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Children In-between: Constructing Identities In The Bicultural Family.
March 1999 v5 i1 p13(1) While transnational movement and migrancy are not new fields of inquiry for anthropology, the experiences of children from inter-cultural marriage, as a part of these processes, have rarely been discussed. In this context, competing cultural ideas of childhood and child-raising are tackled in the intimacy of the domestic home and family life. Ethnographic evidence from families where there is a parent of each nationality (British and Greek) resident in Greece, demonstrates that although 'flux' and 'flow' are compelling theoretical metaphors for transnational movements, they gloss over the intra-familial 'edges' in which parents and grandparents experience and express their particular Greekness and Britishness with regard to children. It is argued that the children of these families generate their own conceptual spaces and identities 'in-between' culturally differentiated adult thoughts and actions through certain identificatory media and thereby effect not merely a role of cultural brokering but hybridized identities in their own right. Mass movements of individuals around the world have increased throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Between 1800 and 1914, net migration from Europe was estimated to be somewhere in the region of 50 million (Standing 1984: 15). In 1984 alone, more than half a million legal immigrants went to the United States from Mexico, the Philippines and Vietnam. European countries have also seen a large increase in foreign-born immigrants, particularly in Germany, France, the United Kingdom and the Scandinavian countries. In Sweden, more than one in eight people is foreign-born. In Germany there are over 600,000 Italians, well over 100,000 Portuguese and nearly 700,000 Greeks.(1) Such figures have consequences beyond the political and economic. Such movements around the world have generated a new body of literature, ... Please login to view comments from other users.
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