Getting used to the quiet : immigrant adolescents' journey to belonging in New Brunswick, Canada / Stacy Wilson-Forsberg.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wilson-Forsberg, Stacey, 1972-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Immigrants--Cultural assimilation--New Brunswick.

Immigrants.

Teenage immigrants--Services for--New Brunswick.

Teenage immigrants.

Teenage immigrants--New Brunswick--Interviews.

Teenage immigrants--New Brunswick--Social conditions.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (244 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Montreal ; Ithaca : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

At a time when Canadian governments are encouraging the dispersion of immigrants throughout the provinces in an attempt to reduce clustering in large metropolitan areas, studies of immigration outside urban centres are rare - and studies of immigrant youth even rarer. In Getting Used to the Quiet, Stacey Wilson-Forsberg looks at the integration experiences of immigrant adolescents in one small city and one rural town in New Brunswick's St John River Valley where the youths find no earlier immigrant communities with shared cultural backgrounds. Emphasizing themes including social capital, social networks, and citizen engagement, Wilson-Forsberg highlights the teens' gradual involvement in their new communities as they confront the challenges of dealing with an unfamiliar environment, learning a new language, and reaching out to their New Brunswick-born peers. In-depth interviews with over thirty teens give readers new insights into the integration process. Focusing on a crucial and underexplored area of immigration studies, Getting Used to the Quiet is a valuable resource for understanding the ways in which newcomers join unfamiliar communities and how the communities, in turn, respond to their presence.

Contents:

This is Our Home: Origins, Theory, and Method

Reaching Out and Pulling Us In: Making Contact

Where Are We From? Why Are We Here? Public Awareness

Reaching Our Potential: Social Capital and Social Networks

Feeling Like We Are Part of Something: Citizen Engagement

Are We Home Yet? Sense of Belonging and Summary

There's No Place Like Home: Discussion and Implications of the Research

Appendix : Tables.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-7735-4000-8

OCLC:

812837287