“Better lives”: The transgenerational positioning of social mobility in the South Asian Canadian diaspora

Rajiva, Mythili

doi:10.1016/j.wsif.2012.10.010

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“…At present, existing research indicates that subjects growing up in diaspora experience pressures to conform to their families' cultures (Ehrkamp 2006;Rajiva 2006Rajiva , 2009Rajiva , 2013. In contrast, our own work shows that girls of second generation immigration backgrounds have incorporated dominant western ideals (Barker-Ruchti et al 2013).…”

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“…In this way, the data presented here supports our earlier findings regarding healthism. As has been argued elsewhere (Rajiva 2006(Rajiva , 2009(Rajiva , 2013, it is thus important to contextualise immigrants' experiences within contemporary immigration rhetoric (i.e., culturalist and gendered immigration dispositive) and to consider the second generation immigrant population as part of a generational perspective. Third, the findings of this paper demonstrate the reflexive impact Switzerland's immigration dispositive has.…”

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“…The six girls of this study formed their selves in relation to Switzerland's immigration dispositive, which in turn supports culturalist assumptions about the "foreign" population. This "othering" as Handa (2003); Rajiva (2006Rajiva ( , 2013 and Ehrkamp (2006) argue, complicates immigrant population's achievement of full potential.…”

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“…Most of the girls experienced difficulties when it came to describing their own feelings of origin, identity and belonging. They were not prepared to describe themselves as Swiss (even though most of them were born in Switzerland and held Swiss citizenship), but they were also reluctant to apply to themselves the label of "foreigner" (for similar findings, see Rajiva 2006Rajiva , 2013. Such tensions point to the "insider vs. outsider" dialectic current Swiss immigration dispositive involves.…”

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Second Generation Immigrant Girls’ Negotiations of Cultural Proximity in Switzerland: A Foucauldian Reading

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Sattler

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Int. Migration & Integration

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Although overtly racist political discourse in Switzerland has receded, culturalist discourses continue to construct ideal immigrants. Policies define immigrants in terms of "cultural proximity" and contain an implicit distinction between "distant" and "proximal" foreigners. Culturally, distant immigrants have been stereotyped as aggressive and/or lacking interest in education and professional success and while scholars have examined immigrants from Switzerland's "culturally-near" regions, the experiences of second generation immigrant populations from perceived culturally distant countries have largely escaped attention. Knowledge about girls and women is particularly scarce. Against this backdrop, this paper provides an examination of how six teenage girls living in a German-speaking Swiss city negotiate their perceived cultural distance. By combining interview material with elements of Foucauldian theory, the paper provides insight into (1) the diasporic experiences of girls with second generation immigration backgrounds and (2) the operation and influence of culturalist discourses. Foucault's notion of dispositive-the discourses, institutions, laws, and scientific findings that, through various means of distribution (e.g., media texts, policies, education curricula), act as an apparatus that constructs and supports normative ideals-provides a generative analytic tool for this task. The analysis suggests that the ways girls learn to understand their social worlds is a collective process of discipline that places mechanisms of social control within each individual. This process involves the homogenisation and marginalisation of the immigrant population and is circular in nature in that the girls strengthen and maintain the power of existing culturalist knowledge that works negatively on them. The paper concludes with a consideration of how this situation might be challenged.

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Second Generation Immigrant Girls’ Negotiations of Cultural Proximity in Switzerland: A Foucauldian Reading

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Sattler

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“…Scholarship on migrant settlement and integration has found that women play an integral role in the maintenance of their culture (Abbasi-Shavazi 2014; Dasgupta 1998;Dwyer 2000;Gupta et al 1997;Handa 2003;Sundar 2008;Rajiva 2013). Claire Dwyer (2000), in her study of young South-Asian Muslim women in Britain, illustrates that these women are often responsible for preserving their parent's cultural identity and values.…”

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In a Constant State of Flux: The Cultural Hybrid Identities of Second-Generation Afghan-Canadian Women

Ahmed¹

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This study, guided by feminist methodology and cultural hybrid theory, explores the experiences of Afghan-Canadian women in Ottawa, Ontario who identify as secondgeneration. A qualitative approach using in-depth interviews with ten second-generation Afghan-Canadian women reveals how these women are continuously constructing their hybrid identities through selective acts of cultural negotiation and resistance. This study will examine the transformative and dynamic interplay of balancing two contrasting cultural identities, Afghan and Canadian. The findings will reveal new meanings within the Afghan diaspora surrounding Afghan women's gender roles and their strategic integration into Canadian society.ii

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A Mother’s Love

Mirza

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Navigating the Everyday as Middle-Class British-Pakistani Women

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“Better lives”: The transgenerational positioning of social mobility in the South Asian Canadian diaspora

Cited by 20 publications

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Second Generation Immigrant Girls’ Negotiations of Cultural Proximity in Switzerland: A Foucauldian Reading

Second Generation Immigrant Girls’ Negotiations of Cultural Proximity in Switzerland: A Foucauldian Reading

In a Constant State of Flux: The Cultural Hybrid Identities of Second-Generation Afghan-Canadian Women

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