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CYBER-EXTENDED IDENTITY AMONG 1.5 AND 2ND GENERATION
FEMALE ARMENIAN IMMIGRANT HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS:
A SEGMENTED ASSIMILATION
by
Anne Jones
____________________________________________________________________
A dissertation presented to the
FACULTY OF THE ROSSIER SCHOOL OF EDUCATION
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
In Partial Fulfillment of the
Requirements for the Degree
DOCTOR OF EDUCATION
August, 2008
Copyright 2008 Anne Jones
Object Description
| Title | Cyber-extended identity among 1.5 and 2nd generation female Armenian immigrant high school students: a segmented assimilation |
| Author | Jones, Anne |
| Author email | ronniejo@usc.edu; anne.jones@uas.alaska.edu |
| Degree | Doctor of Education |
| Document type | Dissertation |
| Degree program | Education (Leadership) |
| School | Rossier School of Education |
| Date defended/completed | 2008-05-21 |
| Date submitted | 2008 |
| Restricted until | Unrestricted |
| Date published | 2008-08-12 |
| Advisor (committee chair) | Baca, Rey |
| Advisor (committee member) |
Genzuk, Michael Fischer, Linda |
| Abstract | Incorporation of immigrant children and their families is a critical issue with widespread implications for educators and researchers. These 1.5 and 2nd generation immigrant youth have increasingly global perspectives and interests. Because they use technologies like the Internet to adjust to life in the United States and maintain connections with their homelands, their social spaces, conceptions of home and ideas about citizenship are dynamic and have yet to be fully researched. Little research has been done on the experience of the contemporary 1.5 and 2nd generations. Their modes of incorporation, means of self-identification, and how these may be related to their experiences at school and work has been neglected.; Seven female immigrant Armenian high school students' interviews are interpreted within three theoretical frameworks. Of primary consideration is how these young women incorporate and how their incorporation differs from their parents and each other. Secondly, how they construct a sense of place, develop citizenship, and shape their identities on the Internet. Finally, the interviews reveal behaviors and beliefs these young women have that support successful modes of incorporation and from where these behaviors and beliefs come. While distinct differences emerged between 1.5 and 2nd generation participants' interactions with websites, the effects of these interactions on their modes of incorporation is clear. These young immigrants create a betweenness that blurs the distinctions between life off-line and online where ethnicity and citizenship are flexible and where they accommodate, as needed, without assimilation. |
| Keyword | immigrant; internet; Armenian; segmented assimilation; transnational |
| Language | English |
| Part of collection | University of Southern California dissertations and theses |
| Publisher (of the original version) | University of Southern California |
| Place of publication (of the original version) | Los Angeles, California |
| Publisher (of the digital version) | University of Southern California. Libraries |
| Provenance | Electronically uploaded by the author |
| Type | texts |
| Legacy record ID | usctheses-m1576 |
| Contributing entity | University of Southern California |
| Rights | Jones, Anne |
| Repository name | Libraries, University of Southern California |
| Repository address | Los Angeles, California |
| Repository email | http://www.usc.edu/isd/libraries/services/ask_a_librarian/email/ |
| Filename | etd-Jones-2216 |
| Archival file | uscthesesreloadpub_Volume32/etd-Jones-2216.pdf |
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| Title | Page 1 |
| Contributing entity | University of Southern California |
| Full text | CYBER-EXTENDED IDENTITY AMONG 1.5 AND 2ND GENERATION FEMALE ARMENIAN IMMIGRANT HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS: A SEGMENTED ASSIMILATION by Anne Jones ____________________________________________________________________ A dissertation presented to the FACULTY OF THE ROSSIER SCHOOL OF EDUCATION UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree DOCTOR OF EDUCATION August, 2008 Copyright 2008 Anne Jones |
