The Daughters of Immigrants - by Asha Jeffers & Catherine Bryan (Hardcover)

About the Book

This multidisciplinary collection explores the ways in which the lives of immigrants' daughters are shaped by forces of race, gender, migration, sexuality, family, and nation outside of their control. The contributors examine how the women navigate these forces as individuals ...

Book Synopsis

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.

Review Quotes

"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." --erin Khuê Ninh, UC Santa Barbara

"Daughters of Immigrants is a remarkable collection bringing together interdisciplinary yet interlocking essays on gender, immigration, and the next generation." --Pallavi Rastogi, Louisiana State University

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.

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.