The Amerasian Paradox

Autor/inn/en	Kutschera, P. C.; Pelayo, Jose Maria G., III
Titel	The Amerasian Paradox
Quelle	(2012), (15 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Asian Americans; Multiracial Persons; Filipino Americans; Anglo Americans; Females; Young Adults; Social Attitudes; Socioeconomic Status; Advantaged; Social Discrimination; Sexual Harassment; Case Studies; Semi Structured Interviews; Foreign Countries; Philippines + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Asian immigrant; United States; Asiatischer Einwanderer; USA; Mischling; Philippines; Filipino; Inhabitant; People; Philippinen; Philippiner; Einwohner; Bewohner; Weibliches Geschlecht; Young adult; Junger Erwachsener; Social attidude; Soziale Einstellung; Socio-economic status; Sozioökonomischer Status; Soziale Benachteiligung; Soziale Schließung; Sexuelle Belästigung; Case study; Fallstudie; Case Study; Ausland
Abstract	Multiple anecdotal accounts and a thin body of extant empirical research on an estimated 250,000 multiple generation, mixed-heritage military Amerasians in the Philippines, and Pan Amerasians residing in other East and Southeast Asian societies, indicates substantial past and present stigmatization and discrimination--particularly Amerasians of African descent. However, a certain segment of Filipino Amerasians, females with pronounced Caucasian features, comprise a paradoxical exception. The abandoned progeny of U.S. servicemen, corporate military contractor and government male workers who occupied permanent bases for nearly a century, Africans and to a lesser extent, Anglo Amerasians, are targets of intense name-calling, verbal harassment and occasional physical violence beginning at an early age. This often transforms into a lifetime of socioeconomic marginalization and cultural isolation. Typically, Amerasians are ridiculed because of differential skin color, facial features and the stereotypical assumption that the majority were children of sex laborers and transient soldier fathers who had forsaken them. However, there is incipient research and anecdotal accounts bolstered by this five participant, purposive sample, multiple-case "pilot" study that young adult female Anglos may have not only eluded the stigmatized fate of the majority of Filipino Amerasians, African or Anglo, but in some cases actually benefitted socioeconomically and psychologically. (As Provided).
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10