation Immigrant ◽

The World ◽

Constructivist Perspective ◽

International Migrants ◽

Identity Shifts ◽

Horizontal Acquisition

How migrants manifest their transnational identity through online social networks: comparative findings from a case of Koreans in Germany

Comparative Migration Studies ◽

10.1186/s40878-020-00218-w ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 9 (1) ◽

Author(s):

Sunyoung Park ◽

Lasse Gerrits

Keyword(s):

Social Networks ◽

Social Network ◽

Online Social Networks ◽

Online Social Network ◽

Point Of View ◽

Comparative Case Study ◽

Transnational Identity ◽

Web 3.0 ◽

Situational Contexts

AbstractAlthough migration has long been an imperative topic in social sciences, there are still needs of study on migrants’ unique and dynamic transnational identity, which heavily influences the social integration in the host society. In Online Social Network (OSN), where the contemporary migrants actively communicate and share their stories the most, different challenges against migrants’ belonging and identity and how they cope or reconcile may evidently exist. This paper aims to scrutinise how migrants are manifesting their belonging and identity via different technological types of online social networks, to understand the relations between online social networks and migrants’ multi-faceted transnational identity. The research introduces a comparative case study on an online social movement led by Koreans in Germany via their online communities, triggered by a German TV advertisement considered as stereotyping East Asians given by white supremacy’s point of view. Starting with virtual ethnography on three OSNs representing each of internet generations (Web 1.0 ~ Web 3.0), two-step Qualitative Data Analysis is carried out to examine how Korean migrants manifest their belonging and identity via their views on “who we are” and “who are others”. The analysis reveals how Korean migrants’ transnational identities differ by their expectation on the audience and the members in each online social network, which indicates that the distinctive features of the online platform may encourage or discourage them in shaping transnational identity as a group identity. The paper concludes with the two main emphases: first, current OSNs comprising different generational technologies play a significant role in understanding the migrants’ dynamic social values, and particularly, transnational identities. Second, the dynamics of migrants’ transnational identity engages diverse social and situational contexts. (keywords: transnational identity, migrants’ online social networks, stereotyping migrants, technological evolution of online social network).

Geography of international migration in the modern age of globalization

Izvestiya Rossiiskoi Akademii Nauk Seriya Geograficheskaya ◽

10.31857/s2587-55662019231-40 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 31-40 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

L. M. Sintserov

Keyword(s):

Developing Countries ◽

International Migration ◽

Western Europe ◽

Sustainable Growth ◽

World Population ◽

Financial Flows ◽

Global Migration ◽

The World ◽

The Usa ◽

International Migrants

The article deals with international migration during the last decades of the 20th and at the beginning of the 21st centuries and its economic-geographical analysis. The paper provides an overview of opinions about the dating of the contemporary era of global migration. It is shown that only after completion of spatial restructuring of migration processes and with the transition to sustainable growth of the share of international migrants in the world population, the modern increase of migration begins. On the basis of the UN statistics the main sources of migrants to the countries of Western Europe have been determined as well as shifts in the geographical structure of migrant population of the region that have taken place in the last quarter of a century. Two migration waves directed to the core of the European region from its southern and then from the eastern periphery are determined. The transformation of the USA population structure caused by the migration inflow from Latin America and Asia is described. The ratio of the main directions of global migration is shown: South-South, South-North, etc. At the same time, it is noted that a rather limited part of international migrations is associated with the asynchrony of demographic processes in the regions of the world. The article also discusses the remittances of migrants from developing countries to their homeland, forming powerful financial flows, which are second only to foreign direct investment. They play an especially important role in the economies of developing countries. The calculations show that the contribution of international migrants to the world economy far exceeds their share in the world population.

Growing Up to Belong Transnationally: Parent Perceptions on Identity Formation Among Latvian Emigrant Children in England

IMISCOE Research Series - The Emigrant Communities of Latvia ◽

10.1007/978-3-030-12092-4_7 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 145-161

Author(s):

Daiga Kamerāde ◽

Ieva Skubiņa

Keyword(s):

National Identity ◽

Identity Formation ◽

Country Of Origin ◽

Migrant Children ◽

Growing Up ◽

Transnational Identity ◽

1.5 Generation ◽

English Dominant ◽

Generation Migrant

Abstract As a result of the wide availability of social media, cheap flights and free intra-EU movement it has become considerably easier to maintain links with the country of origin than it was only a generation ago. Therefore, the language and identity formation among children of recent migrants might be significantly different from the experiences of children of the previous generations. The aim of this paper is to examine the perceptions of parents on the formation of national and transnational identity among the ‘1.5 generation migrant children’ – the children born in Latvia but growing up in England and the factors affecting them. In particular, this article seeks to understand whether 1.5 generation migrant children from Latvia construct strong transnational identities by maintaining equally strong ties with their country of origin and mother tongue and, at the same time, intensively creating networks, learning and using the language of the new home country. The results of 16 semi-structured in-depth interviews with the parents of these children reveal that the 1.5 generation Latvian migrants are on a path of becoming English-dominant bilinguals. So far there is little evidence of the development of a strong transnational identity among 1.5 generation migrant children from Latvia. Instead, this study observed a tendency towards an active integration and assimilation into the new host country facilitated by their parents or occurring despite their parents’ efforts to maintain ties with Latvia. These findings suggest that rather than the national identity of the country of origin being supplemented with a new additional national identity – that of the country of settlement – the identity of the country of origin becomes dominated by it instead.

Stories, Curriculum Making, and Tension as Support for Identity Shifts: A Narrative Inquiry

LEARNing Landscapes ◽

10.36510/learnland.v11i2.957 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 11 (2) ◽

pp. 199-210

Author(s):

Sandra Jack-Malik

Keyword(s):

Narrative Inquiry ◽

Home School ◽

Safe Space ◽

The World ◽

Curriculum Making ◽

Identity Shifts ◽

Past Experiences ◽

Educative Experiences ◽

Wide Awake ◽

Autobiographical Narrative

This research is nestled within Huber, Murphy, and Clandinin’s (2011) understanding of curriculum making as situated not only in schools, but also in homes and communities and at the intersections of all three. It also relies on Clandinin, Murphy, Huber, and Orr’s (2010) reconceptualization of tension as a space where educative experiences can occur. An autobiographical narrative inquiry into home, school, and community curriculum making, highlights an educator’s efforts to teach relationally while being wide-awake to how past experiences inform future ones. This inquiry brings to life tension-filled moments and, in so doing, creates a space to know teachers as curriculum makers at home, at school, and in the community. It also suggests one of the values of autobiographical narrative inquiry is the safe space it creates to empathically enter the world of others. Mostly it encourages the reader to think about curriculum making as sentient, ever changing, and as an available support as teachers struggle to sustain their practices.

Manoeuvring in Between: Mapping Out the Transnational Identity of Russian-Speaking Latvians in Sweden and Great Britain

IMISCOE Research Series - The Emigrant Communities of Latvia ◽

10.1007/978-3-030-12092-4_8 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 163-182

Author(s):

Iveta Jurkane-Hobein ◽

Evija Kļave

Keyword(s):

Great Britain ◽

Soviet Union ◽

Identity Formation ◽

Life Histories ◽

Soviet Period ◽

Transnational Identity ◽

The Soviet Union ◽

Migration History ◽

History Of

Abstract The proportion of the Russian-speaking population in Latvia increased dramatically during the Soviet period from 12% in 1935 to 42% in 1990 due to organised labour migration within the Soviet Union. After the collapse of the Soviet Union, especially since the end of the 1990s, many Russian-speaking Latvians have migrated to Western countries. Very little is known about the national identities of these Russian-speaking Latvians. By analysing 30 life histories of Russian-speaking migrants from Latvia in Sweden and Great Britain, this study aims to analyse the transnational identities of Russian-speaking Latvians abroad. The analysis shows that the migrants’ own migration patterns in addition to the migration history of their families create interlinked and sometimes conflicting layers of transnational identity. Drawing on the interviews, three main processes in the identity formation were distinguished: aspiring to a Latvian identity, claiming an unrecognised Russian-speaking Latvian identity and developing transnational ‘non-belonging’.

Personajes legendarios en un mundo globalizado

Neuróptica ◽

10.26754/ojs_neuroptica/neuroptica.201914325 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 159-171

Author(s):

Claudia Bonillo Fernández

Keyword(s):

Fantasy World ◽

The World ◽

Different Parts

Resumen: El manga Drifters sigue a varios personajes históricos, de cualquier parte del mundo y época, que han sido trasladados a un mundo de fantasía en el momento de su muerte, donde podrán cumplir dos papeles: el de Drifters, encargados de salvar a la humanidad, o el de Ends, encargados de destruirla. La serie, fruto de la imaginación de Hirano Kōta, nos ofrece una visión novedosa de las relaciones interculturales que ocasionan considerables fricciones, pero también puntos de unión inesperados a pesar de la disparidad de mundos de los que los personajes provienen. Abstract: Drifters manga follows several historical characters, from different parts of the world and time, who have been transferred to a fantasy world at the time of their death. There they can fulfil two roles: to become either Drifters, with the responsibility for saving humanity, or Ends, responsible for destroying it. The series, created by the imagination of Hirano Kōta, offers an original vision of intercultural relationships that cause considerable friction, but also unexpected points of union despite the disparity of worlds from which the characters come.

A Tribe Called Red’s Halluci Nation: Sonifying Embodied Global Allegiances, Decolonization, And Indigenous Activism

Intersections Canadian Journal of Music ◽

10.7202/1051602ar ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 36 (2) ◽

pp. 101-109

Author(s):

Alexa Woloshyn

Keyword(s):

Identity Politics ◽

Indigenous Communities ◽

Indigenous Community ◽

Community Formation ◽

Indigenous Activism ◽

Concept Album ◽

Award Winning ◽

The World

“We are the tribe that they cannot see. We live on an industrial reservation. We are the Halluci Nation.” These words from Indigenous activist and poet John Trudell (1946–2015) inspired the latest album by Ottawa-based Indigenous DJ collective A Tribe Called Red (ATCR) and frame its pan-Indigenous, transcultural message. Inter-tribal relationships are both common and important to Indigenous communities, especially in urban centres. Powwows are also events that emphasize intertribal and intercultural relationships, even as they hosted by a specific nation. With Halluci Nation, ATCR seeks to foster far-reaching allegiances across culture, ethnicity, and place to “[understand] oppression and how to collectively dismantle oppression” (DJ NDN of ATCR). This article argues that ATCR’s Halluci Nation sonifies a process of decolonization that establishes an embodied network of global allies. I trace the development of ATCR’s music from its original focus on the Ottawa Indigenous community and its non-Indigenous allies to a call for nation-to-nation relationships (see Juno Award–winning album Nation II Nation, 2013), and then now to a concept album that seeks to manifest a real “Halluci Nation” with members from around the world. Analysis of ATCR’s music, audience, and Halluci Nation album is contextualized by studies of community formation and identity politics in intertribal initiatives), such as powwows and friendship centres, and pan-Indigenous activism, such as Idle No More.