Vietnamese immigrant youth and citizenship : how race, ethnicity, and culture shape sense of belonging

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. Table of Contents List of Tables Acknowledgements CHAPTER ONE: Introduction CHAPTER TWO: From Displacement to Diaspora: Background on the Changing Patterns of Migration and Adaptation of Vietnamese Immigrants in the United States CHAPTER THREE: Social and Cultural Integration of Immigrants CHAPTER FOUR: Becoming Racialized: Engaging with Racialized Discourses and Meanings CHAPTER FIVE: “Becoming American:” How the Vietnamese Immigrant Youth Differentiate and Construct Notions of Americanness and Citizenship CHAPTER SIX: In-Between Spaces: Suturing Identities and Sense of Belonging from Multiple Social, Cultural, and National Contexts CHAPTER SEVEN: Summary, Implications, and Conclusion Definition of Terms Appendices References Index Introduction From displacement to diaspora: background on the changing patterns of migration and adaptation of Vietnamese Americans in the United States Social and cultural integration of immigrants Becoming racialized : engaging with racialized discourses and meanings "Becoming American:" how the Vietnamese immigrant youth differentiate and construct notions of Americanness and citizenship In-between spaces: suturing identities and sense of belonging from multiple social, cultural, and national contexts Summary, implications, and conclusion.