Second Generation Immigrant Adaptation: Construction of a Hybrid Cultural Identity

This study uses a postcolonial perspective to examine the construction of cultural identities in second generation South Asian women. It critiques traditional strategies of immigrant incorporation, including assimilation and cultural pluralism, for their androcentric and essentialist tendencies. It was found that the women constructed a cultural hybrid identity, and using Homi Bhabha's notion of third space, I discuss the process of how this hybrid identity is constructed. A phenomenological approach, in which the subjective voices of the participants are privileged, was used to analyze nine interviews for themes relating to the construction of a hybrid identity.

Name thesis:degree_name

M.A.

Level thesis:degree_level

Thesis

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Sociology

Year

2005

Author dc:creator

• Ladha, Sonia

Contributors dc:contributor

• Mann, Susan
• Jenkins, Pamela
• Baxter, Vern

• Cultural identity
• hybridity
• phenomenology
• postcolonial
• south asian
• women

Repository record dc:identifier

https://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/219

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:scholarworks.uno.edu:td-1223