Growing Up Transnational

Growing Up Transnational
Author: May Friedman
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Total Pages: 281
Release: 2011-02-19
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1442695234

Stereotypes and cultural imperialism often provide a framework of fixed characteristics for postmodern life, yet fail to address the implications of questions such as, "Where are you from?" Growing Up Transnational challenges the assumptions behind this fixed framework to look at the interconnectivity, conflict, and contradictions within current discussions of identity and kinship. This collection offers a fresh, feminist perspective on family relations, identity politics, and cultural locations in a global era. Using an interdisciplinary approach from fields including gender studies, postcolonial theory, and literary theory, this volume questions the concept of hybridity and the tangible implications of assumed identities. The rich personal narratives of the authors explore hyphenated identities, hybridized families, and the challenges and rewards of lives on and beyond borders. The result is a new transnational sensibility that explores the redefinition of the self, the family, and the nation.

Growing Up Transnational

Growing Up Transnational
Author: May Friedman
Publisher:
Total Pages: 277
Release: 2014-05-14
Genre: SOCIAL SCIENCE
ISBN: 9781442695221

This collection offers a fresh, feminist perspective on family relations, identity politics, and cultural locations in a global era.

Growing Up Transnational

Growing Up Transnational
Author: May Friedman
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Total Pages: 281
Release: 2011-01-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 144261160X

Redefining self. Transnational Rio de Janeiro : (Re)visiting geographical experiences / Alan P. Marcus ; When Russia came to stay / Lea Povozhaev ; "Neither the end of the world nor the beginning" : transnational identity politics in Lisa Suhair Majaj's self-writing / Silvia Schultermandl ; Identity and belonging among second-generation Greek and Italian Canadian women / Noula Papayiannis ; Time and space in the life of Pierre S. Weiss : autoethnographic engagements with memory and trans/dis/location / Samuel Veissière -- Redefining nation. Contemporary Croatian film and the new social economy / Jelena Šesnić ; Identity, bodies, and second-generation returnees in West Africa / Erin Kenny ; What is an autobiographical author :becoming the other / Julian Vigo ; Transnational identity mappings in Andrea Levy's fiction / Șebnem Toplu -- Redefining family. The personal, the political, and the complexity of identity : some thoughts on mothering / May Friedman ; Mothers on the move : experiences of Indonesian women migrant workers / Theresa W. Devasahayam and Noor Abdul Rahman ; From Changowitz to Bailey Wong : mixed heritage and transnational families in Gish Jen's fiction / Lan Dong ; Tug of war : the gender dynamics of parenting in a bi/transnational family / Katrin Krǐz and Uday Manandhar.

Growing Up in Transit

Growing Up in Transit
Author: Danau Tanu
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Total Pages: 296
Release: 2017-10-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1785334093

“[R]ecommended to anyone interested in multiculturalism and migration....[and] food for thought also for scholars studying migration in less privileged contexts.”—Social Anthropology In this compelling study of the children of serial migrants, Danau Tanu argues that the international schools they attend promote an ideology of being “international” that is Eurocentric. Despite the cosmopolitan rhetoric, hierarchies of race, culture and class shape popularity, friendships, and romance on campus. By going back to high school for a year, Tanu befriended transnational youth, often called “Third Culture Kids”, to present their struggles with identity, belonging and internalized racism in their own words. The result is the first engaging, anthropological critique of the way Western-style cosmopolitanism is institutionalized as cultural capital to reproduce global socio-cultural inequalities. From the introduction: When I first went back to high school at thirty-something, I wanted to write a book about people who live in multiple countries as children and grow up into adults addicted to migrating. I wanted to write about people like Anne-Sophie Bolon who are popularly referred to as “Third Culture Kids” or “global nomads.” ... I wanted to probe the contradiction between the celebrated image of “global citizens” and the economic privilege that makes their mobile lifestyle possible. From a personal angle, I was interested in exploring the voices among this population that had yet to be heard (particularly the voices of those of Asian descent) by documenting the persistence of culture, race, and language in defining social relations even among self-proclaimed cosmopolitan youth.

Growing Up Transnational

Growing Up Transnational
Author: Débora Upegui-Hernández
Publisher: LFB Scholarly Publishing
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2014
Genre: Children of immigrants
ISBN: 9781593326173

Upegui-Hernández explores how Colombian and Dominican children of immigrants living in New York City negotiate multiple identities, family relationships, and life opportunities within transnational contexts and social fields. Colombian and Dominican children of immigrants had parallel psychological experiences of living among multiple cultures, maintaining transnational ties with family in their parents¿ home countries, and shared similar identity negotiation strategies that challenge reified notions of ethnic/racial/national identity and identity labels. Transnational ties and involvement among respondents were anchored in family relationships. However, their experiences with social structures were marked by differences in skin color, class, and particular immigration histories.

Growing Up Transnational

Growing Up Transnational
Author: Debora Upegui-Hernandez
Publisher: LFB Scholarly Publishing
Total Pages: 280
Release: 2014-01-01
Genre: Children of immigrants
ISBN: 9781593327644

Upegui-Hernández explores how Colombian and Dominican children of immigrants living in New York City negotiate multiple identities, family relationships, and life opportunities within transnational contexts and social fields. Colombian and Dominican children of immigrants had parallel psychological experiences of living among multiple cultures, maintaining transnational ties with family in their parents' home countries, and shared similar identity negotiation strategies that challenge reified notions of ethnic/racial/national identity and identity labels. Transnational ties and involvement among respondants were anchored in family relationships. However, their experiences with social structures were marked by differences in skin color, class, and particular immigration histories.

Childhood and Parenting in Transnational Settings

Childhood and Parenting in Transnational Settings
Author: Viorela Ducu
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 207
Release: 2018-06-08
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 3319909428

This book describes children and youth on the one hand and parents on the other within the newly configured worlds of transnational families. Focus is put on children born abroad, brought up abroad, studying abroad, in vulnerable situations, and/or subject of trafficking. The book also provides insight into the delicate relationships that arise with parents, such as migrant parents who are parenting from a distance, elderly parents supporting migrant adult children, fathers left behind by migration, and Eastern-European parents in Nordic countries. It also touches upon life strategies developed in response to migration situations, such as the transfer of care, transnational (virtual) communication, common visits (to and from), and the co-presence of family members in each other’s (distant) lives. As such this book provides a wealth of information for researchers, policy makers and all those working in the field of migration and with migrants. The chapter 'Afterword: Gender Practices in Transnational Families' is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license via link.springer.com.

Children of Global Migration

Children of Global Migration
Author: Rhacel Salazar Parreñas
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Total Pages: 220
Release: 2005
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9780804749442

"With an ethnographer's ear and a social critic's lens, Rhacel Salazar Parreñas illuminates the care deficit of the immigrant second generation, the children of transnational Filipino families left behind by mothers and fathers who labor in the global economy."--Eileen Boris, University of California, Santa Barbara

The Uncanny Child in Transnational Cinema

The Uncanny Child in Transnational Cinema
Author: Jessica Balanzategui
Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
Total Pages: 341
Release: 2018-12-11
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9048537797

This book illustrates how global horror film images of children re-conceptualised childhood at the beginning of the twenty-first century, unravelling the child's long entrenched binding to ideologies of growth, futurity, and progress. The Uncanny Child in Transnational Cinema analyses an influential body of horror films featuring subversive depictions of children that emerged at the beginning of the twenty-first century, and considers the cultural conditions surrounding their emergence. The book proposes that complex cultural and industrial shifts at the turn of the millennium resulted in potent cinematic renegotiations of the concept of childhood. In these transnational films-largely stemming from Spain, Japan, and America-the child resists embodying growth and futurity, concepts to which the child's symbolic function is typically bound. By demonstrating both the culturally specific and globally resonant properties of these frightening visions of children who refuse to grow up, the book outlines the conceptual and aesthetic mechanisms by which long entrenched ideologies of futurity, national progress, and teleological history started to waver at the turn of the twenty-first century.

Understanding the Transnational Lives and Literacies of Immigrant Children

Understanding the Transnational Lives and Literacies of Immigrant Children
Author: Jungmin Kwon
Publisher: Teachers College Press
Total Pages: 161
Release: 2022
Genre: Education
ISBN: 0807780855

This book provides targeted suggestions that educators can use to ensure successful teaching and learning with today’s growing population of transnational, multilingual students. The text offers insights based on the author’s observations, interactions, and interviews with second-generation immigrant children, their families, and their teachers in the United States and South Korea. These collected stories give educators a better understanding of how elementary school children engage in language, literacy, and learning in and across spaces and countries; the forms of unique linguistic and cultural knowledge immigrant children build, expand, and mobilize as they move across contexts; the ways in which immigrant children position themselves and represent their identities; and how educators and researchers can honor these children’s identities and unique talents. Featuring children’s narratives, drawings, writings, maps, and photographs, this resource is must-reading for educators and researchers seeking to create more inclusive learning spaces and literacy practices. Book Features: Examples of students’ literacy practices with insights for more effective teaching.Practical lessons gleaned from children engaging with language and literacy in flexible and dynamic ways in their everyday lives.Targeted suggestions to help educators better understand and utilize children’s unique linguistic abilities and cultural understandings. Discussion questions and examples that challenge deficit perspectives of immigrant children and reposition them as multilingual and transnational experts. Implications for educators and researchers seeking ways to amplify young immigrant children’s voices and leverage their knowledge.