Learning to Belong in the World : An Ethnography of Asian American Girls / by Tomoko Tokunaga.

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Learning to Belong in the World : An Ethnography of Asian American Girls / by Tomoko Tokunaga.

9789811084805
9811084807
9789811084782

Singapore : Springer Singapore : Imprint: Springer, 2018.

English

1 online resource (xiii, 156 pages) : illustrations.

10.1007/978-981-10-8480-5 doi

LC2633.4

371.829/95073

This book provides a complex and intricate portrayal of Asian American high school girls – which has been an under-researched population – as cultural meditators, diasporic agents, and community builders who negotiate displacement and attachment in challenging worlds of the in-between. Based on two years of ethnographic fieldwork, Tomoko Tokunaga presents a portrait of the girls’ hardships, dilemmas, and dreams while growing up in an interconnected world. This book contributes a new understanding of the roles of immigrant children and youth as agents of globalization and sophisticated border-crossers who have the power and agency to construct belonging and identity across multiple contexts, spaces, times, activities, and relationships. It has much to offer to the construction of educative communities and spaces where immigrant youth, specifically immigrant girls, can thrive.

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