Growing Up Transnational: Colombian and Dominican Children of Immigrants in New York City

Growing Up Transnational: Colombian and Dominican Children of Immigrants in New York City
Debora Upegui-Hernandez
May 2014

ISBN-13:  978-1-59332-617-3 / Hardcover
Dimensions:  5.5 x 8.5 / x, 268 pages

Price   $75.00

Description

Upegui-Hernández explores how Colombian and Dominican children of immigrants living in New York City negotiate multiple identities, family relationships, and life opportunities within transnational contexts and social fields. Colombian and Dominican children of immigrants had parallel psychological experiences of living among multiple cultures, maintaining transnational ties with family in their parents’ home countries, and shared similar identity negotiation strategies that challenge reified notions of ethnic/racial/national identity and identity labels. Transnational ties and involvement among respondents were anchored in family relationships. However, their experiences with social structures were marked by differences in skin color, class, and particular immigration histories.

About the Author

Débora Upegui-Hernández is an adjunct professor of Psychology at the University of Puerto Rico – Rio Piedras Campus in San Juan, Puerto Rico. She earned her Ph.D. from the Graduate Center - City University of New York. She is a Colombian immigrant who lived in New York City for over 20 years. Her approach to research is based on a social justice perspective to understanding the many obstacles and challenges Latina/os and immigrants face in the United States.