Spaces of Negotiation: Hybrid Identity in Ethnographic Narratives of Contemporary Asian-American Immigrant Women
Spaces of Negotiation: Hybrid Identity in Ethnographic Narratives of Contemporary Asian-American Immigrant Women

Summary/Abstract: Each of the ethnographic narratives included in The Chosen Shore: Stories of Immigrants adds a unique layer to the collective history of immigration, as it describes the individual experience of changing familiar physical places and navigating new emotional and cultural spaces. For the most part, the stories illustrate the complex negotiations experienced both by the first-generation parents and the 1.5- or second-generation children during their processes of acculturation to the American mainstream. Thus, this essay looks at the immigrant experience of two 1.5-generation American immigrant women, Sarah Lee (Korean American) and Kamal Patel (Indian American), with a view to examining the complex familial, educational, and social contexts that have shaped their processes of carving out individual spaces of hybrid identities.

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