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Engagement and Diasporic Identity Formation Youth of Haitian Descent after the 2010 Earthquake

Engagement and Diasporic Identity Formation Youth of Haitian Descent after the 2010 Earthquake

Book Title

Les jeunes Haïtiens dans les Amériques/Haitian youth in the Americas

Document Type

Book Chapter

Publication Date

10-4-2017

Description

In this chapter, we argue that this critical event has facilitated a generational shift in positionality vis-à-vis Haiti and the US among Haitian youth. Inspired by scholarship on generation (Mannheim, 1997 [1952]; Edmunds and Turner, 2002), diasporic identities (Berg and Eckstein, 2009; Edmunds and Turner, 2002), and migration experiences (Bourdieu, 2004; Meyerhoff, 1986; Sayad, 2004 [1999], 2014a, 2014b), we use the category of generation to locate the context of shared meanings, practices, perspectives, and activities of these young people as it relates to both the homeland and host society. Further, and following Edmunds and Turner (2002), by using “generation” as...

Publisher

Presses de l'Université du Québec

City

Québec, Canada

First Page

217

Last Page

254

Additional Information

Article identifier: https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt1z27hmd.17

Disciplines

Education

Engagement and Diasporic Identity Formation Youth of Haitian Descent after the 2010 Earthquake

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