Immigrants do not shed their former identity or cultural attachment with their home country despite expectations they develop local identity and belonging.

Evidence

Who do you think I am? Immigrant’s first name and their perceived identity (Comparative Migration Studies / Springer)

Categorization

• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim
• XREF: connects to: A person’s identity is deeply tied to their birthplace. — Crews, Harry, A childhood the biography of a place, 44; Place identity did not significantly predict travel intention in home country or hometown models across migrant generations. — Attachment to the home country or hometown? Examining diaspora tourism across migrant generations; Third Culture Kids’ identity involves negotiation, cultural multiplicity, and otherness from their passport country, not confusion but a poor fit with conventional identity constructs. — Growing Up as a Third Culture Kid and Its Impact on Identity and Belonging (+8 more)

Related

• Place identity did not significantly predict travel intention in home country or hometown models across migrant generations. (similarity 0.85)
• Third Culture Kids’ identity involves negotiation, cultural multiplicity, and otherness from their passport country, not confusion but a poor fit with conventional identity constructs. (similarity 0.84)
• Half of emigrants developed a sense of belonging to their host society, with language competence important for later identification processes. (similarity 0.82)
• TCKs define belonging more through personal relationships than geographic locations, so their sense of belonging is about ‘who’ rather than ‘where’ they are from. (similarity 0.81)

Broader Connections

• Surveilled Muslim immigrants still assert loyalty to American citizenship #exemplifies (0.60)