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ERIC Number: ED522819
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 2009-Apr
Pages: 43
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Cyber-Extended Identity among Young Female Armenian Immigrants: A Segmented Assimilation
Jones, Anne
Online Submission, Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association (San Diego, CA, Apr 13-17, 2009)
Interviews with seven female immigrant Armenian high school students explore their modes of incorporation through examining how their interactions with the Internet shape their conceptions of home, ideas about citizenship, differences from their parents and each other, and gender identity role development. Differences emerged between 1.5 and 2nd generation participants' interactions with websites and the effects of these interactions on their modes of incorporation. Broad, flexible, and sometimes conflicting ideas about citizenship and gender roles emerged. As a result, the young women create a between-ness blurring the distinctions between life off-line and online where ethnicity and citizenship are flexible and where they accommodate without assimilation. These young women use their unique 1.5 and 2nd generation, possibly cyber-extended identities, to challenge status quos established by their parents, schools, and society. The ability choose how to integrate and the impact of Internet technology on these choices, support contemporary 1.5 and 2nd generation immigrants development of identities that allow them to accommodate without assimilation and develop flexible group memberships.
Publication Type: Reports - Research; Speeches/Meeting Papers
Education Level: Elementary Secondary Education; High Schools; Secondary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: California
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