Roots and Routes: Understanding the Lives of the Second Generation Transnationally
Roots and Routes: Understanding the Lives of the Second Generation Transnationally
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DOI：
10.1080/13691830903006309
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发表时间：
2009-01-01
影响因子：
3.3
通讯作者：
Levitt, Peggy
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作者：
Levitt, Peggy
虽然用跨国视角研究第一代移民现在已经被广泛接受，但大多数学者认为，在研究移民子女时，同样的方法是没有必要的。他们声称，尽管移民可能会参与他们祖国的经济、政治和宗教生活，但他们的孩子不太可能效仿。在这篇文章中，我反对草率地否定在跨国社会领域中被抚养的权力。当孩子们在经常受到祖传家庭的人、物品、做法和诀窍影响的家庭中长大时，他们就会被社会化，融入其规范和价值观，并学会如何与其制度谈判。他们也构成了强大的社交网络的一部分。虽然不是所有的第二代成员都会访问这些资源，但他们有这样做的社交技能和能力，如果他们选择的话。捕捉这些动态，并跟踪它们如何随时间变化，需要在来源国和目的地国进行长期的人种学研究。
While using a transnational optic to study first-generation immigrants is now widely accepted, most scholars assume that the same approach is not necessary when studying migrants' children. They claim that, while immigrants might be involved in the economic, political and religious life of their homelands, their children are unlikely to follow suit. In this paper I argue against summarily dismissing the power of being raised in a transnational social field. When children are brought up in households that are regularly influenced by people, objects, practices and know-how from their ancestral homes, they are socialised into its norms and values and they learn how to negotiate its institutions. They also form part of strong social networks. While not all members of the second generation will access these resources, they have the social skills and competencies to do so, if and when they choose. Capturing these dynamics, and tracking how they change over time, requires long-term ethnographic research in the source and destination countries.