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Book SynopsisThis collection brings together established and emerging scholars from the humanities and the social sciences whose work considers the daughters of immigrants. By showcasing these varied perspectives, the collection draws meaningful connections across national and ethnic lines while attending to the particularities of specific histories, locations, and migration journeys. The multidisciplinary nature of this project highlights the relevance and usefulness of varied methodological and theoretical approaches for understanding the diverse lived experiences of the daughters of immigrants, as well as how those experiences are theorized and represented. While each chapter contains its own argument, assumes its own conceptual and disciplinary viewpoint, and tends to specific national and ethnic origins and sites of immigration, each offers meaningful insight into the gendered positionality of the daughters of immigrants as mediated by the complexities of migration, kinship, and culture. Taken together, these contributions point to the nuanced ways national, ethnic, and gendered identity function, and how those not always well served by how these identities are constituted understand and navigate forces beyond their control.
Table of ContentsIntroduction: The Curiously Reproductive Role of the Daughters of Immigrants
Asha Jeffers and Catherine Bryan
Part I: On & On: Doubly Diasporic Community
Chapter 1: Daughters of Cane and Thread: Indo-Caribbean Identity and Diasporic Consciousness
Tarika Sankar
Chapter 2: Chinese Mexican Autoethnographies
Yareli C. Castro Sevilla
Part II: Now You See Me: Pathologized Mobility
Chapter 3: The Daughters of Enforcement: Emotion Work and Immigration Arrests, Detentions, and Removals
Joanna Dreby, Daniela Ugarte, and Myia Samuels
Chapter 4: Daughters of the Palestinian Diaspora in the Stories of Susan Muaddi Darraj
Robin E. Field
Part III: All the Feels: Emotions and Racialization
Chapter 5: Emotional Kinscripting: Managing Gender, Emotions and Kinship among Children of Korean and Chinese Immigrant Families
Angie Y. Chung and Xuemei Cao
Chapter 6: Young Love: Model Minorities, Gender, and Sexuality in Contemporary South Asian YA novels
Nalini Iyer
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