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Vietnamese immigrant youth and citizenship : how race, ethnicity, and culture shape sense of belonging / Diem T. Nguyen.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Nguyen, Diem T.
- Series:
- New Americans (LFB Scholarly Publishing LLC)
- The new Americans : recent immigration and American society
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Vietnamese American teenagers--United States--Ethnic identity.
- Vietnamese American teenagers.
- Vietnamese American teenagers--United States--Attitudes.
- Teenage immigrants--United States.
- Teenage immigrants.
- Citizenship--United States.
- Citizenship.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (253 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- El Paso : LFB Scholarly Pub. LLC, c2012.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Nguyen focuses on the connections between immigrant youth and the role that schools function in shaping their citizenship. Drawing on data from an ethnographic study that took place in an urban high school, Nguyen examines the processes that recent immigrant youth underwent as they transitioned to their new school contexts and engaged with issues of race, ethnicity, culture, gender, language, and citizenship. Findings help to illuminate how immigrant youth constructed meaningful citizenship and forged a sense of belonging while other social processes - cultural maintenance, racialization, assi
- Contents:
- Introduction
- From displacement to diaspora: background on the changing patterns of migration and adaptation of Vietnamese Americans in the United States
- Social and cultural integration of immigrants
- Becoming racialized : engaging with racialized discourses and meanings
- "Becoming American:" how the Vietnamese immigrant youth differentiate and construct notions of Americanness and citizenship
- In-between spaces: suturing identities and sense of belonging from multiple social, cultural, and national contexts
- Summary, implications, and conclusion.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781593325084
- 1593325088
- OCLC:
- 787842753
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