Second-generation immigrant youth are twice removed from any homeland

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

Categorization

• XREF: Echoes Jhumpa Lahiri’s The Namesake’s Gogol and second-generation dislocation themes; also resonates with Naqvi’s Home Boy.
• SEED: Angles for an essay on how ‘home’ becomes conceptually unmoored for second-generation populations in the West.