Vietnamese Immigrant Youth and Citizenship: How Race, Ethnicity, and Culture Shape Sense of Belonging

Vietnamese Immigrant Youth and Citizenship: How Race, Ethnicity, and Culture Shape Sense of Belonging
Diem T. Nguyen
December 2011

ISBN-13:  978-1-59332-503-9 / Hardcover
Dimensions:  5.5 x 8.5 / x, 238 pages

Price   $70.00

Description

Nguyen focuses on the connections between immigrant youth and the role that schools function in shaping their citizenship. Drawing on data from an ethnographic study that took place in an urban high school, Nguyen examines the processes that recent immigrant youth underwent as they transitioned to their new school contexts and engaged with issues of race, ethnicity, culture, gender, language, and citizenship. Findings help to illuminate how immigrant youth constructed meaningful citizenship and forged a sense of belonging while other social processes – cultural maintenance, racialization, assimilative ideology, and exclusionary practices – were acting on them.

About the Author

Diem T. Nguyen’s research focuses on the social, cultural, and academic adaptation of immigrant youth. Drawing on the literature of multicultural education, immigrant adaptation, feminist theory, and cultural studies, Nguyen’s work examines the intricate and complex ways in which immigrant youth construct social identities and negotiate sense of belonging and future possibilities in relations to the multiple social, cultural, and political contexts in their lives.