Identity Development Among Youth of Vietnamese Descent in Czech Republic
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Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Identity Development Among Youth of Vietnamese Descent in Czech Republic
Original language description
Adolescence is a turbulent time during which many young people reflect on their identities. Identity development is particularly challenging for immigrant children and children of immigrants. This chapter focuses on the dynamics of identity development and the construction of a sense of self among youth of Vietnamese origin in the Czech Republic. Based on field research, the chapter shows how these young people contest an identity for themselves while trying to come to terms with both the traditional Vietnamese culture of their parents and the way of life of the majority society that affected their socialization processes. The goal of this research was to focus on the dynamics of the processes involved in identity development rather than ascertain whether the children label themselves as Vietnamese or Czech, or something in between ("identity outcomes"). Our article shows that immigrant children and children of immigrants are active agents in the process of defining their position "between the two cultures" and do not just passively accept labels used by members of the host society. As social actors, they actively negotiate their identities in social interactions with others.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
C - Chapter in a specialist book
CEP classification
AO - Sociology, demography
OECD FORD branch
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Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach<br>I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2016
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Book/collection name
Contested Childhoods:Growing Up in Migrancy. Migration, Governence,Identities
ISBN
978-3-319-44608-0
Number of pages of the result
17
Pages from-to
121-137
Number of pages of the book
193
Publisher name
Springer
Place of publication
Neuveden
UT code for WoS chapter
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