Invisible Visibility: Intergenerational Transfer of Identity and Social Position of Chinese Women in Belgium

Pang, Ching Lin

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“…With this in mind, first, we detail the literature on focus groups and discuss the emergence of various focus group effects in our research. We next turn to the simultaneous household interview strategy and outline how this technique offers glimpses into assorted intergenerational perspectives (Jamal, 2006;Pang, 1998). We conclude with examples from our postinterview dialogues.…”

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The Methods and Meanings of Collaborative Team Research

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Team research enables the collection of multiple, sometimes conflicting, stories of migration, family, and belonging. Using common qualitative methods within a team research context can stretch these research techniques in productive and instructive ways and proffer new insight and meaning.Therefore, the authors suggest that team research offers an important avenue for both extending qualitative methods and expanding interpretative lenses. To illustrate these points, the authors draw upon their study of the settlement and migration patterns of East African Shia Ismaili Muslims in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, and discuss their experiences with focus group effects, the simultaneous household interview strategy, and postinterview dialogues. The article highlights how these three techniques and effects enacted in the team research context helped the authors explicitly locate contradictions, ambiguities, and paradoxes within the narratives of first-and second-generation Ismailis.Keywords collaborative team research; focus groups; household interviews; Ismailis; qualitative methods "Team Ismaili"l is a group of four geographers (at the time two master's students, one professor, and one instructor), who joined together as research collaborators in the summer of 2005 to explore transnational migrations and connections, family and community expectations, and identity expressions among East African Shia Ismaili Muslims 2 in Greater Vancouver, Canada. We approached these themes through focus groups and in-depth individual interviews with Ismailis who either forcibly or voluntarily left East Africa between 1970s and early 1990s (people we defined as first-generation Ismailis) and the adult Canadian-born children of these immigrants (defined as second-generation Ismailis).3 The contrasting and complementary stories of "Ismaili-ness" evident in the research archive grew to be a compelling focus within our study and prompted us to reflexively consider how our methods contributed to the gathering of disparate accounts. Therefore, in this article we discuss our experiences with focus group effects, the simultaneous household interview strategy, and postinterview dialogues. We highlight how stretching qualitative methods through the team research context helped us explicitly locate contradictions, ambiguities, and paradoxes within the narratives of first-and second-generation Ismailis. In other words, the meaning ofthe narratives about the Ismaili community became nuanced and textured through the teambased mobilization of our methods.The three methodological engagements that we discuss here provide the foundation for this article. With this in mind, first, we detail the literature on focus groups and discuss the emergence of various focus group effects in our research. We next turn to the simultaneous household interview strategy and outline how this technique offers glimpses into assorted intergenerational perspectives (Jamal, 2006;Pang, 1998). We conclude with examples from our postinterview dialogues. This stru...

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The Methods and Meanings of Collaborative Team Research

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“…In this regard, because the Belgian Taiwanese immigrants are few in number and small in terms of their ethnic community scale, Pang applied the term "invisible" to describe the Taiwanese immigrant community's social status in Belgian mainstream society. Pang also indicated that the Belgian Taiwanese immigrant community has been ignored and under-represented in the mass media, immigrant policy debates, educational issues, the mainstream labor market, and academic research [23,26]. Thus, Lin proposed that it is urgently necessary to explore Belgian Taiwanese immigrants' lived experiences and other related topics in order to fill the existing research gap and improve the status of the "invisible" social and academic positions in which Taiwanese immigrants are situated [22].…”

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Home food making, belonging, and identity negotiation in Belgian Taiwanese immigrant women’s everyday food practices

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This article examines the experiences of (re)producing home food in the daily life and food practices of Belgian Taiwanese immigrant women. The research is based on ethnography-both online and offline-and qualitative semistructured interviews with seventeen Taiwanese immigrant women/housewives in Belgium. Participants' food practices involve buying, growing, making, and sharing food. Buying Taiwanese food ingredients presents a genuine challenge, as Chinese and Asian supermarkets in Belgium do not carry all Taiwanese food items. Consequently, many Taiwanese immigrant women and housewives in this study share similar experiences of growing specific foods in their home garden; moreover, by doing so, they also transform their gardens in their private homes into transnational social spaces, and thereby connect their previous lived experiences and homeland memories with their present living circumstances. Moreover, Taiwanese immigrant women like to prepare and cook food with their husband and children while imparting Taiwanese food and cultural values through personal stories. Furthermore, by organizing and regularly participating in activities involving sharing and eating food with other Taiwanese immigrant women, these foodsharing events and behaviors also become an important social networking strategy that allows them to make, expand, and cultivate friendships; in addition, food sharing activities also assist the participants to construct a collective social identity of being immigrant mothers/housewives in a foreign land. However, what is meant by "Taiwanese" food varies substantially between participants, as do the associated emotional and ethnic meanings. Several things were stated to account for the taste of Taiwanese food, such as using certain condiments or the Ta Tung rice cooker. Equally diverse is the personal attachment of ethnonational identity toward the notion of home food, as discussions of childhood memories, ethnonational identity negotiation, and cultural markers are accompanied by critical reflection on the social constructed nature of home/ethnic foods in the migration contexts.

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“…During this period, the 1970s and early 1980s, I had the good fortune of teaching at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, which gave me an opportunity to keep track of developments in the European Chinese community. By this time, the Man had expanded throughout Europe and dominated the Chinese restaurant trade in Britain, Holland, Belgium, and southern Germany-opening and operating over four hundred restaurants (see also Gutinger 1998;Pang 1998;Pieke and Benton 1998); they also moved into Canada during the 1980s (see Johnson 1994). Three extended families, in particular, became leading lights in the Toronto and the Vancouver communities.…”

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Presidential Address: Virtual Kinship, Real Estat, and Diaspora Formation—The Man Lineage Revisited

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J of Asian Stud

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Invisible Visibility: Intergenerational Transfer of Identity and Social Position of Chinese Women in Belgium

Cited by 10 publications

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The Methods and Meanings of Collaborative Team Research

The Methods and Meanings of Collaborative Team Research

Home food making, belonging, and identity negotiation in Belgian Taiwanese immigrant women’s everyday food practices

Presidential Address: Virtual Kinship, Real Estat, and Diaspora Formation—The Man Lineage Revisited

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