European-born children of immigrants lash out from double displacement and non-acceptance

Evidence

These are youth who are immigrants only by default as they are more often than not born in Europe, bred by the mix of immigrant and local working-class culture, suffering the distance from two homes, one European and the other that of the parents or grandparents, twice removed from homeliness. Homesickness takes on an altogether different resonance here, and the response is often a lashing out as a result of the frustrations, the non-acceptance of non-acceptance, of discrimination, and perpetuated exclusions. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 940 (#expands, via linked claim)

Ruben Rumbaut offers the designation “1.75 generation” to highlight the “different development stages and social contexts of children who immigrate at ages 0-5” (1997, p. 950). Nonetheless, in the literature on immigrant generations, children like Javad, who were born in their respective countries of origin but moved to the United States as very young children, are more often collapsed into the “second generation” alongside American-born children of immigrants. — Neda Maghbouleh, The Limits of Whiteness, 681 (#complicates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Immigration traps newcomers who can neither belong nor return home; Very young immigrant children are analytically collapsed into the second generation — Neda Maghbouleh, The Limits of Whiteness: Iranian…, 681; Immigrant children may identify more with local minority cultures than their parents’ heritage — Moustafa Bayoumi, How Does It Feel to Be a Problem? Being…, 589 (+11 more)

Broader Connections

• Second-generation immigrant youth are twice removed from any homeland #expands (0.94) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 940
• Ethnic minority youth actively create identities rather than passively accept ascription #complicates (0.84)
• Very young immigrant children are analytically collapsed into the second generation #complicates (0.78) — Neda Maghbouleh, The Limits of Whiteness, 681
• Migrant children changed white youth culture, inverting the assimilation narrative #complicates (0.75) — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 2986
• Children’s prejudice shows as avoidance and exclusion rather than overt hostility #complicates (0.72) — , Rudman, Laurie A - On the Nature of…, 1988