ISBN:
9781003054023
,
1003054021
,
9781000994759
,
1000994759
,
9781000994827
,
1000994821
Sprache:
Englisch
Seiten:
1 Online-Ressource
Serie:
Routledge reseach in education
DDC:
971.004/951
Schlagwort(e):
Chinese Social conditions
;
Chinese Race identity
;
Immigrant youth Cultural assimilation
;
Discrimination in education
;
Multiculturalism History
;
Chinese in popular culture
;
Minorities Press coverage
;
EDUCATION / Multicultural Education
;
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Emigration & Immigration
;
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Minority Studies
;
Canada Race relations
;
Canada Ethnic relations
Kurzfassung:
"Identity and Belonging amongst Chinese Canadian Youth unveils how Chinese immigrant youth struggle as racialized minorities at school, within family and through their formative interactions with Canadian mainstream media. Utilizing rich interview data, the author explores how the contemporary forms of racism, multiculturalism, immigration and transnationalism affect the identity construction of second-generation Chinese immigrant youth in Canada, as well as their negotiation of belonging at social institutions through schools and mainstream media in Canada. The text systematically examines the lived experiences and perceptions of Chinese immigrant youth in relation to race, ethnicity, and class. Uniquely extending Bourdieu's concept of habitus to race and ethnicity, the author traces issues of racism and "model minority" discourses not only to systemic and institutional origins, but to internalized individual ways of thinking, doing, and being. This book will appeal to academics and scholars tracing racial inequality through the multiplicity of Asian diasporas existing in the western societies, as well as researchers seeking new understandings of modern day media, and with interests in multicultural education, the sociology of education, and theories of race and ethnicity"--...
DOI:
10.4324/9781003054023
URL:
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781003054023
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