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Compelling culture: The rhetoric of assimilation among Samoan migrants in the United States
- Author(s):
- Ilana Gershon (see profile)
- Date:
- 2007
- Group(s):
- Anthropology
- Subject(s):
- Culture, Australasia, Oceania
- Item Type:
- Article
- Tag(s):
- Australasian/Pacific culture
- Permanent URL:
- http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/M64Z1D
- Abstract:
- Studies of assimilation tend to focus on whether or not members of a migrant group are adjusting to their new surroundings. This article inverts this focus, asking not how migrant groups adjust, but rather how migrant groups use the language of assimilation to explain generation gaps and other exigencies of migration. This inversion sheds light on the ways a migrant group’s epistemological assumptions underlie their understandings of cultural identity, and shape how they might respond to dilemmas caused by migration. Building upon ethnographic fieldwork among Samoan migrants in the United States, the article explores how and why community workers use the rhetoric of assimilation to teach Samoan parents how to raise children in the U.S. context.
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- Published as:
- Journal article Show details
- Pub. DOI:
- 10.1080/01419870701491812
- Publisher:
- Informa UK Limited
- Pub. Date:
- 2007-8-2
- Journal:
- Ethnic and Racial Studies
- Volume:
- 30
- Issue:
- 5
- Page Range:
- 787 - 816
- ISSN:
- 0141-9870,1466-4356
- Status:
- Published
- Last Updated:
- 6 years ago
- License:
- All Rights Reserved
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Compelling culture: The rhetoric of assimilation among Samoan migrants in the United States