The Daughters of Immigrants: A Multidisciplinary Study

This collection brings together established and emerging scholars from the humanities and the social sciences whose work considers the daughters of immigrants. By showcasing these varied perspectives, the collection draws meaningful connections across national and ethnic lines while attending to the particularities of specific histories, locations, and migration journeys. The multidisciplinary nature of this project highlights the relevance and usefulness of varied methodological and theoretical approaches for understanding the diverse lived experiences of the daughters of immigrants, as well as how those experiences are theorized and represented. While each chapter contains its own argument, assumes its own conceptual and disciplinary viewpoint, and tends to specific national and ethnic origins and sites of immigration, each offers meaningful insight into the gendered positionality of the daughters of immigrants as mediated by the complexities of migration, kinship, and culture. Taken together, these contributions point to the nuanced ways national, ethnic, and gendered identity function, and how those not always well served by how these identities are constituted understand and navigate forces beyond their control.

Table of Contents:
Introduction: The Curiously Reproductive Role of the Daughters of Immigrants Asha Jeffers and Catherine Bryan Part I: On & On: Doubly Diasporic Community Chapter 1: Daughters of Cane and Thread: Indo-Caribbean Identity and Diasporic Consciousness Tarika Sankar Chapter 2: Chinese Mexican Autoethnographies Yareli C. Castro Sevilla Part II: Now You See Me: Pathologized Mobility Chapter 3: The Daughters of Enforcement: Emotion Work and Immigration Arrests, Detentions, and Removals Joanna Dreby, Daniela Ugarte, and Myia Samuels Chapter 4: Daughters of the Palestinian Diaspora in the Stories of Susan Muaddi Darraj Robin E. Field Part III: All the Feels: Emotions and Racialization Chapter 5: Emotional Kinscripting: Managing Gender, Emotions and Kinship among Children of Korean and Chinese Immigrant Families Angie Y. Chung and Xuemei Cao Chapter 6: Young Love: Model Minorities, Gender, and Sexuality in Contemporary South Asian YA novels Nalini Iyer About the Contributors

About the Author :
Catherine Bryan is associate professor of social anthropology and gender and women's studies at Dalhousie University. Asha Jeffers is assistant professor of English and gender and women’s studies at Dalhousie University.

Review :
A book for moving the conversation forward. The Daughters of Immigrants does the very important work of bringing humanities and social science inquiries to the same table and helps to surface patterns greater than the sum of its parts. Daughters of Immigrants is a remarkable collection bringing together interdisciplinary yet interlocking essays on gender, immigration, and the next generation.