Ambivalent Urban, Immigrant Identities: The Incompleteness of Lao American Student Identities

Autor/in	Ngo, Bic
Titel	Ambivalent Urban, Immigrant Identities: The Incompleteness of Lao American Student Identities
Quelle	In: International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education (QSE), 22 (2009) 2, S.201-220 (20 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0951-8398
Schlagwörter	Immigrants; High School Students; Asian American Students; Racial Identification; Identification (Psychology); Ethnicity; Urban Areas; Laotians; Low Income Groups; Poverty; Cultural Influences; Student Adjustment; Cultural Differences; Student Attitudes + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Immigrant; Immigrantin; Immigranten; High school; High schools; Student; Students; Oberschule; Schüler; Schülerin; Studentin; Asian immigrant; United States; Asiatischer Einwanderer; USA; Ethnizität; Urban area; Stadtregion; Armut; Cultural influence; Kultureinfluss; Adjustment; Adaptation; Kultureller Unterschied; Schülerverhalten
Abstract	In this article, the author elucidates the identity work of Lao American urban, immigrant students, highlighting ambivalent identities that do not fit into notions of bicultural or binary identities. It examines the various discourses and practices that inform and shape the experiences and identities of urban, Lao American high school students. It explores the ways that immigrant youth identities are continuously shaped by dominant discourses while at the same time are responses that modify, resist or echo these discourses. It shows that youth are creating incomplete, contradictory-ambivalent-urban, immigrant identities and are changing what it means to be "urban" and "immigrant" youth. By highlighting the ambivalent nature of immigrant identities, this article complicates binary notions of urban, immigrant identities as good/bad and unsettles the ancestral country/United States oppositional framing of the experiences of immigrant students. (Contains 8 notes.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10