The Household Structure of Second-Generation Children: An Exploratory Study of Extended Family Arrangements

1994 ◽  
Vol 28 (4) ◽  
pp. 736 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lisandro Perez
Keyword(s):  
Exploratory Study ◽  
Second Generation ◽  
Extended Family ◽  
Household Structure ◽  
Second Generation Children

The New Third Generation: Post‐1965 Immigration and the Next Chapter in the Long Story of Assimilation

2018 ◽  
Vol 52 (4) ◽  
pp. 1040-1079 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tomás R. Jiménez ◽  
Julie Park ◽  
Juan Pedroza
Keyword(s):  
Research Agenda ◽  
Second Generation ◽  
Extended Family ◽  
Third Generation ◽  
Growing Up ◽  
Social Scientists ◽  
Socioeconomic Attainment ◽  
Household Characteristics ◽  
Asian Children ◽  
Second Generation Children

Now is the time for social scientists to focus an analytical lens on the new third generation to see what their experiences reveal about post‐1965 assimilation. This paper is a first step. We compare the household characteristics of post‐1965, second‐generation Latino and Asian children in 1980 to a “new third generation” in 2010. Today's new third generation is growing up in households headed by parents who have higher socioeconomic attainment; that are more likely to be headed by intermarried parents; that are less likely to contain extended family; and that, when living with intermarried parents, are more likely to have children identified with a Hispanic or Asian label compared to second‐generation children growing in 1980. We use these findings to inform a larger research agenda for studying the new third generation.

Language and the Second Generation: Bilingualism Yesterday and Today

1994 ◽  
Vol 28 (4) ◽  
pp. 640-661 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alejandro Portes ◽  
Richard Schauffler
Keyword(s):  
Educational Attainment ◽  
Second Generation ◽  
Children Of Immigrants ◽  
South Florida ◽  
Occupational Aspirations ◽  
Ethnic Concentration ◽  
Three Generations ◽  
Residential Locations ◽  
History Of ◽  
Second Generation Children

The language adaptation of second generation children is explored in the context of the history of linguistic absorption and bilingualism in America. Strong nativist pressures toward monolingualism have commonly led to the extinction of immigrant languages in two or three generations. Contemporary fears of loss of English dominance are based on rapid immigration during recent decades and the emergence of linguistic enclaves in several cities around the country. This article explores the extent of language transition and the resilience of immigrant languages on the basis of data from south Florida, one of the areas most heavily affected by contemporary immigration. Results from a sample of 2,843 children of immigrants in the area indicate that: 1) knowledge of English is near universal; 2) preference for English is almost as high, even among children educated in immigrant-sponsored bilingual schools; 3) preservation of parental languages varies inversely with length of U.S. residence and residential locations away from areas of ethnic concentration. Hypotheses about other determinants of bilingualism are examined in a multivariate framework. The relationships of bilingualism to educational attainment and educational and occupational aspirations are also explored.

Negotiating Latinidad

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Frances R. Aparicio
Keyword(s):  
Second Generation ◽  
Extended Family ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Domestic Space ◽  
National Identities ◽  
Power Dynamics ◽  
Ethnic Communities ◽  
Family Stories ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
National Boundaries

While Chicago has been long described as a city of Latinidad, there has been very limited academic attention paid to the lives of second-generation Intralatino/as—MexiRicans, MexiGuatemalans, DominiRicans among other rich combinations—who embody Latinidad in their multiple nationalities and ethnicities. Based on twenty interviews, this book documents the presence of Intralatino/as in Chicago and critically analyzes their everyday negotiations with their multiple national identities within the context of their nuclear and extended family stories. Proposing the concept of “horizontal hierarchies” as a theoretical framework for examining the power dynamics among diverse Latino/a ethnic communities, and analyzing rich and compelling anecdotes about the inclusion and exclusion of Intralatino/as in their family lives, the book attempts to bring into representation the everyday ways in which these second-generation Latino/as experience transnationalism within the domestic space of home while they engage affectively with, and against, the national boundaries and imaginaries produced by their loved ones.

Perceptions of the Significant Other of the Effects of Psychodynamic Psychotherapy

1996 ◽  
Vol 168 (1) ◽  
pp. 87-93 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jane Roberts
Keyword(s):  
Family Relationships ◽  
Exploratory Study ◽  
Psychodynamic Psychotherapy ◽  
Extended Family ◽  
Structured Interview ◽  
Emotional Impact ◽  
Individual Psychotherapy ◽  
Significant Other ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Relationship

BackgroundClinical practice suggests that partners of psychotherapy patients often have powerful feelings about the therapy and therapist. The repercussions of psychotherapy on those close to the patient are rarely considered. A small exploratory study was therefore conducted.MethodAll patients who had completed at least two months of weekly psychodynamic psychotherapy in 1990 at an out-patient unit of a psychiatric hospital (n = 35) and had a partner with whom they were living at the time of starting therapy (n = 23) were contacted. Eight gave permission for their partner to be contacted directly. All eight partners agreed to participate in a semi-structured interview exploring their perceptions of the effects of the therapy on a number of family relationships. The impact of the process of the study was also investigated by means of a questionnaire sent to all partners some weeks after the interview.ResultsConsiderable changes were perceived to have taken place in association with therapy affecting not only the relationship between the couple but also their parenting relationship, the children, and at times members of the extended family. Partners' views about the direction of such changes seemed to influence other perceptions about the therapy.ConclusionsThe repercussions of individual psychotherapy may well spread extensively within a family. This further blurs the boundary between individual and family therapy, both theoretically and clinically. Research procedures are themselves a major intervention and may have a considerable emotional impact on participants.

The Arab Leadership in Israel: Ascendance and Fragmentation

2006 ◽  
Vol 35 (2) ◽  
pp. 6-22 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amal Jamal
Keyword(s):  
Political Parties ◽  
Second Generation ◽  
Extended Family ◽  
The Political ◽  
National Consciousness ◽  
Political Leaders ◽  
Political Exclusion ◽  
Traditional Structures

This article describes the rise of a second generation of Arab political leaders in Israel as seen in the proliferation of explicitly Arab political parties (nationalist and Islamist) and Arab NGOs (secular and religious). While more representative of Israel's Arab community than the its predecessors, reflecting the community's growing national consciousness, the new leadership is also more fragmented. The author acknowledges Israel's active efforts to weaken the new leaders, but asserts that fragmentation has also resulted from continuing traditional structures, including extended family, a culture of notables manifested in the personalization of institutions, and patriarchy, particularly the political exclusion of women.

The Household Structure of Second-Generation Children: An Exploratory Study of Extended Family Arrangements

1994 ◽  
Vol 28 (4) ◽  
pp. 736-747 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lisandro Pérez
Keyword(s):  
Extended Family ◽  
Children Of Immigrants ◽  
National Origin ◽  
Cultural Assimilation ◽  
Single Parenthood ◽  
Economic Basis ◽  
Independent Variable ◽  
Households With Children ◽  
Using Data ◽  
Second Generation Children

Using data from the Children of Immigrants Survey, the antecedents of extended family arrangements among immigrant households with children are examined. The incidence and form of such arrangements, especially the presence of grandparents, are analyzed in relation to single parenthood, national origin, cultural assimilation, and socioeconomic variables. The findings serve to underscore the complexity of the correlates of extended family arrangements. While there is a relationship with single parenthood, more research is needed on the economic basis for the presence of relatives in the household. The analysis uncovered the need to also treat presence of grandparents as an independent variable, especially in the cultural assimilation of children of immigrants.

Hidden histories and second generation struggles in David Chariandy’s Soucouyant

2020 ◽  
pp. 002198941990052
Author(s):  
Asha Jeffers
Keyword(s):  
Second Generation ◽  
Immigrant Parents ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Class Politics ◽  
Critical Writing ◽  
The One ◽  
Second Generation Children ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Ways Of Being

David Chariandy’s lauded 2007 debut novel Soucouyant explores the way that immigrants transmit lessons, beliefs, and ways of being to their children both intentionally and unintentionally, and the ways that these transmissions can contradict one another. This article argues that while much of the critical writing about Soucouyant has foregrounded the relationship between the unnamed narrator and his dementia-suffering mother, the text is just as concerned with exploring intragenerational relationships as it is with intergenerational ones. Indeed, the text demonstrates the interweaving of both intergenerational and intragenerational relationships in a unique and compelling way. The lessons that get passed on between the generations shape the lives and interactions of second generation subjects between themselves. In particular, the relationship between the narrator and Meera, the mysterious woman who has moved in with and is taking care of his mother when he returns to her home after deserting her for several years, poses the question of how these two second generation subjects of differing class backgrounds might reconcile themselves with both their parents’ Caribbean pasts, their own Canadian presents, and uncertain futures. The novel’s subtitle, “a novel of forgetting,” signals the central role of memory and forgetting play in the novel. The immigrant parents’ desire and attempts to forget the past are not wholly successful and their second generation children are forced to first remember before they can move forward without being haunted by the traumas, silences, and anxieties of their parents. The complex racial and class politics of Trinidad and Canada lead to the narrator and Meera receiving very different legacies from their parents. However, their eventual coming together, in all its difficulty, suggests that there is hope for second generation subjects who wish to choose a different path than the one set for them by either their parents or the nation-state.

New Second-Generation Youth Culture in the Twilight of Italian American Ethnicity

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Donald Tricarico
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
Youth Culture ◽  
Second Generation ◽  
Immigrant Parents ◽  
Segmented Assimilation ◽  
Youth Identity ◽  
Italian American ◽  
Second Generation Children ◽  
American Ethnicity

This chapter views the Italian American youth culture known as “Guido” as a collective ethnic adaptation by young people whose immigrant parents settled in New York City, most notably Bensonhurst, after 1945. The ethnogenesis of second-generation youth blended thick Italian ethnicity with styles referenced to popular American culture like disco. New second-generation youth identity constitutes an ethnic agency according to a constructionist model of ethnicity that cannot be subsumed within the narrative of assimilation keyed to the older, mass immigration. Instead, a pronounced turn to consumption style invites a comparison to the new second generation children of post-1965 immigration from outside Europe featured in segmented assimilation theory which recognizes variable patterns as ethnic groups assimilate into different segments of a highly stratified society.

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