Multiple Identities: Migrants, Ethnicity, and Membership

344 Pages·2013·2.112 MB·English

by  Paul Spickard (ed.)

Multiple Identities
This page intentionally left blank
MULTIPLE IDENTITIES
Migrants, Ethnicity, and Membership
Edited by Paul Spickard
Indiana University Press Bloomington & Indianapolis
This book is a publication of Manufactured in the
United States of America
Indiana University Press
Office of Scholarly Publishing Library of Congress
Herman B Wells Library 350 Cataloging-in-Publication Data
1320 East 10th Street
Bloomington, Indiana 47405 USA Multiple identities : migrants,
ethnicity, and membership / edited
iupress.indiana.edu by Paul Spickard.
p. cm.
Telephone orders 800-842-6796 Includes bibliographical references
Fax orders 812-855-7931 and index.
ISBN 978-0-253-00804-6 (cloth : alk.
© 2013 by Indiana University Press paper) – ISBN 978-0-253-00807-7 (pbk. :
alk. paper) – ISBN 978-0-253-00811-4
All rights reserved (electronic book) 1. Group identity
– Europe – Case studies. 2. Immigrants –
No part of this book may be reproduced Europe – Case studies. 3. Minorities –
or utilized in any form or by any means, Europe – Case studies. I. Spickard,
electronic or mechanical, including photo - Paul R., [date]
copying and recording, or by any informa- HN373.5.M85 2013
tion storage and retrieval system, without 305.80094 – dc23
permission in writing from the publisher.
The Association of American University 2012046667
Presses’ Resolution on Permissions consti-
tutes the only exception to this prohibition.
∞ The paper used in this publication
meets the minimum requirements of
the American National Standard for
Information Sciences–Permanence of
Paper for Printed Library Materials,
ANSI Z39.48–1992. 1 2 3 4 5 18 17 16 15 14 13
For Jim and Jean Morishima
This page intentionally left blank
Contents
Acknowledgments · ix
Part 1. Orientations
1. Many Multiplicities: Identity in an Age of Movement
Paul Spickard, University of California, Santa Barbara · 3
2. Ethnic Identities and Transnational Subjectivities
Anna Rastas, University of Tampere · 41
Part 2. The Complexities of Identities
3. Between Difference and Assimilation: Young Women with South
and Southeast Asian Family Background Living in Finland
Saara Pellander, University of Helsinki · 63
4. Doing Belonging: Young Women of Middle Eastern Backgrounds
in Sweden · Serine Gunnarsson, Uppsala University · 88
5. To Be or Not to Be a Minority Group? Identity Dilemmas
of Kashubians and Polish Tatars · Katarzyna Warmińska,
Cracow University of Economics · 114
6. “When You Look Chinese, You Have to Speak Chinese”:
Highly Skilled Chinese Migrants in Switzerland and the Promotion
of a Shared Language · Marylène Lieber, University of Geneva,
and Florence Lévy, Neuchatel University · 134
Part 3. Family Matters
7. Intercountry Adoption: Color-b(l)inding the Issues
Saija Westerlund-Cook · 163
8. The Children of Immigrants in Italy: A New Generation of Italians?
Enzo Colombo and Paola Rebughini, University of Milan · 188
9. Possible Love: New Cross-cultural Couples in Italy
Gaia Peruzzi, Sapienza University of Rome · 213
Part 4. Modes of Multicultural Success?
10. Divided Identities: Listening to and Interpreting
the Stories of Polish Immigrants in West Germany
Mira Foster, University of California, Santa Barbara · 245
11. The Politics of Multiple Identities in Kazakhstan:
Current Issues and New Challenges · Karina Mukazhanova,
Karaganda State University and University of Oregon · 265
12. Chinese Americans, Turkish Germans: Parallels in Two Racial
Systems · Paul Spickard, University of California, Santa Barbara · 290
Bibliography · 303
Contributors · 325
Index · 329
Acknowledgments
First thanks are due to the authors of the various
chapters that follow, for the excellence of their work, their patience as
I have done the editing, and their suggestions for my chapters and the
shape of the volume. Several of the chapters originated as contributions
to a conference, “Generations in Flux,” sponsored by the Finnish Soci-
ety for the Study of Ethnic Relations and International Migration and
the Finnish Youth Research Society, held at the University of Helsinki
in October 2008. Heidi Villikka was the organizer of the conference.
Viggo Vestel, Anna Martinez, Maia Nukari, Perpetual Crentsil, and
Tiina Likki all took part with us in that conference and shared many
good ideas.
At the time of that conference, I was teaching and doing research
at the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, in Germany. I am
grateful to several people there who helped make this project success-
ful, among them Marie-Theres Brands-Schwabe, who gave generous
aca demic support, insight, and unfailing good humor; Carmen Fleisch-
mann, who helped me with living arrangements; Judith Prinz and Lisa
Schwabe, who were kind and efficient research assistants; and Mark
Stein, who, as director of the Englisches Seminar, was my host and a
genial intellectual companion. Special thanks go to Maria Diedrich for
making it possible for me to be in Germany and for giving me a constant
example of what a professor and colleague should be. She, as founding
president, and our many smart and generous colleagues in the Colle-
gium for African American Research started me down the road toward
this project some fifteen years ago, for which inspiration I am grateful. I
ix