Immigrant children may identify more with local minority cultures than their parents’ heritage

Evidence

For a long time, Lina had been fighting her immigrant parents for her own independence. Hers is a story of class and generational divides that pits parents aspiring to the comforts of suburban living against a daughter who, until she discovers her own Arab and Iraqi dimensions, identifies more with black and Latino culture. — Moustafa Bayoumi, How Does It Feel to Be a Problem? Being…, 589

Categorization

• XREF: Echoes a recurring theme in immigrant-generation literature like The Namesake’s generational identity tensions. — connects to: Physical and symbolic ties to homeland drive minority-race identification in children — Tatiana I. Zamora and Amado M. Padilla, Making sense of conflicting messages of…, 122; Cultural and physical ties to Hawai’i drive Hawaiian racial identification in multiracial children. — Tatiana I. Zamora and Amado M. Padilla, Making sense of conflicting messages of…, 122; Physical homeland and language shape how parents classify multiracial children — Tatiana I. Zamora and Amado M. Padilla, Making sense of conflicting messages of…, 123