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Intergenerational Transnationalism: 1.5 Generation Asian Migrants in New Zealand 1
Author(s) -
Bartley Allen,
Spoonley Paul
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
international migration
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.681
H-Index - 64
eISSN - 1468-2435
pISSN - 0020-7985
DOI - 10.1111/j.1468-2435.2008.00472.x
Subject(s) - transnationalism , ambivalence , immigration , betweenness centrality , settlement (finance) , politics , gender studies , sociology , political science , third generation , psychology , social psychology , centrality , economics , law , mathematics , finance , combinatorics , telecommunications , computer science , payment
This paper explores some of the issues associated with the nature of contemporary transnationalism and the particular experiences and strategies of a specific cohort of migrants, the 1.5 generation. Based on a study of East Asian migrant adolescents to New Zealand, we argue that the experiences and strategies of this generation differ from those of their parents, the original decision‐makers in the migration process, as well as from the historical experiences of earlier migrants. There is an ambivalence (in‐betweenness) about settlement and attachment that raises some key questions about the assumptions of the immigration literature and of policy/political communities. The paper suggests that the 1.5 generation represents a particular group that deserves more attention in the migration and transnationalism literature.