'What Defines Me Is What I Have Been Through': Bhutanese Refugee Youth Identity in the United States

Autor/in	Chao, Xia
Titel	'What Defines Me Is What I Have Been Through': Bhutanese Refugee Youth Identity in the United States
Quelle	In: British Journal of Sociology of Education, 40 (2019) 6, S.809-825 (17 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0142-5692
DOI	10.1080/01425692.2019.1604210
Schlagwörter	Refugees; Self Concept; Phenomenology; Clubs; Youth; Land Settlement; Ethnography; Adjustment (to Environment); Social Influences; Foreign Countries; Socialization; English (Second Language); Second Language Learning; School Role; Emergency Shelters; Acculturation; Bhutan; Nepal; United States + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Flüchtling; Selbstkonzept; Phenomenological psychology; Phänomenologie; Psychologie; Club; Klub; Jugend; Jugendlicher; Jugendalter; Siedlungsraum; Ethnografie; Sozialer Einfluss; Ausland; Socialisation; Sozialisation; English as second language; English; Second Language; Englisch als Zweitsprache; Zweitsprachenerwerb; Notunterkunft; Akkulturation; USA
Abstract	Framed by a poststructuralist theory of identity, this phenomenological study explores Bhutanese refugee youth's lived experiences before and after resettlement and the ways that these experiences influence their identity navigation. Data from this study come from a two-year ethnography with a recently resettled Bhutanese refugee community in a northeastern US city. By focusing on four Bhutanese refugee youth and two current Bhutanese refugee youth club collaborators who used to be teachers in the camp in Nepal, the findings indicate that the essential nature of refugee youth's lived experience is a way of being, becoming, and imagining. From past to present, from camp to campus, refugee youth adjust not only to their situated environment, but also to who they are and who they want to be. This study highlights refugee identity as a multi-layered and multi-faceted construct, which is related to others, contested, imagined, power driven, and constituted by social practice. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01